Crystal Monsters

About

Crystal Monsters is a creature-collecting game where you catch and breed over 160 different monsters. You use the DSi camera to take photos and apply them to three monsters as silly face swaps. Battles are simple turn-based affairs with basic moves and stats. The focus is on building your monster roster and customizing them with goofy portraits. The game’s standout feature is letting you slap real photos on creatures for a silly personal twist. Released in 2010 for Nintendo DSi, it leverages the system’s camera hardware in a way that feels surprisingly fresh for a mobile publisher title. While the gameplay is straightforward, the face-swapping mechanic gives it a quirky charm that’s easy to overlook.