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A fun, simple and comfy Pokemon-like with a story that I would describe as a mix of Pokemon Adventures and Disgaea. Battles are rather easy though there were a number of occasions where I cheesed high level boss battles with moves that inflicted confusion as it's rather broken. I love the monster designs in this game though I think the roster (300+ monsters) is far too big considering the overall length of this game, the main story took me around 15 hours or so to finish, and then I poured some hours finishing the post game story and doing most of the post game stuff until I got bored and moved on. Overall, still a good time, although unfortunately there's an unflattering depiction of indigenous brown people less than halfway through the game.

Diria, de forma resumida, que é um Pokémon mais amigável em termos de dificuldade. Mas, as diferenças vão muito além dessa.

Nexomon é um game MUITO focado em história e, especialmente, em diálogos. Ao ponto de, certamente, gerar um pouco de impaciência em alguns que simplesmente gostam de upar e capturar monstros. Mas, não vejo esse aspecto como problemático. Apesar da grande quantidade de diálogos, eles são bem divertidos e muitos deles trazem toques importantes para o entendimento da história e, até mesmo, avanço na própria jogatina.

O senso de humor é leve, muito bem explorado e com um aspecto chave que, particularmente, gosto muito, que é a quebra da 4ª parede.

O jogo conta sim com seus clichês, mas o roteiro é surpreendente, desperta muita curiosidade e é repleto de reviravoltas. A história do jogo é bem detalhada, não faltam explicações pros motivos de cada personagem. Claro, é uma história cheia de pontos cômicos e pouco focada num público mais velho, então naturalmente acabam tendo aquelas tomadas de decisões que julgamos como ilógicas, mas que são parte da essência e acabam, até, sendo ofuscadas pela própria comicidade da obra.

Eu gostei muito desse port pra PC. É tudo bem intuitivo, fluído e podemos usar tanto teclado como mouse pra mexer na interface.

As artes são bem bonitas e vivas. Admito que não gostei visualmente de vários nexomons, sinto que faltou criatividade em alguns, mas não é muito diferente do que penso sobre a obra que lhe referenciou.

A trilha sonora me conquistou também. Assim como a natureza calma do jogo, boa parte de suas OSTs são bem calminhas. Mas, não deixam de mudar o ritmo no momento certo!

Enfim, já que não tem muito o que dizer sobre a jogabilidade além do que já foi dito no inicio — um Pokémon mais fácil. Então, encerro dizendo que é um ótimo jogo pra quem gosta de Pokémon e, principalmente, quer esfriar a cabeça!

Gran juego del género de captura de monstruos, con personajes muy diferenciales y un guion divertido y rápido. El juego en si tiene un ritmo rápido que hace que puedas jugarlo en 3 o 4 sentadas y no te aburras. Las peleas son rápidas y los tipos son lo más importante. Creo que los puntos negativos son el poco inventivo para explorar, lo sencilla que son las peleas y lo rotísimo que está el sistema de combate en cuanto a los estados y su dificultad, ya que solamente parándote a pelear cuando veas las batallas será suficiente para que te sobre nivel para los combates más importantes.

Le entré por una recomendación. Como alternativa a Pokémon no está mal, pero en un momento se me hizo muy abuso la diferencia de poder con un toque de entrenamiento. Me terminé aburriendo.

Muy buen juego "copia" de Pokémon que es incluso superior con una historia muy buena y muy disfrutable


I got this game for like 2 bucks on the eshop during a sale and thought, hey, why not. I finished the main story in about 13 hours and I don't regret my time with it. However, it is important you go into it with the right expectations.

This game is NOT a game made for the Switch and it certainly doesn't try to be a console title. This game is a mobile game restructured to run on consoles excluding the microtransactions. Ingame items that used to be obtainable by purchase of a special in-game currency with real money are now just found on the overworld or are given to you by NPCs. These items make the game a whole lot more enjoyable tho, cause they help with grinding.

