How Cassette Beasts made an Open World Better Than Pokémon! (Cassette Beasts VS Pokémon S&V)

[@artidoesthings3069]

Aw yeah, love to see cassette beasts content in my recommended! And one that’s absolutely right, cassette beasts absolutely nails an open world. And even pointing out some of the issues with scarlet and violet I didn’t even realize I had! Solid video, honestly.

[@astral_pilot]

@artidoesthings3069 Thank You for your comment, Honestly I’m surprised that I haven’t found more videos like this one. I hope that you stick around for more content like this!

[@RetroNitro_TV]

Personally i don't mind Eugene both giving you the key for the Landkeeper's bases AND being an early character with a mid-game quest-end, infact, i think it makes him more important to some degree than other characters if it wasn't for him giving you a key. With the key in hand, Eugene allows you to not always drag him around everywhere quite literally, while still existing as a character thanks to every partners'global interactions with each other. Meanwhile, with him being met early, i think it turns what would be a chore/side quest, into a proper duty to "rid the land of the landkeepers" for Eugene. Besides, Mammon, the Archangel of the Landkeeper HQ, is one of the fundamentally important Archangels that solidifies what Archangels ARE to begin with. Plus, if you ever looked at the OST or the scrolling lyrics before fighting one of them, you'll notice that Eugene is the one to DESCRIBE accidently perfectly Archangels using his own experiences.... *Calling it a "Same Old Story"*

[@lexo632]

I did not expect to see Morgante absolutely choking a child as the thumbnail of any video

[@iAmInAwheelchairHelpMe]

Or maybe Morgante was b****slapping a child and the child was jumping onto her as an attack

[@BaconLover47]

Cassette Beasts really was a nice breath of fresh air, especially after playing Violet and being underwhelmed by it to the point of it being hard to pick up after having beaten the main story. One thing I especially like about Cassette Beasts is how the monster levels are tied to the player's level. I didn't swap my tapes around all that much for my first playthrough, but I feel like I'll be switching party members quite often next time I want to start the game over again. I also skipped over Poppetox, thinking I needed some sort of burrow ability to access the station. Those rocks just weren't suspicious enough for me even with the man next to the rocks having his life goal of bringing my attention to them...Mourningstar was absolutely awesome though, and really solidified how dangerous encountering an Archangel _should_ be. Very cool.

[@astral_pilot]

Hello Mr Bacon Lover, thanks for the comment! You bring up a good point, about the monster and player levels is a good feature that allows a player to change their team comp if they need to. There was one time in scarlet and violet where I needed to use a flying or psychic type to use against the fighting specialist. But I didn’t want to have to train another pokemon just for that one battle.

[@BaconLover47]

One of the major faults of Pokemon S/V in my eyes is how it handled the open world with the rules of Pokemon. I honestly just can't wrap my head around why they'd keep the Gym Badge level cap in a game where you should otherwise be free to go wherever and do whatever you'd like. I feel like the game could've used a level-scaling feature which would make certain fights a challenge when you'd otherwise be overleveled, and vice versa with accidentally roaming into a high-level area without knowing. It's nice to see Cassette Beasts having gotten this right, as you're automatically given a warning that you might be entering an area you aren't ready for, as well as actually having the option to change the level-scaling however you'd like. It's neat to see this kind of convenience, and I wish Pokemon S/V had decided to do something similar.

[@lechonkthelegod4945]

Fun fact: the ending of cassette beasts made me tear up. I am not kidding I cried. This is not a joke. And to make myself forget the ending so I don’t cry even more I regularly listen to face down, your inception, arrow of time and many other songs of the cassette beast original soundtrack. And that’s how I fight off my depression

[@Myriadoffrogs]

I rarely listen to soundtracks but because of the way cassete beasts uses its tracks i have grown to love tuem and listen to them weekly when im in public transport

[@astral_pilot]

I was literally listening to “same old story” when I got this comment XD

[@Beep841]

I’m glad someone feels the same way about Eugene. Another complaint I have with him is because his cassette is utterly broken like too much damage broken as if they were trying to balance them to make sure you use them which I did but I don’t know jack about him

[@zerglingstew8220]

