I Played 5 Pokemon-likes So You Don't Have To! | Gnoggin

Pokemon is the largest media franchise in the world, so there's BOUND to be LOADS of clones, rip-offs, and games heavily inspired by it. But not all of them are good, so I'm going to start playing them so you don't have to. Let's start with a small collection of 5. From the retro Animorphs, to the modern garbage and modern good.
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In this video I play and review:
Animorphs for Gameboy Color
Coromon on Steam and other Platforms
Grimmlins Tale, a Kickstarter demo
Ultramon Fight! ... oh
and Monster Legends, a Mobile Game.
Special thanks to Iron Pinapple for the inspiration for this series.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:28 Animorphs
03:30 Coromon
06:11 Grimmlins Tale
08:38 Ultramon Fight
10:16 Monster Legends
Gnoggin, hosted by its creator Lockstin, is a show delving into the mysteries of Pokemon! (and other games sometimes too). Explaining everything there is to explain! Why is each Pokemon given the type it has? What are their origins? What is the lore of the Pokemon world and the design inspirations? And what does it all have to do with alchemy? Let's Go find out!

[@Gnoggin]

I hope you like this! I have nearly 100 more of these to play. Should I continue this series?

[@curseofbinding]

Yes

[@limeyell0w945]

Yess. If you need suggestions, try a 3ds game called "puzzle and dragon z". You solve mobile game style puzzles to fight.

[@guruj8933]

try evo creo, its very good

[@trevrah]

Yes!

[@SkunkySpinda]

OOblets is so fun! I would recomend it to anyone who likes pokemon~

[@CeaselessEntertainment8468]

Monster legends has become almost like a netflix series because of all the sagas and stories

[@Bezaliel13]

Had not played in years, and I am lost.

[@aliceenoshima374]

omg yh the corrupted era with lord nebotus and pure pandalf, to metro era with malarian, uv fusion and dark volt to dooms day era to elvira and lord inheritor to finally blossom with nishant and zahra beefing at one another

[@leedouglass4106]

@@aliceenoshima374 I sincerely can't tell if this is a joke or not XD

[@curydude]

@@leedouglass4106 honestly me neither cause these stories sound better than the ones i remember

[@Dr_Toothbrush]

@@leedouglass4106 it's sounds kinda unbelievable, but yeah, as a player, it's 100% real

[@VAB0L0]

That's how Animorphs gets ya: one minute you're looking at a cool cover where some kid turns into a hawk, the next you're reading some Kafkaesque existential dread with a dash of body horror and intergalactic war crimes. Loved the series as a kid! :D

[@genericname2747]

Animorphs stories start out like: "Quick Jake! We need to animorph into birds to sneak into the oatmeal factory!" And suddenly you read something like: "Jake fell into the oatmeal, while he was still changing. His exposed nerve endings were scraped and bruised as his skin grew over the oatmeal. He would scream, but his vocal cords had been sliced in two"

[@duwan8260]

Tobias taught me what depression is 🥲

[@chocobear4078]

@@genericname2747 what

[@genericname2747]

@@chocobear4078 The animorphs has a book about how maple oatmeal is the aliens weakness

[@shadowscall7758]

I actually still own every Animorphs book that was published, all the original series, the mega-morphs, choose your own adventures and all of the Chronicles. I am definitely making sure my kids read the series because its a good way to sneak in lessons about war not being pretty.

[@memcrem]

After they introduced Mythical monsters in Monster Legends, multiplayer matches became an absolute nightmare to those who didn't have any Mythicals and everything else battle-wise became stupidly easy.

[@Iamverykarpy]

I agree i wanted to see what it was like a year ago and literally couldnt get back in because i always got one shot

[@theant4184]

Yeah I just decimated campaign with mythics, if you have no mythics in campaign then it's absurdly hard now, I straight up died to the boss in stage 10 all the time just because I had no mythics

[@CoralReaper707]

I played Monster Legends for the first time in a while because I remembered it being so much better. I only played it for like a few hours because that game is Hella Mid.

[@maxspecs]

Sounds like Ubers in Pokemon.

[@blazingblaze250]

@@maxspecs That's the point of Ubers. That's where the ban worth stuff goes. If you want go to PU or ZU.

[@dragonicdoom3772]

I used to play monster legends so much when I was younger, never spent any money on it though. I stopped playing because of 3 reasons: the waiting times were ridiculous, taking multiple days for anything to happen; the PvE became absurdly difficult because every fight was pretty much a boss battle; and everyone starting using cheats to hack in the strongest monsters and items because nobody wanted to grind or give them money, so PvP became nearly impossible for a kid who didn't know how to do any of that.

[@ypob2007]

Also the legendary type ABSOLUTELY need a legendary habitat, unlike in dragon city where you can use the secondary type’s habitat

[@pizzalover9932]

I played that game competitively in 2021 and never ran into a hacker, I think that problem was fixed years ago

[@choekyigyaltsen7579]

The one where I stopped was where the boss had angel wings and and a cloak hiding it’s face with two other other that look like it but weaker

[@dragonicdoom3772]

@@choekyigyaltsen7579 I stopped for a while because I couldn't beat the one that was like a zombie rockstar, until I somehow beat it after like a month of trying. Then I got stuck at this king and queen with blue skin and white robes, because they could infinitely heal and buff each other with no drawbacks.

