I’m currently playing “Cassette Beasts”. Pretty fun game that takes the pokemon formula, and turns it on its head.
I will not play long and involved 300 hour games. It’s too much. I want bite sized games.
The internet said this game is 25 hours long. Except thats bullshit. There are 130 monsters. I’ve caught 16. I’ve been playing for 17 hours. I don’t know if this game has “gym leaders”. But if they do, I haven’t seen them yet.
I have no bad words about the game, other than the fact that it takes 10 minutes (I timed it) to go from not yet opening the game, to get to a title screen. It also crashes pretty regularly. Meaning you gotta wait 10 minutes AGAIN.
But the point is, I’ve barely scratched the surface of this game, and I’m approaching the time period where most people have beaten games.
Am I just bad at games?
No it’s just a very open game. Probably you just didn’t do the quest that unlocks gym leaders (which is joining the rangers)
Does it matter if you are? As long as you are having fun and enjoying yourself.
But oof… the game crashing and 10 minute load times. Either that game is horribly optimized or you got something wrong with your machine.
cassette beasts is like that™
That ten minute boot time is not normal. Something’s very wrong with your PC, especially if other games or programs have minutes-long launch times.
No, Cassette Beasts has a lot of issues like this. For example, sometimes it instantly drains my entire battery for no reason
Either a dying HDD or their main drive is completely full.
They didn’t give us a reference point of their other games’ launch times, but my first thought was this is a HDD gamer.
An HDD from 1990 maybe. Modern HDD wouldnt load that slow.
The game is loose in terms of goals. There are “Ranger Captains” that serve as a gymleader-like position, but you do not need to complete the ranger challenge to finish the game. If you focus on each arch-angel challenge, you can finish the mian story. I believe each companion character should lead your right into an arch angel. The rest you have to sort of explore and discover.
I have no bad words about the game, other than the fact that it takes 10 minutes (I timed it) to go from not yet opening the game, to get to a title screen. It also crashes pretty regularly. Meaning you gotta wait 10 minutes AGAIN.
I just started up the game now and it took 20 seconds to load into the title screen and then less than 3 seconds to load into a saved game. It sounds like you have some other issue causing the slow loading.
According to howlongtobeat.com, a leisurely pace takes about 28 hours to beat it. If you’re particularly slow, you could probably take a good amount of time more. That doesn’t mean you’re bad at games though, especially since this type of game can be played very slowly since it’s turn-based and there’s nothing pushing you to play fast.
Play at whatever pace it takes you to enjoy whatever it is you’re playing. As long as you’re having fun, you’re doing it right.
It’s a single-player game. Just worry about having fun.
Shot in the Dark with lyrics slaps IMO.
Like Chimeras slaps with lyrics.
Is that the song that plays in the cafe? Thats the only one I’ve heard with lyrics. I’m getting sick of that song, just because sooooooo much of the game is go out, fight, come back to the cafe. Repeat.
So you hear 30 seconds of that song over and over and over. It has the same effect on me that radio songs before the 2000s did. You just never want to hear it again.
Then you’re just sitting on the toilet like “I’m certain…I’m certain…”. Then you get mad that now you’re singing the song.
That song is interesting.
I didn’t like it too much either when playing the game because of how repetitive it got.
But then I finished the game, and months later I found myself missing it. It’s kinda a sad song that doesn’t really hit until it’s been over for a bit. Now I listen to it every now and then.
The cafe song is “Where Do We Go Now” and it is in fact lame. “Shot in the Dark” is the boss theme when you combine.
I liked the cafe song the first time I heard it. I was also high and very relaxed. By the 10th time hearing it in an hour it had lost it’s charm.
I swear I’ve heard the song you linked, except without the lyrics.
Why are you going back to the Cafe so often though?
Because my creatures are mostly dead after 2-3 battles in the wild. So you go out, have a few battles, and then cafe to rest. I’m over here at level 23, and still getting killed by level 9 creatures over a few battles.
You did. When you combine the background battle tracks get lyrics.
I dunno who “the internet” is but HLTB says 54.5 hours for “completionist”, which sounds like what you’re describing.
No need to rush, you are playing for yourself.
Enjoy the game at your own pace.
The time to beat a game is generally for the main story if you don’t take ages doing other things. Quite often with side quests or other non essential steps like collecting things or trying to 100% a game it will take way longer then the estimated time to complete. This is epically true for more open-world type of games with lots of places to explore.
10 mins to get to a title screen sounds like a red flag without having actually played it myself
Assuming you’re playing on PC, have you got it installed on an SSD rather than an HDD? Some games really don’t like being run from an HDD these days
Yeah, my Starfield installation with a few hundred (probably conflicting) mods doesn’t even take 10 mins to load. Presumably, Cassette Beasts isn’t a couple hundred gigabytes, either.
I’d throw my hat into the “full HDD” ring for OP.
I have no clue what OP is playing on, but I just booted it up on Steam Deck and got to the title menu in 75 seconds, and I shit you not 15 seconds of that was actually downloading an update and I didn’t restart the timer.
Maybe OP is playing it off a cassette player like on C-64 ;)
If you’re playing like a completionist it’s more like 54hrs!
I’m always wildly over the HowLongToBeat hours when I’m done with a game. I care more about if I’m having fun playing rather than hours taken.
No? No. You’re just taking your time in your own pace.
Howlongtobeat also rate Deathloop 16.5 hours to beat, yet i took 38 hours to reach the ending for the first time. Some goes for Monster Hunter Rise, they said 23.5 hours for the main story but so far i spend 28 hours to reach high rank. Why? Because i took my sweet time to enjoy the game. It’s your game, don’t rush it if you like it.
I always seem to take at least twice the stated play time to finish a game. Yeah, I think I’m just a bit slow. But if I’m enjoying myself, no stress. I’m playing baldur’s gate at the mo, 140 hours in and I’ve only just started act 2.
Wow I’m not alone lol… I’ve got about 120 hours in BG3, and still in Act I. Haven’t played the game in a while though
you’ve made it to act 2?
Yeah just recently. Never played this type of game before but I’m really enjoying it.
Cassette Beasts took me about 40 hours to beat and close to 60 hours to fully 100% (though I did play on the hardest difficulty, which slows the game down A LOT). You’re just taking your time and that’s fine.
I personally didn’t experience any crashes or incredibly long loading times… it ran just fine for me. What are you playing it on?
Retroid Pocket Flip 2.
Which is the exact same hardware as the Retroit Pocket 5. Just in a different shell/form factor.
So the android version?
Nope. I got the game for free from Epic Games some time back. I use a program called GameNative to play PC games on android.
This is critical information that should be included in the op. You’re jumping through a few hoops here on a comparably weak pc device. No surprise you’re having these issues, sorry.
Thought so. Your startup time and crashes are almost certainly attributable to running it via gamenative rather than the game itself. By not including that detail in your post you’re being pretty unfair to the developers of the game IMO
I’ve tried playing this game via GameNative on an AYN Thor myself because I thought a handheld would be perfect for this kind of game. I’m on the steam version instead of Epic, but I can confirm that there’s a monsterous load time when playing the PC version through GameNative. Subsequent launches were faster, especially after I lowered a setting in the menus regarding how it loads data from disk.
But even then, I had a lot of broken textures and models and semi frequent crashes too. I really recommend playing on traditional hardware for the time being.
GameNative has been actual witchcraft for a bunch of games, I’m playing Mina that way myself right now. But yeah for whatever reason, Cassette Beasts isn’t playing nice with it yet.