Really great video about a game that I became hooked on almost immediately! Another aspect of this game that really surprised me was the difficulty sliders in the options menu. In Pokemon games, the AI follow different strategy patterns based on their trainer class, with some boss trainers like your rival late-game, gym leaders and E4 members having "smart" AI. Casette Beasts opts for a different approach, allowing the player to set the intelligence level of its AI and the difficulty of its level curve at will. I feel like this, along with a built-in option for a permadeath mode for tapes and a speedrun timer make for a much nore replayable experience, PLUS they offer you three save slots so you don't have to delete your "main" first playthrough save file. Because they already have the slider system for their level curve, they managed to avoid the pitfall of S/V's open world, where you can explore unrestrained but still manage to end up in unwinnable battles against trainers with way higher levels than you if you break the sequence they intended for the player to traverse the world. Instead, Casette Beasts gives you a blank map and hints about traversal abilities and lets YOU decide where to go, with the promise that the experience will always be as challenging as you set it to be and never truly unfair otherwise. I think almost everybody goes east first, but the drawbridge blocking off the west part of town incentivized a friend of mine to record swimming and magnetics as his second and third abilities so he could explore west and fix the bridge first, while I took my time picking through the east half of the map and didn't get swimming until mid-game. Both of us had a blast playing the game in our respective orders. One minor critique of your video - your voice is naturally a little quiet, which is completely fine. Your voice is balanced well with the background music. Very soon after your "Other Stuff" section starts, you include a cutaway with the "beep" sound effect, but it's ear-piercingly loud compared to your voice, and it happens again with another cutaway you do later in the video. Both are intended for humor and the humor hits, it just also does a number on the ears, too. Otherwise, I thoroughly enjoyed the content and the analysis!

[@astral_pilot]

Sorry about your ears! 😖 I’ll try and make it so that doesn’t happen again. But yeah one of the great things of open world games is the ability to have completely different experiences based on how you tackle them! That was one of the problems I had with S&V where it get like a normal Pokémon game just without any reason to fight the trainers on the paths. Cassette beasts does this beautifully and in a way that makes it so that no two play throughs the same! Thank you for you comment and I hope you stick around!

[@zerglingstew8220]

@@astral_pilot I just subscribed, forgot to do that before

[@alexdoorn234]

You know something fun you can do with your multiple save files? My brother did this little trick when I was playing Casette Beasts with him on his laptop, so first you start the game twice and open 2 different save files. Second by using the co op invite with a code you can get both of the characters in the same game and then last step open trade with one character use your highest level character to give an absolute crazy monster to your lower level character.

[@necrochasm7499]

It would’ve made sense for Eugene to come with you for all the landkeeper buildings, but honestly we should be glad that the game didn’t force us to fight so many earth cassettes with a plastic one. If they did do that however, although it’s unconventional, I feel they could’ve had his relationship level up every few landkeepers we defeated.

[@1IronMutt]

Nice review. The opponent levels generally scale to the player levels. This can be adjusted in the options. In my second play through, I did Eugene’s quest as soon as he became available with him as my partner.

[@pedrorosa9893]

I also agreed with euguene ideia. I already had like 3 or 4 other patterns with fusion when I finish his quest line

[@Ramtasm51]

With the desire to catch them all I feel that to I’ve been completing the beasteary after beating the main story and I only have 4 monsters to get

[@resngaming2640]

I think the Archangels are an excellent story plot and another reason CB does the game better than pokemon

[@astral_pilot]

I agree! However at the same time I feel like it’s unfair to call it a knock against Pokémon because the archangels are meant to be creepy. Creepier than anything Pokémon has tried to do in recent titles and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The archangels do lend themselves towards making a better story than recent Pokémon titles, and that is something worth criticizing! Thank you for your comment and I hope you stick around!

[@resngaming2640]

@@astral_pilot fair enough, I didn't mean it as a knock towards Pokémon per se. I just enjoyed pokemon more when I was younger, but as I've got older my tastes/likes/preferences changed so CB with the archangels appeals to me more nowadays. Keep up the good work

[@snailgate2172]

Glad to see more Cassette Beasts representative! I'm so excited for its future!

[@TheDumbestBrass]

W video lmao. Funny how you mentioned not doing Poppetox first. I got the arcade piece, but never actually understood what to do with it, so I had it with me till I reached level 55. I had done every other Archangel (Other than post game boss) by the time I realized what I was supposed to do with the arcade piece. Nowadays I bully Poppetox for their Grapes.

[@necrochasm7499]

When talking about Mourningstar being your first archangel, you’re not implying you somehow sequence broke and skipped over Morgana, right??? RIGHT?

[@kartorrent7496]

Developers: Adds A Kickass Theme To Make Players Want To Progress Through The Story Players: Has A 1-Hour-Long Dance Break Each Time They Fuse Decreasing Productivity Developers: Listen Here You Little (Bip).

[@radio5637]

I have had more fun with cassette beasts then any pokemon game i have ever played

[@astral_pilot]

I agree! Out of curiosity, what was your favorite part of cassette beasts?

[@radio5637]

@@astral_pilot I really liked the archangel bossfights, even if they were made kinda easy by fusion they were still super fun to fight, and usually the dungeon before then was fun too

[@mmmario8004]

14:39 Oh, glad to know I wasn't the only one who make that mistake and did things that way😅

[@EduSolsa]

I haven't played SV to compare, but I liked how they made this mini-open world. My only complaing is that the area track change often when going around, since each are is pretty small

[@mishtastic1]

How I handled Eugene was to keep him on my party and level him up until his monster evolves after 5 stars. Sure I have to carry his ass till then, but if I prioritize side quests first over his mission, it is not so bad.

