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 :(
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
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.
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)
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.
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.
Andrew is probably because the japanese way of writing Andrew looks like its saying "relief dragon" which fits the japanese naming conventions of dinosaurs.
No, it's because vivosaur names are shortened versions of the actual animal's name, and animals often have scientific names named after real people. Andrarch is based on the Andrewsarchus, a carnivorous artiodactyl.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
...I had TH-cam on in the background as I was playing Pokemon Shield and this was like the 3rd video that played... I guess TH-cam really is listening to us, even our Pokemon battle music.
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 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.
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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'.
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 :)
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 😂
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
I'm a little miffed that you said Fossil Fighters was stealing from Fossil League. Both games' rosters are based on real life animals, and rig-sharing is a great way to optimize the development of a AA handheld game with 3D graphics. Not to mention that the fantastical vivosaurs have a bit more montamer star power than unadorned realistic animals, and rig-sharing was also a great way to include a ton of dinos from the same families and reimagine their kits with different typings and status effect specialties. Cool video; thanks for talking about pre-indie boom montamers; you forgot Spectrobes. Good luck on your next project👍
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"
I guess I missed the point of the video, I thought this was gonna start all the way back at megami tensei and Dragon Quest 5 then get to pokemon and move on from there.
I FORGOT THAT FOSSIL POKEMON EXIST LMAOOOOO
Lel
Back in the day my friend used to throw Invizimals cards from the school 2nd floor and watch the other children fight for them
@@NicoEdgyholy shit, invizimals fan in the wild!
Specrubs was the shit when I bought it at a discount for my Nintendo
dw about it they're dead
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 :(
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
This sounds really fun actually. I might have to give this game a try
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
15:58 YO-KAI WATCH MENTIONED‼‼‼
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.
Bro me to I love that game
@@MythicMachina Cassette Beasts mentioned!!! I ADORE that game so much and similarly recommend it 😊
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)
Tamogatchi is a monster catching game, but you catch them by buying them at walmart
@@teathesilkwing7616 That's just alpha Pokémon
Yeah monster rancher does this too, you battle with your monsters that's like the whole point of why you're owning them
Wait how did this come out before the palworld shitstorm 💀
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.
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.
At least the recolors are actually different from the original both in battle prowess and origin instead of shines like Pokémon
You missed out on the PEAK of yo-kai watch designs, the ones from Y academy where theyve got ghost-possesed superheroes fighting aliens
1:43 Hey! Don't say anything bad about my two babies again!
You can continue with the one in the right thought
Andrew is probably because the japanese way of writing Andrew looks like its saying "relief dragon" which fits the japanese naming conventions of dinosaurs.
No, it's because vivosaur names are shortened versions of the actual animal's name, and animals often have scientific names named after real people. Andrarch is based on the Andrewsarchus, a carnivorous artiodactyl.
i like the part where you're laughing about actual real life dinosaurs it's so funny
After rewatching this, i can confirm that it's better now that I know you're a monotized youtuber
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
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.
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.
The DQ Joker series would have fit in this video.
DDS:Megami Tensei did it first, not DQV
Quilladin is incredible take it back, take it fucking back now
i do also hate crabominable though, crabrawler deserved better
It's too bad she missed Spectrobes, haha
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.
I just got this video in my recommendations and all I gotta say is geez you're underrated. New sub 👍
2:15 now THIS is EPIC
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
Little did everyone know, johnny would go on to become legendary.
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.
Not even a competitor. It was "Tamagotchi for boys" made by the same company and all
...I had TH-cam on in the background as I was playing Pokemon Shield and this was like the 3rd video that played... I guess TH-cam really is listening to us, even our Pokemon battle music.
I’d love to see a pokemon designed to look like a toilet. The rage from pokemon fans would be priceless on its own.
most the guys from telefang look like theyre from spore
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.
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!
@@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.
like it or not, johnny is peak male performance
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
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.
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
Origins was a sequel
@@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.
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
I love you for talking about telefang, it deserves more atention.
