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Being a big fan of Level-5 games, I was happy to take a look at this hidden E-shop title. The trailer had sold me in with its nice visuals, the pleasant orchestra, and I can't get enough of the opening movie song. I swear I sang the opening lyrics every time I completed an episode. The nice about Level-5 games is that they give you a Saturday morning cartoon feeling. I bet Spirited Away fans can't get enough of Yo-Kai Watch, but this game is a lot different from the other Level-5 titles I've played. Mainly because it's took very little time to complete the main story. Even though I was taking the time to explore the entire area, this game only took me about 2 hours to beat! And its strange because Level-5 RPG's like Inazuma 11, Yo-Kai Watch, and LBX all had these long stories to go with them. And even if it was a short game, as long as the gameplay was satisfying I would easily give it at least an average score, but no. The monsters card game consists of tedious luck based mechanics...oh joy...my favorite. Each card has a rock, paper, or scissors element and an attack point level. You place 5 cards face down to face your opponents cards, you then both get hints about some cards that are going to either win, lose, or draw. Finally, you move two cards to increase your chance of victory and the cards are revealed. At first I didn't think this game was so bad, it reminds me of Voltorb Flip from Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver...and while that game is pretty fun, its not required to beat the game. But this card game is. Sure their's a couple of puzzles to solve here and there, but this makes up the entire game. Why? I'll get to that in a bit. As for the story, it's bit complicated, bare with me. So a little kid named Sohta moves to Tokyo, Setagawa and is asked to deliver some laundry to bakery owner. He makes some new friends like A-Plus and Ramen and hears that monsters attack every Friday. At first he investigates the area and learns that aliens may be attacking as well. But then he learns hat they're not real and it was just a collection of misunderstandings, like the factory smoke that morphs into the shape of a monster. But then he finds out that he's an alien and is asked by a creepy dude named Frank to defend the planet, because the original hero who tried out to be Earth's defender filled years ago and he's too disappointed in himself to try again. And that hero is actually your father who's also an alien! And that little girl who moved in around the same time you did is an alien princess...and...now I've gone cross-eyed. This a complicated story for an E-Rated game. So much is thrown in to this small world and I haven't even gotten to the side character stories. In all honestly though, some of the stories are wrapped up almost immediately anyway. All you really have to do for each character's is complete a quick information fetch quest, that's it. And then you get Monster Glims as a reward. Monsters Glims are the collectible items in this game. Combine enough pieces...and you obtain a new Monster Card to use in battle. With a powerful deck of creatures, you can become the boss of all of your friends, and command them to fall down down with a cursing chant! That's...a bit dark for children's card game, but I got sick of it pretty fast, so it never bothered me. It's just something Sohta and his friends do for fun. Collecting Monsters Glims reminds me off the Attack Piece hunts from Bowser's Inside Story. It's not required to beat the game, but it give you a fin little activity to do during each level. Unfortunately, even in the post game, you don't get to fight many opponents with only 6 of Sohta friends to fight, all carrying randomly selected card decks, things repetitive real fast. After collecting all of the Monster Glims in town and all of the available quests, there isn't anything else you can do in this game. And I mean it! No new areas to explore, no extra content, there isn't even a music collection as far as I'm aware. The last episode can only be completed once you collect all of the monster cards! And the only way to collect more is that sometime after winning a game you get a Glim from one of your friends. But it gets extra tedious because after you get the UFO card, your friends now use decks of 3-star cards, making it near impossible to defeat them! And even if you win you're not guaranteed to get new Card Glims, BECAUSE THIS GAME IS NOTHING BUT A WASTE OF MY TIME! Sigh...this is not game. This is more of an animated movie, especially with the average completion time. If you ask me, the theme the game developers are trying to market with here doesn't work. There's no realism because this is basically an extra kid friendly version of Monsters V.S Aliens. And I thought I was taking a break from Dreamworks games! Its not a mean-spirited time-waster. Again, I really like the visuals, but the gameplay is like a sandwich with only one slice of turkey. I'm still hungry and unsatisfied.… Expand
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