[@zerothefox9027]

CB content CB content Whoo

[@bandy-sk5889]

Yeah I had bacially the same reaction to the arc angles

[@alecciarosewater7438]

No one ever mentions the game's queerness. This could be the year's most controversial game if anyone ever noticed

[@chakradarrat8832]

na cus people don't care when it's handled well

[@sadv3]

Cassette Beasts says we can do better than Pokemon at home.

[@PowerAids]

now the dlc has released, it shows us THE biggest flaw of the game, spoilers btw so the final boss of the dlc right, whereas every other archangel has a unique mechanic and theme to them, well the boss probably has the worst one, because it spams random moves, uses CONFUSION ( which is a debuff that basically prevents you from damaging him because next thing he does), he SUMMONS MINIONS THAT TAKE THE HITS FROM CONFUSION INSTEAD OF THE BOSS AND FINALLY, he has an attack that can one shot most monsters and players, even if the player has maxed out health and both defenses, and also did i mention that the boss removes every single debuff it has when it enters it's second phase ? the best strategy for this one is to get a monster with high melee attack, and the bish bash bosh move or the Ol' 1-2 to deal with the summons, get a monster that's able to inflict sleep for the entrance to phase 2 because of an attack that i am pretty sure always one shots the player and only leaves your ally, get a monster with fire, a monster with tunder, and get a monster with wind so getting hit by the goons (because they only use inflame and glitter bomb ) so you actually get a shield, you can't use the random start headshot technique for it which would arguably not change how bad this fight is because the random start headshot combo actually just ruins the bossfights and makes them really bad, i recommend using this only to grind in postgame, i don't recommend using it for pvp when it's out because most people will use macine curse, which just makes you instantly fail by killing the player and ally at turn 0

[@alexdoorn234]

My tip? Use a Ramtasm with the nurse ability and indeed a monster with a wall, use a character where you have fusion power and have that fusion power be able to damage an entire team. Fuse, wall when topsy turvy is going to hit or nurse when you do not have a wall. Ramgrave is our strongest fusion and has defeated many bosses, basically my brother stacked a lot of effects stickers like one that has a chance for an AP refund while my Ramtasm has a lot of attacks and most important of all nurse. It does however have a chance that it locks you into Berserker when the back up hits you with an impure element, the double Shear Luck however increases our chance to evade by a lot.

[@tengen5710]

This man need 1k subs tbh

[@Big_Dai]

How can anyone say there's problems with recent PKMN games, and in the same sentence, say they've had the most fun with Scarlet and Violet!? So.. they have standards, but they are also completely simple-minded and easily satisfied?? The game does NOTHING new or interesting. It's just the same formula in a slightly different (and more buggy) context!! There's no innovation or creativity.. and now they are charging your for multiple DLCs (ON different versions of the exact same game) and internet services on top of internet services. It's like these people ENJOY being bent over and laughed at! None of you are worth listening to! Not when you "enjoy" childish and BADLY designed challenges (made for kids), bad story-telling and flat empty worlds.

[@astral_pilot]

You obviously didn’t hear the part where I say you that you still need to look past the glitches in the same sentence… Or the next sentence where I say the game has many problems with the open world… Or the entire rest of the video where I talk how another monster catcher made a better open world, and that you should play that instead…

[@baddragon7057]

good game

[@tengen5710]

Also when is your next vid?

[@jessegartung294]

Actually cassette beasts is more similar to Pokémon it would be better if it saids how cassette beasts is better than Temtem

[@ombra711]

Your channel is not good for sleep listening, so mich ear rape sections for absolutely no reason that I was not expecting. Otherwise a good breakdown but definitely not staying in my listening rotation

[@marcoasturias8520]