Overall this game was mostly what I expected, but it had a few surprises as well. The writing is really fun and most characters are, at least visually, well designed and unique. The story was interesting, but certainly nothing groundbreaking. The Nexomon designs are really cool, although you probably want to go only for the rare+ mons, since they are clearly way more powerful than common mons. I think the game is easy enough to beat with any team and grinding is not that hard since the levelscaling is really nice, but if you want to spend some extra time looking for the really rare mons, you will have an even easier time with the game.

Some battles, especially near the end of the story, were completely random story-wise. They didn't make any sense looking at the point the story was at and sadly a lot of battles with the same people happened over and over again in the span of a few hours. The "climax" of the game was well done and I was satisfied with how the story concluded.

There is post-game content I have not touched yet and I might just skip that and move on to the second game sometime in the future. Overall, if you expect a perfect Pokémon-clone with far better writing, mechanics and story, this is NOT what you are looking for. If you are looking for something similar as a fun game you can beat in a relatively short time, go for it!

This is an extremely delightful monster-battle game. Some stuff is "missing" from Nexomon compared to what's in Pokemon, but the elements that are new all work pretty well.

Muito legal, mas também muito fácil! Eu zerei o jogo derrotando 97% dos inimigos com um ataque, o resto precisou de no máximo 3, inclusive os bosses. Se você for do tipo que não gosta de grindar, dá pra chegar até pouco antes do final da história com apenas um Nexomon, assim você consegue focar em upar só ele e facilmente vai se manter sempre uns 20 níveis acima dos inimigos.

Pretty decent creature collector. I wasn't expecting to have as much fun as i did with the plot and characters, they're nothing amazing but they really helped me enjoy what otherwise would have been an easy drop.

You can tell it's a free mobile game that has been ported.

Google translation, stats that are useless...

I don't recommend it, 2 is much better.

Overall good. Fighting doesn't feel tactical, it's just a matter of who hits the hardest. Catching lengendaries isn't compelling

The Nexomon themselves are very charming, along with the characters. However, the movesets are all pretty boring. You end up with a team of starters or legendaries that all just use the most powerful moves of their type. It still holds a soft spot in my heart, though

This review contains spoilers

You enter the Nexomon version of a Pokécenter and really see just how much of a blatant copy and paste of Pokémon this is. Or is it? I mean sure the inspiration is so obvious it's undeniable, but the game takes a surprisingly different turn in how they execute everything. What looks like the obvious stand-in for gym leaders and elite 4 get used in much different ways (especially the latter). It ends up with the story of this game being surprisingly decent, much better than I was expecting anything. It does kind of give thoughts of edgy Pokémon rom hacks, but that's not really this games fault in particular.

Unfortunately its genes as a mobile game do make the game look cheap, even if I think the environments, and especially creature designs are pretty great.

There's 310 Nexomon in this game, which was easily the biggest draw for me. All these new creatures to discover, to catch and evolve. Every one a surprise. That by far kept me going in what could have otherwise been an easily disappointing game. You might also be surprised to learn there's only 2 types of "Pokéballs" (nexotraps) here. There's a regular one, and a golden one, which is just a master ball. The former can be bought infinitely, but the latter is still surprisingly abundant in this type of game. Albeit a ton of them can only be found post-game, but if you go out of your way to get them all, I'd say you can catch a good 25% of the roster with these 100% auto-wins. Don't worry about using the regular ones though, just get the enemy in to red health and get a status effect on it and it feels like you have a good chance of catching it no matter what its rarity is.

Why disappointing? Because the battle system in this game is simplified relative to Pokémon to the point it's a joke.

There's only 7 types in this game. There's 6 elemental types, and then normal/neutral, which in this game truly is neutral - It is not weak to, or strong against anything. Every other type is strong to exactly 2 other types (both in offense and defense), and weak to 2 other types. So they really balanced the few types they have very well in fairness. There isn't even a stronger type just in terms of ones being more common, as when you look at the database (this games version of the Pokédex) you realise it's set up so that it divides the creatures perfectly, #1 will be neutral, #2-#7 will be different types, and then #8 will be neutral again, repeat until the end.

