Cassette Beasts wants you to go wild with its array of monster allies, fusing any two creatures you want to create a new fighter for its monster battles.
New Wirral is kind of an odd place. Full of all kinds of dangerous critters. To deal with them, people have decided to record them on cassette. Sounds like they’re trying to make documentaries, but by recording a creature, you can take its shape and gain its powers. Honestly, this makes me feel a lot more at-ease than locking a small animal up in a tiny capture ball for the rest of time, but maybe that’s just me. It’s nice to be able to gather an array of monsters without having that quiet, niggling guilt in the back of my mind the whole time.
What’s even more interesting is the ways you can fuse monsters. In short, you can fuse any monster with any other monster. The game just rolls with it. This can result in some neat appearances as aspects the two monsters inform the new combination that you end up with. I liked just playing around with this system, seeing what sorts of goofy combinations would come from each fusion. There is a gameplay benefit to doing it, too, as you can make some really strong creatures that will steamroll over your troubles. If that doesn’t help, there’s a lot of depth in the combat system that will let you mess with elemental weaknesses to the point of forcing your opponent to become a different type so you can use that as a weakness.
Cassette Beasts is a complex monster battler (that you can also play in CO-OP?!) that is a lot of fun just to mess with to see what combinations you can make and how you’ll use them. And knowing that you’re not imprisoning monsters makes it all feel even better.
Cassette Beasts is available now on Steam. It is projected to release on the Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One on May 25, 2023.
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