I'm really surprised there weren't any Medabots, but good video, lady Melody
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.
I love how the video suddenly turned to y'all just making fun of random dinosaurs
All shall fear..... Andrew
1:20 that's one of my local news stations
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
Damn medabots not getting any love hurts
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.
YOOOO I PLAYED FOSSIL LEAGUE SO MUCH AS A KID THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING IT
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
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.
Otoda Master is another mongame worth looking into because of its use of the Nintendo DS microphone to catch monsters
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
13:13 THIS DINOSAUR GOT THEM DENIMS!
I LOVE YO-KAI WATCH SO MUCH
I'm genuinely so pissed you just skipped over and ignored Medabots ;-; like come on, that series is actually peak
i asked around a lot and no one suggested it back then
@@MelodyNosurname NOOOOOOOOOO 😭
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.
Invizimals is fire for real! It was very popular in Spain, you should take a look at it
disappointed to see no mention of megami tensei
i love melody checks out dinonaurs
why did I search up blue waffles...
I FUCKING LOVED SLUGTERA!!!!!! RAHHHHHHHH I need to rewatch it. THEY SHOOT MAGIC SLUGS AS BULLETS IN ACTUAL GUNS??? why
i no longer trust you Ms, nosurname (don't look up up blue waffles)
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.
This was a banger
6:23 he probably cuts it and stabs it then eats
Digimon character design is WILD
Then again a Digimon I feel is in this weird zone between being a Pokemon and being your Stand
Crystal Monsters on DS was a thing too. Anyone else ever play it?
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.
Yooooo easydog is sick as fuck
I used to watch the yokai watch anime with no conception of the game existing
6:33 easydog is literally just the worm dude from scarlet/violet wtf
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
seeing y'all just freak out over genuine dinosaurs is the funniest shit ever
I like the art style of the thumbnail
I forgot slugtera existed until now... (I have a slugtera toy😭)
why did the bordar flip at 10:30 and go back at 10:47???? i think thi sn an arg guys..
Underrated video
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
I love your channel
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'.
your minds are impure
MEDABOTSSSSSSSSS!
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 :)
IT WAS CALLED MONSUMO??
I was looking for it for the past 5 years
Thank You
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
Lady, what about Dragon Warrior Monsters? It's basically Dragon Quest's version of Pokemon for GB/GBC, and it's really great!
The goblins have awakened
Lessie sent me
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 😂
I posted the razor picture years ago when I was a child.
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
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
BEYBLADES ARE ALIVE THEY HAVE FEELINGS HOW COULD YOU BE SO CRUEL
oh my god the Invizimals mention reminded me that I have so many Invizimals fighting cards, those were the shit back in elementary school
Haha so funny
0:52 i feel attacked 😭 (although i can name ~95% of the pre gen 8 pokemon)
i remember slugterra and that shit slapped
A pity you didn't bring up the original monster tamer games: Megami Tensei (later Shin Megami Tensei) and Dragon Quest V.
What about SMT?
I'm a little miffed that you said Fossil Fighters was stealing from Fossil League. Both games' rosters are based on real life animals, and rig-sharing is a great way to optimize the development of a AA handheld game with 3D graphics. Not to mention that the fantastical vivosaurs have a bit more montamer star power than unadorned realistic animals, and rig-sharing was also a great way to include a ton of dinos from the same families and reimagine their kits with different typings and status effect specialties.
Cool video; thanks for talking about pre-indie boom montamers; you forgot Spectrobes. Good luck on your next project👍
i thought that was an obvious joke a
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"
I get it :)
In all seriousness, though, Fossil Fighters was my JAM as a kid!
Take a shot every time you hear Japan Only
I guess I missed the point of the video, I thought this was gonna start all the way back at megami tensei and Dragon Quest 5 then get to pokemon and move on from there.
it was originally called "Pokemon Rip-Offs" but i received threats so i changed it
0:23 Well, have you had curry?
12:00 time to update the list?
The unrelated things made me remember gormiti. Funny dudes.
Tella fangs just look like spore creatures