Yet another game that wants to be UnderTale but lacks the self-awareness to do so. The game's description is "The original idea was to tell a somewhat cliche RPG story with one critical change: You play as the monsters," and boy is that painfully accurate. The actual plot has very little to do with the monsters, and is mostly just a standard RPG Maker RPG except sometimes some humans are racist at you. There's no explanation for why humans and monsters are at war or how any of the characters feel about it. Monsters are still races of hats with no explanation given for why or how that works. Even the "you can't enter human towns" schtick is almost instantly forgotten; in the first town you go to, there's a big deal made about how you have to wear disguises and can barely understand the language, but in every town after you can prance around wherever and perfectly communicate with everyone. It even botches the one thing I was looking forward to, which is exploring how nonhuman biologies influence everyday life -- the merman character at one point says that he prefers saltwater, but almost immediately afterwards he jumps in a pond and talks about how great the freshwater quality is. The monster cast is only a gimmick, not anything with serious thought put into it.

Oh, and yes, you go around killing monsters to level up (and humans, while bemoaning how persecuted and misunderstood you are). There's a similar handwave to HEARTBEAT's that they're "less civilized", so remember kids, racism is wrong except when it's totally right.

Gameplay is decent but runs into all the RPG Maker pitfalls: random encounters, tactical roulette, terrible graphics. I was initially interested by how you had no healing skills and had to rely entirely on items, but once you get your final party member he turns out to be a healer, so nope, they just made the tutorial way harder than the rest of the game for no clear reason. I would give it points for not handing out full heals before bosses, but they also give you a skill that regenerates MP for free, so resource management doesn't exist.