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October 2014
My Singing Monsters
This free Vita game takes a similar approach to many mobile games. It uses the following structure: create monster, wait for it to generate funds, use funds to build or upgrade monster, wait for upgrade or gestation, make more money with your better monsters, wait; repeat 5,000 times. I normally find these games unbelievably un-fun and stay far away from them; the skill required basically involves waiting or spending real money - neither of which are real skills.
However, this game has one main thing going for it - all of the monsters you create (breed and hatch, actually) have a different musical part in a song. I found it tempting to get more monsters in order to hear more. There are also multiple levels, and each monster will have a different tune depending on which level they're on.
For the life of me I'm not really sure why I got sucked into this particular game, but I did. It's a little embarrassing, actually!