Playing Nexomon at the moment, and man does that scratch that pokemon itch, still in early access but still has a lot of content and cool monsters, also a fan of the humor, can’t wait to get home to play some more.
I personally won’t call it a ripoff, but I can see how it can be seen as such. there are A LOT of similarities, but I like all the things that it does different/better than pokemon, I like the monsters, even the ones that are a bit silly like an electric nexomon that is a computer mouse with a USB tail, but is also an animal like mouse, with ears and everything.
I like the graphics and animation. I like how you encounter monsters, the “tall grass” does not mean there is a monster in it, only if the grass is moving is there a monster, which I find better than in pokemon.
And many other things that I really like so far, so personally I would call it Pokemon inspired, but not a total ripoff. Perhaps like how Paladins is like Overwatch, if you have ever played that.
A bit lost for games at the moment, the fact that both Torchlight 3 and Last Epoch are getting whipes is making it hard to play them, cannot invest much in them.
I finally started playing Lords of the Fallen… and deleted it after about 4 hours. The combat is crap.
I’m now trying to get into WatchDogs 2. It seems quite different from the first game if I remember correctly so struggling to find my way. I loaded up an earlier save rather than playing through the intro again so finding my way is a bit harder.