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Made by TRAGsoft and published by indie.io, you play as a young future battle researcher from Lux Solis — a global research society in the Velua region — in a 2D pixel-adventure and creature-collector game with RPG elements. On this thrilling adventure, you pursue the region's mysteries, meet quirky characters, and try to stop an impending disaster, with over 100 species available to collect.


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My first thought when I found this game was: is this a Pokémon rip-off? A blatantly copy? Are Nintendo ninjas come and take down this game? Of course not, but the inspiration is palpable of the old GBA Pokémon games. I spent hundred of hours playing Ruby, Emerald and Fire Red to glimpse the similarities, not saying it as something negative, just an example how that franchise made an own genre, and how that served as an inspiration for some fans to decide to make what they dreamed to see or experience.


➢ Phenomenal 2D pixelart. From the cute and chibi style the character has to a detailed world, full of animations, small decorations, good gradient of colors and illumination, this game becomes a please for the eyes. It's not an extremely and deep pixelart, with a strong signature, but it has the enough amount of details in it simplicity and depth to stand out from the rest.


➢ Catchy soundtrack. With a decent variety of songs, and most of them ostentatious with strong beats, it fits wonderful with the intention of the game. I personally liked them a lot, but I gotta admit a few of them remind me a lot of the 3rd Pokémon gen melodies, but with different tune. Maybe, a coincidence? Probably not but still great.


➢ Goodish gameplay. Even if this doesn't compare of what Pokémon is in terms of battle, and has few flaws it's still decently good. Enough variety of types, moves, and ways to defeat the enemy, so for a short adventure suffice. This game doesn't aim to turn into a competitive game, and doesn't suffer for a heavy RNG like Pokémon does, making the combats more fair, or some mechanics inside the game. Hoewer, this might be disappointed for veteran people in the genre if they come thinking to find a more elaborated system.


➢ Funny narrative. Although is just a simple and quirk story with an interesting plow twist, it's not groundbreaking (doesn't pretend it either), and that's totally fine. The intentions are clear: entertain with a comical story to connect the reasons of you as a battle researcher and add a little of spice, and it serve perfectly for younger audience as well. I know this might piss off some people that looks for something trascendental, but it's not like the Pokémon games has a great story either, it's a game usually target for kids. This doesn't mean I'm giving this higher points, the story is decently fine, that's it.

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One part of me want to prise this game a lot for how charming it is, that I think all comes from the nostalgia given through the classic Pokémon vibes it has. However, it has some flaws I found annoying, either by the design, lacks of balance or some systems that might have been done better. Not sure why the intention behind of that design plannification, but I find them annoying.


➢ SP system. I half liked this, but I found it as a bad designs. One of the reasons in Pokémon you had a limited number of movements is to end a battle, if you allows a system were movements are infinite and your creatures can regenerate the points to use their moves, you are just worried in the turn you need to rechage those points, allowing infinite and loop combats, and defeating the struggling of a strategy with your skills and usage of them.


➢ Unbalanced type. Even if I found good some designs, the problem comes reaching endgame when you find a type neutral to every type, and deletes the whole meaning because you can caught and use them, and they are usually stronger than their normal versions. I found this very annoying, defeating the purpose of types strong/weak system, that was decently balanced at first.


➢ Awful double/triple combat. Apart of the unbalancing type, something that pissed me off is that they added double and even triple fights, but you play solo and there is no movements that affect multiple enemies, making them highly unfair. This mostly attach wild encounters, but I have no clue why at least does not have movements that affect more than one. Even tho it didn't make the combats hard, it was annoying nonetheless.


➢ Annoying puzzles. Some were good, and even interesting to solve, but others (Pawbury) were totally anti-intuitive and boring, that instead of using your logic forced you brute force solving it, or checking a solution online, others like the ones in the dungeon of Daduric were meh and burdersome for the quantity. Lacking in a balance in how to make them and how many. I think this game would be way better with half of them gone, and a couple made again from scratch.


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Most of the achievements can be completed in one playthrough, being the rest relies mostly on repeat on a higher difficulty or finish the game with no deaths. A bit messy, but doable, However, there is a couple, especially one, that I find annoying: reaching a number of points on some minigames, that apart of boring weren't easy to complete. Maybe for you are easy, but with my skills it became a task that took me hours, and extremely boring. Although, if you need help this guide helped me flawlessly:

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This game without a doubt catchs the old-school classic Pokémon games theme, in particular the GBA releases, with his own unique proposal and with a great art to catch your eyes. I enjoyed the whole game, from the beginning to the end, and I felt in love with some designs (Eclyptor) and few were incredible (Skelatops). I think is a game that probably will please most of the people who will dare to play it, and frustrate some veterans of the genre that were thirsty for something great.

Part of the combat designs were partially good partially disappointed, the endgame design a bit unappealing, and the game as a whole a contastly that it could be better. Maybe it's me having the standard too high or the game since the early development wasn't with the intention to be taken that seriously. In any case, I still find it solidly good enough for a good chunk of hours of enjoyement.

With this said, and if are looking for a direct recommendation, my advice is wait for sales and look for outside stores. This game has been bundled a lot and find a cheap key is easy. So I guess I can summarize it to yes, try it. The worst it can happen is that you lost a couple of euros/dollars.

Coromon:

Added a touch of nostalgia with playing this one, it's not complicated or hard to follow the story. It's engaging and has it's own unique flavor to add in a world of "Creature Collector" styled games.

If you like the genre, you'll have a good time with this game for sure. Enjoy it! I rarely do this but I recommend it at a 9/10!

I reluctantly started a play-through, cause I was stuck with a crappy laptop for a fortnight. And, I'm glad I did. I think Coromon makes a valiant effort to address the shortcomings of a (very popular...) existing monster catcher... And, I enjoyed it.

Notably, I like the Potential system that allows for better 'roleplay' of monsters, I like the SP system that manages monster moves and usage, I like the status conditions (they feel fair) and I like the moves system that allows you to infinitely choose a monster's move set on the fly.

The game has many crashing and bug problems though, graphical glitches that require a restart and several cases where my save state didn't save correctly. These were probably the worst of my problems.

Additionally, I feel the game needs to withhold content from the Player. Pretty much every Coromon (at all evolutions) is catchable, which cheapens the feeling of having your own monsters when you can just catch them later. This goes the same for items.

I also feel it's missing some grounded sense of reality. It pretty much launches the player straight into a crazy world. And, I feel it misses the oppurtunity to introduce the player to the world. It lacks breathability. In the same sense, the story is incredibly bland, the map is strikingly linear and player choice is limited outside of your Coromon.

Last thing... I think Coromon could benefit from a new game plus, where players can choose from their caught Coromon to start a new game. I would love to use my 'potent'/'perfect' or just late-game coromon from lv.1 at the start of the game. You could up the 'normal' difficulty of trainers and allow players to keep their items, new oppurtunities abound.

With these criticisms... Buy this game on sale, no less than 50% off!