Nexomon

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Nexomon: From the beginning, role-playing games attracted many players thanks to their slick gameplay and many layers of depth.

Suppose the role-playing game – action like Diablo, Titan Quest, or Grim Dawn focuses on building a character that comes with high control skills, turn-based role-playing games like Xenoblade Chronicles. Final Fantasy requires the application of thinking at a macro level when the player must combine a strong team of many characters simultaneously.

But even in a “popular” role-playing game, the number of characters that can be raised and controlled is never too much, except for a few really special cases like the Chrono Trigger or Suikoden series.

So, when Pokemon was born and “introduced” to players, the concept of finding, collecting, and raising to 1000 “characters” to combine into infinite, infinity squads, the magic power it produces is almost incomparable.

Therefore, it is not surprising that many Pokemon “follow-up” games have been born from all major and small game studios. However, almost no one has reached the level of Pokemon, perhaps because its success formula is too monstrous to be copied.

Lowering the picky standard a bit, there have been many “Pokemon clone” games worth playing in the last few years, such as Nexomon: Extinction that Biareview once evaluated not long ago.

Recently, its “predecessor” version with the original name Nexomon has been officially released by PQUBE on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Nintendo Switch. Although a bit “paradoxical,” Nexomon itself also has certain interesting elements (or else, where is the budget for the company to continue Nexomon: Extinction?).

Therefore, please read with Biareview to the Nexomon version of the Nintendo Switch system, see how good it is through the following review.

Perhaps because it is a later version, Nexomon: Extinction is more or less trying to make a difference with the Pokemon series – and with Nexomon, if you don’t read the game carefully, most players will think they are playing a game. HD “retouched” version of a certain 2nd or 3rd generation Pokemon game.

Saying that is not to criticize Nexomon for “plagiarism,” but in fact, it is a strong advantage when the game absorbs the good of a game series that is too famous and too successful.

Nexomon has almost captured all the quintessence that has conquered countless players of the 8x – 9x generations of the early Pokemon series.

The world in Nexomon is divided into cities and towns, large and small, located far apart.

In the middle are buffers formed from many different environments such as forests, grasslands, snowy mountains, caves, etc. And of course, players have to overcome many types of terrain and encounter many different types of monsters (Nexomon).

Similar to the Pokemon series, the battles in Nexomon almost take place in a one-on-one format. The speed stat determines the order of action of the Nexomons, and the player can choose one of four skills that his monster learns.

Most skills are for damage, can be accompanied by some effects such as poison, stun, paralysis, armor reduction. Players can optionally change the Nexomon fighting with another one in the squad of 6 Nexomon brought for “contract.”

The “bet” here is about the incompatibility, the cavalry between the Nexomons. This mechanism is not so clear and influential as Pokemon, but it simply means that this system will deal more damage to the system it counters and vice versa.

Anyway, this mechanism is interesting enough for players to invest in raising many systems in their team. It is also not so complicated that they have to “squeeze” the calculation like in Pokemon.

For the wild Nexomon in the bush, the player can throw Traps to catch them (similar to the Pokemon side Pokeball).

Low health, monsters with bad effects, or level differences are factors that determine the capture success rate. However, the writer is a bit sorry for the mechanism of pressing QTE and clearly shows the percentage of success which is very good in Nexomon: Extinction has not appeared in Nexomon (perhaps the developer has not thought about it at this time).

In general, if you’ve played through Pokemon or at least a turn-based role-playing game. Players will easily absorb Nexomon because it has tried its best to simplify things while retaining its attractiveness lead and variety in its core gameplay.

A big plus in Nexomon (and also Nexomon: Extinction) is that the game has a very pleasant, if not beautiful, graphic style for a 2D game.

Remember at the time when Pokemon Generation II, Generation III, or IV was “storming”? The graphics were still limited to the poor pixel art format – and later versions went away in the 3D direction. Therefore, most Pokemon lovers never have the opportunity to experience a Pokemon 2D game with high-quality HD graphics.

So, in this respect, Nexomon can be said to have done a great job when fulfilling the role of “substitute” for a 2D HD version of Pokemon.

That said, it does not mean that Nexomon is just a “shadow” of another game because the game itself has also created its world with many highlights in terms of very good graphics, no less competitive compared to the “original game.”

There is a bit of a contradiction, that is, although behind, the writer has a feeling that the graphics in Nexomon: Extinction is not as beautiful as Nexomon.

If you say that the world in Nexomon: Extinction is still beautiful and fresh, but it is quite “patchy” and “pieced” like it was assembled in the game-making program, RPG Maker, Nexomon is a complete individual with sharp details arranged much more closely and artistically.

How to draw the objects that make up the screen in Nexomon, such as the lawn, the forest, the rock, the houses in the city, the paving bricks, all have a very strong connection, and they create a feeling of closeness to a player.

The Pokemon series has done so well: creating a fantasy world but incorporating very ordinary, everyday elements.

Talking about a game that raises and fights with monsters but ignores monster shaping is a huge omission.

In this respect, Nexomon has done extremely well, even somewhat surpassing Nexomon: Extinction. The creation and design of monsters in Nexomon, from the “newborn” form to the evolved form, are carefully invested and cared.

Creating the monster is simplified with the restriction of redundant details and using only 2-3 main colors.

That is reminiscent of Pokemon designs from Generation III and earlier: simple yet cute, powerful yet friendly.

That is a very advanced trick that countless other “fake games” – or even Pokemon themselves in later versions, have failed to do, leading to increasingly ugly, cumbersome, and “lost quality” monsters.

From time immemorial, Pokemon has been associated with many generations of players. It is no exaggeration to say that people have been attached to this magical game series since they were students and have become parents.

To achieve that success, Pokemon and a rich monster system and tight original mechanics, also thanks to an interesting storyline associated with unforgettable adventures.

Saying that understanding that a mysterious world with countless beautiful monsters will still not be attractive enough without an attractive plot with the role of “glue” to link this world again. That was made quite stable in the version of Nexomon: Extinction – but unfortunately, Nexomon completely failed in this respect.

From the first moments, the player quickly loses sympathy for the main character, when with just a few words of encouragement from his best friend and a headless argument with the villain. The player can freely leave home to go on an adventure with a Nexomon just stolen.

If Nexomon: Extinction creates a world seething with warring factions, individual conspiracies, organizational mysteries, and many interesting details about this world’s history – then In Nexomon, everything is created very superficially and does not create any sympathy in the player at all.

where can you get a Nexomon online

Nexomon Extinction – Nintendo Switch: Buy it now

Nexomon Extinction – PlayStation 4: Buy it now