The Evolution of Monster Catchers

[@MelodyNosurname]

I FORGOT THAT FOSSIL POKEMON EXIST LMAOOOOO

[@donna_k_kerns]

Lel

[@NicoEdgy]

Back in the day my friend used to throw Invizimals cards from the school 2nd floor and watch the other children fight for them

[@Angwiser-zk7vk]

@@NicoEdgyholy shit, invizimals fan in the wild!

[@bunnyconcubus8468]

Specrubs was the shit when I bought it at a discount for my Nintendo

[@hexonictheverymediocre]

dw about it they're dead

[@FioreFire]

As a kid, my grandparents bought me a copy of "Pokemon Sapphire" from a Chinese market, and I was very impressed by the new direction they were taking the series. But actually, it was just the GBA Telefang sequel. It has some genuinely interesting mechanics, like: - Monsters evolve by leveling up, but you can also instead give base-form monsters items to trigger reversible side-evolutions that have most of the benefits of a second-stage evo but with totally different typings. - On-map encounters, triple battles, and your main monster following behind you, all before Pokemon did these things. - Rather than set party members, you can call any monster(s) in your contacts list for each battle. The amount of turns it takes for them to show up is based on the distance between where you "caught" them and where you currently are, so you're encouraged to recruit guys all over the world. Even standard encounter monsters can have their own friends that they call in from other areas! It's too bad the level design stinks, and all the dungeons are just oversized samey battle-filled labyrinths with no landmarks :(

[@tpfoxCastro]

Isn't the evolution thing just, cross-evos? aybe cross-evos mixed with mega evolutioon, because of the reversibility? The calling mechanic is like if you played as N, LOL. Ngl, you made me whant to try it

[@kumatorahaltmanndreemurr]

This sounds really fun actually. I might have to give this game a try

[@icommitdie8756]

i’m gonna just say this, yokai watch was absolutely amazing. loved the personality of the yokai and just the fact that the concept comes from folklore

[@HfjOneESP]

15:58 YO-KAI WATCH MENTIONED‼‼‼

[@MythicMachina]

So this game wasn't even out when you made this video, but I wanna bring up Cassette Beasts. It's become one of my favorite monster catching games in recent time. It has a lot of gameplay elements that set it apart from other monster catching games, as well as boss fights that use multimedia animation! The boss fights are the highlight of the game and highly recommended you see them for yourself.

[@khililamachado5675]

Bro me to I love that game

[@MxPokirby]

9:30 Birds *are* dinosaurs! Categorically! They're literally one and the same! You can go outside, see a pigeon, point at it & say "dinosaur" and be objectively, scientifically, 100% accurate.

[@tripled2096]

An important note you skipped is that digimon wasn't created as a monster catcher, from the start it was meant to be a version of tamogatchi they could market to boys. Its a pet sim that you can battle, and many of the video games follow this framework (The modern digimon World games still follow this framework, while the digimon story games are actual proper monster collectoes)

[@teathesilkwing7616]

Tamogatchi is a monster catching game, but you catch them by buying them at walmart

[@LutraLovegood]

@@teathesilkwing7616 That's just alpha Pokémon

[@sunwukong2]

Yeah monster rancher does this too, you battle with your monsters that's like the whole point of why you're owning them

[@ulkimion]

1:43 Hey! Don't say anything bad about my two babies again! You can continue with the one in the right thought

[@KeysmashGirl]

Wait how did this come out before the palworld shitstorm 💀

[@shurno1588]

I just wanna mention something about yo kai watch. The first game had a lot of recolors , but those were mostly to be rarer versions , and to be ones that could be obtained randomly. The Second and third game had a lot less. Also for Castelius , it's part of the joke.

[@guineamasterlove1756]

At least the recolors are actually different from the original both in battle prowess and origin instead of shines like Pokémon

[@tripled2096]

You missed out on the PEAK of yo-kai watch designs, the ones from Y academy where theyve got ghost-possesed superheroes fighting aliens

[@1000Tomatoes]

Andrew is probably because the japanese way of writing Andrew looks like its saying "relief dragon" which fits the japanese naming conventions of dinosaurs.