[@user-ue6ur5nt5z]

Dragon city >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> midster legends

[@grimmlinstale9750]

Thank you so much for featuring Grimmlins Tale, Lockstin! Your kind words especially for all of the design mean a lot coming from a creative designer like yourself! For anyone who doesn't know, Grimmlins Tale is a mostly solo developed project so far. I've been at it for almost 2 years now working myself as hard as I possibly can. But it's truly awesome and rewarding to see my game played by a big, creative, fun youtuber like Austin, even if it's just in its humble demo state for now. I definitely got a few laughs out of some of the stuff from the other games too. And supporting Coromon is always good for the genre. Great work, man!

[@zeusalternative1270]

The best of luck on your project

[@limeyell0w945]

The game looks super interesting. And i think it's pretty impressive that you've been able to get this far on your own : )

[@DeltaOdyssey]

Oh nice, the developer! I have to say that the game is looking pretty cool so far.

[@OriginalSpectorius]

For a mostly solo project I'd say it looks freaking awesome, it takes 2 years to make something decent to others with a team, best of luck and I hope to see other people playing the full version in the future! (Or maybe me too, I hope so at least)

[@user-hs1xb9tv6e]

Best of luck. Your project look very promising.

[@blackwingred3473]

I remember Monster Legends. In the words of the Stormcloaks: "The waiting. The insufferable waiting." There was a game called Monster Galaxy that I really loved. I wonder if that's still around.

[@colinkho2414]

yoo monster galaxy was fun from what i remember. i wonder if it’s still around too. too bad there’s not a quick way to search for answers to my questions 🤷🏽‍♂️ (i would but no)

[@hallowtitan1099]

If I remember Monster Galaxy correctly it was a Facebook game right? I tried to play it again a few years ago but I don't think it exists anymore cause I didn't even find it back then. Still, it was a cool game and I sort of miss it.

[@NepetasShippingWall1642]

so i looked up monster galaxy here so i can watch gameplay footage and....the game's an NFT game now :/

[@hallowtitan1099]

@@NepetasShippingWall1642 that's extremely disappointing to hear. I used to love playing that game when I was in 3rd-5th grade.

[@ssspottyyy]

@@hallowtitan1099 actually after a bit of research I don’t think that nft monster galaxy is the same monster galaxy. I also grew up playing it a bunch, the game is still available on android and older versions of iPhone. But the developers haven’t updated it in 9 years so it’s not available on new iPhones. Just to be clear on the game we’re talking about I remember monster galaxy having a wheel that had to be clicked at the right time on green to determine the power of the attack. But yea it was a lot of fun and brings back so much nostalgia.

[@GymLeaderEd]

Thanks for covering the monster taming genre Lockstin!

[@FTChomp9980]

Yes the Legend himself is here!

[@jesus_the_real_one812]

@@FTChomp9980 lmao came to comment this

[@bierdigan]

Very reminiscent of IronPineapple's series on Souls-like Steam dumpster diving, and I'm totally here for the Pokemon version of the idea. I'd definitely watch this as a regular series!

[@gearettex]

this, for a second i got confused and thought this was a spinoff on his channel lol

[@shadowdahuman]

In the description he mentions getting the inspiration for this from Iron Pinapple.

[@webbowser8834]

The intro is pretty much directly ripped from Iron Pineapple's series, so yeah the inspiration is very much so worn on the sleeve. I don't mind that though, I love the souls-like series and this is a solid start to the creature collector series.

[@bierdigan]

@@webbowser8834 Yeah pretty much

[@KAMFP]

that's because it's clearly inspired by iron pinapple.

[@evillecaston]

Wow, Coromon looks pretty legit. I hope this becomes a series, because I've love to see Nexomon on here!

[@RhiskTV]

nexomon needs more love great game

[@Valrokius]

I like the simplistic designs of coromon it brings me back to the early days of pokemon with gens 1-3. More detailed doesn't always mean better.

[@pur3_chad353]

Coromons main goal is to quite literally follow the old Pokemon style. Every since Gamefreak turned to the open world rpg style, they decided to return to the pixel style and make something that's amazing. Really good game.

[@PkmnTrainerAbram]

Coromon is pretty good. It's pretty much Pokemon with Zelda like dungeons. Definitely a game you SHOULD play.

[@jonathanflanagan1504]

He already did a video going over each Nexomon in Extinction if I recall correctly.

[@writeon2593]

Grimmlins is the most interesting for me. I'm a big fan of fairy tales, myths, and legends so this is right up my alley. I'll probably look into it more in the future once it's complete.

[@sera_sarzad]

Same

[@spindash64]

Robot Brick Dinosaur Mech pig. I love it

[@dracotias]

to this day I still wish Spectrobes caught on enough to still be a thing, some of those designs were pretty dang cool

[@CoralReaper707]

Spectrobes looks really fascinating tbh.

