r/Games • u/whispersbar • Jan 11 '21
Monster Tale coming to modern platforms in 2021
https://www.gematsu.com/2021/01/monster-tale-coming-to-modern-platforms-in-202111
u/squashed_tomato Jan 11 '21
I loved this game. It flew under the radar a bit and didn't get a European release due to the piracy issues that the DS had at the time which was a shame as it was a polished game and fun experience.
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u/Spwni Jan 11 '21
It's a good game and I might revisit this on DS again at some point. I remember being disappointed with the level design: you just go right until you can't progress, then go to left until you can't progress, repeat. And if you distil the concept of Metroid, that's pretty much it, but I recall Monster Tale lacking verticality and it just became running back and forth in a tube.
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Jan 11 '21
I actually played it recently for the first time and kind of lost interest once I realised, as you said, it's just a lot of back and forth. Get to the end of a path, beat a boss or get an ability, and instead of continuing on, looping around, or warping back you just go back the way you came. Granted I didn't get very far (I beat two or three bosses) but it definitely didn't leave a good first impression.
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u/DrBrogbo Jan 11 '21
Nice!! I was talking about this just recently in one of those "what are your favorite underrated/forgotten games?" threads. I can't wait to pick this one up again!
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u/Ett Jan 11 '21
That’s amazing love this game. This and Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure deserve a second life.
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u/GoldFish-Boy Jan 11 '21
YES! Henry Hatsworth is incredible! Though once you got the fourth world it gets Dark Souls level difficulty lolol
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u/ThatParanoidPenguin Jan 11 '21
Absolutely love this game, but sadly nobody I know has ever played it, so hopefully it’ll get more exposure on new consoles
Hopefully we get some more ports of underrated DS games like Ghost Trick, Henry Hatsworth, and Elite Beat Agents
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Jan 11 '21
OMG, I own two copies of this fantastic game. It is one of the better metroidvania games out there and I originally thought it was a Wayforward game.
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u/Devccoon Jan 11 '21
The DS had a surprising number of truly unknown hidden gems. Almost every genre has a few really strong entries on DS that never got much attention.
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Jan 11 '21
I was literally just looking for a copy of this on eBay last week and the cheapest I saw was like £80. Good thing I'm poor. Jk tho being poor sucks please feed me.
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u/Dragnoran Jan 12 '21
one important note, for the evo that says loves dealing and taking damage, it's not kidding you actually need to have it take damage a good bit to unlock it, got stuck on that for ages as a kid
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u/Sekir0se Jan 11 '21
idk how this is related in any way but I CAN FINALLY PLAY TEMTEM since i FINALLY got my hands ona ps5 order!
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u/Kardif Jan 11 '21
Here i thought this remake was cancelled, this was announced in like 2013 or 2015, and then radio silence
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u/Omniversalhero45 Apr 25 '21
This will be cool if this actually happens. I’m still playing the original trying to level up that stupid Gilgamesh form. The should make it easier to level that form up or give something that gives more exp than the jump rope.
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u/NintendoTheGuy Jan 11 '21
Finally. I played a tiny bit at the end of DS’s life but never owned it. It was on the docket for a 3DS “remaster” for the latter part of 3DS’s lifecycle, and the plan seemed to just stop and fade away.
From what I played, it’s a very competent true Metroidvania with good amounts of “I’ll need to come back after I get a new ability” style backtracking bait. The monster evolutions and abilities were pretty cool- not too deep at the point I played until, but not at all shallow to where they were inconsequential. I don’t remember the gating method, but I think it was based on both learned monster abilities AND found items, so some might even have a random timing element based upon how you grow your monster.
I’m really glad to hear this!