And it’s not just Pokémon that does this. The story’s the reason that you go from place to place, and the game constantly entices you with optional areas -like Routes 13, 14, and 15 in Kanto or the Wild Area in Galar-in hopes that the player will really make the adventure their own. ![]() When playing through a game like Pokémon-literally any of them-the story isn’t the focus. I promise it’s not, though-and I’m more than happy to break things down. It’s an RPG with monster-collecting mechanics.” On the surface, that might sound like semantics. My biggest issue with Coromon was something that kept popping into my head over, and over again as I went through the entirety of this game-” Coromon isn’t a monster-collecting RPG. ![]() Cormon does have other issues, though, and, sadly, they’re bigger than anything plot-related. In fact, if everything else were fine about the game I don’t think I’d care that much. I know that I just spent the last paragraph complaining about this game’s story, but that’s not really my main issue with Coromon. I can stop picking mushrooms any time I want, thank you very much. Seriously, devs, I was embarrassed for you on that one. On top of that, you bait players with post-game content dialogue and then don’t deliver. There was zero payoff in the way you tied everything up. To be fair, I wasn’t expecting something amazing, but when the end of the game was literally a few lines of dialogue followed by “Thanks for Playing,” I’m going to take issue. You had living embodiments of Coromon Types, and evil aliens, and all kinds of cool science-y stuff, and it was leading up to something great-all for it to drop you into the most pitiful endgame sequence I’ve seen in quite some time. The entire time I’ve been playing Coromon, it’s been building up this huge plot. Sure, there were a few times where I was forced to sit through a few instances of referential humor (please stop using referential humor in video games), but a few bad decisions wouldn’t ruin the story. I thought that I was going to get through it and would be satisfied with the ending. Talk about a rough first few days on the job!Ĭoromon‘s story was almost fine. However, you eventually find out that the balance of the very world is about to be thrown off-and it’s your duty as the newly-chosen Preserver to set things correctly once more. And, as luck would have it, you’ve just been accepted! Things begin pretty normally with you being introduced to your new duties as a Battle Researcher and you begin your journey across Velua in a fairly low-key manner. ![]() Coromon takes place within a region of the world known as Velua, in which (as far as we know), only those officially certified by Lux Solis as “Battle Researchers” are allowed to handle the mysterious and powerful creatures known as Coromon. But it’s always nice if there is a story and, to its credit, Coromon has a pretty solid one. In my opinion, a monster-collecting games don’t really need a gripping story to help carry them along. It sure is, Mom! And I bet nothing bad or weird will happen at all. ![]() And, when you strip Coromon down to its basics, there’s not much that it has to offer against its competition. But I think that a lot of people-the developers of this game included-forget why we want to endlessly replay Pokémon games-because the base games are really, really good and genuinely fun to play through. I think that we should have options for more randomized, hardcore experiences in monster collecting games. It’s very obvious that the people that made this are-or at least were-big fans of Pokémon at some point, and their love for the series and/or frustration toward where it was heading (most likely a combination of both) resulted in them attempting to create something that would cater toward an older, more hardcore fanbase. And that’s why we have games like Coromon.Ĭoromon is certainly an interesting title. But some people out there-like the people over at TRAGsoft-saw fit to try to take the situation into their own hands. And, because GameFreak caters to a younger, more casual crowd on average, a lot of the problems that I (and many others) have with the game probably aren’t going to be ever be handled in a way that could be considered “satisfactory.” But, what can you do? Well, for me, nothing-I just play the games and enjoy them the best that I can (which is still quite a bit). Like any other series out there, it’s got some problems-quite a few, actually. It’s a really, really good series in my opinion-but it’s not perfect. I’ve been a fan of them my entire life, and my love for them has only gotten stronger as I’ve gotten older.
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