![]() ![]() Still, for all of its fan service, flat art style, and one-dimensional characters, Monster Monpiece is still worth checking out if you're craving a deep, nontraditional card battler. But the inarguably trashy card enhancement mechanic holds it back from more mainstream appeal. The tactical elements are robust and challenging enough to secure Monster Monpiece a cult-hit status on the Vita. Unfortunately, the First Crush <3 Rub really takes away from Monster Monpiece as a whole. It's a great way to unlock the potential of your deck, but it's also a great way to be branded a pervert by anyone who sees you in action. This, unfortunately, provides a nice boost to the card's stats. If you succeed in sussing out each girl's preferred erogenous zone, you'll trigger an Extreme Love Mode where you must rub the front and back screens of your Vita furiously in an up-and-down motion. Tawdry, yes - but it's also a puzzle of sorts. This is fan service of the most base and puerile order, but even here there's a challenge as each girl responds differently to different touches on her body.Ī gentle poke on the shoulder might increase the gauge for your sexy Death Scorpion girl, but your Kobold might need a pinch on her thigh to level up. When you tap, rub, or pinch the right zone, hearts pop up on the screen and the monster girl moans or gasps in pleasure - urging you on with cries of "sugoi sugoi!" Unlike many CCGs, Monster Monpiece requires you to engage in sexy touch-based sections where you turn your Vita vertically and begin scanning over the prone, nubile bodies of each monster girl. There's some really deep stuff here, and each battle feels like a challenging puzzle waiting to titillate your tactics-loving brain.Īs with other CCGs, you have to level up your cards as you go to be competitive against later decks. Except that healers can use their fixed MP to recover the HP of the card in front of them.Īs you progress, you'll learn to fuse (combine) similar cards to increase their power on the board, and you'll soon plan your moves by three-card aura tricks in order to turn the tide of battle. This sounds simple enough, but Monster Monpiece is deeper than it looks.īuffers add their intelligence stat to another card's attack, so they're a natural back-rank buddy for melee types. The goal of each battle is to make it to your opponent's edge of the board (red) and attack their stronghold. You're limited to deploying your cards in a 3 x 3 grid on the left side of the board, (green, above) and each character will move forward and attack if the path in front of them is clear. Like other CCGs, you collect a fixed amount of mana each turn and use it place a single card into play. And you use them in a grid-based battle against your opponent. But there's a clever twist to Monster Monpiece's fantasy bestiary.Īll of its creatures are sexy, scantily clad monster girls.Įach girl falls into one of four basic card types - melee attack, ranged attack, healer, and buffer. There are Kobolds, Death Scorpions, Tiamats (yes, plural!), and Skeletons. The fact that Monster Monpiece tells it through dry, interminably long cut-scenes with static artwork doesn't help draw you in, either.Īs you wander about, you'll soon cross paths with familiar fantasy monsters. It's a story that's been told several times over, often by better writers. You have to collect monsters, evolve them, and send them off into battle against one another. You're a young girl setting out on a journey in a cursed land. When it comes to art and story, Monster Monpiece is about as by-the-numbers as you can get. I haven't even gotten to the part where you furiously masturbate your Vita in an attempt to undress the characters in the cards to level them up. Instead, the cards animate when they're placed on a table and engage in a deeply satisfying, lane-based strategy battle that plays like Go mixed with Plants vs Zombies. Sure, there are cards and - yes - you collect them, but you don't just flop them on the table and compare stats to see who wins. But Monster Monpiece isn't your typical CCG. Your average collectible card game has a difficult job standing out and attracting players in the post- Hearthstone world. ![]()
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