With 2016’s Beast Seeker Stories for the 3DS, Capcom changed its real-time beast searching collection right into something significantly various: a vivid turn-based monster-collecting RPG. Regardless of the plain adjustment in tone as well as gameplay, Stories provided a brand-new point of view on the Beast Seeker world, making it a pleasurable option to the mainline collection. Its follow-up, Beast Seeker Stories 2: Wings of Damage, quite complies with the layout that the initial 3DS video game collection, as well as in spite of some repeated components, it’s an additional strong spin-off for the franchise business.
Like its precursor, Beast Seeker Stories 2 professions beast slaying for beast gathering. As opposed to casting you in the function of a seeker, the video game places you in the boots of a recently established biker– a person that has the ability to develop bonds with beasts as well as combat together with them. While you’ll still require to hound lots of beasts throughout your trip, you’ll invest the majority of your time checking out dens as well as gathering brand-new “monstie” friends that you can increase as well as take right into fight. This makes Beast Seeker Stories 2 basically closer to Pokemon than to a conventional Beast Seeker title, however the video game plays out a lot in different ways than Nintendo’s monster-catching collection.
Foremost is the method you gather beasts. As opposed to subjugating wild ones, you acquire brand-new monsties by getting in beast dens as well as collecting their eggs. These turn up arbitrarily each time you laid out right into the overworld as well as largely been available in 2 selections: basic dens, as well as gold “uncommon” dens that normally consist of much better eggs. Despite their kind, the dens themselves are all rather fundamental in regards to their designs; past some periodic branching paths (which normally simply cause optional prizes), there are no actual ecological problems to fix, so they’re not especially engaging to check out by themselves. Regardless of this, the attraction of finding brand-new type of eggs never ever ages as well as makes travelling with dens eventually rewarding, specifically as you proceed with the tale as well as start running into cooler beasts.
Along with routine beast dens, each significant location in the video game likewise includes a handful of bigger dungeons called Everdens. These are far more labyrinthine than basic dens as well as house some special prizes such as uncommon eggs as well as Container Caps, which can be traded for unique things as well as upgrades like boosted storage room for your monsties. These upgrades make Container Caps amongst one of the most useful products in the video game, however they’re not as pleasing to discover. Like routine dens, Everdens do not provide much range, so they wind up sensation samey as well as aren’t especially satisfying to browse. In addition, many thanks to their winding paths, you’ll frequently strike numerous stumbling blocks prior to you at some point find the beast nest, which eventually makes Everdens even more of a task to check out than routine dens.
After you have actually gotten an egg, you can take it back to the stables as well as hatch out a brand-new monstie. Relying on the egg’s rarity as well as weight, the monstie you acquire will certainly flaunt various genetics, which identifies what abilities as well as strikes it will certainly have the ability to make use of throughout fight. These genetics are vital if you wish to obtain one of the most out of your monstie, as well as they end up being a type of mini-game unto themselves. If you straighten 3 genetics of the exact same shade, you’ll accomplish a bingo benefit, which perseverance up your monstie also additionally. You can likewise pass genetics in between monsties with a procedure called the Ceremony of Channeling. This supplies a pleasing quantity of versatility in exactly how you personalize your monstie’s abilities, as well as it really feels compensating to play about as well as develop brand-new mixes.
Your monsties largely been available in usage in fight. Unlike the mainline collection, experiences in Beast Seeker Stories 2 are turn-based. While there are essential weak points as well as benefits to think about, fights largely focus on 3 various kinds of strikes: power, rate, as well as technological. Each kind has a benefit over an additional: rate bests power, power defeats technological, as well as technological gets rid of rate. The essence of fights, after that, ends up being identifying which kind of assault the opponent beast will certainly make use of as well as switching in the best monstie to counter it. It’s a basic yet gratifying system, as well as the video game maintains it fresh by often presenting brand-new type of beasts with various assault patterns to fight.
The tools you make use of likewise play a vital function in battle. Defense likewise come under 3 selections: reduce, puncture, as well as blunt. This opens up an extra layer of approach. Various components of a beast are at risk to a certain kind of tool, so you’ll require to switch out tools often throughout the program of the fight as well as target particular components to deal one of the most harm. Strike a component sufficient times, as well as you will at some point damage it, triggering the beast to go down a product as well as fall over. While a beast is susceptible on the ground, each assault you land will certainly deal crucial damages, as well as you can also stop some beasts from releasing their best strikes by damaging a particular component of their body. These creases make fights really feel continually satisfying, as well as the video game flaunts some great quality-of-life attributes, such as the capacity to fast-forward computer animations as well as also finish fights versus lower-level enemies right away to reduce the work.
Past their in-battle capacities, each monstie can likewise execute a specific activity while you ride them out in the area, which will certainly assist you get to some or else unattainable locations; the Yian-Kut-Ku, as an example, can wreck rocks that are obstructing the course, while the Tigrex can climb up ivy-covered wall surfaces. Nonetheless, these riding activities are disappointingly underutilized throughout the primary journey. As opposed to opening brand-new paths to check out, these abilities are normally made use of to get to remote depository, whose materials are frequently underwhelming. Therefore, the area abilities really feel mainly unneeded as well as do not truly include anything to the experience.
The weakest aspect in Beast Seeker Stories 2, nonetheless, is actually its tale. While the story is absolutely much more engaged than a conventional Beast Seeker video game, it mainly remains within JRPG tropes as well as is rather foreseeable therefore. The tale likewise alters towards a more youthful target market, as shown by Navirou, your cartoonish, wise-cracking Felyne buddy. Considering that your character never ever talks, Navirou uses up the majority of the discussion in your stead, as well as he often straddles the line in between adorable as well as aggravating. That claimed, the tale does bring up some motifs that the mainline collection never ever checks out, such as the apparently inappropriate worldviews of seekers as well as cyclists, as well as it’s loaded with amusing as well as touching minutes.
In General, Beast Seeker Stories 2: Wings of Damage is a pleasurable Beast Seeker spin-off as well as a well-rounded strong JRPG, especially if you appreciate video games like Pokemon. While the title keeps several of the collection’ trademark components, its focus on beast gathering as well as its enjoyable turn-based fight system make it a distinctly various experience than Beast Seeker Increase, one that also those that have actually had a hard time to enter into the appropriate Beast Seeker collection can appreciate.
