Spectrobes: Origins

Spectrobes: Origins

Released2009
Spectrobes mixes monster battling with a real-time action RPG experience, so you'll not only be managing which critter is out on the field and attacking, but also running your main character around and participating in combat the feels like a mix between classic action battle mechanics and something like Monster Hunter lite. Different weapons allow the human leads to change up styles and elemental attacks, so you can have a leaf-based blade, an electric gauntlet, ranged cannon weapons and heavier bashing melee attacks. As you progress through the game not only will your Spectrobes gain levels, but your humans will as well. It's a constant balance of progressing not only your main character, but also all of your monsters too. Tie in a search and excavate system for finding new fossils with new Spectrobes and you've got a mechanic that is addicting enough to keep the experience moving; even if the levels themselves aren't always the most inspired areas to trek through.
70Wit Score

Details

DeveloperGenki
PublisherDisney Interactive Studios
ReleasedAugust 18, 2009
StatusReleased
GenresRole-playing (RPG)Adventure
ThemesActionScience fiction
PlatformsWii Wii
ModesSingle playerCo-operative

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About This Game

Rallen and Jeena, two young patrol officers, are pulled through a dimensional portal into a distant star system currently being overrun by an army of Krawl. The only weapon capable of fighting them is the Cosmolink—an ancient device that summons Spectrobes, creatures that must be excavated from fossils and raised by the players to reach their fighting forms. With Krawl commander Krux expanding his campaign across the system, Rallen and Jeena must find and evolve enough Spectrobes to stop him before the last inhabited worlds fall.