The Original Game In Pokémon-Like Series 'Nexomon' Lands On Switch Next Month

Might get it while I wait for Legends Arceus

So... Nexomon is coming out Nexo-month?

Wait, so "Pokemon-Like" is now a thing? Well I suppose..

They should try harder to be and do their own thing. I wouldn't go so far as to call this series a ripoff but I think it's trying somewhat too hard to emulate certain things.

@RupeeClock Now this piques my interest. Those visuals are far nicer. Nexomon's looks too clean, like a well-made Flash game or something.

The box art even reminds me of the Sugimori watercolour-esque style.

Monster hunter stories 2 was enought to get my mon fix. Now we wait for legends.

So many of those Nexomon are very clearly "Pokemon A + Pokemon B with the colour palette of Pokemon C"

I feel like too many of these come in from the angle of making the next Pokemon and the result is always their monsters all look like knock off Pokemon. I think Ni No Kuni is the only one I've seen where the monsters look like original creations from their own game.
(Not counting MH Stories as those were existing monsters form another game already)

@Bunkerneath Several studios attempted their take at Pokémon as far back as the GBC era. There are a few that came out or are coming out even on Switch. Obviously none of them can "kill" the giant franchise but they offer things the mainline series doesn't (like in case of Nexomon higher difficulty).

@Ogbert I’d say Digimon, SMT, and a few others have pretty unique designs. It’s only really nexomon that tries hard to copy pokemon..

...I've played it. The gamePLAY is fine. The story is absolutely atrocious though. People complain about a game that takes itself too seriously? Well, this game can barely take itself seriously for more than 3 seconds. Seriously, there's an unexplained talking...Nexomon next to you who does a majority of the 4th wall breaking, and guess what, he'll ruin every single conversation in the game because of that.

After SS, I was eager to try this game on my PS4 when it released initially. But...it's bad. Like, worse than SS bad. Way worse. Just wait for Temtem or play MHS2 until Sinnoh sequels if you need a monster taming game until then.

I wanna be the very Nex
Like Pokemeon already was
To copy them is my real test
To ape them is my cause

Hm....
I saw some potential from Nexomon.

Pokémon for me has had great designs every generation as of yet.
And watching this trailer, most look boring or just random blobs and for me that takes a lot away about a game focused on monster catching.

@Hinade I agree that Pokemon has been pretty consistently good with designs. Even its worst era, gens 5 and 6 in my opinion, has some of the best designs. That said, I think Nexomon and Temtem have some fairly cool designs. Some of them look a little too much like Pokemon to me, but I wouldn't say that they are at all bad.

I would strongly consider picking up Nexomon when it has multiplayer features (preferably online!)

@RupeeClock online battle? Online trade? Switch AND Xbox? Now you're talking my language. Wishlisted, thank you!

@RupeeClock I backed Monster Crown! The beta has been really solid and I look forward to getting my Switch copy in October!

For further elaboration to people interested:

The main draws of the game are breeding and fusion. Monsters have “DNA” and breeding or fusing two monsters results in a sort of cross breeds, with the new monster taking some attributes from each parent (like species, color, stats, and even typing and growth rate). The main differences are breeding keeps the parents but starts the child off at level 4 once it hatches, while fusing results in a monster with a level comparable to the original two monsters - additionally, certain fusions create entirely new monsters!

The battle system otherwise is like a simplified (though not necessarily easier) Pokemon battle system. There’s also a lot of lore, legendary monsters, and customization, but the star of the show is really the breeding and fusion. This allows you to create truly unique teams - the drawback being in multiplayer you’ll have no idea of the stats of the monster you’re facing, since everything is fully customizable once you understand how breeding works.

Inspired by Pokemon? I don't see it.

We need a fan-made game in which Pokemon themselves are the trainers and they battle each other by tossing humans into gladiatorial arenas. Nomékop anyone?

Couldn’t get on with the latest Nexomon on Switch, the stamina system not resetting between battles just annoyed me.

@VoidofLight
i mean, smt predates pokemon by about 4 years and the monsters in it are based on actual mythology.
digimon was never meant to be compared to pokemon and if anything is closer to smt, especially as the forms digimon take are based on information found on the internet.

@Shadowmoon522 I'm in agreeance about not really wanting to compare either, and how SMT precedes it, but I'm just saying that most monster collecting games have really unique monster designs. It's just a couple that try to copy pokemon entirely, like with Nexomon.

@VoidofLight ah I’ve not played SMT so didn’t know it was monster collecting. Fair enough! Digimon I only know the anime where they never gathered monsters they just had the one so I’ve never equated the two but yeah they’re their own thing.

I guess I was thinking of the indie ones like this, Temtem, Monster Sanctuary, that one with the guns and stuff.

Yokai Watch also had it’s own flavour. So yeah it’s really just these small indie Pokemon-likes.

@Ogbert Yeah, a couple of these indie ones really want to be the next pokemon, so they try their hardest to replicate it. I think the one with guns is more of a parody though. If you want a pretty good monster collector, Monster crown seems to be the only indie one with it's own direction.

Surely can't be any worse than swsh amirite guys haha

Hmm, there's a surprising amount of hate for Extinction on here. I've actually really enjoyed the game, probably moreso than the past two generations of Pokémon. I think the writing can be legitimately funny and the characters feel less stale than those in Pokémon. I also enjoy not already knowing the Nexomon and their evolutions.

It's almost depressing that Pokémon-like is ever used as a genre term, considering several Monster Tamers were around before Pokémon first released. It's a step up from people calling other games 'Pokemon clones' though, so at least there's that.