[@gemwolfz2860]

i like the part where you're laughing about actual real life dinosaurs it's so funny

[@icebutter27]

i remember this anime called mix master (specifically mix master king of cards, which is season 1) every time I think about it its pure nostalgia :D not surprised that no one talked about it, it is very obscure i would say

[@quetzypoo]

After rewatching this, i can confirm that it's better now that I know you're a monotized youtuber

[@Thriftybits]

It's too bad she missed Spectrobes, haha

[@sunwukong2]

Quilladin is incredible take it back, take it fucking back now

[@sunwukong2]

i do also hate crabominable though, crabrawler deserved better

[@MarsMakes]

I just got this video in my recommendations and all I gotta say is geez you're underrated. New sub 👍

[@AaronJLong]

Ah, poor Jade Cocoon, successful enough to get a sequel, but still doomed to be forgotten. I know that it was a console game, but you could bring your memory card to battle someone else's team, like bringing your copy of Pokémon to play some Stadium. Theoretically. Good luck finding someone else that had Jade Cocoon.

[@jademonass2954]

i like that temtem got a passing mention at 12:01 its a REALLY good game, imo, though i feel like the achievements could have been toned down

[@dynomythead88]

Little did everyone know, johnny would go on to become legendary.

[@charlespoopydoodle]

2:15 now THIS is EPIC

[@adrianinnecco8010]

I’d love to see a pokemon designed to look like a toilet. The rage from pokemon fans would be priceless on its own.

[@giantsazando]

I was hoping that Spectrobes would be mentioned at some point cause I always found it to be an enigma of a series. It was a set of 3 Monster Collectors (at least I think they were) and they were published by Disney Interactive Studio of all groups. I remember playing the Wii game in particular, which I think was a prequel? And I remember in the Wii game at least, you excavated the Spectrobes from fossils like Fossil Fighters, but I never played the DS games so I don't know what those were like.

[@catantcha99]

The DS games also had the fossil digging mechanic i played the first game and the second fossil fighters game a lot because Pokemon was to expensive

[@Gloomdrake]

Origins was a sequel

[@giantsazando]

@@Gloomdrake Oh neat! I only assumed Origins was a prequel because it had origins in the name. I never had the DS games when I was younger, so the Wii game was my only frame of reference.

[@sambeckettcat]

It is dubious to include Digimon in this, because technically it started as a Tamagotchi competitor, and only some of the games were actually about catching/recruiting the monsters. In many you just a set number of partners who you’d evolve over time before they reverted to eggs and you had to evolve them all over again.

[@MsTerkup]

Not even a competitor. It was "Tamagotchi for boys" made by the same company and all

[@ghostboy711]

...I had KZbin on in the background as I was playing Pokemon Shield and this was like the 3rd video that played... I guess KZbin really is listening to us, even our Pokemon battle music.

[@JesterQueenAnne]

Kinda disappointing that Dragon Quest V or Megami Tensei didn't get a mention. DQV was the first game ever with the monster catching mechanic and Megami Tensei was the first game designed completely around the mechanic (predating Pokémon by almost a decade), creating the monster catching genre. Not only that, the Megami Tensei series is still the second most popular franchise of the genre, thanks to the success of the Persona games.

[@MelodyNosurname]

this video was originally supposed to be pokemon-like games but people complained that i was calling them rip-offs, so those games dont fit THAT topic but do fit the new title. They're just not included bc of a fix to the title I did that caused more issues.

[@luck-e42]

The DQ Joker series would have fit in this video.

