Monster Sanctuary @ EGX 2019

<p>Another game I was pretty impressed by was a game published by Team 17&comma; famous for the Worms series of games&comma; called Monster Sanctuary&period; This was by far the most indie looking game&comma; but there is a very good reason for that and don&&num;8217&semi;t let it put you off&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Monster Sanctuary was developed by one man&comma; meaning every asset of the game albeit graphics&comma; design&comma; music&comma; programming were all created and put together by Denis&comma; with only his younger brother Anton helping him with the story&comma; which is mighty impressive considering what the game is all about&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;149187" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-149187" style&equals;"width&colon; 478px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-149187 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;10&sol;28185553&sol;bsi0we2&period;gif" alt&equals;"Monster sanctuary exploration" width&equals;"478" height&equals;"267" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-149187" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Explore different terrain&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>According to the game&&num;8217&semi;s website&comma; &&num;8220&semi;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;kickstarter&period;com&sol;projects&sol;1286599243&sol;monster-sanctuary-monster-taming-metroidvania">Monster Sanctuary<&sol;a> is a monster-taming RPG with party-based combat and Metroidvania-like exploration&period; New monsters provide additional strategic options in combat and allow you to overcome obstacles to explore new areas and find hidden treasures&period; The turn-based combat focuses on team synergy and combos&comma; distinguishing Monster Sanctuary from other popular monster collecting games&period;&&num;8221&semi; In a sense&comma; imagine Pokemon and Final Fantasy had a baby with replayable areas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Each monster you collect has a unique ability&comma; which can be used outside of battle to reach new areas or unlock new items&comma; as you can select one to follow you&period; You can choose 3 monsters to fight with out of the 6 you carry&comma; making use of their abilities and types to be more effective against certain enemies&comma; whilst strategically using status moves such as heal during battle&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Each monster gains experience and levels up with their own &&num;8216&semi;tech tree&&num;8217&semi; of skills&comma; both active and passive&comma; almost giving you the choice to follow a class system per monster&period; As the game is 2D&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s a platformer style but with turn-based battles taking place inside the levels&comma; almost a completely opposite style to the Pokemon series&period; The only real issue for me is that the game feels very floaty&comma; where jumping seems to go on for too long&comma; however that&&num;8217&semi;s perfectly reasonable at this point as the game is currently in Early Access on Steam&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;149190" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-149190" style&equals;"width&colon; 479px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-149190 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;10&sol;28185754&sol;BtVXlkz&period;gif" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"479" height&equals;"267" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-149190" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Winning a battle and hatching a new Monster&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>As Monster Sanctuary is in Early Access at the moment&comma; any players who are part of the Steam Community are making their suggestions and giving criticism which is being looked into by the developer&period; It may be a slow journey&comma; but already a lot of changes have been made based on what gamers themselves have commented&period; Overall the game has received very positive reviews and even has a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;store&period;steampowered&period;com&sol;app&sol;814370&sol;Monster&lowbar;Sanctuary&sol;">demo available on Steam<&sol;a> so anyone can download it and try it out now&period; You can pick up Monster Sanctuary for 25&percnt; off until November 1st if you enjoy it&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;149238" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-149238" style&equals;"width&colon; 482px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-149238 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2019&sol;10&sol;29161420&sol;MfdebXJ-1&period;gif" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"482" height&equals;"269" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-149238" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Typical Monster battle&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;