There are also no dual type Nexomon. This also means if you have a team of every type (minus neutral) you're guaranteed 2 counters to everything, except neutral itself. Even if you take a neutral mon, as I did, you still have at least 1 counter to every element. On the flip side, I imagine mono-type runs would be much harder in this game.

This makes the rock-paper-scissors aspect not only much more unga-bunga than Pokémon, but the type diversity is pitiful. I didn't test out every Nexomon obviously, but from my experience there are no unique moves. If you took every types total move count, you could probably distribute it among only 2 creatures of that type. And the actual moves a monster will learn is almost entirely limited to moves of their type, and neutral moves. If you're lucky they might learn 1 move of another type (I had an electric type bird that learned a single wind move). When you consider that having 2 different types covers 4/7 types - assuming no repeat super effectiveness - this really is way too powerful. Which is a problem because having just the smallest diverse movesets shouldn't basically make matchups almost impossible to lose.

Other issues with movesets is how bland the moves are. They all fall into almost 5 categories:
-Moves that do damage and nothing else
-Moves that do status effects/change stats and nothing else
-Moves that do damage and have a chance of doing a status effect/changing stats
-Moves that heal and nothing else
-Moves that will give you "invulnerability" meaning your opponents next move will do only 1 damage. You can kind of think of this as Protect in Pokémon. It's mostly useful for setting up when you have your opponent locked in a status effect so they can't break it.

Speaking of status effects, they might be the most overpowered part of the game. Let's look at the variety:

Poison and burn - They both just cause the inflicted to take damage every turn.

Sleep - The mon will miss 2-3 turns, but wake up immediately if attacked.
Bind - The mon will miss 2-3 turns.
Paralyzed - The mon will miss 2-3 turns
Freeze - The mon will miss 2-3 turns
Confused - The mon will miss 2-3 turns AND damage itself.

You can see the issue here right? Not only is nearly every effect the exactly same, but sleep is just objectively worse because of the fact they wake up as soon as they take damage, but confuse is just so baffling more powerful than the rest it's crazy they made it work like this. It's not like confusing is any harder than any other status effect.

They're the most broken part in terms of being overpowered anyway. If we're looking at the truly broken aspects of the battle system, look no further than moves that try to change defense and "elemental power". Any single time a Nexomon uses a move that tries to raise/lower defense or "elemental power" it does nothing. They literally didn't program anything into the game there. No one even seems to know what elemental power is, because it's not an actual stat in the Nexomon's stat screen - there's no "special" and "physical" attack, just "attack". Some have theorised that it was supposed to affect super effective damage, but as it doesn't work, no one can confirm. This means anytime the enemy uses a move to change these stats, it's basically a free turn. The worst part is, even if the AI knew these moves were broke, I doubt they'd avoid them. Enemy AI in this game is...odd. I've seen them use healing moves at full health.

There's also the speed stat which is pointless. You're guaranteed to go first in 100% of battles, and every turn after just switches back and forth. Even if a Nexomon is knocked out, the turn will still go to the next person in the queue, which makes revenge killing super easy by the way. Apparently speed DID decide who went first in the mobile version and PvP on the console versions (the PvP feature no longer exists) so it's a nothing stat now. Oddly, any move that increases/decreases evasion is shown as a shoe icon in battle, which is also the icon for speed in the stat screen. Is that implying speed is tied to accuracy? But every move has its own accuracy, so how does that work? Is it some calculation between a moves accuracy and the mons speeds? I doubt it because I've missed an 80% accurate move on a level 100+ Nexomon fighting a level 5, 3 times in a row.