[@Grey_Warden_Invasion]

I remember that back then I saw this game in magazines and it looked so awesome to me and I really would have wanted it but unfortunately I didn't have a DS back then. But then years later when I got a DS I had already completely forgotten about that game. I only just now remembered it.

[@user-hs1xb9tv6e]

I still hope for the day that it will be revived, but alas. It has some of the most badass creatures I have ever seen. One of them is literally a pair of shoes and yet they still managed managed to make them look sick.

[@vineheart01]

Coromon and Monster Sanctuary are probably the only 2 pokemon-likes that i actually think are legit good game. One is a bit simple but the presentation is great, the other is a bit basic in the visuals but the combat system is very good

[@Y0G0FU]

I would add Temtem to that list. And Yokai Watch :D

[@ArrToTheCee]

try evocreo its actually pretty good and u could say the devs are passionate on it

[@diegoxavier9107]

@@ArrToTheCee Hell yeah, Evocreo. The dialogue can be pretty freaking funny at times

[@magnadramon0068]

You should try Nexomon it has one of the stories for a Pokemon-like

[@chadwickr2734]

I'd say Grimmlins Tale looks dope

[@npcmcishark7379]

Never though i'd see Gnoggin playing Monster Legends

[@astralstorm8859]

Neither did I

[@idkjordash]

I would’ve assumed he would get sponsored by them or something

[@Bezaliel13]

Seemed kind of unfair tbh.

[@sinisternorimaki]

@@idkjordash Yeah, like ASDF movie.

[@weissabel5739]

As someone who watches a lot of Gym Leader Ed, I can't help but wanna call these games Monster Taming games help to give them a bit of separation from Pokemon, but it genuinely makes me happy to see you exploring them and I'd love to see more of this series.

[@dhi_holo]

At first, I thought Grimmlins Tale would just feel like an awkward fusion of SMT and Pokemon, but no that actually seems pretty cool While it definitely seems a bit hollow for now, it's a Kickstarter demo, I'm not gonna complain on that

[@spindash64]

It also sounds like something Japan would love

[@jakethedragonymaster1235]

"What's weak to Cut, Electric?" Ah, good old Mega Man logic...

[@Swagpion]

Backwards megaman logic

[@jakethedragonymaster1235]

@@Swagpion I mean, in this example it was actually regular (Elec Man is weak to Cut Man) Either way you slice it (no pun intended), a little confusing

[@Swagpion]

@@jakethedragonymaster1235 now that I look at it, I guess my dyslexia strikes again.

[@ElhPudding]

Grimmlins Tale looks interesting with their idea, I like the fact of the "monster" being able to talk and stuff like in Digimon, even tho that can lead with weird stuff if not careful because would be weird to treat them like animals like in other monster collecting games... Plus depeding on the way that is handle can be weird having multiple of the same monster, I mean I would personally feel weird because I do care about worldbuilding XD

[@pinkCEO]

Great point, but consider a full party of gingerbread boys.

[@erickausay2174]

You should try out the demo! It’s chaos and I love it!!!

[@SophisticatedGoat222]

It seems to take some inspiration from Yo-Kai Watch with how the monsters act and how the gameplay works, but instead of just Japanese folklore creatures, it's primarily European. I think Yo-Kai Watch handles it fine with them more just tagging along with you because you're friends, not monsters you "own", and I figure Grimmlins Tale takes a similar direction.

[@starekttheghost3053]

it's similar to Yokai-Watch and i like it, it's pretty great

[@starekttheghost3053]

@@SophisticatedGoat222 AYYY A YOKAI-WATCH ENJOYERRR

[@chadnorris8257]

Coromon gets points because it looks like they're putting effort into it. The Animorphs one was just a cash grab. Gremlintale: Aww look, it's also breath of the wild. Lol.

[@realsanmer]

Grimmlins is the definite highlight for me. I like that it has a more defined theme for its character and monster design, and the fighting system sounds rad. I hope it gets a full release.

[@jackkahler2116]

Monster Legends lore: Apparently heavy from what I've heard Monster Legends gameplay: *Almost a Pokeclone*

[@Mikescool444]

*RAID: Shadow Legends*

[@pizzalover9932]

I played monster legends competitively for a while and I can tell you it’s the opposite. The gameplay has MANY features Pokémon doesn’t have and is missing some it has. It is only similar to Pokémon for the first month because you don’t have gimmicky monsters yet. Also, the monster legends story is deep, but dry. It’s only references to other monsters in the game

[@trentsoto6852]

Haflambé is actually such a good Pokémon name

[@ripbiscuit392]

Too bad the actual name wasn't very inspired Fire Kong? Really?

[@grifleep4916]

Lockstin was pretty on the nose with firerilla

[@sylv3053]

@@ripbiscuit392 Yes

[@CoralReaper707]

@@ripbiscuit392 I feel you. I played Monster Legends for like a few minutes and uninstalled it after a while. Yeah the names are horrendously lazy.

[@CoralReaper707]

Haflambé sounds like an *excellent* Infernape nickname.

