While type advantages can definitely work well and in your favor, another thing to be mindful of in Monster Crown is that there is no rarity or evolution. Early in game, the player will earn an item that allows them to view the type matchups whenever they would like outside of battle, which I recommend getting familiar with as soon as possible so that you can take advantage of each monster’s strengths. Monsters are divided into different types with strengths and weaknesses to the different matchups. Breeding does open up later on, but some of the best moments I had early in the game were the ones where I was gunning down an unfamiliar critter and hoping for another interesting crossbreed.īattles are turn based, with simple controls that allow the player to attack, use items, try for a pact with a monster, or flee. While these spawns are significantly more rare, they can be really cool to discover and you even get to name the new species. Forging pacts with a lot of monsters early can be helpful, but paying attention to the overworld sprites for things that look different from the usual chaff may have you discovering unlisted crossbreed species that are not normally found in the wild. Players will find that monsters in the overworld are plentiful, and battles are initiated by walking into them rather than encounters being completely random while walking in grass or caves. Not everyone or everything is out to be your friend.
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The world is full of creatures that aren’t averse to seeing bipedal hominids as unwitting sources of food when caught on their own, and they will happily munch on anyone foolish enough to wander into their territory: a fact cemented very memorably early on and one that we become increasingly mindful of as the story progresses. Monsters themselves are not keen on the idea of being friends, generally. Power does can be hard to handle after all, and its not just humans one needs to be wary of. In this wild world, the strong can easily become corrupt: taking over a town’s entire economy, for example, and while wealth-hording may not be the most evil that one can be, it does ease you in to the darker aspects rather early. Monster Crown isn’t afraid to show the darker side of a world overrun with strong creatures, and the effects that seeking strength can have on an individual person. Monster Crown doesn’t take too many risks there, but where the game does break the mold is in it’s world building. Most of the game will follow this sort of linearity – forge pacts with some monsters in lieu of catching, fight a guy, fulfill a task, take on a new task and fight more things along the way. The story follows the player taking on various tasks from their father, catching a few monsters here and there to help out on the farm before ultimately taking off on an island-wide adventure. Overall, Monster Crown is an experience that may be better played on other systems that aren’t the Switch and for those who don’t mind the inconsistencies present.Monster Crown begins with the player being able to choose an avatar, name, and pronouns, showing that despite being a throwback to the older days, there is still room for modern change. And the jumps in levels for boss monsters were frustrating to come across, perhaps more so because they could be cheesed by getting lucky with a pact. The storytelling leaves me feeling as though I was always missing some details. However, the bugs and some of the progression decisions made with Monster Crown make it a tedious experience at best and a downright frustrating one at worse.
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In this aspect, I do believe that they have really touched on what made games like Pokemon popular: the excitement of catching them all and figuring out how to best build your team to be the strongest they can be. The combat is fun and the breeding aspect can make it interesting to see what monsters you can end up creating, especially if you’re into min-maxing.
It has a solid base and if the developers decided to make another monster collector down the road, they have a good sense of what to include. Overall, Monster Crown has a good premise behind it.
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