Nexomon: Extinction Is The Latest Monster-Catcher Hoping To Take On Pokémon

....Looks....kinda bad honestly...

Muahahaha, just go ahead and add them to the Pokémon Rivals graveyard.

I swear every one of these "Pokemon killers" lasts like 2 months and then disappear. This even happened with ones I liked like yo-kai watch!

Lmao it might be better than Sword and Shield though!

No thanks. Shamelessly ripping off Pokemon that much because they can’t come up with their own ideas? Doesn’t deserve to be a success in my opinion.

The non genre could use more variety but they always seem to just want to be Pokémon clones. Also, the art style in battles reminds me a bit unpleasantly of app games (I don’t mind mobile games usually, though.). I’ll keep an eye on this for the claims of a good story but will likely pass.

Ah, well, at least another Digimon game is due out soon.

The only pokemon like game i see myself interested in right now is Cassette beasts.

@TheLightSpirit NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

EDIT: Oh, wait, just delayed indefinitely due to Covid-19. That means it’ll probably still happen eventually. Whew.

@TheLightSpirit I was referring more to yo-kai's popularity in the west, as the localisation for the series has been infamously terrible as the games came out in English years after they were out in Japan, which I believe lead to it's downfall over here

@readalie @TheLightSpirit That was revealed to be false, see here

In fact, they just released info on more characters here

Nicer trees than Sword and Shield

...the rest though? Meh

It reminds me of flash games from the early 2000's.

@Kalmaro Thank you so much! Such a relief to hear, er, read.

Looks like a flash game...

... and not a good one.

I played the iOS Nexomon last year and was really pleasantly surprised. The dialogue is really well put together, the story was good. The monsters are a little over designed but at least they aren't all people-shaped and wearing clothes like pokemon lately.

@graysoncharles I mean, a lot of games nowadays take ideas and whatnot from other games. But this is as unashamedly brazen a rip off as you could hope to imagine.

There’s taking ideas and reinterpreting them into a new idea, and then there’s straight, flat out rip-offs. This falls into the latter by the look of it.

Pokemon should have looked this good like 10 or more years ago. Still waiting on that Pokemon-like that does it better, because the real thing is so meh

@Kalmaro Wow I just looked up Cassette Beasts and I am intrigued

@Crockin Right? It looks like a joke that came to life and now is interesting. I'm pretty hyped.

I'd really like a game that's in the spirit of Pokemon, but man, they all look so bad.

Yeeeaaahhh, not interested in a moble game ported to the Seitch that was a shameless ripoff of Pokémon.

I've been a Pokémon fan since the first gen. The idea of a "poke clone" doesn't annoy me but the fact that they're basically ripping off Pokémon does. If they took the monster catching or strategic battling aspect and changed it in a new or novel way it would be on my radar, possibly to buy, but this literally just looks like Pokémon with another skin.

Wait, "join over 1 million tamers" - the game isn't out yet, right? So how are there over a million players?

Edit: oh it's a mobile game?

Can't be more disappointing than Sword and Shield...

@andyc777 you could file it away in your brain as recapturing the feeling of the old style. what they show of the overworld looks interesting and if the story is good than that's practically new. think we gotta find out how well is the execution on a 25+ year old idea before we decide it doesn't have its own merit.

So I have this idea for a game
Uh huh?
Its a little like Pokemon
A little? ...
Ok, it is Pokemon

BOTW 2 stand aside,Nexemon for Game of the year

(not really)

this looks visually better than SWSH. I've never really played any of the clones, but I suppose if they are more of a challenge than XY/USUM/SHSW are, will likely give it a go. However it seems to be mobile bases, so it probably includes P2W elements, so most likely, no.

Doesn't look good to me, it's a shameless rip, I mean I new it from the get go just look at the name

I am not sure if “Extinction” is the right subtitle to use in such a game..

Probably will end up being a way better game then pokemon sw/sh but won't even reach 10% of those sales.
Because that's the sad and depressing times we are living in...

It looks neat, but I seriously don't understand why all these Pokémon clones are just...well, Pokémon clones.

There's so much untapped potential in this sub-genre, that it's a waste to copy the Pokémon formula wholesale just because it's historically the monster-catching formula. In doing so, they inherit the flaws too, and will never have an identity outside of "that Pokémon clone".

No I am not getting this. I have my plan for the games I want for my Nintendo Switch Lite. So I am going to sit this one out. And I have cousins that plays Pokemon with me and I like battling him sometimes.

The problem with all these 'Pokémon killers' is they're cheaply made and don't do anything interesting to stand out.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who is tired of Pokémon and would like to fill the gap with something new.

@EmmatheBest,

17 million sales and counting is not all that disappointing, I bet the developers are crying into their computers worrying about a few idiots on the internet.

I don’t want a Pokémon clone. I just want Pokémon to be better.

Imagine thinking Pokemon is even remotely original when almost everything about it is arguably a watered down ripoff of Dragon Quest 5 but you can bet westerns will never say jack squat when you bring that up.

Westerners that hate any other monster collectors for no good reason are busy wetting their diapers meanwhile the Japanese have never had any issue actually trying and playing other monster collectors hence why Pokemon didn't flop cuz it could easily have just been disregarded as a DQ wannabe and why series like Digimon and Yo-Kai Watch (series that borrow WAY more ideas from Shin Megami Tensei, a game that did monster collecting 9 years before Pokemon existed, than they do from Pokemon but westerners don't know that cuz they don't play anything else) continue to be popular and successful in Japan to this day.

Articles and comments like this are why I can't take western gamers even remotely seriously because they act like total babies over the idea of another monster collector genre game DARING to exist besides Pokemon.

Oh well. Almost any other monster collector has proven to be a much better game than Pokemon especially in recent years, so I have little doubt this one will be any different in being a better game too.

I don't know why, maybe it's because I've been habituated with the look and feel for Pokemon for so long, but to me, this game just doesn't look good at all.

I might play it partially it looks like Digimon. And it pretty cool as a manga like game. I played Monster Super League and this is close to that. So I'll see. I hope to customize my character and mons but we'll see.

Competition is healthy. Whenever there is no competition you get an uninspired, unchanging series like Pokemon. Ironically a series that refuses to evolve.

I'll give it a go could be fun

I love this kind of RPGs, but there have been so few of them for a long time, so it's pretty exciting to see a sudden surge of Pokémon-inspired games. What's next, Telefang: Reboot?

I've seen this before, it's free on Google Play, so I hope it is on Switch too, because if not... there should be an unique twist to it.

@mesome713 Just because these games haven't replaced Pokemon in terms of popularity doesn't mean there aren't successful. Many of them of have large international fan bases with millions of loyal fans.