Nintendo Switch Has a New Pokemon Clone Game to Play

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For fans of the monster-catching RPG genre, there's a new game in town by indie developer TRAGsoft. Coromon—very similar to early Pokemon games—is now out on the Nintendo Switch.

After dropping a Coromon trailer and demo back in January 2020, the game finally released on Steam at the end of March earlier this year. Eschewing the aesthetics of modern Pokemon games, Coromon is more of a throwback to the Game Boy Pokemon games, with retro pixel graphics and the older style of menus and user interface.

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While the developers intended for the Nintendo Switch release to happen simultaneously, it ended up delaying the release. The reason it gave was that it had run into some issues with online features and cross-platform multiplayer and wanted to make sure that it released a great game. It seems that while the issues took some time to iron out, TRAGsoft was finally happy with the results and felt that Coromon was ready for the Switch.

There is definitely already a market for a game like Coromon. The Pokemon franchise is hugely popular, garnering millions of players and fans from the mainline video games, to spinoffs like Pokemon GO, to the TV shows, and even the physical merchandise. The games have progressed from their early art style, and in some cases from the early gameplay as well. Coromon can draw in players who are fans of the old-school Pokemon games' aesthetic, and keep them by doing some of the gameplay aspects differently from Pokemon. For example, players can adjust the difficulty setting to give themselves more of a challenge, which is something that Pokemon players have wanted for a long time.

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