It was a fun way to look back on what the player had accomplished and relive those memories. In Monster Prom, as players saw new stories and found new endings for who to go to prom with, they unlocked new things to view in the game’s gallery like the polaroid pictures that accompany endings or hidden events. This is present in a few ways but the most obvious one to me is the total lack of a gallery. The last thing worth mentioning about Monster Camp is that it seems to have shipped before it was totally finished. Both options are a fun and refreshing change of pace from the rest of the game.
If the player doesn’t like the presented drink, or just likes to gamble, they can take the mystery box which can contain any drink from Juan’s repertoire and must drink whatever is within, even if it’s a glass of deadly poison. The other option has Juan offering each player individually a choice between a revealed drink or a mystery box. However, other players and AI cursors can push players off their choice, so it’s in a player’s best interest to carefully defend their choice or disrupt another player. In the former, players are given a five-by-five grid of drink silhouettes and must ensure their cursor is over the square of the drink they want at the end of 30 seconds. Drinks are chosen in either a mad shuffle mini game or through a Let’s Make a Deal-type game show. Another reason I liked the drink system was the way players pick their drinks. Every player visits Juan at the same time, so no turns are lost, and it doesn’t cost the player anything to get a drink, so no valuable stats a player might need to woo their crush are traded away. I liked this for several reasons, the first of which was because it allows players to get a fun bonus without losing any progress in their quest for love. Juan, a wizard in training, prepares a selection of potions that can change a number of things in the game, including a player’s name, a player’s stats, and even the rules of the game. Instead, every six turns in Monster Camp sees players visiting a mixed drinks roulette hosted by Juan the Small Magical Latino Cat.
I never cared for the shop, Valerie Oberlin notwithstanding, because it required players to sacrifice a turn and a large portion of their Money stat to interact with, and only gave the player either a small stat boost or a chance to potentially experience a secret ending. Whenever a game I like gets a sequel, I have the same two questions: “how will the new game improve what the first game did?” and “what new things will the sequel bring to the table?” I was delighted to see one of the changes Monster Camp makes is replacing the shop system from the first game with a new drinking mini game. But, I’m here for now, and I think we all need some way to escape the stress of existing in America, so let’s talk about being a horny monster at summer camp. It’s starting to get to a point where, regardless of how the election goes, I might put my reviews on hiatus and spend some time on some political volunteering. And, because there is always something worse, one of the police officers who murdered Breonna Taylor is now suing her boyfriend. In Texas, police assisted in voter suppression by escorting a group of right-wing supporters through a predominantly black neighborhood, making special effort to be near a polling place. Then, during the protests rightfully spawned by this egregious murder, the police attacked a car, beating the woman inside and taking her child to be later used in anti-protest propaganda. A Philadelphia man suffering from mental illness was shot 14 times after his family had called for an ambulance so he could get medical assistance during his episode.
The tragedies continue and at the heart of it is the system that’s supposed to serve the American people. I don’t imagine anyone thought this week in America would go much differently than it has been for months now, but it’s still heartbreaking to see it go that way. If you’d like, I have plenty of other pieces for you to read, or you can just come back next week. If you’re not interested in that sort of thing for whatever reason, or if you’re a child, I think it’s best if you stop reading now. While not sexually explicit, it is certainly salacious. The game I’m reviewing this week is chiefly about romantic and sexual relationships. Before you read any further, I want to give you a heads up.
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