I played most of the way through Palworld before I started putting anything in the LP thread, because of... well, exactly what happened there near the end. I had to make sure the damn game would work for the length of a Let's Play before I posted anything. Not so with Cassette Beasts. It's not Early...

That's the end of the tutorial, so let's talk about the monsters so far. http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassette/lp_cb_0121.png #014 Candevil , the "pastel horned devil" Candevils possess the peculiar ability to generate sugary sweets from their bodies, which can be used as gif...

http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassette/lp_cb_0114.png Music: Wherever We Are Now We rejoin our heroes back in Harbourtown, in the Gramaphone Cafe. Kayleigh : A lot happened at that train station... I guess we should probably talk about it. Prompt : "About the 'Archangel'..." ...

http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassette/lp_cb_0104.png Except, by pure luck on my part, I have a wall up. Call For Help only works half the time. I have no control what monster shows up, no control over what moves it knows, and no command over which of its moves it uses during the turns...

http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassette/lp_cb_0092.png Music: Same Old Story Boss theme time! Morgante is level 100. We wouldn't have a hope in the world, except... well, she was already defeated and broken apart. Her HP is down to a sliver of her maximum, so maybe we can plink it away ...

http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassette/lp_cb_0080.png Music: The Stations Underneath Got an establishing shot but scaling it down might make Kayleigh's line too hard to read. It's: Kayleigh : Is this... a train station? It should be OK to take a look around, right? http://nosimpleway.b...

http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassette/lp_cb_0070.png As I get close to the broken path, there's another tremor. Be it seismic activity or monster activity it makes Kayleigh nervous, but I'm more concerned with that snake over there... http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassett...

http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassette/lp_cb_0054.png Having been introduced to the basic battle mechanics, random encounters start showing up. They appear on the map, and running into a monster starts a fight with that monster and often some other monster that lives in the area. So th...

http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassette/lp_cb_0040.png Leaping into the water shunts me back to shore. There's no swimming. http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassette/lp_cb_0041.png As I proceed along the linear path, Kayleigh stops me and points out a nearby bat... thing. Kayl...

http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassette/lp_cb_0030.png Kayleigh forks over the Ranger Handbook on her way out of Dr. Pensby's office/clinic/house. Trying to read it tells me I should talk to Kayleigh first, because it's a review item for the tutorial I haven't finished yet, but an Eleme...

http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassette/lp_cb_0025.png Kayleigh : I'm Kayleigh. Nice to make your acquaintance, snalligator! Portraits for speaking characters change emotes based on which line of dialog they're saying but I don't have artwork for it. So transcribed dialog gets everyone'...

http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassette/lp_cb_0010.png http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassette/lp_cb_0011.png Music: Cross Your Heart Before anything else can happen, the redheaded girl runs over to start the first game tutorial. ??? : Hey, stranger! Don't make any sudden mo...

Part 1 : Just Follow Your Eyes Music: Title Theme Hell yeah, that's right. Palworld barely had background music at all, but Cassette Beasts has a freakin' amazing soundtrack. The title theme is an acoustic-guitar rendition of a couple of the game's leitmotifs that we'll be hearing later on, because...

http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/cassette/lp_cb_0001.png Okay. So we've had a good look at a pretty poor, dull example of monster-collecting that managed to be surprisingly popular based on *checks notes* the potential for unrestrained animal cruelty. Let's refresh the palate a little, sh...

Consider that real-world mushrooms are masses of hyphae that exist underground or weaving their way through the matter they're absorbing nutrients from, and that the structure we think of as a "mushroom" is just the fruiting body growing from that fungal mass. Myconids are basically just b...

All of that is true of pre-revival Family Guy. Post-revival Seth MacFarlane is out from the writing team, only returning to do the voices. The writing team lost the majority of its talent right then, and the remaining team felt like they had Protection vs. Editors, so now you get references and thro...

The Dark Element http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/palworld/hoocratessmall.png http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/palworld/depressosmall.png http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/palworld/daedreamsmall.png http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/palworld/noxsmall.png http:/...

The Neutral Type http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/palworld/lamballsmall.png http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/palworld/cattivasmall.png http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/palworld/chikipismall.png http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/palworld/vixysmall.png http://no...

The Grass Element http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/palworld/lifmunksmall.png http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/palworld/tanzeesmall.png http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/palworld/gumosssmall.png http://nosimpleway.brontoforum.us/letsplay/palworld/flopiesmall.png http://n...