{"id":26893,"date":"2026-05-27T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=26893"},"modified":"2026-05-14T11:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:45:58","slug":"lumentale-memories-of-trey-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/27\/lumentale-memories-of-trey-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"LumenTale: Memories of Trey (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Back when I was writing game reviews for The Dallas Morning News in the late 90s, I was designated as the resident Pok\u00e9mon expert.\u00a0 This was back during the initial boom, so I was writing Pok\u00e9mon articles left and right.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to say that Pok\u00e9mon helped pay my way through college.\u00a0 But it also meant that I was reviewing a lot of similar games, too, such as Digimon, Monster Rancher, etc.\u00a0 So it\u2019s always interesting when I get to review another monster battler.\u00a0 In LumenTale, Memories of Trey, you play as Trey, a young man who has lost his memory.\u00a0 A kid finds you passed out in the woods and carries you back to professor\u2019s house.\u00a0 They decide that to help you get your memories back, you should become a Lumen, who captures and trains monsters (called Animon) to fight and help out people.\u00a0 And so that\u2019s what you do!\u00a0 The game is available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

In the game, you view things in a top down perspective with 2D pixel sprite characters on 3D backgrounds.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of a lot of PS2 games, but it still looks good in a nostalgic way.\u00a0 In town you can talk to people and gather supplies, and when you are ready, you can venture out into the wild.\u00a0 When you see an Animon, you can throw out a hologram ball to capture it.\u00a0 You have to physically aim it and play a timing button press game to increase your chances of capturing it.\u00a0 If you do catch it, you can use it in battle.<\/p>\n

If you run into an Animon you\u2019ll have to battle it.\u00a0 These play out in typical turn-based fashion.\u00a0 Because of this, the battles weren\u2019t too engaging for me.\u00a0 Also they explain some things in tutorials that I somehow forgot or couldn\u2019t pull off in subsequent battles, like scanning monsters for weaknesses or capturing them during a battle.\u00a0 Outside of battle, you can also customize and decorate a virtual space for your Animon to live and train.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I had a hard time getting into this one.\u00a0 The battles were not very engaging and since this game is heavily story-based, it starts off very slow.\u00a0 But if you really like games like Pok\u00e9mon and Digimon, you might want to check this one out.<\/p>\n

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LumenTale: Memories of Trey is rated E for Everyone with ESRB descriptors of Alcohol and Tobacco Reference and Mild Fantasy Violence. I didn\u2019t really notice any alcohol or tobacco references, and monsters just run into each other and blast them with magic and they just disappear into sparkles when defeated.\u00a0 One thing I did notice is that there is quite a bit of light cursing in the text.\u00a0 Because of this and the high level of reading skill involved and the complexity of the game, I\u2019d say this one is best for older kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back when I was writing game reviews for The Dallas Morning News in the late 90s, I was designated as the resident Pok\u00e9mon expert.\u00a0 This was back during the initial boom, so I was writing Pok\u00e9mon articles left and right.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to say that Pok\u00e9mon helped pay my way through college.\u00a0 But it also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26895,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26893\/revisions\/26895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}