Nintendo currently has a lock on the creature-collecting genre, with others trying unsuccessfully to enter the market that sees a new Pokémon game every year. When a franchise has been going as long as that one, players will begin to dissect the game’s core mechanics, with some seeing capturing magical animals from their habitats and forcing them to fight until they pass out as unethical. Pokémon has taken up most of the bandwidth for a creature-catching game in people’s lives, Cassette Beasts is a feast