Line #58 VideoGame/MySingingMonsters


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:They are yours, and they sing! Need we say more?]]
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4	''My Singing Monsters'' is a 2012 free-to-play world-building game for UsefulNotes/{{iOS\|Games}} and Platform/{{Android\|Games}} developed and published by Big Blue Bubble, Inc. The player collects and breeds monsters, each of which has a unique musical property (some sing, some make drum-like sounds, etc.). There are multiple islands, each with different monsters, and monsters that show up on multiple islands have different sounds on each island.
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6	The game's success allowed for its 2014 Platform/PlaystationVita port, as well as the creation of a 2015 prequel called ''My Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire'', alongside the spinoff games ''My Mammott'' and ''My Pom-Pom'', both virtual pet games featuring said monsters as well as ''Jammer Splash''. A PC port via Platform/{{Steam}} released on March 24th, 2021. Also announced is a multiplayer party game ''My Singing Monsters Playground'' and ''My Singing Monsters: The Board Game'' with the former releasing in November 2021 and while the latter is a [=KickStarter=] project
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8	An interactive live limited series, ''My Singing Monsters Fandemonium'', premiered on March 12th, 2021.
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10	!! This game provides examples of:
11	* AdReward: If you can speed it up with diamonds, you can also speed it up with an ad, 15 minutes for each watched.
12	* ArcNumber: Magical Nexus seems to be associated with the number 18, with that being the level you need to unlock it, and also the level the monsters needed to be to travel to it, among other things.
13	* BattleOfTheBands: What the turn-based "combat" of the Collisingum essentially boils down to, with teams of up to three monsters each, duking it out against other teams of monsters - using their musical talent.
14	* BenevolentMonsters: These monsters are as friendly as they come.
15	* BornAsAnAdult: In the original game, all monsters emerge from their eggs fully formed.
16	** Averted in ''My Singing Monsters: Dawn of Fire'', where all monsters are born in their baby forms. However, in this game, only baby monsters can breed.[[note]]According to Parlsona in the original game, monsters reproduce asexually. But it is still weird.[[/note]]
17	* BossBattle: Not in the traditional video game sense, but attempting to breed the quad-element monsters requires pure luck and certain conditions to be met, much more difficult than breeding monsters with fewer elements. This is [[{{Lampshade}} lampshaded]] in the description of the Boss Monument structure, which consists of all five quad-element monsters depicted together on the structure.
18	** There are the even harder-to-breed Ethereal monsters, with breeding success rates reportedly down to the ''1%'' range.
19	** Also from Dawn of Fire, there are the quint-element monsters (Candelavra, Drummidary, Tuskski, Bowhead, and Mimic). While Candelavra only teleports to Party and Space Islands and Bowhead teleports only to Space Island, thus only needing to be level 5[[note]]Candelavra only[[/note]] or 10[[note]]both Candelavra and Bowhead[[/note]] respectively, Drummidary and Tuskski both teleport to Cloud Island which requires level 15, which takes a lot of patience. And then there's Mimic, who teleports to Cave Island and thus needs to be Level 20 in order to be teleported.
20	** The Fire Quads and Magical Quads count, too as they have a low chance of being bred, and have a rather longer breeding time than the Natural Quads. [[note]]Fire Quads/Bosses take 40 HOURS to breed and hatch, while the Magical Quads take 32 hours.[[/note]]
21	* BribingYourWayToVictory:
22	** You can buy diamonds, which is the currency most monsters require and can also be used to speed up actions such as breeding and baking. However, diamonds just make your game more convenient; it's completely possible to breed every monster in the game for free, although it will take a lot of patience to get Ethereal monsters this way.
23	** Not to mention that earning diamonds is actually fairly easy. You have mini-mines that generate 1 a day and every 3rd and 10th day you get diamonds as a daily reward. Finally, some of the tasks can earn you diamonds, such as breeding certain monsters for the first time.
