The opening subversion of recruiting the beast rather than slaying it was a great twist and set up the future gameplay systems well! All of the character designs are expressively cartoony and their personalities lent them a fun amount of liveliness. The characters having preexisting relationships which are casually incorporated into their dialogue helped bring the city to life!

I also found the gameplay to be very solid, though with the caveat that I think it may have benefited from a Shin Megami Tensei party building approach rather than a roguelite approach. Slaying monsters repeatedly to build up the levels of the team I'd managed to keep alive felt like the most natural gameflow, with the instances of swapping them out creating this worrying sunk cost fallacy for having invested into that beast which was lost. That might just be me needing to unlearn certain predispositions, however. This system could work well as a mandatory nuzlocke, though in that instance I feel the overall party size would need to be expanded to about 6 or 8.

Ultimately, this has some of the most solid rpg combat gameplay of the jam games I've played so far! It's great to see that you were able to have the story and gameplay play off of each other!

I really enjoyed this! The art for all the characters and beasts was great and I found the combat quite enjoyable, if a little difficult. I apriciate theintention of having your party regularly cycle through monsters - I was having the most fun while trading blows in a large fight and filling in the gaps in my line as monsters fell and were replaced. However, it took me a while to kind of click that this was the point, and I was always getting attached to creatures, which made loosing them feel extra frustraiting. same with the loosing of spent beast mana and equipment. Some setting up of expectations in that regard would probobly address any hard feelings because the game loop you are going for is a good one. One final thing; more than once I spawned back at town after being defeated with zero monsters on my team and it felt like a real struggle to build back up - I found myself trying to cheese things by grinding on easy to build a party, allowing myself to get knocked out while setting all my monsters to guard, so that I could spawn back at town with a full party, gear them up and go back in on a higher difficulty.

All in all, a very lovel time! The art was the star, for me!

This was really fun! I liked testing out different comps and playing around with the battle system. I also thought you had a fun and unique setting for the game, with interesting presentation. Good work!

Fun setting and story. I liked the monster graphics, but couldn't fully figure out the combat. Like at first I had no skills before I used the credit to aquire some. But if I wanted new monsters I had to give up the ones I had leveled/learned skills with? Also, the first skill I bought was quake and when I used that on the next level enemies, it barely did any damage? So I just used standard attack. Also on the 2nd(?) level river I was getting beat up by the enemies after some fights even on easy.

Such an incredibly unique setting for an RPG Maker Game! I don't think I've ever seen anything like it, this story feels totally FRESH! The stylized art direction and quirky dialogue makes me feel like I'm playing a motion comic, it's so cool!

Honestly, with RPG Maker Games, the combat is usually what suffers the most, but you made it the focus of your game and it really shines. The beast taming was incredibly fun due to their unique designs and abilities. I didn't realize Aztec Pokemon was something I needed in my life.

And just a small crit, but I think if the levels had a bit more to do besides battle it would really tie the whole thing together. Really great stuff!