[@rbygscplays5920]

Grimmlins Tale is eye-catching to me. I hope it could expand on the trainer's own fighting capabilities.

[@wolfster95]

I played Monster Legends for like 5 years, the monster designs are really really great, and the game became super complex with all the new monsters they keep realeasing, buuuut its a ultra heavy pay to win, and even play to have the chance to use this super meta-breaking monster, i miss playing it, but it was for the best

[@Novawashere910]

Thunder eagle-

[@PancakebatterLuigi]

How were you able to that? When I was playing for a month half of the time I upgraded them, died and waiting a day to get random garbage. Half of the game is waiting and trying to do something while I wanted to not wait again.

[@gonk986]

To be fair the more complex fighting system made the game better. There was a point where there were enough abilities added to be able to strategize,set up and make proper battle plans,but not too many to where you had to keep track of a thousand things at once wich is exactly how it became.

[@pendragoon1494]

Haven't played Monster legends for years. Damn this game changed a lot... And not necessarily for the better. I definitely remember it's artworks being more interesting.

[@Bezaliel13]

I also had not played for years, and I am rather lost on the Generations thing. Also, I keep losing in PvP, even with way lower leveled enemies.

[@phantasmalflight3896]

@@Bezaliel13 I played it a while ago, and the "generations thing" was a way to reset the ,eta and reduce powercreep

[@drakonghost6967]

Oh it's actually still good, plus it has upgraded a lot lately, the reason the other guy here is losing might be because lack of level or you are facing with the Mythical, which are very powerful and i do agree they keep adding generation and it's annoying, cuz you waste your time leveling one from the current season up and then they drop the other one with even more powerful monsters

[@Mikescool444]

I just find it kind of “rotting”, and by that I mean it feels great and addicting to begin with, but slowly devolves into avoiding the game and eventually stuffing it in a folder to glance at while looking for something else. It always ends with a somewhat empty-feeling deletion.

[@Bezaliel13]

+Phantasmal Flight Well, my monsters were definitely powercrept. @@drakonghost6967 Not easy to get Legendaries past 99 though. Of course, after losing to teams in the 70s, I do not think levels are my issue.

[@P1kaSans]

monster legends is a great game and i used to play a LOT back in the day.

[@mystikyu4613]

Agreed, I still play often

[@owenbridgers]

Same! But it’s been out so long I can’t even try to go back, I remember when the H2O delirious monster came out and stuff

[@FTChomp9980]

I played it iback in the day on my tablet.

[@mystikyu4613]

@@owenbridgers I love KZbinr crossover monsters, tho I'm not sure how I feel about dsmp

[@JohnSmith-kb4re]

and THIS is why not everyone deserves voting rights. Or human rights for that matter.

[@BeefBN6]

You should totally check out Monster Hunter Stories 1 or 2. Either or, honestly. Both are fantastic games

[@mx.e2176]

The Stories games blow Pokémon clean out of the water in all but sales

[@Marshadow01]

If you’re looking for another Pokémon-like game, there’s Loomian legacy. Despite being on roblox, it is very well made, even if it’s not complete yet

[@LordRon]

theres also Doodle world and kinalite kingdom. but kinalite kingdom is under development and unavailable for now.

[@Kya_YT]

There’s also Monsters of Etheria which was based on an old pokemon roleplay/ combat game called “Pokemon Fighters EX” It’s kinda different from other roblox games which try to be like pokemon, but it’s still really good and I recommend giving it a shot

[@Valrokius]

@@Kya_YT Man I wish someone gave the same treatment to pokemon universe after the purge. I miss being a trainer with player controlled pokemon or being someone else's pokemon. Most players were baconhairs that abused the pokeball mechanics but every now and then you could get some real good rp and fights.

[@gatorade-xm6nq]

i was about to comment something about "no roblos?" im a month late

[@TheSerperior]

I played the ever-loving s*** out of Monster Legends when I was little. It was pretty fun, and I never spent a penny on it.

[@jimbothetimbo6790]

Vanoss and his crew gabe birth to the game and dream stans are all that’s left surviving it to go into the res

[@teodagreat]

SAME

[@TheSerperior]

@@jimbothetimbo6790 yeah, I started playing it even before Vanoss and such I believe. Pretty sure I started playing it because I watched a lot of PopularMMOS as a kid and he got added into it-

[@franzenandreituason3547]

I still play it to this day and I actually got my first mythic

[@t-acejuice2077]

I can't even spend an money here for country location reasons, but I still play it. Got a lot of Mythics here.

[@dazcar2203]

ultramon fight is clearly a masterclass of video game design. we should all take notes

[@TlocRevelc]

Ikr. How could they have possibly come up with all ideas? Lol

[@monocorn]

Please, more of this. Not just the comedy but the analyses of the games was also really entertaining.

[@TheWrathAbove]

That Animorphs game has one of the funniest GDQ runs I've ever seen. It's well worth a watch and definitely the best thing to come out of that game.

