We've seen a lot of games inspired by the Pokémon series pop up over the past few years, and now a new one has been announced for the Nintendo Switch.
Introducing Coromon by Freedom Games and TRAGsoft. In a nutshell, it's a modern monster taming game with retro pixel art, an "immersive" storyline, strategic turn-based combat and dungeons featuring challenging puzzles and epic Titans. Here's the story:
"In the region of Velua where Humans and Coromon live in harmony, a shady organization is on the verge of releasing a dark power upon the world. Will they succeed in their evil plans, or can they still be stopped?
"Step into the role of a young hero joining the technologically advanced organisation of Lux Solis. Gather your favorite Coromon to create a powerful squad. Together with your Coromon, you'll have to train, fight and puzzle your way through an adventure-filled world!"
It's expected to show up on the Switch in Q1 2022 and will contain more than 120+ animated Coromon, who live in the region of Velua. The trailer above provides a better look at everything else on offer.
If you're curious to see what this game is like, there's a demo available to download over on Steam. The developer and publisher of Coromon also has a "very special announcement" to make next week on 14th June, so keep an eye out for that.
Would you be interested in this upcoming Switch release? Leave a comment down below.
[source nintendoenthusiast.com]
Comments 29
Another bites the dust
I think this looks really good. Love the art style.
Too bad the wait is still so long.
In before people state this is a better game than Gamefreak can make.
@Longondo
Perhaps try Nexomon Extinction, if you haven't already? For a fraction of the price for Pokémon, it really is engaging. Sadly, it lacks multiplayer, but if you're not into that or find trading in the Pokémon games difficult, this may be your cup of tea.
A review for the game can be read on the site, and I personally have yet to finish the game myself (truthfully, I got stuck ten hours into the game before Christmas and have yet to pick it up from my backlog 😅).
@Longondo I'd recommend keeping an eye out for Monster Hunter Stories 2 and SMT V
@Xiovanni I was just thinking the same haha. Kinda weird to name it so similar to a popular monster from Digimon.
@Longondo Have you tried Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth?
...Nope, still sticking with MH Stories, lol
One thing I can appreciate from a glance, is the moving pixel sprites. I get a profound nostalgia from it, and it's honestly something I wish they kept in black(2)/white(2).
Well this one certainly does look like Pokemon (kind of makes you wonder where the line between blatant plagiarism, which one could sue for really lies), and for once in these indie clones the monster designs actually do look quite neat.
I would say that I'm intrigued.
Nobody else thinking that Coro…mon is an somewhat poorly timed name given the pandemic?
This could potentially be good, honestly I'm not really looking for a replacement for Pokemon, however, I did enjoy Nexomon Extinction and wouldn't be against playing another Pokemon styled game.
After playing Nexomon: Extinction last year I looked for a similar game. I tried the demo for this and wasn't intrigued enough to even finish it. But I can tell that if you get into the game it'll be great.
It looks like one of the monsters in the screenshots above is called Caradune, so I expect some Dindjarins and Ahsokatanos as well.
“Nuzlocke” built right in, I like that. Really wish Pokemon would give us difficulty options. I’ll probably pick this up for the right price.
Pokemon should have all of this stuff
Not gonna buy again a pokemon clone.
I liked Nexomon Extinction well enough. It’s been the best Pokémon clone I’ve played thus far. The clones tend to be missing that special something that Pokémon games have though. Could just be nostalgia and years of knowing the Pokémon, but none of the clones have come anywhere close to gen 2 or gen 5 games.
This looks like what Pokémon should look like, interesting. I’ll keep an eye on it.
Way to rip off chinpokomon, you slags
I played Cocomon on Android! It's extremely cute. Some better designs then Pokemon in fact, only real call outs were if you essentially played a 'mon that was stronger affinity wise, they were always a one hit KO. So incredibly easy. I hope they have fixed that.
@Longondo you might want to try Temtem or Monster Sanctuary! Temtem’s dojo leaders require a bit of strategy and Monster Sanctuary is difficult with champion monsters to defeat and can be brutal (recent update added more difficulties). Oh also Temtem has variant monsters (Luma) that are actually stronger than their counterparts (some dojo leaders will have one on occasion). Monster Sanctuary has light (defensive/supportive skill based mostly, Normal and dark (offensive) with the ability to change with a special item.)
Th is actually not new. This was a PC game in development since about three years ago.
It’s Pokemon. It’s not even trying.
@Mattock1987 Funnily enough, neither is modern Pokemon
@ObeliskDrakon good point.
I played a demo of this on Test Flight, it’s actually pretty good, the narrative pretty basic, but the difficulty and pacing were spot on.
@QueenofPain2018 I've had Several ppl recommend this to me, but the graphics are a deal breaker. This game,, however, at least the art direction doesn't ruin it for me immediately. I wish there was something like that, with the difficulty the poster u responded to desired, that had closer to current gen graphics. Maybe SMTV or monster hunter stories can scratch that itch...
The demo on the playstore is good, you can change the difficulty settings and even run it as a randomised or nuzlocke run. This could quite easily be the high difficulty Pokémon people are asking for in my opinion.
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