The latest Pokémon-like battling for your attention is Coromon, a new monster-catching game that's launching on Switch on 31st March.
From developer TRAGsoft and publisher Freedom Games, the game sees players setting off on an adventure as a young Coromon trainer. Journeying through the Kant– sorry, Velua region, you'll be catching creatures of different elemental types, battling other trainers, and stopping a shady organisation from using legendary Coromon for evil purposes. Sounding familiar?
In an attempt to appeal to the more hardcore and hard-to-please side of Pokémon's fanbase, the game will offer up a variety of difficulty modes, including a built-in Nuzlocke option (where fans would usually have to create a set of self-imposed rules to make the game tougher).
"Coromon is our modern take on a classic and beloved genre," says Jochem Pouwels, founder of TRAGsoft. "Everything from the built-in difficulty options to the expanded control over stat customizations, squad combinations, and more, it’s all to create a personal and tailored experience for creature catching trainers that have been asking for this for decades. Coromon is finally almost here to give the people what they want!"
If you're interested, the game launches on Switch (and PC and Mac) for $19.99 this March. As ever, feel free to share your thoughts on this one in the comments below.
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Wow I thought from the title the game was just going to be a low effort Pokemon gameboy like game and then I saw those amazing sprites and animations.
The monster designs are great too!
As someone who started with Gen 5, seeing the fluidity and crispness of the sprites makes me very, very happy. I'm pretty good on Pokemon right now but I might pick this up if the itch comes back again.
I've actually been looking for something to scratch that itch. I'm thinking about getting back into Monster Hunter Stories 2.
The last Pokemon clone that I played (Nexomon Extinction), was pretty damn good. I might have to check this out, at some point down the road
Might try it. Might have to use a different profile for nuzlocke mode.
For a pokemon clone, this looks to be extremely high quality. I really like the creature designs and how fluid the animation is. I might actually pick this up just to see how it plays.
Played a demo for this on Steam a few months back, it played really well but the controls did need a little work. I have had this on my Steam wishlist since I played the demo, but had no idea it was coming to Switch though.
I far prefer this visual style to modern 3D Pokemon like Sword/Shield. Wish Pokemon itself would go back to that for the core RPGs
I played this with TestFlight on Mac and it was actually pretty fun. I’ve been waiting for a release date to be announced. I’ll definitely grab it for $20 on Switch.
I'll echo that compared to most Poke-clones, this looks like it has a lot of charm and care put into it, with actually nice sprite work and animations. And seemingly it avoids Nintendo-Hire-This-Man-isms like open world or mmorpg mechanics, or an overly edgy story, and instead is more faithful to the games that inspired it.
I'll keep an eye out for some independent reviews when it comes out, since mainstream channels don't tend to give these games much attention.
The monsters actually look pretty cool and not like rip-offs or mash ups of existing Pokémon! Not entirely anyway.
I recently bought Pearl and Omega Ruby for my pokemon fix this year - I really like the animations in this one though.
Have to admit, I assumed this was going to be another poor clone. I only stopped when I saw the price for $20. But, the polish on the graphics was more than I was expecting. If they've put as much attention to the rest of the game, this should be good.
Looks way better then the diamond and pearl remakes already.
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