Apr 2, 2023 - Day 92 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 99

Game: Monster Crown

Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Jul 31, 2020
Library Date: Apr 2, 2023
Unplayed: 0d
Playtime: 16m

For reasons that escape me now, last July I decided to purchase an annual subscription for Humble Bundle.

I think my reasoning was "I've been paying USD$11.99 per month, I can switch to AUD and pay $16.95 per month, or pay up front, and effectively pay $14.92 per month! If I get one good game each month that normally costs more than $15, I'm ahead."

I am not ahead. There have been some good games - and I already owned every one of them. Most of the others I haven't played, so at this point, I am not ahead, at all.

What do have is a particular collection of games, games I have acquired over the last nine months, unplayed games that make managing storage on my gaming PC a nightmare for... me.

So... I'm going to try and play them as well.

I started with Monster Crown. I did not grow up with Nintendo, and I had trouble grasping the purpose of this game.

My son (also a Humble Choice subscriber) walked in while I was playing it and said "Oh! I saw that game. It's just shitty Pokemon."

Indeed, it turns out that Monster Crown is, apparently, "inspired by" early Pokemon games.

The 8-bit style "retro" graphics, & chiptunes had already put me off, and the gameplay didn't grab me at all.

Monster Crown is:

2: Meh

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