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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

Thanks for covering the monster taming genre Lockstin!

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Never though i'd see Gnoggin playing Monster Legends

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

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.

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

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

Haflambé is actually such a good Pokémon name

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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

12:06 Zapdos followed by Lapras

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

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. ^_^

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 👍

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.

A day when Gnoggin uploads is always a good day

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

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

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.

The electric bird from monster legends is literally zapdos

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!

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)

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

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

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

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

You should do a yo-Kai watch video

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

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.

I absolutely LOVE monster legends, and i totally agree with your opinions on it. It's very pay-to-win, and those aspects have just become worse over time. However, it has a lot of upside you can see after you get your first mythical monster. It has a surprisingly deep and thought-out story (at least for the kind of game it is), and once you get past the early days, the designs and battles are really good and fun! there's a huge amount of strategy in it, and while you usually need to have the best monsters to win (anything with "pierce" is almost an auto-win) i still think it's at least a decent game with a lot of pros compared to its cons (and it's definitely better than almost all the other "monster collection" games on the appstore). the designs, animations and overall art quality for the mythic monsters are absolutely incredible, almost all of the monsters you saw were from 2016 and only some of them (like pandalf and firesaur) got a graphical update in like 2019. my point is, i feel like it's at least a *little* more worthwhile than your average appstore garbage.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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).

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

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

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!

I would love for this series to continue!

I do actually kinda like playing Monster Legends and I gotta say that its actually super fun, from meeting new monsters to fighting others, its actually pretty good

I was not ready for that Three Blind Mice Grimmlin. I like it, but wow that was unexpected.

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

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

That image of the fire monkey in your thumbnail sent me all the way back to my childhood lmao.

I've had this growing frustration with the VERY long-running trend of calling anything in the Monster Collection genre a 'Pokemon-like/clone' The majority of the time, this is an extremely surface-level look at the game and calling it a clone for DARING to be in the same genre as another game. You know what games had Monster Collection before Pokemon? Shin Megami Tensei and Dragon Quest V. So is Pokemon a clone of those? Apparently not because people still compare SMT and the Dragon Quest Monsters spin-off to Pokemon. It's important to recognize what a game is actually like. Some games are very obviously trying to capture the very specific feel and ideas of Pokemon. While others share absolutely NOTHING with Pokemon beyond using monsters as party members. It's usually very easy to tell when a game is heavily influenced by Pokemon. 1: A major focus on types and type advantages, to the point where it becomes the main component of battle, is typically the major way a game feels like Pokemon. Of course most Monster Collection games have types, but it's how the types are used that change the feel. 2: Another way games feel like Pokemon is simply due to the angle. Pokemon has kept this 'over the shoulder, health/stats to the side' style for it's entire lifespan, only ever changing in the 3D games. Obviously other games often have this angle, even non-Monster RPGs. But you can very clearly tell when the positioning of monsters and the menu is meant to replicate Pokemon. 3: Games trying to be like Pokemon also commonly have a 'be the best, beat these totally-not-gym-leaders' structure. Even if becoming the best is a common theme in Monster Collection, Pokemon does it in a very specifically structured way. 4: Evolution is also done in a specific way in Pokemon. Most commonly through levels, but sometimes items, trade, or a couple other specific ways. And they never, EVER, go above 2 evolutions in a linear path, even if it might have branching evolutions. Also worth saying that just because a game is mimicking Pokemon, doesn't make it bad. But they have a much harder time standing out from it and all the other games that try to do the same. And that they don't represent the genre as a whole. If I were to place the games in this video on whether or not they are actively TRYING to be Pokemon, it'd be like this; Animorphs: No. The structure is simply entirely different, along with no types. The formula of Animorphs just lends itself well to collecting animals. Coromon: Yes. Obviously. Types camera position, front and back sprites, evolutions. It's all very blatant in it's inspirations. Grimmline Tale: Of what little there is, no. Pokemon has never had non-turn based combat in it's mainline games. Even Legends Arceus is still ultimately turn-based. I'd compare it more to Ni No Kuni. Ultramon Fight: Well yeah. It's a literal bootleg game. And I've played my fair share of bootleg mobile games. For the likes of both Pokemon and Digimon actually. Monster Legends: Well, no. It's just a generic stock-standard mobile game using monsters instead of whatever else this exact same mobile game format uses, nothing overtly Pokemon about it. As if my long comment wasn't evidence enough, I'm very passionate about this genre. It's my favorite. And I can't help but take videos like these as an opportunity to try and at least explain that, JUST because a game involves collecting monsters, does not make it a Pokemon Clone. I know it's just a standard clickbait title to get people attention on this Pokemon channel, I just wanted to express my thoughts on why I find the mentality that some people genuinely have towards this genre. And if Lockstin ever did do more videos like this, thought I'm sure he'd still title it 'Pokemon-likes,' I'll give my thoughts on the games and whether or not they are actual Pokemon-likes, rather than just games in the Monster Collection genre.

9:20 When your mom sees a Pokémon

6:35 the among us cookie

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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)

Grimmlins Tale actually looks good, hope it gets support

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 👀

Coromon actually does have an exp share! You get it from the knowledge quiz in the library iirc

I’ve seen the Monster Legend game so many times in KZfaq 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

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

Wooo Grimmlins!!! Love that MonGames are getting more love from the PokeTuber world :)

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.

Grimmlins Tale reminds me a lot of the way the manga does pokemon battles, where it's more like a chess match, with the trainers being the King. You can win by slowly taking out the enemy pokemon OR you could knock out the trainer/force them to concede