24	** Currencies such as keys and relics can also be purchased with real money, but they are easily obtainable from the daily login bonus, and relics can be purchased with diamonds.
25	* {{Calacas}}: Clavavera is designed after one if not one outright.
26	* ChristmasEpisode: The Festival of Yay event on Cold Island, where players can breed Yool.
27	** Dawn of Fire's Continent also receives Yay decorations at this time and some monsters dress up. And as of 2023, you can breed Yool as well.
28	* DiscOneFinalDungeon: Earth Island. It used to be a final dungeon of sorts, being the very last natural island. However, there are many more islands after that, whose monsters are generally more difficult to breed than those on the natural islands.
29	* DemBones: Many skeleton-themed monsters: Punkleton [[note]]A skeleton with a pumpkin head[[/note]], Clavavera [[note]]A Dia De Los Muetros-themed skeleton[[/note]], Cybop [[note]]Not really a skeleton per se, but contains a skeletal tail[[/note]], Boodoo [[note]]A monster who wears a skeletal mask[[/note]], Bona-Petite [[note]]A skeletal Wublin with a smaller monster in its ribcage[[/note]], Loodvigg [[note]]A Celestial with a skeletal face[[/note]], and all the Bone-element monsters [[note]] Clackula, Peckidna, Denchuhs, Hawlo, Withur, Uuduk, Banjaw, Plinkajou, Xyster, Osstax, Roarick, G'day, Larvaluss, Mushaboom, and Enchantling. While they all share the Bone element, only some of them appear to be made of bones, namely those on Bone Island.[[/note]].
30	* EarnYourFun: When it comes to ascending a Celestial Monster on Celestial Island into its adult form, at least one egg of a specific Seasonal Monster must be zapped into its inventory. The catch is that you cannot zap Seasonal eggs from Seasonal Shanty, the only island in the game where you can breed for any Seasonal at any time[[note]]the InUniverse explanation for it is that the power generator within Seasonal Shanty interferes with the ability to zap eggs[[/note]], thus requiring the player to wait until the specific Seasonal Monster's associated seasonal event on its associated island and then breed for and zap the egg from there.
31	* EasterBunny: Blabbit. It's a bunny-like monster with an Easter egg as its shell, and it becomes available around Easter.
32	* EasterSpecial: The Eggs-travaganza event on Water Island, where players can breed Blabbit.
33	* ElementalRockPaperScissors: The battles in the Collisingum have the monsters use moves that have elements attached to them, which are strong or weak against opposing monsters based on what elements they have.
34	** Air is strong against Plant, but weak against Earth.
35	** Plant is strong against Water, but weak against Air.
36	** Water is strong against Cold, but weak against Plant.
37	** Cold is strong against Earth, but weak against Water.
38	** Earth is strong against Air, but weak against Cold.
39	** Musical is a neutral "element", that is only found in moves.
40	** If a monster has multiple elements that together contradict what they should be weak/resist against, overall the weaknesses will take priority.
41	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: There are monsters. They sing. They are yours.
42	* {{Expy}}: Several of the monsters.
43	** The Nebulob monster, existing only on the Ethereal Island, has what can be described as the singing voice of Music/EltonJohn during his TenorBoy years, complete with a detectable British accent.
44	** Another Ethereal monster, the Reebro, is essentially a brain on a mechanical platform with mechanical legs, very similar to the [[VideoGame/{{Doom}} Spider Mastermind and the Arachnotron]].
45	** The Dipsters bear a striking resemblance to [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Diglett]].
46	** On a rather meta example, the Sooza from Dawn of Fire looks almost identical to the original game's Pom-Pom, but, [[DontExplainTheJoke you know, with a Sousaphone]].
47	*** Made even funnier by the fact that the game lampshades this.
48	*** The same has happened with Xyster and Ghazt.
49	** Yool can classify as an Expy of Santa Claus.
50	*** Some of Yool's names even reference this, Kris, Kringle, and Santler.