I have a couple of gripe with CB. Most characters unlock their fusion very late in the game, making the Kayleigh the default for most of the game. She's best girl, so that compensates. What is annoying, is that Kayleigh's mission to unlock her fusion is different from her story mission, unlike all of the other (human) companions. For the artist guy could've been the first Kuneko fight. For the movie nut maybe a fight against a weaken Ianthe, earning her trust to go to the hated mall. And for the poor disgraced Eugene, the first Vampire fight. The other girl is endgame enough to not be an issue. Chests feel useless. They mostly contain trash (in-game currency) which Rouge Fusions are a better source of, thus finding a hidden chest something unremarkable. That said, this is an issue I've seen many open world rpgs make. Arch angels are too easy to kill. They need some sort of resistance or immunity against the most easy and cheesy starts. At the very least, they should requiere mere than 3 stacks of resonance to be 1hko'ed. Fusions are too weak. Sacrificing initiative for a stat boost is not worth it. I honestly don't understand why they can't act more times, they're still limited by AP, it's not like they are free damage. On that note, I really hate how they look, I think 99% of them as sausages. All their cool features and siluetes are replaced with boredom. They somehow even managed to make fusing two of the same mon to look bad. I think developing fusions wasn't worth it, and it'd be better if they focused on more mons, more explorable area or simply optimizing the game (I've got a few crashes and the game stopping to load more of the world is annoying). If fusing is to stay, maybe the fused mon could become like a jojo stand for the main one, giving them thier moves and stats and such. Just ditch the sausage monsters, they're ugly. I'd like if the game tracked what stickers each monster gained, so farming didn't require to look up for stuff online. Even Pokémon shows what moves the mon learned. If this game is going to get a competitive mode, they really need to make some serious bans or limitations to certain stats: "strater" skills are too strong. Shooting up to 7 hyper beams on a switch is too OP. Same with "preemptive" chip damage, just imagine Stealth Rock but damages your enemy when you switch... Stab in the dark is OP, easy to dual wield, the 10 accuracy is trivial with Surefire or Web, can even generate AP with Pity. On a similar note, Surefire and Web enables 100% accurate 3 turn hypnosis... An can even target both mons... With echolocation and custom strater, it is possible to summon multiple layers of substitutes for the whole team on a switch. Etc. So yeah, this game is great!

[@zennistrad]

I love Cassette Beasts but I highly disagree with this video's premise. The world in that game is not "more open" than in SV, if anything it's *vastly* more on rails because the specific exploration upgrades gate off so many parts of the map in ways that Paldea isn't. Calling it "open world" is honestly just inaccurate, if anything it's more of a Metroidvania with a linear progression path.

[@chakradarrat8832]

well technically the herbs do the same thing. (gliding, water and other upgrades)

[@Reppen555]

well i hate how you cant stick with one sidekick that you like throught the entire game your forced to help useless sidekicks do their quest to progress which is dumb

[@pikapikachu2010lol]

cringe indie tron

[@lordenma4449]

Nah it's actually good try to play it before you argue about it

[@svetaz0]

It's just your opinion. Everyone chooses what is best for them. No offense, but in my opinion, Pokemon games are much better than this cringe plagiarism.

[@astral_pilot]

Honestly It doesn’t really bother me if you don’t like cassette beasts, but can you explain why you think this game is “Plagiarism”? It has a different art style to pokemon, an entirely different battle system, and a completely unique story to any of the mainline pokemon games. the only thing that’s similar is the facts that they’re both “”monster catchers”. Even if they started it, Pokemon does not have an exclusive right to that genre.

[@resngaming2640]

The only thing cringe about this game is you calling it plagiarism

[@svetaz0]

@@resngaming2640 don't mind that. I just was angry that some pixel game was called better than pokemons. I am not a big fan of violet (mewtwo 3d model is cringe tbh, and my favorite game is PLA), but pokemon series with big history and lore are just really better. I am not hating this game. I hating people, who saying some "sh1t" about pokemons.

[@astral_pilot]

@@svetaz0 my main point of this video is that Cassette beasts did open world better than scarlet and violet, not that it was better than Pokémon as a whole. I even defend some aspects of recent Pokémon games and say that some of the aspect that I like about this game aren’t knocks against Pokémon. Also why is “sh1t” in quotes? Was there a point in my video where I called Pokémon, “sh1t”? Besides even if I did, that still doesn’t give you the right to accuse this game of plagiarism.

[@svetaz0]

@@astral_pilot why r u even comparing pixel open world and 3d open world? This is just cringe. They r too different. The fact that u comparing these two is just cringe enough for me to call it "sh1t" about pokemons. Also, u didn't normally read my answer. That's clear from "Besides even if I did, that still doesn’t give you the right to accuse this game of plagiarism.". Plagiarism was just word that just conveyed some anger. English is my 2nd language, so it may be hard for me to pick right word to describe what i wanted to say.

[@kleefirestar]

Pokemon is a incredibly low bar in the monster tamer genre and people only act like its jesus in game form cause of its popularity and not actual game quality

[@farfetchdideas695]

Honestly that's the problem with most new monster catchers, they keep trying to emulate/re-capture the magic of pokemon's glory days. Cassette Beasts striving so hard to break that trend and be it's own thing is what makes it so good.

[@zennistrad]

Nah, if you play competitively (which you should, it is hands down the best way to play Pokemon) you would realize just how immaculately balanced the series's core mechanics have been since Gen II. Cassette Beasts works as well as it does because it doesn't *try* to replicate Pokemon's systems.