It’s looking mighty promising.

Sure, it’s a monster-collecting game, but what makes it so different from your Pokemons andTemtems?

schtick we’re all so used to with these sorts of games.

Cass and Kayleigh battle a Dandylion and Masquerattle in Cassette Beasts.

“You know, they have their own reasons for wanting to stay and how they feel about everything.

“We actually have an elemental system, you know”, he tells me.

But the game’s sunny demeanor hides a dark secret.

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Then reality glitched and tore and blam!

“, to “Oh god, oh god”.

The whole encounter reminded me a bit ofUndertaleand how its happy veneer hid a darker undercurrent.

A player, followed by an AI companion, run down a set of steps in a lovely port town in Cassette Beasts.

Clearly, there’s a lot more going on than recording monsters and Iwantto know more.

A battle between myself, my AI bud Kayleigh, and the Archangel ensued.

At first it seemed hopeless, with all of my attacks barely scratching the Archangel.

Two players stand by a cliffside in an autumnal Cassette Beasts scene.

Until Kayleigh and I fused into a mega-powerful monster and batted them out of existence.

What’s neat is that building relationships with your party members will mean super fusions will get stronger.

Keep an eye out for this one.

Kayleigh fires a gun at a Thwackalope, while a floating UFO-thing and a purple goat-thing watch on in Cassette Beasts.