Beastieball

As soon as I first heard about this game I knew I had to try it and yeah, I absolutely love it! The Beasties are so fun, the characters are fun and interesting, I like the story, I love the world design, it's all just awesome to me. The best thing, however, is the sound Platenna makes. It has become my new vocal stim so now I go about my day going Prrrap. Thank you devs

宝可梦之下第一者 不好玩操我

Very good creature collecting game

im sure everyone else has plenty to say about the refreshing style and brand new gameplay that breathes new life into creature collectors. and this is all true. but i love beastieball because it really makes me experience what its like to go through a villain arc in real time. this game pisses me off so bad. keep talking ♥♥♥♥ NPCs i know where you live

很棒的类宝可梦游戏

its literally peak

This game is a delight. With any pocketable monsters game I'm always primarily here for the monsters, and this game's beasties are top tier. The traditional animation brims with character, and they nailed the necessary mix of cute cuddly pets, cool guys you want as your animal companion, and awful garbage babies I would nevertheless die for. (I even prefer most of them in their final forms, which is pretty rare for me.) I particularly appreciate the suspiciously Australian trend in beastie inspiration, and the natural colour variance that makes it easy to tell your unique dog apart from others. I wasn't so sure about the volleyball gameplay at first—to me, most riffs on the fightmonsters concept wind up being over-complicated—but I found the rhythm pretty quickly and then it felt great. IMO, it really hits the sweet spot; not needlessly complex, but strategic enough to never get boring. Difficulty also felt good. I enjoy fielding my favourite team more than I enjoy adapting to every opponent, and playing that way I was able to handle most story matches without worrying about grinding or getting walled. However, I /was/ forced to adapt my team for the occasional opponent whose strategy was particularly good against mine—an organic-feeling difficulty spike which kept the interest curve appropriatley fluctuating. The story is also just right, combining "this is actually really important" and "sir this is a sports league for children" in an effective and self-aware fashion. Characters are thoughtfully written; they're not all immediately likeable, but they have multiple dimensions revealed by the story and their friendship conversations. I love Riley no matter what anybody says, but I have a grudge against Sunsoo. Forcing me to spend time in a dance club is violence against introverts >:\ In conclusion, one of the gym leaders is a middle-aged POC (Pirate of Colour) woman running her gym as a kids' dinner theatre. This game is perfect.

[h1] Pros: [/h1] - Tutorial can be toggled off to minimum during subsequent runs - Capturing Beasties is refreshing from more pokemon-esque creature collectors - Areas feel do not feel too empty - Game is puzzle heavy (might be not considered a plus) - Beastie designs look really nice for the most part - Beastie colours are different per different beasties of same species, hovewer still recognizable from rarer version of a beastie [h1] Spoilers, one thing I am displeased with for now [/h1] [spoiler] It is nice to see beasties get balance patches, however playing against Hydrolm is often really tedious without making a team specifically to apply sweat, angry or just tag out Hydrolm for remainder of the match. Defensively built Hydrolm is likely to be unkillable due to whopping 60 health points restoration from deep breath, access to patience to punish outdoing its healing with stat boosting. Hydrolm feels too good for a stall, as well it fills in a attacker and debuffer at once. This makes it difficult to play against someone using Hydrolm-Scauldra teams, given you cannot gain a point off Hydrolm as well as Scauldra chips away at health with Sauna trait with Steamers. [/spoiler] [h2] This review is subject to change given Early Access state of the game [/h2]