Accuracy is yet another thing this game just doesn't seem to get right. For moves with no secondary effect, their accuracy is just the accuracy of the move - great. For moves with a secondary effect, it seems they list the chance of the secondary effect occurring. So you'll have a 90% move if it's pure damage, but a 30% if it has a chance to poison. But what does that mean?! Does it mean the move has a 100% chance to hit? Or is there a hidden hit-accuracy along with the chance of a status effect? Why did they put move accuracy and status chance as the exact same thing so they can't both be shown on moves??

Outside of battles, the way the rarity system works is kinda funny. Evolutions are entirely dictated by rarity. Common has no evolutions (even when many of them look like they clearly should). Uncommon have 1 evolution. Rare, Mega Rare and Special (aka starters) have 2. Legendary has none. The funny part is, I learned when the game came out on mobile evolutions didn't actually increase stats at all - it was entirely for show. This meant that while higher rarities did tend to have somewhat better stats, they weren't massively overpowered. But I guess people complained or something and so the developers made an evolution give a flat bonus (I believe 15%) to all stats. This means that mega rare was already better than common, but they altered it so anything that could evolve just shot so far past unevolving Nexomon that you have no reason to use anything lower than a rare unless you want to purposefully handicap yourself. I get that rarity should equal power to some extent, but I feel labelling them in such a blatant way takes any fun out of discovering for yourself what's good or not. Just find the thing with the right label and you know exactly how many times it will evolve and that it will at least be stronger than anything lower than it.

OK one last oddity - the games trainers throw evolutions at you WAY too fast. Like literally the first trainers you fight will be using Nexomon that don't evolve until level 20 or so, but they'll be level 5. It's like if in Pokémon the first route trainers were sending out PIdgeotto's and Golbat's. I have no idea why they do that. When it comes to third evolutions they even put them at a much more appropriate point in the game, though some of them can be a bit under levelled too.

This game is so weird. Like if you get past the deceptively cheap, Facebook-ad looking graphics, there's a surprisingly well designed world, story and group of monsters to collect. But actually fighting with them is just done in the most undercooked, non-functioning revenge killing simulator I've ever seen.

One last thing I do like is how this game uses legendary Nexomon as TRUE boss battles. Until the post-game when you can catch them, every battle against a legendary will have them with a massively bloated HP bar, effectively making it a battle of attrition. Especially with the way this game works as moves deal a lot of damage, meaning unless the AI chooses its moves very badly (and to be honest, it often will), each of yours will get 1 or 2 moves off at most before going down unless you're super over levelled. Unfortunately these can be cheesed super easily if you get a status effect off, especially confusion. At least trainer battles, especially those with a full team, can't be utterly disabled with a single status move.

Nexomon (2017): Hace parodia de Pokémon, pero acaba siguiendo su misma estructura, aunque reconozco que con mucho más humor y un par de giros graciosetes. A nivel jugable está bastante roto, pero funciona. Está a años luz de su secuela, pero es un juego más que digno (7,40)

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YES it's a Pokemon knockoff but it's a well executed one with a fun story, vibrant characters, and... well the monsters themselves are kinda w/e and the battle system is thin but I'd still recommend it.

if you're like me, and fell out of pokemon over the years, but still love creature collecting, there is no game i would recommend more to fill the void left behind by pokemon. i love love love this game.

the only negative comment i would make is that the game balance feels really off, where it's possible to get one- or two-shot by a move that doesn't even have a type advantage, and swapping to another of your nexomon just gives the enemy a free chance to get that one-shot off, which i think feels kinda bs.

other than that, i have only positives to say. i love the character design in particular (ellie is my favorite), the sense of humor, the characters, but mostly i love the feel and atmosphere of this game. it reignited something in me that i haven't felt for years-- the complete and utter inability to set a game down. since i picked this game up six days ago, i've only skipped out on playing it one day-- and that was because i knew i was going to finish it the next time i sat down to play it, and i wanted to prolong it.

i can't wait to play the next game in the series, and i can't wait for the third game to come out!

Clon de Pokémon de muy bajo presupuesto, con interfaces atroces y micropagos. A nivel de gameplay es muy básico, ni siquiera comparable a los primeros juegos de Pokémon.