[@nazeersadek6705]

Grimmlins tale looks amazing especially when you consider the fact that this is pre alpha demo!! I really hope they get more funding since the concept is very cool and I’m looking forward to playing the full version in the future

[@Wolfbane382]

I remember Animorphs. Read a few of the books as a kid. The one I remember the most is the girl turning into a Dolphin. I always thought it would be so cool to be one myself sense I love swimming a lot. ^_^

[@HedeccaTamer]

That would be so groovy

[@genericname2747]

That is the most wholesome thing I've ever heard anyone say about Animorphs.

[@HedeccaTamer]

@@genericname2747 I'd argue the most wholesome thing I've ever seen anyone say about anything

[@TheLordKronos]

@@genericname2747why u so basic😝love the humor of your username

[@genericname2747]

@@TheLordKronos Thanks, I am the most generic person

[@timwoods2852]

I like that you showed a couple of promising ones along with the knock-offs, blatant rip-offs, and DragonVale clone.

[@randomunovafan2787]

12:06 Zapdos followed by Lapras

[@lightrobotCoromon]

4:28 well actually a Coromon Perfect is a 1/3194 chance,What you are seeing rn is a weaker,less rare version of shinies:Potents(92/3194 chance) 4:42 Actually There is a guy who quizes you on the game in the second floor(left) of the library which gives you a weak XP share, but you get a better one later too!

[@spekter1391]

What's up guys! It's Quandale Dingle here! (RUUEHEHEHEHEHEEHE) I have been arrested for multiple crimes (AHHHHHHHHHHHHH) including: Battery on a police officer (WHAT), Grand theft, Declaring war on Italy, and public indecency (RUHEHEHEEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE X2 speed). I will be escaping prison on, MARCH 28TH! After that.... I WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD

[@TheLordKronos]

@@spekter1391 it's time for your medication Mr.Dingle

[@ScarIsARebel]

I'm a sucker for monster legends It's one of the first mobile games I loved when I got a school ipad, looking back on it, it's definitely a pay wall

[@darthpokemon8403]

Yeah, same here. Tbh, I still play it just cuz I like the designs and stuff, but yeah, it’s P2W no question

[@ThiccFurryBoi34]

The races ruined it for me and so many monsters to get from parts and I couldn’t beat the islands

[@idislikelife8473]

Omg please do a grimmlins tale video explaining the meaning of each of the fairy tale guys. Im OBSESSED with fairy tales and fairy tale parodies so I would love to see all the references

[@nazeersadek6705]

I’d 100# watch that

[@Florelea]

This was fun. I’m legitimately interested in trying coromon, and I plan on following grimmlins tale to see how it goes because it has a lot of potential. If you do another one of these you should try nexomon or its sequel nexomon: extinction. The former is a mobile game with a lot of the shortcomings of a mobile game but it’s still fun with a full story. The latter is a full game and it’s a little simple but I enjoyed it a lot when I played it, it’s on the switch so it still has the benefit of being mobile

[@FTChomp9980]

You should give Fossil Fighters a chance it's a good monster Taming game if you love dinosaurs highly recommend.

[@Hyper_Drud]

Champions is easily the best out of the three games. Though unfortunately there are unobtainable Vivosaurs.

[@poly.fcracka9362]

@@Hyper_Drud yeah I'm still so bummed I lost my copy, I had all the alien Raptors, frigi and igni, and saladasaurus. I had a pretty good collection of miraculous vivosaurs too.

[@RegenWasTaken]

@@Hyper_Drud WE DO NOT SPEAK OF THE ACCURSED 3RD ONE.

[@officialc1459]

@@Hyper_Drud with the emulator(which is free btw) you get not only access to dlc Dino’s and areas but you also get higher resolution and HD.

[@zap4th368]

i only ever was able to get one of tehm. i forget if it had a subtitle but it had alien dino-people and ended with you fighting the brains of a space fish that eats worlds?

[@treyrezach3609]

I use to actually love playing monster legends a couple years back I got fairly addicted but then they introduced like them mythics and it just got more and more pay to win where I couldn’t keep up and I didn’t really feel like it so I ended up just deleting it

[@witchfrog3727]

A good monster catcher series I would recommend is Shin Megami Tensei. It wouldn't work for this series because the shortest games are still over 20 hours but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

[@Sillymanthatwearsabanana5]

the fact Pokemon fans decided to attack palworld and not all of these really says something

[@Ryu_D]

I remember Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker on the DS being pretty good. Definitely worth looking into if you decide to make another video on this topic.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

Sadly, the other games aren't available here, because they really improve on the formula (We have Joker 2 that added Size and X/XY version for some monsters, but not even the Pro version). The DQM2 3D remake is just everything you could hope for, and DQMJ3 has a reduced roster, but tons of interesting additions (every monsters can be rode, with subtle variations between monsters).

[@dodopena4041]

Oh my god DQMJ was one of my absolute favorite games on the DS. I remember spending so many hours playing it in the 4th grade, and grinding levels so that I could finally beat Dr. Snapped, Black and Gold Dragons, and Demon-at-arms!

[@The_PokeSaurus]

I had an idea of making a Pokemon-like game as a kid. I'm sure most of us have at some point, but these make me think it might be possible.

