

You can also give them food before your capture attempt to increase your chances, but not all Nexomon like the same foods so you can have to pick wisely. Speaking of getting more monsters, when you enter a battle you will need to weaken them enough so the catch rate is higher. The other benefit is that if you want a new Nexomon for your team, those caught in the wild are at only a few levels under you, so you will be able to level it up in no time. You can’t just spam one Nexomon and try to breeze through but instead have to build a team and keep them all around the same level to keep winning battles. This prevents boredom but also makes it more challenging. Trainers, wild battles, everything is all based on your level, so no matter where you go you will be fighting stuff on a similar level to you. My favourite feature is that everything in the world levels up as you do. I would 100% recommend mining EVERY shard you see so you’re never left short when wanting to create a core. To collect shards you have to smash stones filed with multi-coloured gems that are scattered around the world. Each core is created from an amount of shards of varying types. Each Nexomon can hold 4 cores at any one time. To assist you with levelling up you can create an item called a Core which grants a perk, such as gaining extra EXP. They pick more effective moves and this makes it fun to battle them and keep it challenging. The Tamers will have a diverse team and actually switch to a different Nexomon smartly. It’s good if you want to try and level up or build up cash, but you can also avoid pretty much all of them if you’d rather not fight them again. You can also heal your team after the battle.Įvery Tamer you come across you can re-battle if you walk in front of them again after a certain amount of time. You can use items to heal up during battle but you can’t attack in the same turn. This makes it tougher as you might need to switch at a bad point to counter the type disadvantage.

If you are fighting a Tamer, once you KO a ‘mon the battle continues, meaning you have no option to switch before fighting the next member of their squad. It is all turn based so you do not need to rush in picking your move. When you enter a battle you will have 4 moves you can pick from and use. You will either come across another Tamer that you can fight or you can fight wild Nexomon. So, I guess you want to know about battling. Each of the 9 starters are “Ultra Rare” but there are also “Common” “Uncommon”, “Rare”, “Mega Rare” and even “Legendary” ‘mons. Also, different Nexomon will have different rarity. If you are about to go into a battle, you may want to focus on a certain element to give you a better chance of winning. As you can imagine, different types will have advantages over others, for example Fire will beat Plant, Plant will beat Water and Water will beat Fire. Unlike Pokemon, there are no dual types here. He is hilarious and at times has actually made me laugh out loud with some of the things he says.Įach Nexomon has a certain element or type Normal, Fire, Water, Plant, Electric, Mineral, Wind, Ghost or Psychic. He talks for you but will also break the fourth wall every now and again to take the mickey out of the RPG tropes. To assist you, you have a companion called Coco. You will have to work a few things out yourself but it is simple enough with common sense. There isn’t much hand holding during your journey. I guess I had low expectations when beginning this as I love Pokemon and assumed anything else would be second rate, but I have got to say it is a brilliant plot and just makes you want to keep playing. It is an epic and glorious story and the flow is so amazing. You then start to adventure across the world, battling people to restore order. I decided to go for the cute fire kitty, or as my son called it when he chose it for me, “the orange one”. You don’t need to worry too much which one you pick as you can still find all these starter Nexomon in the wild. You have been brought up in an orphanage and it is time for you to leave and join the Tamers Guild on your journey to become the world’s best Tamer.Īs soon as you begin, carnage occurs as a massive dragon and mysterious person turn up and offers you one of not three, but NINE different Nexomon, one of each type that this game has to offer.

You play as a silent protagonist, who you get to pick from various different avatars at the beginning your journey. I am a big fan of Pokemon, so I had to jump in and give this one a go. Nexomon: Extinction is a Pokemon-esque game where you catch and tame monsters called Nexomon.
