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Leandre's research notes #SHP-001:
"Inkwolf absolutely loves the 'creature collector' sub-genre of video games, where you tame, capture or breed the enemies you fight and build your own team of battle ready monsters from them. The series that made this style of game massively popular and has been overshadowing pretty much all of it since the mid-90s is of course Pokémon, which unfortunately has become very complacent as a result of it's guaranteed place at the top.
Fortunately though, once again, the indie scene is here to pick up the slack of the AAA developers and has given us several uniwue and interesting spins on the concept of creature collecting, and for some odd reason Ink always seems to end up with a sheep on his team. So to celebrate all the unsung monster battle games (or at least those that he has played personally), here is a sheep (or the closest thing to a sheep the game has to offer) out of all of them. How many can you identify before looking at the credits below?
Of course, every flock needs a shepherd and every monster team needs it's tamer. So we also invited the most qualified sheep in wolves clothing we could think of to take the helm. Not from any of the games, but still the most qualified little freak for the job (and Ink just wanted to draw her). "
Design credits (from left to right):
Pongo from Nexomon Extinction
Targoat from Monster Sanctuary
Banapi from TemTem
Cofi from the Chikn Nuggit Shorts on TikTok / Youtube
Bansheep from Cassette Beasts
"Inkwolf absolutely loves the 'creature collector' sub-genre of video games, where you tame, capture or breed the enemies you fight and build your own team of battle ready monsters from them. The series that made this style of game massively popular and has been overshadowing pretty much all of it since the mid-90s is of course Pokémon, which unfortunately has become very complacent as a result of it's guaranteed place at the top.
Fortunately though, once again, the indie scene is here to pick up the slack of the AAA developers and has given us several uniwue and interesting spins on the concept of creature collecting, and for some odd reason Ink always seems to end up with a sheep on his team. So to celebrate all the unsung monster battle games (or at least those that he has played personally), here is a sheep (or the closest thing to a sheep the game has to offer) out of all of them. How many can you identify before looking at the credits below?
Of course, every flock needs a shepherd and every monster team needs it's tamer. So we also invited the most qualified sheep in wolves clothing we could think of to take the helm. Not from any of the games, but still the most qualified little freak for the job (and Ink just wanted to draw her). "
Design credits (from left to right):
Pongo from Nexomon Extinction
Targoat from Monster Sanctuary
Banapi from TemTem
Cofi from the Chikn Nuggit Shorts on TikTok / Youtube
Bansheep from Cassette Beasts
Category Artwork (Digital) / Fanart
Species Sheep
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Oh~ A multi-monster taming game fanart! Neat...Although Cofi's not a mongame but lol
I can always count on indie game devs to give me the monster taming game experience I'm looking for.~ Modern mainline pokemons (post gen 6) are honestly pretty lackluster for one reason or another and gen 8 in particular felt like a trainwreck (especially the story geezelus chrysler), with gen 9 not doing enough to fix problems in my opinion...(Doesn't stop me from loving some modern pokemon designs, and I still like the spinoffs! Just the mainline games are, well...inferior experiences IMO).
I just wish more people would look at these other games. Cassette Beasts and Nexomon Extinction are both amazing, and I would say better than mainline pokemons for sure!
I can always count on indie game devs to give me the monster taming game experience I'm looking for.~ Modern mainline pokemons (post gen 6) are honestly pretty lackluster for one reason or another and gen 8 in particular felt like a trainwreck (especially the story geezelus chrysler), with gen 9 not doing enough to fix problems in my opinion...(Doesn't stop me from loving some modern pokemon designs, and I still like the spinoffs! Just the mainline games are, well...inferior experiences IMO).
I just wish more people would look at these other games. Cassette Beasts and Nexomon Extinction are both amazing, and I would say better than mainline pokemons for sure!
Well, it's also a "sheep-fanart" at the same time, so including Cofi as the "trainer" seemed fitting. I also just wanted to draw her to be honest.
Yeah, I fully agree. The mainline Pokemon games just don't do enough to remain relevant anymore, in my opinion. 2 or 3 minor quality of life changes each generation simply aren't enough in my opinion. Not while absolutely essential features like difficulty options, tutorial skipping, basic competence at storytelling or putting all of that gens content into one game remain absent from the series. Not saying the games are bad or not fun to play, but that level of contempt for large parts of their players is hard to ignore. I didn't buy Gen 9 and I'm not planning to, and the only reason I played Gen 8 was because I got it as a gift. Probably would've stopped after getting a good laugh out of Team Skull in Gen 7 to be honest. Those guys were legitimately funny though.
Me too, which is part of the reason why I wanted to make fanart of some of my favorites. I'd love for these games to be more succesful and for more people to know there actually are serious competitors to Pokemon out there. On a quality level at least, probably not in terms of sales numbers... But yes, Nexomon Extinction was a blast to play mainly for the utter riff that that games story was. And both Monster Sanctuary and Cassette Beasts are probably two of my all-time favorite games. TemTem is very close to Pokemon, but makes a small amount of very necessary improvements to it's core gameplay, which kind of makes it a notch better than those games as far as I am concerned.
Yeah, I fully agree. The mainline Pokemon games just don't do enough to remain relevant anymore, in my opinion. 2 or 3 minor quality of life changes each generation simply aren't enough in my opinion. Not while absolutely essential features like difficulty options, tutorial skipping, basic competence at storytelling or putting all of that gens content into one game remain absent from the series. Not saying the games are bad or not fun to play, but that level of contempt for large parts of their players is hard to ignore. I didn't buy Gen 9 and I'm not planning to, and the only reason I played Gen 8 was because I got it as a gift. Probably would've stopped after getting a good laugh out of Team Skull in Gen 7 to be honest. Those guys were legitimately funny though.
Me too, which is part of the reason why I wanted to make fanart of some of my favorites. I'd love for these games to be more succesful and for more people to know there actually are serious competitors to Pokemon out there. On a quality level at least, probably not in terms of sales numbers... But yes, Nexomon Extinction was a blast to play mainly for the utter riff that that games story was. And both Monster Sanctuary and Cassette Beasts are probably two of my all-time favorite games. TemTem is very close to Pokemon, but makes a small amount of very necessary improvements to it's core gameplay, which kind of makes it a notch better than those games as far as I am concerned.
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