Nexomon: Extinction

8/10

Der Schwierigkeitsgrad ist fordernd, die Story ist sehr interessant und der Humor im Spiel ist genial. Ich habe so einige Male lachen müssen - Top!

The first game was a good start to get into a new monster taming game, and Extinction continued what it did but enhanced it further. That's how I like to see it happen personally. Like with the prequel, the story starts kinda tame and then shifts towards a serious setting quickly. It gets some depth here and there, not on JRPG levels, but especially the second half of the game made things much nicer for what's happening there. I was pleased with what unfolded there. The fourth wall jokes and shenanigans give the story a good mix of the serious type plus adding its jokes here and there, balancing it out in a way I personally enjoy. Should you not have played the first game, you may want to do that first as you'll see connections to the prequel within this game. Visuals are nice, almost all NPCs you battle having their own, unique artwork like it was in the first game. Effort being put into the little cutscenes you come across, the world looks colorful and has different areas to go with themes, looking very fine to me. None of the over 400 Nexomon looked off or objectively bad to me. Gameplay has changed and got better here. Now every move has its own critical, accuracy, and speed stat aside of costs and power, shaking things a bit up. So you can't only go with your Nexomon's speed but the move also giving you an idea if you'll go first or second depending on how much speed the move has. And while the first game was majorly just brute force type of moves, variation increased as some more status moves got in, and offensive moves can have side effects which adds a bit more into your strategy. There's also a crafting system now which allows you to equip your Nexomon with either stat or exp/money boosts, powering them up a little bit if you like. And then you also have the option to craft type-based devices for Nexomon if you want to increase your catching odds. Or just make some money from the resources. Over 400 Nexomon to catch and get, a few new types added, and if you've played the first game, you don't have to be afraid of common or uncommon Nexomon not evolving anymore. That got changed and almost everything can evolve once or twice now. Side quests exist, giving you some good and some permanent rewards for more exp or better catch rates aside of normal items and cash. Nothing too difficult and rather straight on with them needing items, cash, or something to find or smack someone. My team had from common to ultra rare type of Nexomon in, and my common Nexomon was arguably the one who could dish out the most damage and survive the strongest so don't be afraid to use the more common Nexomon. In terms of difficulty, I didn't grind much and mostly only when I got a new party member or someone who was close to evolve. Else, also receiving currency from random battles in the wild didn't really get me to money problems at all. You can also battle other people again after a while so if exp or money's needed, can boop everything and everyone as much as you desire. Though, near the endgame and through it, it feels like levels wouldn't make up for opponents having either artificially higher HP than your Nexomon would have on their levels, or the bosses are bulky and strong enough that healing items are very much required to get through those battles. So don't be afraid to use those in higher numbers as the endgame is pushing you for usage of those. Else, only in late early game was a little difficulty spike to notice as others suddenly had fully evolved Nexomon with them despite their levels being below when that should even be the case. But once I got to my evolutions, it was fine again. If you want to catch a Nexomon, you do that via a button sequence with a timer. While it allows you to hit the wrong ones until you hit the right buttons, I personally am branded with the layout of an SNES controller. That makes timed button sequences often a problem on my end personally. Not a downside if you're used to the Steam controller layout, but a bit harder to be quick if you have that old SNES controller layout burned into your very soul and mind. Though, there were a few downsides still, not able to see where one can find Nexomon makes it a bit hard to figure out where the very rare ones are. While it's noticeable that the full brute force gameplay was toned down with more status and other moves, but the order of moves you learn felt awkward. Learning late moves which are weaker than what you already have, or giving you a worse buff than you already got before, it's a bit wonky. Not unplayable, but one can notice that a bit more thought was needed to put into what moves they learn when. It was also a bit odd to figure out what buffs Nexomon used as I didn't have all of them in mind by name or visuals. You can see the stats of Nexomon in battle, but unless I'm totally blind, nothing mentioned any buffs you or them have active which would be the perfect spot for that. I think the first game had visuals about buffs. Aside from a few jump tiles in the end game being slightly misplaced (yet work), only noticed that some dialogues are a bit off. When finishing side quests, NPCs talking about characters I didn't have by my side at that time, or one even missing was suddenly commenting which wasn't possible by logic. A little oversight by them. But overall, I enjoyed playing Nexomon Extinction and even more when the second half of the game made the story go into a stronger direction of my liking. Was still a mostly comfy playthrough, and if you enjoyed the first game and want more of the world surrounding them, can easily recommend to play this game as well.

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