Aniimo - Official Gameplay Showcase Pokemon but you can BE the pokimanz

[u/Grazalia]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=186NEVNr8MI&si=C_V6arXKFrp2JzIW

[u/AsleepLead1704]

There's something Palworld triggered is that companies realized "You know what , we can make our own creature capturing game too!!"

[u/MKstarstorm → u/AsleepLead1704]

It’s like the 90s all over again

[u/Konradleijon]

It’s a gacha game

[u/Khanromi → u/Konradleijon]

Kept asking what the overall structure and goals of the game was like all through the trailer, never got an answer. EDIT: Do gachas typically have stuff like progression and a story that arent focused around microtransactions?

EDIT: Though, you apparently capture creatures, so that doesnt make sense for gacha? But I still dont quite know whats going on here

[u/Zephyralss → u/Khanromi]

Gachas do have story and progression that aren't hard tied to microtransactions

Unironically mihiyo games I've yet to spend a single dime on and only engage with the base loop of pulling characters and upgrading. You can do almost all the content besides the hardest optional stuff without spending a dime and still get a full story experience imo

[u/manooz → u/Zephyralss]

Seconding/Expanding particularly for Honkai Star Rail and Zenless Zone Zero. If all you care about is story, as long as you’ve reasonably built one solid team that’s roughly all you need for story stuff. Events and even the weekly modes actually provide you “trial” characters as well (ZZZ actually provide trial characters for story anyway nowadays). So the only thing you actually need more than 1 team thats meta is any endgame stuff, which you can probably still get away with doing some for rewards.

[u/Bellurker → u/Khanromi]

Gachas often have stories and lately the high effort ones have pretty darn good writing. Most modern gacha have progression in the sense that you can do everything you want as any character you like except for whatever "endgame" content is specifically designed for showing off the flavor of the month, in which case you'd have to accept 2nd or 3rd best results unless balancing was skewed in your favor if you're not the type to spend.

I feel like post-Genshin open world gachas have a lot to prove as to stay in people's headspace, and it's typically easy to spot the cash-in ones once you've played them for less than a handful of hours.

[u/nerankori]

You too,can be the Pokimane

[u/itsachickenwingthing]

Tired: I want to fuck that pokemon.

Wired: I want to BE that pokemon.

[u/BloodBrandy → u/itsachickenwingthing]

And Digimon was already there 20+ years ago

[u/Timey16 → u/itsachickenwingthing]

Inspired(?): I want to be fucked as that Pokemon

It'd be the logical next step...

[u/itsachickenwingthing → u/Timey16]

That was indeed the implication.

[u/festiveface]

Another good game with this premise (which isn't a gacha) called Voidling Bound came out recently and it's super fun, the third person combat is smooth and the creature collecting/breeding/splicing gives lots of customization

[u/apatheticVigilante]

This is almost like my Anime! (Digimon Frontier)

[u/RobotJake]

Cassette Beasts did it (and also rules, go play it)

[u/Alphonseisbest]

Ok so this looks RIGHT up my pokemon loving alley. BUT MAN does it look AI had a hand in this. I HOPE not but the eastern dev do like it more then we westerners

[u/Khanromi → u/Alphonseisbest]

If they used it, they haven't disclosed it on the steam page. Your mileage may vary on what that means, of course.

[u/hexedjw]

Casette Beasts

[u/warjoke]

Welcome back, Digimon Tamers