51	** Shugabush and its brethren are all Expys of Kristian Bush of {{Music/Sugarland}}, being the result of a collaboration between the artist and the game.
52	* ExposedAnimalBellyButton: The following monsters have visible belly buttons: Drumpler, Potbelly, Entbrat, Blabbit, Gheegur, Floogull, Thrumble, and Plixie.
53	** Deedge has one in the prequel as a baby.
54	* TheFairFolk: Faerie Island is themed after them.
55	* FanBoy: The Cybop is a huge fan of the Ethereal Jellbilly monster, so much so that Jellbillies ''receive fan mail'' from their Cybop admirers. They do reply to all the fan mail they receive, though.
56	* FinalBoss: Quarrister. It's the last quad-element monster in the natural islands.
57	** Enchantling can qualify, as the last Magical monster to be released, and the only monster with all four Magical elements. And it takes 50 hours to breed and incubate.
58	** In this case, the Wubbox is the TrueFinalBoss. Its egg can only be bought in the Market for 75 ''million'' coins, an extraordinary amount for low-levelled players. Its egg requires 48 hours of incubation time normally, then its [[UnexpectedGameplayChange unique raising mechanics]] requires players to breed one of every regular monster (excluding Ethereals and Legendaries, thankfully) and place each of them in a dormant box that is hatched from the egg. Only after these requirements are met will the Wubbox activate. The Wubbox on Wublin Island qualifies even more, as it requires one of each Wublin. ''Active''.
59	*** Even more so are the Rare and Epic Wubboxes, which require one of every Rare and Epic version of each natural monster. It gets even worse by the fact that these types of monsters only become breedable or purchasable occasionally throughout the year, and even then have high diamond costs and very low breeding chances. This is especially true for the Epic Wubbox.
60	** Amber Island has the Fire Quints, officially known as the Top Bosses. And they take '''80 HOURS TO INCUBATE.''' And they require eggs to share the element they represent, too! [[note]] Candelavra requires eggs of the Fire-Element Monsters in Fire Haven, Fire Oasis, and the Magical Islands, along with the Magical hybrids bearing the Fire Element.[[/note]]
61	* {{Freemium}}: Buying any resource pack (food, coins, diamonds) with real money will make premium structures available. It will also remove the in-game advertisements.
62	* GentleGiant: This trope is named-dropped in the Entbrat's description.
63	* GreenHillZone: Plant Island is the island you start the game on, and is themed after a lush, verdant plain.
64	* HalloweenEpisode: The Spooktacle event on Plant Island, where players can breed Punkleton.
65	* HomeBase: "Seasonal Shanty" is a wooden structure stuffed with seasonal decorations floating along the living ocean, that only seasonal monsters know how to find. Seasonal monsters go to Seasonal Shanty to rest and relax when their respective events aren’t running, or in the case of the migratory Schmoochle and Yool, just want a familiar place to kick back and relax in. It’s also noted that all seasonals drop by during anniversary month to join in the celebrations.
66	* HotSkittyOnWailordAction: You can breed almost any combination of monsters (except for two of the same monster). Leads to some interesting matchups.
67	* InsistentTerminology: Implied in the description of the 'Cold Globe' decoration, "It's not like the element is called Snow, it's called Cold. We're very insistent about it at this point."
68	* InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha: Joining the cast of run-of-the-mill monsters, we have the Wubbox alongside its Rare and Epic counterparts; giant dancing robots that contribute [[{{Dubstep}} dubstep]] to the islands they are on.
69	* InterspeciesRomance: Any breeding pair, since you can't breed two of the same monster together.
70	* LethalLavaLand: Earth Island, the final island, is an area of cracked magma.
71	* LevelEditor: The Composer Island allows you to make your own songs using the Natural monsters. The ''My Singing Monsters Composer'' app, which is a separate app, is essentially in improved version where you can use the Ethereal and Seasonal monsters.