[@FourLetterLWord]

DDS:Megami Tensei did it first, not DQV

[@FeeshUnofficial]

I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU THINK OF FOSSIL LEAGUE, THAT GAME HAS SOME OF THE SICKEST AND MOST NICHE DINOSAURS I'VE SEEN IN ANY NON-EDUCATIONAL MEDIA AND I'M GONNA PLAY THE SHIT OUT OF THAT GAME

[@EvieMyMelody]

I like Sanrio Timenet. It's a monster battling game by Imagineer with 161 cute monsters, but Sanrio (Hello Kitty) characters are the trainers. Additionally, the difficulty curve is relatively hard and the encounter rate can be high, but that's fine if you're used to it/willing to grind.

[@spacealien3073]

I'm quite a big nerd or monster battling games (probably why this year old video got recommended to me) and I genuinely never knew Sanrio made one!

[@EvieMyMelody]

@@spacealien3073 Yeah ^^ (well they licensed it rather than developed it, except Hisato Inoue the Badtz-Maru/Hangyodon etc. guy did the character art :D). That's also probably why his obscure character Monster Zakki from Donragon appears as one of the Sanrio characters. Though in the Sanrio community it's debated whether the Donragon characters are Sanrio characters. They got the copyright Sanrio notice when the cartoon featured on Daisuki! Hello Kitty though. I have a walkthrough and guides of this game in English (apparently nobody else did) if you ever want to get into it. However it has the 'high random encounters'/'difficulty curve' flaw many monster battling games have. Other than that I think it's a very good game, and has depth to it, and I think the music is very good.

[@pinguina3076]

I'm really surprised there weren't any Medabots, but good video, lady Melody

[@sk33b07]

most the guys from telefang look like theyre from spore

[@desertplanet3253]

like it or not, johnny is peak male performance

[@justajurble6793]

I love how the video suddenly turned to y'all just making fun of random dinosaurs

[@crowpse]

I love you for talking about telefang, it deserves more atention.

[@Acheronpanda]

Invizimals was *THE* shit when I was a kid. Much like Foto Showdown and Fossil Fighters, you don't actually fight Invizimals to capture them. Instead, you search around your room for a specific colour relating to the Invizimal, and when you finally scan it, you place down an Invizimal Trap, which was just a graphic printed onto cardboard. From there, you'd have to do a minigame to capture the creature. Fighting was real time, with moves that are stronger or weaker against specific types of invizimals. There's some phrases that go along with them, like "Can't cut rock" or "Can't shout at water". Along with that, you could block in real time, or if you were an absolute gigachad of a kid, evade the attacks altogether. Along with that, they had some weird powers you can drop in which required you to do something like shaking your PSP camera to cause an earthquake. REALLY goated game, wish more people knew about it.

[@donna_k_kerns]

All shall fear..... Andrew

[@difinplays]

im never gonna get over the fact i owned almost every single yokai watch game ( all versions of yokai watch 2, 3 and the ghostbuster red one) and sold them all for like 40 bucks

[@ghostinthecode]

YOOOO I PLAYED FOSSIL LEAGUE SO MUCH AS A KID THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING IT

[@agustincretton3615]

Damn medabots not getting any love hurts

[@robinsparrow1618]

1:20 that's one of my local news stations

[@phone_gal]

seeing y'all just freak out over genuine dinosaurs is the funniest shit ever

[@Thevirusinity]

13:13 THIS DINOSAUR GOT THEM DENIMS!

[@meeb_consumer]

I PLAYED FOSSIL LEAGUE AS A KID AND DIDNT REMEMBER ITS NAME BUT NOW I DOOOO This game is awesome, there was like a sandbox mode in it where you could just pick two Dinos to fight eachother and I used to play my Dino battling game nonstop.