[@Icalasari]

If you have skills, many of us working on such projects (myself including) are always looking for help

[@ccss9753]

Me and my elementary school friends made a paper-based rpg with multicolored Yoshi's and collectable eggs

[@GhastlyExistence448]

Would actually love a full series of this. I've been wanting to find a GOOD Pokemon-like and if you play them so I don't have to, even better. Full support on this one 👍

[@ChemistWeb]

I remember playing Monster Legends back when I was in high school. I still can’t believe it’s still going.

[@yourdarknessawaits3895]

It's barely still going. They made a 3rd VoltaiK reskin & everything is just all-around dogshit now.

[@Appertun]

Tbh Monster Legends DOES have some really stupid designs for the first couple hundred monsters in the monstagram and it's kinda funny. If you want to play a game of 'spot the difference', then compare Thunder Eagle (really good name btw) with Zapdos. Rope your friends in too if you want. It's definitely gotta do something with how the game was original on Facebook since like the early 2010's. Fortunately, the designs are a lot more creative now (most of the time) and are pretty dope. As for the names though.... Uhh... Not as much. *cough* Slab *cough* I'm definitely interested in a couple of the games, mostly Coromon and Grimmlins Tale, and I honestly never heard about them until now. They seem pretty damn cool. Thanks Mr.Pokétuber for the video.

[@gatex33d74]

Wdym "couple hundreds" lol Literally only monsters up to rare and epic rarity are reskins of old monsters, from legendary to mythical (90% of monsters) it's all original designs everytime with like 2 monster exceptions

[@CoralReaper707]

Oh my god. That's one of the few reasons I uninstalled the game in a matter of hours or even minutes. The designs literally border on copyright infringement.

[@ilikepizxa701]

A day when Gnoggin uploads is always a good day

[@limeyell0w945]

We get a good day almost every week😌💀

[@sackfire2986]

Grimmlins Tale really scratches that itch left on my heart by Kameo years ago! Down to the fairy tale aesthetic, just punching enemies as a human and summoning monsters to help you (reminiscent of the unreleased game cube version), also did you say a riding mechanic?! I'm so hyped for it!

[@elliotnutella8044]

12:06 that's just Zapdos. 12:07 that's just Lapras. 12:16 that's just a fricking panda! Also the Grimmlins game seems pretty good, reminds me of Legends Arceus

[@MegaMilesprower]

It's a panda! What's it gonna do, sit on me?

[@elliotnutella8044]

@@MegaMilesprower That would honestly be so cute

[@theregularterrarian3933]

that "firerilla" in the Monster Legends section is literally just called "Firekong". Also I have seen this game, it is very p2w heavy

[@spaghooooot7737]

agreed this game is ass 🗿

[@ultimapower6950]

I used to play it back when I was like 11-ish

[@Faelocke]

Animorphs: you tried Coromon: Pretty good, but could use a bit more fleshing out Grimmlin's Tale: Looking good so far, but a lot of work still needs to be done Ultramon Fight: Cease and Desist Monster Legends: -Just garbage- Apparently it was good back when it first launched, but now it's typical P2W garbage.

[@darkwolfstudioes]

I would say for ML is wrong

[@Cuprite1024]

The Coromon devs have actively been listening to feedback and updating the game accordingly, which I really respect (Hell, throughout development they've even completely changed Coromon designs after receiving feedback for them (The final Water starter is a great example)).

[@Tyleregor4588]

Ml is good it is just that now most of the good content is locked behind a paywall and the final bosses are too overpowered even against the monsters made to counter them

[@VenusMoonBunny]

Same

[@verathena14]

0:28 animorphs my beloved... i loved that series when I was younger. It's probably where my fascination for mind-control/posession stories came from.

[@adv78]

Plz continue the series, great idea, I love seeing these kind of content and Pokemon-Likes are so difficult to do it right it makes for such a fun content. Also I saw the use of Workemon in the intro and laughed a lot. How could I forget this game existed it is actually funny for the first couple hours (though it gets repetitive)

[@ursapolargalactica]

The electric bird from monster legends is literally zapdos

[@Planetmango48]

It's not

[@add9319]

You should check out Monster Sanctuary, it's one of my favorite monster collectors. It has a so much variety and the battles are tough! Wish it had a mobile port. :D

[@skorpanimat]

a long time ago there was a fame called mighty monsters(bland name i know) and it was what got me into pokemon, because it went away after a good few tears and i was searching desperately for a replacement. i still remember the joy i had playing that game

[@kirinotosaki9004]

You didn't even acknowledge the monsters that literally looked like Zapdos and Lapras in 12:06 lolololol

[@Droboticlol]

12:07 12:05 what the hell those are literaly just Zapdos and Lapras

[@DYLau0823]

EvoCreo. One of the few I've played that has (or had when I played); No Microtransactions. An actual story. Felt like a pokemon game.

