Maybe Baron will come back and provide a little more detail, but this is literally the only impression of it I've read on GAF. Not encouraging. :/
You guys want Monster Loves You impressions? Alright, here's what I have to say.
Monster Loves You is basically a digital choose-your-own-adventure game with RPG elements. You play as a monster from birth to (possibly) death, going through incidents throughout your life, and choosing how you approach them. Most decisions you make impact at least one of six stats: Kindness, Bravery, Cleverness, Ferocity, Honesty, and Respect. The first five of these stats can be increased or decreased throughout your whole game, and in the later stages, your level in them affects your ability to achieve certain options, much like skill checks in Fallout. The Respect stat is introduced later, and getting a high level in this stat allows you to get to the final stage more easily.
Each stage lasts a certain number of in-game days, and each day, you make pick one incident to live and decide through.
At the end of the penultimate stage, your stats are weighed, you have a last few decisions to make, and then you either move on to the last stage as an Elder or die. Thankfully, it's not hard to get to the last stage at all.
The last stage has you interacting with humans and other Elder monsters, and your actions affect each group's perception of the other. At the end of this stage, the perceptions are weighed, you make a last few decisions, and then your decisions determine the fate of monsters and humans. The end.
There are fourteen endings to get, and a playthrough lasts about forty-five minutes. The game is entirely text-based, and plays out much like a children's storybook. With that in mind, my only gripe with the game is that there are times where you have to choose between something clearly stupid and something clearly smart, and then ask you to choose between them immediately. It doesn't really allow you to use your own brain much in that regard.
I enjoy conversation trees, so I found this game enjoyable, but I'm skeptical if others on GAF would. It has the sensibilities and tone of a children's book, after all. It's clearly aimed at children, though, and it's not a bad game for them.