[@gingercore69]

I remember a game that i could swear was called pokeman... And its fighting was not turn based, it was like a top down tank game with elemental monsters... I wish there were more games like that

[@osiahene]

Otoda Master is another mongame worth looking into because of its use of the Nintendo DS microphone to catch monsters

[@Mushie_lol]

I FUCKING LOVED SLUGTERA!!!!!! RAHHHHHHHH I need to rewatch it. THEY SHOOT MAGIC SLUGS AS BULLETS IN ACTUAL GUNS??? why

[@NotAnEldritchHorror]

i just wanna say pokemon wasn't the first monster catching game, and as a megami tensei diehard i will not allow this misinformation to stand

[@yoshibro6462]

I LOVE YO-KAI WATCH SO MUCH

[@troymoonmoon8198]

Invizimals is fire for real! It was very popular in Spain, you should take a look at it

[@bobalinx8762]

You’ve left out an entire chapter of monster collecting BEFORE Pokémon. The Megami Tensei series of games started on the NES in 1987 and it had the demon negotiation mechanic that the franchise would be famous for going forward, such as in Shin Megami Tensei and Persona. This franchise debuted catching and battling monsters NINE years before Pokémon did. Also, Fighting Foodons/Bistro Recipe has two GameBoy Color games and a WonderSwan game, but i didn’t see any catching mechanics. So, it’s just an interesting footnote.

[@CrypticaLuna]

I love your channel

[@BearRangell]

i love melody checks out dinonaurs

[@Xx_Tr4nsF3m_xX]

0:52 i feel attacked 😭 (although i can name ~95% of the pre gen 8 pokemon)

[@noodles2459]

This was a banger

[@afro025]

I'm genuinely so pissed you just skipped over and ignored Medabots ;-; like come on, that series is actually peak

[@MelodyNosurname]

i asked around a lot and no one suggested it back then

[@afro025]

@@MelodyNosurname NOOOOOOOOOO 😭

[@NicoEdgy]

I like the art style of the thumbnail

[@GameBoy1404]

Underrated video

[@meeb_consumer]

Digimon character design is WILD Then again a Digimon I feel is in this weird zone between being a Pokemon and being your Stand

[@meganpayette5996]

I'm starting to see why the Pokemon franchise never crossed over with another Mon based JRPG series. Most of them are either niche, obscure as heck or were completely burned out too soon. Sometimes all of the above.

[@Shyguy-yu1cu]

Fossil fighters reminds me of this really similar game called spectrobes. You would dig up crystallized fossils of these spectrobes and awaken them by using the ds microphone and it was made by DISNEY. I liked it as a kid

[@dragon_fuirt2592]

OH MY GOD SLUGTERRA!! I love slugterra so much, its a fantastic show and the slugs are so silly would 10/10 recommend watching it

[@hamthefunnyfish3119]

since I’m like insane about yokai watch I can tell you that the reason why psychic specters, the blasters games and 3 are all so expensive is cause since yokai watch’s popularity was declining plus they never advertised the damn games, they made significantly less physical copies of those games, which is fucking stupid cause 3 is like the best one

[@marceltoing9918]

when i saw you review foto showdown i was like ??! no way.. i never played the game as a kid, but both of my older siblings played it and seeing it brought back memories of that

[@adams0123]

Good video, though there might be one or two spin offs of pre-existing series that sort of come under the section of 'Monster Catchers'. The one I'm mainly thinking about Monster Hunter Stories and its sequel, even if you don't 'catch' wild monsters and more 'kidnap their children and trick them into seeing you as kin using magic rocks'.

[@Anime_catgirl_UWU]

i no longer trust you Ms, nosurname (don't look up up blue waffles)

[@hawkrose]

I really wish they'd just make a digimon game that has ALL OF EM in it. Like, even the really terrible ones. I want it. Cybersleuth is a good game, imo, but it only has, like, 200, or so. There's over 7x that, total.

[@gummywurm]

Yooooo easydog is sick as fuck

[@Aburner1109]

your minds are impure

[@djoshawott2850]

I get it :) In all seriousness, though, Fossil Fighters was my JAM as a kid!

