Pussymon 13

Brutemon Invasion, right. That's the name of this update, and honestly, the whole thing feels like the dev's personal notebook spilled into the game. You can see the seams where they're rebuilding the elemental chart. Removed all the strengths and weaknesses for now. Just... gone. So my carefully bred Slimepuss with the perfect nature? Yeah, useless in that sense. It's like they handed me a half-built engine and said "drive." And I did. Because the new areas are weirdly compelling. The sound design, or lack of it, is a choice. Some areas have this looping, almost hypnotic drone that made me forget I was supposed to be catching things. Then a battle starts and it's just the same sharp, tinny hit sound from episode one. It's jarring in a way that loops back around to being funny. Voice acting? Don't make me laugh. The Pussymon make these little grunts that sound like someone recorded their cat falling off a couch. It adds to the whole unpolished charm, I guess. There's a new boss fight with a creature that has this multi-hit thrusting attack, and the animation for it is so janky, the frames skip, but the sound effect is this wet, slapping rhythm that's... effective. I'll give it that. I spent way too long in the new quest hub, which is just a repainted cave with some NPCs who talk like they're from a bad forum roleplay from 2004. One of them, a guy obsessed with a specific Pussymon's "grip strength," sent me on a fetch quest. The reward was a new animation for a creature called Fleshgait. The animation itself is a looping scene where it uses its... appendages. Very enthusiastically. The visual design of the new Pussymon is where the game shines, even with the rough art. There's one that's basically just a floating pair of lips with a tail, and the way it wobbles during its idle animation is hypnotic. I wish the quest log was less of a mess. You get a new objective and it just appears in a text dump, no clear markers. I got lost for twenty minutes trying to find the "Glistening Grove" which turned out to be a single screen with a different shade of green. The Brutemon storyline is getting somewhere, I think. Something about an invasion. I skipped most of the text to get to the new catchable monsters. The cheats from the Patreon are almost necessary to skip the grind, especially with the elemental chart being broken. It's a glorious, horny mess of a project, and I'm already wondering what they'll break next month.

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