Cassette Beasts

The only comnplaint I have is that as of June 15 2026, there's scenes and effects that will cause problems for people with photosensitivity , including a black background with colored lights shooting past on the character creaton menu, and while there is an in-game setting to remove "glitch effects' from boss fights, this setting blends in a lot, and isn't listed under an accessability header to make it stand out, and only affects boss fight effects, not the normal battle animations that include a lot of quick zooming and shaking of the screen. If more accessability options can be added, and noted on the home screen, it would make this game pretty much perfect! A super fun creature collector, with a very fun and interesting battle system! Fantastic music and concepts all around, I'm telling all my friends about it!

It's not a great start when I have to force myself to finish a game and hope I Stockholm syndrome myself into liking it..... And I did not end up liking it. Most of the combat, mobility, and damage/move RNG is so clunky and tedious. Most of the time, the fights end up dragging on longer than they should because a move keeps hitting despite hitting a CB straight to sub-zero health along with the moves being painfully slow and somewhat repetitive. There is little incentive to venture out and experiment with moves once you get Last Rites, Zephyr, or any electric move. Electric types are very very unbalanced and the main downside to using them is damn near every move gives them unitarget. If you don't get unitarget, most electric moves are unstoppable and give crazy team damage. The OST is fine but it either sounds all the same or my game kept playing the same track over and over and over again. It would be good if it varied at all but maybe I'm spoiled since I played Tomb Raider (2013) and Elden Ring before this, two games with incredible soundtracks. The pixel animation is cool, its one of the few things I actually like. It really bothered me when the character sprites changed animation style to some crappy webtoon style animation, if you want to do a Stardew Valley-esc character conversation just do the same animation they do: slightly smoothed out pixels. I'm not complaining about the Archangels since that makes sense story wise but why are the general characters/companions dialogue sprites so smooth?? I did like the cassette beasts designs, I think my favorites were Traffikrab, Muskrateer, Fungogh, and all the chess pieces. I liked the "shiny" system, makes it more interesting than just a color change. I probably will not touch this game again unless I think I want to reevaluate my opinion or the sequel comes out and I become a glutton for punishment. I'm all for supporting indie devs and I'm glad I paid $10 for this, but I probably wouldn't recommend this game to anyone unless they really enjoy the tedious painful parts of Pokemon and most pixel games. Fav Companion: Felix my goat