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Game Overview

Onegai Monsters is one of those weird, charming N64 RPGs that never made it outside Japan—which is a shame, because it’s got this oddball energy I love. You’re basically wrangling monsters like some kind of magical zookeeper, but the battles actually make you think instead of just mashing buttons. The creatures are all these goofy, low-poly designs that somehow ooze personality despite the N64’s blocky graphics.

At first I thought it’d just be a Pokémon clone, but there’s something about the way you have to balance their weird little quirks—like how some monsters refuse to fight unless you’ve fed them first, or how others randomly fall asleep mid-battle. The menus are all in Japanese, but if you’ve played enough RPGs, you can kinda fumble through it. Just expect a lot of trial and error figuring out which blob-shaped critter works best against the angry mushroom enemies.

It’s janky, it’s obscure, and I absolutely spent an hour trying to catch a monster that turned out to be useless. Still weirdly addictive though.