[@spectre9091]

Is it like that any more

[@lightrobotCoromon]

I mean there were Packs for stuff, I know i bought one

[@chaoscrow27]

The only transaction in the game is for gems, which you only use for a unnecessary gacha and different skins

[@brutalnobody5240]

@@chaoscrow27 that hurts the game a little. Last time I played the game(lite) I pulled mon that learned dig and thus I could get way past the demo end trigger

[@mandryva3979]

I used to play Monster Legends back in 2013-2016, when Legendary status monsters where quite rare and the meta could still be played with epic and rare rank monsters. I never spend money on the game, but I have to admit most of my grind game was on it´s sister game Dragon City, who I last visited on 2021. While I have to admit that Monster legends holds more creative designs, cause dragon city basically put themselves in a corner with their dragon-only creatures limit; it´s mostly a heavy grind game, with the high level and useful monsters taking about 52 hours, plus the food grind and almost any other resource being really hard to obtain by grinding.

[@fishpickles7316]

i remember playing a flash game called coromon a few years ago and really liking it, iirc it seemed pretty work in progress-y, i obviously cant check anymore because flash player doesnt exist but im glad to see it got a pretty good looking non-flash remake

[@braydenleaderofthetirkins1143]

This was great. I wish it were longer, but I love the ones you chose. That fairy tale games looks really promising.

[@nazeersadek6705]

It is!! I hope it’s gets as much funding as possible so the dev can make it a great game in the future

[@rukeyazu8669]

Please, please, please continue this series! (The exclamation point denotes excitement, not demandingness).

[@mailcs06]

I liked monster legends as a kid. Though yeah there’s a lot of waiting involved. It has some neat monster designs. I really like Drop Elemental. I think it’s a neat spin on a water elemental.

[@duderanched]

that ultramon fight game has shown up so many times with different names, but i downloaded it once some years ago and despite its low quality and barely any thoughtfulness gone into it, i was like easily addicted to it. played the hell out of it until it was deleted for a short while and could never find it again

[@bloodystatic4156]

9:20 When your mom sees a Pokémon

[@tenkochabashira4305]

That Cheshire Cat in Grimmlin Tales looks dope I think I'll check it out.

[@erickausay2174]

They just came out with a Jack the Ripper + Muffin Man type Rat which is sick

[@ryukreya45]

it has been a while, but i loved the spectrobes series as a kid. it had 2 games on the DS and one on the Wii. if i remember correctly the Aoba and Ryga lines where my faves and the last Ryga evo looked like a suicune with skarmory wings. kinda wanna replay them now to see how well my memory holds up

[@agentmoss8274]

Please make a series out of this, i REALLY wanna watch you play Loomian Legacy

[@projectsilvio3522]

Was waiting for somebody to say this

[@agentmoss8274]

@@projectsilvio3522 I'm gonna try to make lockstin or gnoggin notice it

[@natethebad]

I would love for this series to continue!

[@violeth2255]

Actually, the kids turning into animals thing is tertiary in Animorphs. The alien invasion is secondary. Animorphs' primary topic is the abject horror of war and how easily average people (particularly those who become soldiers) turn into monsters because of war (there's literally a point in the later books where the main characters argue over whether they should not-alive a massive number of the slug aliens on a transport ship by flushing them into space when said aliens were completely incapacitated and helpless at the time).

[@andromeda_va39]

Yeah, that series was pretty fricked up, especially considering the target audience. I get what the author was trying to do, but yeesh.

[@MegaMilesprower]

Never got to read the whole series, how many volumes?

[@genericname2747]

Don't forget the sudden downer ending, because kids need to know war is bad

[@violeth2255]

@@MegaMilesprower 54 main series books, and 10 companion books. Admittedly, only 8 of the 10 companion books are canon to the main continuity. Individually, each main series book is a quick read, but the whole series is quite girthy.

[@shadowscall7758]

Yeah, I actually own all the animorph books that were printed and will definitely show it to my kids, but yeah they will be young teens or so because of how dark it gets later.

[@spfilmviewers5629]

Nexomon: Extinction is another example, which is on PS4 and Switch. I haven't played a lot of it tbh, but it shows promise for what it is

[@Stelterna]

I grew up in the 2010s, but a few Animorphs books were in my school library. I read one, got hooked, and slowly forgot about them as they were no longer accessible for me.

[@lightrobotCoromon]

4:42 Actually There is a guy who quizes you on the game in the second floor(left) of the library which gives you a weak XP share, but you get a better one later too!

[@paulcusick9992]

Would love to see you cover other monster tamers! Check out Gym Leader Ed, he covers monster-taming games exclusively on KZbin

[@paulcusick9992]

Be it stand-alone videos about a game,or doing more videos like this where you cover multiple.

[@GymLeaderEd]

thanks for the shoutout :)

[@drbowser166]

Honestly, my favorite Pokemon Like game right now is Monster Hunter Stories 2. Since it is a Monster Collector, super free in how you build your Monstie because you can literally give any Monstie any attack but doesn't mean they'll be best with said attack. The Kinship Attacks are like the Z Moves but better. Game does get really challenging as well which is very satisfying when you get past those parts.

[@plasmatic210.]

I’m drooling over the wait for Palworld personally. I truly cannot wait for it

[@mauricioalvarezpino1818]

Holy crap, Workémon! I loved that one, it was the perfect amount of depressing and addicting!

