This is probably my favorite out of the Monster Prom games as the main focus isn't romance. I always liked the wacky hi-jinks in the past games so it's nice to have a game that's just that. I do wish you could have chosen different characters to ride with. While I like Scott and Polly, it would have been fun to be able to customize my entire crew. I loved the new playable moth character, Hazel.
In my opinion, the best game Beautiful Glitch has put out to date. Main game is a hell of a lot of fun. There's an incredible cast of characters, both new and recurring. The scenarios are just as silly and zany as ever. The 'End of the Road' storyline was... something else, man. This is game's gonna stick with me for quite some time. Won't be fading away anytime soon...
While not a terribly robust game, it still manages to make its predecessors look like a tech demo. A lot of the lulzy internet humor still remains but it's far and away the most genuinely written game in the series--characters that were once joke machines finally get some nice depth. The resource system feels significantly more well refined than before and feels far less like a frustrating shot in the dark, meeting a good balance between clear matters of inference and strategy but not to the point that you can exploit the game to overly slant your stats.
Not astonishing but a good place for the series to head--was very nice to score with Polly Geist one last time, and as implied above, the best written iteration of her too!
Not astonishing but a good place for the series to head--was very nice to score with Polly Geist one last time, and as implied above, the best written iteration of her too!
It's kind of crazy how Monster Prom has reinvented and perfected the genre of "Anthological fluff with no relation to itself" in just three installments over 4 years. This is just such a cozy hug, like I'm seeing a friend I haven't met in a few years again. I know the series well so the... um... "illicit content" doesn't really phase me anymore, but I'm still able to laugh my ass off in a lobby of my friends right from the get-go, and still have 90%+ of the game to look forward to after that. No one has such a knack for sacrilegious creativity like Beautiful Glitch.
Monster Prom (2018): Win a coin flip 10 times in a row for a chance at seducing Polly. (Someone said there’s like, Seven other love interests?? Pretty sure they were messing with me.) Should have had some mini games.
Monster Camp (2020): Win a coin flip 10 times in a row for a chance at seducing Aaravi. (People keep talking about all these other choices but??? I genuinely have no idea what they're talking about.) But no, Seriously, this would have Killed with some micro games, WarioWare style.
Monster Roadtrip (2022): A genuinely interesting digital board game, with tons of meaningful choices and some really fun writing; Can You Believe It! Doesn’t even need the mini games anymore.
(Still tho, how cool would it have been if the driving part was like Outrun?)
Monster Camp (2020): Win a coin flip 10 times in a row for a chance at seducing Aaravi. (People keep talking about all these other choices but??? I genuinely have no idea what they're talking about.) But no, Seriously, this would have Killed with some micro games, WarioWare style.
Monster Roadtrip (2022): A genuinely interesting digital board game, with tons of meaningful choices and some really fun writing; Can You Believe It! Doesn’t even need the mini games anymore.
(Still tho, how cool would it have been if the driving part was like Outrun?)