[@donna_k_kerns]

6:23 he probably cuts it and stabs it then eats

[@Mozzarellapumpkin]

I can't believe you didn't mention the actually awesome and popular ish Doodle World, Loomian Legacy, and Evo Creo. all them shits slaps

[@popoki8666]

BEYBLADES ARE ALIVE THEY HAVE FEELINGS HOW COULD YOU BE SO CRUEL

[@King_Froggit]

IT WAS CALLED MONSUMO?? I was looking for it for the past 5 years Thank You

[@oridoesthings]

I used to watch the yokai watch anime with no conception of the game existing

[@JohnGoobertonTheThird]

I forgot slugtera existed until now... (I have a slugtera toy😭)

[@FunkyFrick]

The goblins have awakened

[@ItsOuren]

Late to the party, so this will probably never be answered, but I'd like to add one franchise of games that, in my opinion, kickstarted the whole monster catching genre: Megami Tensei/Shin Megami Tensei/SMT/Megaten/etc. Since it wasn't mentioned at all I reckon that either you weren't aware it existed (fair) or rather you didn't consider it valid according to your criteria (which is also fair). Still, since I've yet to see another comment mentioning SMT, as an (annoying) fan of sending literal demons to fight literal capital G I have to take matters into my own hands. Annoying comment over, great video, cheers :)

[@trvshbxvt3146]

MEDABOTSSSSSSSSS!

[@charagender]

oh my god the Invizimals mention reminded me that I have so many Invizimals fighting cards, those were the shit back in elementary school

[@wardrobewings8000]

I'm almost impressed that you managed to miss in your research grandparents of all modern monster catcher games: Dragon Quest V and Megami Tensei franchise. Especially since Shin Megami Tensei V came out about 2 years ago 😂

[@yourbutlertoday1329]

why did the bordar flip at 10:30 and go back at 10:47???? i think thi sn an arg guys..

[@royaloreo1275]

The unrelated things made me remember gormiti. Funny dudes.

[@marcush2001]

Haha so funny

[@luck-e42]

Crystal Monsters on DS was a thing too. Anyone else ever play it?

[@Cuprite1024]

7 months late, but yes! While I wouldn't have ever called it a "good" game (I mean, just *look* at the type chart. Poor Water type), I really liked it. It's one of few games I've played more than once. It's a shame the second game is completely lost media, I'd have loved to see how they may have improved on the first game.

[@bruhbandit]

Lessie sent me

[@tarunvesireddy9360]

why did I search up blue waffles...

[@nodbynobdy]

disappointed to see no mention of megami tensei

[@someidiot6067]

i remember slugterra and that shit slapped

[@TatharNuar]

0:23 Well, have you had curry?

[@TatharNuar]

12:00 time to update the list?

[@INTCUWUSIUA]

A pity you didn't bring up the original monster tamer games: Megami Tensei (later Shin Megami Tensei) and Dragon Quest V.

[@CeliMew]

the only real thing i could see Robopon taking from Pokémon is the player sprite (it's extremely similar to the one in R/G/B/Y) and the Sun and Moon version names years before Gen 7 came out XD

[@zyanphanos3994]

I posted the razor picture years ago when I was a child.

[@Cazra-VaporwaveWitch]

Lady, what about Dragon Warrior Monsters? It's basically Dragon Quest's version of Pokemon for GB/GBC, and it's really great!

[@meeb_consumer]

Take a shot every time you hear Japan Only

[@alpha_nexus7784]

You mentioned mobile games in the category section, but one you didn't bring up was mino monsters. It was a Pokémon knock off with its own set of creatures and legendaries, and different worlds to explore. They ended up making a second one before the made both unplayable but I miss it so fucking bad. My friend and I used to play together a bunch. If you get a chance you should check it out

[@SquidellaButCool]

I’m a dinosaur enthusiast I was fucking dying at fossil league

[@Spllitzer]

Tella fangs just look like spore creatures

[@garlicclaws]

as someone who likes pokemon, i can confirm that i can name more pokemon from memory than people i know (could name all of them if i had a picture (yes i am a virgin))

[@Flailmorpho]

honestly digimon is closer to a Child Friendly Shin Megami Tensei than pokemon

[@AlfredoPuente8]

No way you didn't speak about invizimals, that series had 5 games, sold ilions f units and all the kind of the playground were smashing cupboard while screaming "INVIZIMAL"