Cassette Beasts is an incredibly exciting looking upcoming monster collecting game, one that will offer a rather unique take on the genre and a new trailer is up showcasing the fusion system.
It's on the unique side, since you're not collecting these creatures or using them in a traditional way. Instead of throwing them out of some kind of ball, you turn into them. The fusion system is where it gets real interesting though, allowing you to combine two forms into something unique. The developers say it will be able to generate "over fourteen thousand unique fusions that will allow you as a player to fully customize your team to fit your unique style".
During the Guerrilla Collective digital games showcase a new trailer was shown below:
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Developed with Godot Engine, it will have a Native Linux build at release.
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I was excited for this game since the first trailer, mostly because of the retro aesthetics being way on point. I can't tell if the gameplay, the battle system and all is going to be good, but it has neat concepts.
Apparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.
Apparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.
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Apparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.That's really weird.
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Looks wonderful, though now I'm going to have to explain to my kids what a Cassette is.
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Apparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.Monster Rancher sort of did this when CDs were the norm, too - in the game you generated creatures by having the game read physical music CDs, and the later television adaptation therefore depicted them as being retrieved from stone artifacts that resembled optical-discs. Sadly but understandably, the modern reissues of these games replace the scanning of physical discs with a searchable online music-CD database, instead.
This was one of the earliest iterations of the "summoning beasts from physical media" idea (which always felt like it had its roots in that time when the general public's mindset about computers was that they were almost "magical"), though I don't know if it was the first.
Last edited by Pengling on 14 June 2022 at 3:33 pm UTC
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Apparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.Anyone up for making Gramophone Titans?
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Huh. Where does Digimon fit into this history?Apparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.Monster Rancher sort of did this when CDs were the norm, too - in the game you generated creatures by having the game read physical music CDs, and the later television adaptation therefore depicted them as being retrieved from stone artifacts that resembled optical-discs. Sadly but understandably, the modern reissues of these games replace the scanning of physical discs with a searchable online music-CD database, instead.
This was one of the earliest iterations of the "summoning beasts from physical media" idea (which always felt like it had its roots in that time when the general public's mindset about computers was that they were almost "magical"), though I don't know if it was the first.
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Apparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.Monster Rancher sort of did this when CDs were the norm, too - in the game you generated creatures by having the game read physical music CDs, and the later television adaptation therefore depicted them as being retrieved from stone artifacts that resembled optical-discs. Sadly but understandably, the modern reissues of these games replace the scanning of physical discs with a searchable online music-CD database, instead.
This was one of the earliest iterations of the "summoning beasts from physical media" idea (which always felt like it had its roots in that time when the general public's mindset about computers was that they were almost "magical"), though I don't know if it was the first.
Oh yeah, I remember that - I never played the games but I knew about it, and watched the series.
Huh. Where does Digimon fit into this history?
First tamagotchis, and then early cellphones - they designed a new gadget for each season, following contemporaneous trends. Apparently they even tried smartwatches and smartphones with later entries, though I wasn't really following digimon by then.
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Philadelphus Jun 14, 2022
As we seem to be moving backwards in time, I'm looking forward to the eventual Codex Critters, Palimpsest Pals, Cuneiform Clay-tures, and Hieroglyph Helpers.Apparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.Anyone up for making Gramophone Titans?
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Packing some gorgeous alliteration there, pal.As we seem to be moving backwards in time, I'm looking forward to the eventual Codex Critters, Palimpsest Pals, Cuneiform Clay-tures, and Hieroglyph Helpers.Apparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.Anyone up for making Gramophone Titans?
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Huh. Where does Digimon fit into this history?As eldaking notes, it started off as a "For Boys"-labelled equivalent to the more neutral Tamagotchi (both are by Bandai, and the first Digimon play out very similarly to the first Tamagotchis), with the addition of two metal contacts on the top of the device so that they could connect and battle. Obviously this was a bit of a response to the then-new-in-Japan Pokemon, which pre-dated Digimon, too. Digimon's later TV adaptation ended up outshining the original virtual pets (and overtaking the early lore, which the PlayStation Digimon World games were tied to, though I gather that they may have reconnected it all later on), and it then went as eldaking described, with all the gadgets.
Virtual pets have been one of my favourite game-genres since their prototypical era with Activision's Little Computer People for the Commodore 64, so I actually have some of these little guys sitting on my desk right now.
Apparently they even tried smartwatches and smartphones with later entries, though I wasn't really following digimon by then.There's currently a phone-app-connected fitness-band called the "Digimon Vital Bracelet" as well, which is very recent, though it's remained Japan-only thus far.
Packing some gorgeous alliteration there, pal.Amazing alliteration, surely?
Last edited by Pengling on 14 June 2022 at 7:14 pm UTC
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I cant be the only one who read the game title "Cassette Beasts" and didnt think of Soundwave or Blaster from the Transformers?
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Philadelphus Jun 15, 2022
I didn't set out to do that, but once "Palimpsest Pals" popped into my head I couldn't not think of alliterations. (Bonus one that didn't make it into the post: Scroll Summons, to go with the physical recording media theme. I just liked Hieroglyph Helpers too much.As we seem to be moving backwards in time, I'm looking forward to the eventual Codex Critters, Palimpsest Pals, Cuneiform Clay-tures, and Hieroglyph Helpers.Packing some gorgeous alliteration there, pal.
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Heh. Technically, that would be amazing assonance.Packing some gorgeous alliteration there, pal.Amazing alliteration, surely?
Anyhow, I do my alliteration in classic Old English poetry style, where you alliterate the first syllable with the next stressed syllable: Packing . . . pal.
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Heh. Technically, that would be amazing assonance.... Is it bad that the "pal" part made me read your entire post in the style of Detective Gumshoe from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney?
Anyhow, I do my alliteration in classic Old English poetry style, where you alliterate the first syllable with the next stressed syllable: Packing . . . pal.
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