The game includes a decent story, especially compared to others in the monster collecting genre, but what makes Nexomon: Extinction shine is its writing, especially Coco’s lines.

It’s definitely a game best played with the audio cranked up! The soundtrack for Extinction is quite good with everything from bangers like César Tovar Molina’s The Face of Extinction to much more melancholy tracks such as Daniele Coppola’s Farewell. While some of the Nexomon designs could’ve used a little more polish, the vast majority of the 381 little guys look great and are animated minimally, albeit nicely, in battle. The setting is partially post-apocalyptic and broken down vehicles and bones of dead tyrants dot the landscape adding gravitas to events that took place in the game’s history. With graphics that seem like an HD version of a GBA title, and a color palette that is bright with neat glowing color effects where fitting, it seems like a retro style game that’s been ramped about as far as one could expect a 2D title to be. Nexomon: Extinction is a treat for the both the eyes and ears. It’s an interesting opening to a game that doesn’t stray far from the “save the world” trope in the end, but rather enhances the journey right from the start.Ĭoco’s typically spot-on with his criticism, but overall the game is well-written and has an engaging plot. Players’ tamers set off across a mostly open world, where their destinations are dictated more by how difficult the local Nexomon are to battle rather than the story itself or any physical gatekeeping. The design of the overworld seems to be one of steadily recovering from apocalyptic times, but often enough events transpire and the land is shown to be pretty much at the brink of the titular extinction. From this humble beginning, players are introduced to a broken world being terrorized by evil Nexomon Tyrants. Nexomon: Extinction opens with the player taking on the role of an orphan that has finally reached the proper age to become a Nexomon tamer. This second title in the Nexomon series is the perfect sequel to a solid first outing: it keeps the turn-of-century monster collecting RPG charm while adding much-needed modern quality-of-life improvements. Perhaps it was the yearning for something simple after far too many hundred-hour RPGs played back to back, but I happened to track down a physical copy of Nexomon: Extinction the week it released on Switch, and I’m so glad that I did. I’d never heard of the Nexomon franchise until last year, but something about the graphics and the trailer hooked me.

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