[@borrellipatrick]

See that coromon is in this video. Been curious because it's hitting Switch soon. Also curious of nexomon. They're currently on switch but waiting for the 2 pak physical copy 👀

[@brandonbackup873]

Nexomon kind of sucks, since all the mons end up being super similar.

[@hephaistos166]

Hello!! I was gonna say, Coromon has EXP Share but it's like the early Pokémon one. You can only use it on One Extra Pokémon. The items name is Lazy Gem or Sloth Gem. Thank you for the wonderful video btw :)

[@emc246]

If you're going to continue this series, you should look for "Min Hero: Tower of Sages". It's an old flash game that I remember enjoying a lot. Also another game that would be more of a stretch is Monster Hunter Stories 1 and 2. Fun series, already improving quickly.

[@erickausay2174]

Grimmlins Tales is so original and has so much potential! I hope it hits the stretch goals so the dev can put in his all into it!

[@nazeersadek6705]

Same!!

[@pichuperez9037]

Didn't Monster Legends make a bunch of KZbinr Monsters? I would've loved to have seen your reaction to that. Also some of those were Zapdos and Lapras ripoffs weren't they...

[@Galarticuno]

I’ve seen the Monster Legend game so many times in KZbin ads across the decades. Thank you for confirming my every thought on the game. Hope you get around to proving the same thing about the EverTale game I keep seeing in my ads

[@oodogla]

I remember playing monster legends years ago on the iPad which is broken now. It was actually fun

[@nathan714]

Temtem, and Nexomon are both great! Feel free to check them out Coromon and monster sanctuary are pretty good too

[@markmurgiya9354]

I would really like to see more of these kind of review videos.

[@arjunkishore7087]

Man your fakemon concept was probably the best one i have seen. Please do another one or more fakemon concept cus it was sooooo good

[@TheBHolder]

I got a nostalgia hit when watching this video because there was this mobile game about 10 years back that I LOVED when I was younger called Geomon. It was a creature collecter game where the main gimmick was that the types of creatures you could find/catch were based on your physical location and time of day irl (very much like an early Pokemon Go before it was a thing). Almost all of the creatures were based on mythological creatures and cryptids. Although the designs weren't exactly unique, as most of the creatures were almost literally just a more magical/elemental version of said mythological creature or cryptid, the designs were really well drawn. There was micro-transactions but they were fair and not necessary to progress/play the game. They also had their own kind of shinies, but there were a ton for each creature and even some of the more rare/special creatures got a full re-skin/re-design as their "shiny". And you could find all of these shinies/re-skins in game and didn't have to pay for them. There was even a trading forum where you could trade geomon with other players, which also helped you get some of the monsters that you couldn't get otherwise cause they were region-locked to another country. The saddest thing happened though; I dont remember what the reason was (most likely just poor funding) but out of nowhere they announced that they were shutting down the servers for the game in a week, and there was a big in-game event where essentially the apocalypse happened, and you had to say goodbye to all of your Geomon. I was so sad when it happened, but the devs handled it pretty well all things considered. It's kinda weird because there's a facebook page for the game that's still "active" as every year someone (must be a previous dev) designs and posts a new Geomon based on the Chinese Zodiac animal of that year. It was an awesome game, and I wish it was still around.

[@ChestersBigReview]

6:35 the among us cookie

[@erickausay2174]

Sus

[@notimportant4747]

I'd love to see more videos like this one.

[@GingerTyPerior]

I re-read animorphs this year and I CANNOT BELIEVE that it was written for kids. That was a book series with the moral "there are no winners in war". Literally most of its main characters die gruesomely by the end. It's my favorite book series of all time its so good

[@ToniaGlitched]

I mean, Monster Legends were actually pretty fun on the Facebook days, and if I remember well, most timed building wait times were actually lower on the early game (despite increasing drastically over time), and quite a few mons are actually rather cool (but also rare af and often the good looking monsters aren't that strong, so there's that)

[@river6797]

Monster Hunter Stories is also a semi Pokémon like and is freaking amazing. Definitely should check it out if you haven't already. The first one is for 3DS only but the second is on both switch and steam (both with demos available). You don't exactly need to have played the first for the second but it helps you understand the story just a slight bit better.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

The first one is also on mobile, and of course there's emulation. The mobile version is also discounted. I think it's like 10 dollars.

[@therealdogofgaming6055]

You should do a yo-Kai watch video

[@dan8er709]

Yes please I love yo-kai watch

[@spectre9091]

Yea

[@pyrostorm1700]

@@dan8er709 ME TOO

[@dream_weaver6207]

I love the concept of "workemon" where you catch employees for your company and treat them horribly for profit, but it gets unplayable a few hours in because of the micro transactions.

[@Bobb11881]

Animorphs is also allegedly about the horrors of child soldiers, complete with: -High levels of trauma -Child deaths

[@shadowscall7758]

Yeah, Animorphs starts out fairly typical, but then starts delving into the horrors that war can cause. It's one of my favorite series, and I actually own every book printed.