While the primary draw of the Pokémon franchise has always been the monster creatures like other media in the monster-collecting genre, human characters do play a notable role in the franchise from the beginning: in the main series games, you play as a human trainer of Pokémon, battling other human trainers including your rivals, Gym Leaders, Elite Four, Champions and villains. In some games, you also occasionally team up with other human trainers in battles. However, the main series Pokémon games do not have any dedicated companion and relationship mechanic with human characters.
+While the primary draw of the Pokémon franchise has always been the monster creatures like other media in the monster-collecting genre, human characters do play a notable role in the franchise from the beginning: in the main series games, you play as a human trainer of Pokémon, battling other human trainers including your rivals, Gym Leaders, Elite Four, Champions and villains. In some games, you also occasionally team up with other human NPC trainers in battles. However, the main series Pokémon games do not have any dedicated companion and relationship mechanic with human characters.
Conversely, human relationships are a major focus in Cassette Beasts both in story and game mechanics: you are accompanied by a companion character throughout your adventures in New Wirral, with 5 out of 6 of the potential partners being humans; each companion character has their own story and quest for you to explore; each have a relationship level that can be raised by gaining experience points with them, and higher relationship levels make you stronger when you fuse in battle.
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@Despite some attempts to tell more developed stories with more dialogue and cinematic cutscenes, as of Scarlet and Violet, none of the main series Pokémon games have any voice acting in their dialogue.
-Conversely, Cassette Beasts has voiced dialogue. Even though the amount of voiced dialogue in Cassette Beasts is limited, voice acting helps to bring the characters to life and add more character to the game.
+On the other hand, Cassette Beasts has voiced dialogue. Even though the amount of voiced dialogue in Cassette Beasts is limited, voice acting helps to bring the characters to life and add more character to the game.
It is more notable when you remember that being an indie game, Cassette Beasts could have completely avoid adding voice acting to save development budget, but the developers added it anyway.