72	* NeverSayDie: {{ZigZagged\|Trope}}. The only mention of death is in Clavavera's bio, which mentions monsters passing on to the Beat Hereafter. Additionally, the Vessels on Amber Island are pretty much urns or canopic jars, although the amber eggs they bear can be rejuvenated and hatched into living monsters.
73	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The Legendary Shugabush monster is based in appearance on vocalist Kristian Bush of the American country music duo Sugarland, including his beard and mandolin. The Shugabush name is a portmanteau of Sugarland and Bush's last name. As noted in RealLifeWritesThePlot, this is a unique use of this trope in that Kristian Bush himself collaborated with Big Blue Bubble in order to create the Shugabush. Shugabush even has other related monsters on their own island, which plays a variation of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqM0M5GY5AI Kristian Bush's song "Love or Money"]].
74	* NonMaliciousMonster: The monsters can't really be classified as mons as they're not summoned and certainly not for fighting purposes, they're friendly or non-malicious monsters. While the spectral class of monsters and the Punkleton, Grumpyre or any other Shadow-Elemental can look a bit 'dark' and the T-Rox might appear dangerous, none of the monsters are harmful or violent even if a few of them might be a bit neurotic. They just want to sing and dance for money, look at interesting decorations, eat what you bake them and pal around with the monsters they're chummy with.
75	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: The Dragong, Furnoss and Carillong monsters, are all designed after eastern dragons.
76	** The adult Glubber may count as well, resembling a Panlong.
77	* OurMonstersAreDifferent: These ones can sing and dance.
78	* OurMonstersAreWeird: Their appearance range from being animalistic, to more abstract and surreal.
79	* OverheadInteractionIndicator: Appears whenever a monster makes a significant amount of currency, breeding/hatching is done, dormant Wublins and Celestials revival time limit expiring, etc...
80	* PachelbelsCanonProgression: Gold Island's song uses a chord progression that is similar to the canon.
81	* PatternCodedEggs: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] in that the eggs not only have the colors, but textures of their respective monsters!
82	* SeriesMascot: The Mammott is prominently used to promote the main games. They even have their own spin-off virtual pet app, ''My Mammott'' as well as plush toys of them among other merchandise.
83	** The Furcorn also serves as the series mascot being on the app of the first My Singing Monsters game, and having its own plush toy as well as other merchandise.
84	* ShoutOut:
85	** Some of Rare Punkleton's generated names are [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy]], [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason]] and [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Mike]].
86	** The Bowgart monster gets its name from Creator/HumphreyBogart.
87	*** It also dressed up as ''Series/SesameStreet'''s Bert one year.
88	** The Mammott is this to BigfootSasquatchAndYeti.
89	** One of the Pummel's Spooktacle costumes sees it dress up as Film/{{Beetlejuice}}.
90	** The G'joob resembles Creator/WilfordBrimley, and it dresses up as Music/JohnLennon during Halloween.
91	** The Roarick is this to Creator/WilliamShakespeare, with its default names coming from his characters, especially those from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', and holds a skull.
92	** The Sweetstreamz Tree's description refers to ''[[Music/{{Eurythmics}} Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)]]''.
93	** The Ockulo Tree's description refers to the Platform/OculusRift
94	** Light Island's Eksboks Path refers to the Platform/{{Xbox}}.
95	** The Luff-Balloons' description refers to ''[[Music/{{Nena}} 99 Luftballons]]''.
96	** The Rare T-Rox's description calls it a "[[Film/JurassicPark clever monster]]".
97	** The Bellowfish has a lot of references to ''Series/BreakingBad'': its description calls it "the one who knocks", its teaser poster is a parody of the logo, its default names are misspellings of names of characters from the show, and a bit more subtly, its elements are Crystal and Mech - a reference to crystal meth, which is prominently featured in the show.
98	** According to its description, Epic Stogg [[Film/MeanGirls keeps trying to make “fetch” happen]].
99	** Mushaboom’s name is derived from the Music/{{Feist}} song of the same name.
