A month or so ago, during Steam Next Fest, I tried the demo for Coromon and greatly approved of the experience it offered. So much so that I added it straight to my wishlist and actually bought it the day it was released!
I don't buy many games on release day, but I felt that this one was worth it, and it had the added bonus of being one of those "chill" games that I could play after a day of stressful novel writing. (I'm currently writing a Novel-In-A-Month, it's an immature adult comedy sure to illicit a couple of giggles if you find low-brow humour funny and would like to check it out!)
Because I played the demo I had the option to continue on from that save I made back then. But I didn't. I wanted to experience the game fully, right from the start! 😄
So I made a brand new purple-haired Kaelci and began my adventure.
First of all, I discover that my character is not true to me. She thinks that pineapple on pizza is delicious. I beg to differ. 😋🍕
Choosing to ignore this great blasphemy, I say goodbye to my brother -- who had the audacity to beat my high score in a videogame before I left -- and farewell'd my mother as I proceeded to the train station to begin life anew as a Battle Researcher at the Lux Solis Research Headquarters.
As I sign into the office for my first day, I am prompted to choose my difficulty. A feature that was unavailable during the demo was to choose a CUSTOM difficulty!!! So I zoomed to that and made a mix-and-match of "easy" and "normal".
It's mostly set to normal, except when my guys level up they'll have their health and power points restored. 😉 Sounds fantastic to me!
With my difficulty sorted out, it was time to choose my starter Coromon.
Apparently you can actually get a "potent/perfect" (shiny) starter Coromon if you have the willpower to sit there and reload for a couple of hours, but I don't really care. If I find one out in the wild, that'll be great! But I'm not so obsessed that I'll sit there and reload until I get one.
I chose the fire type. Toruga.
With my new friend tucked into my special gauntlet that holds all of my information and Coromon, I was given a lab coat and glasses and led to a map interface and told what was expected of me. I was to become part of this Titan Taskforce and gather essences of the great Titans as I perform my research out in the field.
I was tasked to go to a nearby town to have an essence gatherer installed in my gauntlet so I could begin my quest.
Before going to the next town, I decided I would rather wander through the bushes and capture some Coromon until I had a full gauntlet, and level them all up to at least 8 before even setting foot in the next town.
Something I really like is how I have the ability to choose some of the stats of my creatures.
Coromon basically have two levelling up bars. The normal level up that auto-upgrades their base stats as per normal in a Pokemon-type game, and the Potential level up which gives you 3 skill points to put wherever you wish!
I really like having this bit of choice here. 😁
As you play the game and complete various achievement-type things called Milestones, you can claim points towards promoting your Battle Researcher and getting rewards for each promotion!
I think that's a cool addition to this type of game too, although I'm disappointed that they haven't implemented the Steam achievements system for this too.
I got three of my Coromon to level 8 before finishing up for the day and took them to the nearby health centre to get them all healed up and ready for tomorrow! 😊 I'm not planning on rushing this game, instead I'm planning on taking my time through it and treating it as I would a normal Pokemon game.
I'm the type of person who can spend hours and hours just levelling up my creatures until they're the best they can be and I'm excited to see if there are any other systems later on this game. For example, "shows" or "breeding." That'll be cool. Just some extra things to keep you playing for longer in this monster filled world.
If you're interested in Pokemon-like monster-collecting games, you can find more information about Coromon here: on the Steam store.
I haven't gotten very far in it at all, not enough to leave a proper review or first impressions or anything, but I really enjoyed the demo and I'm enjoying this full release so far too! And I'm planning on writing a few more posts about it as I proceed further. 😊
All screenshots in this post are courtesy of me, 
