When comparing Always Sometimes Monsters vs Doom & Destiny, the Slant community recommends Doom & Destiny for most people. In the question“What are the best Android RPGs?” Doom & Destiny is ranked 21st while Always Sometimes Monsters is ranked 48th. The most important reason people chose Doom & Destiny is:
Doom & Destiny is very well written. Full of references, humorous dialogue and excellent satire of RPGs.
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Pros
Pro An interactive tale of morals
The player is given many choices throughout the game, should they do something good or do something bad. Each will have their own outcome, of which will influence later parts of the game.
Pro Great storytelling
Doom & Destiny is very well written. Full of references, humorous dialogue and excellent satire of RPGs.
Pro Beautiful
Doom & Destiny has a colorful, detailed aesthetic.
Pro Fun gameplay and hilarious dialogs
Cons
Con Depressing to play
The overall narrative of the game tends to frame the player as some form of loser. Despite all the choices the player is given in the game the outcome tends to be one of two scenarios that are either sappy or flat out sad, neither of which given any sense of fulfillment or happiness.
Con More interactive story than RPG
This game is more or less and interactive story with branching choices. Despite being made with RPG Maker and defining itself as an RPG it plays at best as a casual RPG that leans more towards a regular adventure game.
Con Translation errors
With a game that's heavily focused on storytelling grammatical errors are quite noticeable.