Top 5 Monster Taming Games of 2023! | BUY THEM ALL! | HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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1. Hi

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2. Hi

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3. Great work as always

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4. Wanted to thank you again for turning me onto Cassette Beasts. If not for you, I'd honestly have passed by a wonderful experience.

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5. Lol we all knew dq monsters and cassette beasts wud be top 2 but u wud have a hard time choosing which 1 for top spot😂

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6. Thank you for putting me on to a lot of great games this year cassette beasts was by far my favorite game to play this year even compared to aaa like ff16 and spiderman 2. Glad i found your channel hope you have a happy new year and too many more great monster tamer games next year as well.

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7. 💙

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8. Not even mon-tamers are safe from human-sue crap, anymore.

   I wish I could be nice to Cassette Beasts, but I've grown to literally hate the game. Not only are the monsters some of the blandest, most charmless pieces of nothing I've ever seen IN a "mon-tamer," but you don't even play AS the monsters. You just play as some uninspired human-sue who SHAPESHIFTS into monsters. Like, does this even QUALIFY as a mon-tamer? Any inkling that life beyond the oh-so glorious human race can be good and valuable is completely GONE in favor of yet another humans=good/everything else=bad and worthless story, with some BS "oh, they're figments of humanity's imagination" being athrowaway to excuse the fact that they're basically conjuring up these creatures just so they can slaughter them. All the charm, all the nuance, EVERYTHING I loved about the genre is removed here and replaced with narcissistic garbage spewed out by human-obsessed wastes of oxygen who see the world as nothing more than a toy for humans to play with.

   And, Ed, for promoting this garbage, I've lost a LOT of respect for you. Cassette Beasts is nothing more than a testament to how far humanity can shove it's own f@$%ing narcissism into everything it touches, and by showering endless praise to this garbage, you are promoting this very narcissism and humanity's god-complex.

   Honestly, I'm just sick of this. The one genre I thought would be sacred, and you have all these actually charming and likeable games, but no! ALL of it has to take a second place to this heartless piece of @$%. F@$% off!

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9. A game i'm enjoying (not sure if it counts as Monster Taming) is Slime Rancher, addicted since i bought it for Christmas in a Sale. Also thanks for your content over the years and i enjoy posting the Paldecks.

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10. I'm still confused about the Coromon Demo being boring and the pineapple heads of the main chars. I think the only surely good thing for me here was Cassette Bests.
    I'm in some kind of love hate relationship with Dragon Quest.

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11. If only DQM wasn't a switch exclusive😢

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12. I've had no interesting most of these, but I did get Coromon when it originally came out and while I didn't finish it because my brother fell behind and we were playing side by side so I stopped at one point, it was pretty good. Dragon Quest Monsters I've wanted an expanded version of the monster combat system since DQ8, but idk, maybe I've just gotten older but the monsters and stuff just didn't catch my eye enough to sell me on getting it. There's just something about game mechanics built into the side of a game, like monster taming these rare encounters and using them in an arena, that really makes things special. Gives you a reason to explore, find things you cannot beat at the time and revisit, etc, as a bonus to the game you are already playing.

    Overall, a very lame year for monster taming games for me. REALLY looking forward to the potential AI generation will bring to the table moving forward. Content should be plentiful, fusions can give you several different freshly generated outputs and you choose your favorites, etc. Multi-generational fusions can be a thing and it follows a formula for deciding what each fusion/generation is capable of, and maybe you only get like 3-5 generations before its maxed on the number of times it can fuse. What kind of freaks or amazing monsters could we end up with?

    Games in general need new mechanics in play, as a lot of games are just stale mechanics that have existed since the 90s or earlier. Recent developments in gaming has shown inventory management and optimization seems to be popular, so maybe monsters could have a Soul of varying shapes and sizes, and every time you fuse your monsters it changes shape and size. The soul itself could basically be a puzzle of spaces with randomized or thematic areas within it that have different benefits depending on what kind of pieces of experience you socket into them. New skills, more stats, passives, etc, could have additional bonuses applied to them based on where you put them in the Soul, but you need to fit the piece in, since different experiences would have different sizes and shapes. Some could influence and affect the other pieces around them too, or not want to be near other experiences, something like negative experiences that are powerful but don't like being around others. Hope to see something like this in a monster taming game in the future.

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