100	* SortingAlgorithmOfThreateningGeography: Sort of. The first island can be classified as GreenHillZone. The next 3 islands are in a freezing environment, high up in the sky, and underwater. Then, the final main island is a LethalLavaLand, though no danger is posed as the monsters just sing and dance without anything bad happening to them. The islands that come afterwards generally get more abstract and surreal.
101	* SpeakingSimlish: A majority of the monsters that vocalize do so in gibberish. The [=PomPom=], the Congle (on Tribal Island), the Shugabush, the Rare Wubbox and the Werdos avert this, using actual words when they vocalize.
102	** In the prequel game, Kayna and Furcorn sing English words on Party Island, as do [=PomPom=] and Cybop.
103	* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: Not in the traditional sense, but Gold Island serves as the "final" place for your monsters to stay if you choose to. Celestial Island could also apply in that the monsters there are some of the most difficult to obtain.
104	* UnexpectedGameplayChange: A small difference when attempting to raise a Wubbox. They are not bred, but purchased from the market as an egg. After hatching its egg, you are given a dormant box-like structure that you place on your island. In this state, you place one of every type of monster on a given island into it, or spend diamonds. Once this condition is met, the Wubbox will activate. The Wubbox and its Rare variant were the only monsters that were raised in this way...
105	** ...At least, until the Wublin update, which features a new island inhabited by monsters based solely on this mechanic. However, there are a few differences: instead of the monsters themselves, the Wublins require monster eggs that are bred and "zapped" from the breeding structure. There is also a time limit as to waking up each Wublin, and if you don't zap all the monster eggs in time, you'll have to either pay diamonds to fill in the remaining eggs or start all over.
106	** Dipsters can also count, as they must be purchased with a unique type of currency.
107	** The Werdos, being Parlsona, Tawkerr, Maggpi, and Stoowarb, must be purchased with 100 Relics each.
108	** In Dawn of Fire, there are Celestials which represent each element in the monster world (Plant, Cold, Air, Water, Earth, Fire, Plasma, Shadow, Mech, Crystal, Poison and Supernatural). These celestials must be obtained via a daily login game.
109	** The Celestials were brought to the original MSM game in an update that also adds in Celestial Island. In that game, they start out as statues and require monster eggs to revive them just like the Wublins, but it costs diamonds to buy them, making them even harder to obtain.
110	** The Colossingum takes the game from something you sit back and relax to, and turns it into a turn-based combat mini-game, where you train monsters to sing against other monsters to unlock music tracks for the island, as well as costumes for the monsters to wear.
111	** Version 4.1 added the Ethereal Workshop, an island within the Ethereal Island. Its main highlight is the synthesizing of triple-element Ethereal monsters, and doing so requires attuning the local critters, the "Meebs", to the desired Ethereal elements at the Attunement Structure, which can then be extracted in the Synthesizer to produce triple-element Ethereals.
112	*** On top of that, quad-element Ethereals can also be synthesized, which require a triple-element Ethereal monster with the correct elemental combination to be transformed in the process, along with two aligned Meebs for each of the monster's existing elements and three for the missing one.
113	* ValentinesDayEpisodes: The Season of Love event on Air island, where players can breed Schmoochle and one Rare and Epic a day.
114	* WhaleEgg: Every monster hatches from eggs, whether they are based on birds, reptiles, non-monotreme mammals, or even ''robots''.
115	* YouMeanXmas: Instead of New Year/Lunar New Year, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Earth/Arbour Day, Pride Month, Halloween, Dia de los Muertos, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, the Monster World has Crescendo Moon, the Season of Love, Cloverspell, Eggs-travaganza, Echoes of Eco, Sky-Painting, Spooktacle, the Beat Hereafter, Feast-Ember, and the Festival of Yay. There's also the [=SummerSong=] event, although it's tied to the seasons of Summer as a whole rather than any one holiday, and the Perplexplore, Mindboggle, and Life-Formula events, which have no RealLife equivalent whatsoever.

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