My Singing Monsters

Feed Me!

Overview of total food required to grow a Level 15 monster

I've been a bit curious to find what the maximum level was is My Singing Monsters. After literally 2 weeks of just baking food to feed one T-Rox constantly, it turns out it's level 15. I currently have all 4 Islands and 2 Green Crystal Mines, so I'm not lacking for monsters to generate cash, or bakeries to create food, or crystals to speed along the process, but even so, it took what seemed like an eternity to reach the max monster level. And it's costly process. Below is the required food ( and in-game money) required to reach that goal:

Level		Amt (Food)		SubTotal (Gold)
1		5		20
2		10		40
3		20		80
4		40		160
5		80		320
6		160		640
7		320		1,280
8		640		2,560
9		1,280		5,120
10		2,560		10,240
11		5,120		20,480
12		10,240		40,960
13		20,480		81,920
14		40,960		163,840
15		81,920		327,680
Total		163,835		655,340

"It's wafer thin!"

In other words, it would require a Turkey (1,000,000 gold), a Pie (500,000 gold), and 2 Pizzas (75,000 gold per Pie) to get enough food to reach Level 15, for a grand total of 1,650,000 gold to get just ONE Monster to Level 15. This is why I usually stop around Level 9 for monster upgrading. I'm stuffed.  

Proper Breeding in My Singing Monsters

No Need To Send Your Monsters To Etiquette School.

We are talking about breeding monsters found on the Cold Island in My Singing Monsters. Each island in MSM features some new monsters only found on specific islands, just to keep you on your toes.  The following chart just contains monsters not found on the original starting island, Plant. So without further ado, here ya go:

Monster		Island		Breeding/Combo		Level		Coins/Min		Max Coins
Tweedle		Cold		Air		9		14		288
Dandidoo		Cold		Tweedle+Potbelly		9		29		2,160
Quibble		Cold		Tweedle+ToeJam		9		22		1,620
Pango		Cold		Tweedle+Mammott		9		29		1,728
Spunge		Cold		Dandidoo+ToeJam		9		43		20,736
Thumpies		Cold		Tweedle+Furcorn		9		50		20,563
Congle		Cold		Pango+ToeJam		9		43		25,920
Deedge		Cold		Multiple		?		?		?

Once again, the correct breeding of the four element monster, in this case, Deedge, eludes me. In general, I stop feeding my monsters after Level 9 as the cost is so prohibitive, and for some monsters, like the Tweedle, the return in investment i.e. Max Coins, is minimal and just not worth it.

My Kingdom For An Entbrat!

Going insane, for free, in My Singing Monsters.

I really enjoy playing My Singing Monsters. It's fun, off-beat, and challenging. And yet, it's driving me nuts. I cannot, for the life of me, get the correct breeding combo that produces an Entbrat, which is THE El Supremo Singing Monster in MSM. Possible combinations I've used, with no success, are:

Clamble + Toe Jammer

Blowgart + Noggin

T-Rox + Potbelly

Pummel + Mammott

Shrub + Maw

Fwog + Furcorn

Oaktapus + Drumpler

Am I missing any combos? Anyone? Buehler? Anyone?

"No brown M&Ms, I said!"

On the plus side, however, I finally got a Clamble. It's stats are:

Monster		Island		Level		Coins/Min		Max Coins
Clamble		Plant		9		65		13,478

So I got that going for me, which is nice.

Making Money With Monsters

A look under the hood into some of the money-making stats of monsters in My Singing Monsters.

Making cash in My Singing Monsters is no different than most other feed-breed-upgrade monster farming simulation. The more money you have, the cooler the stuff you can buy with it. Below is the breakdown of cash creation stats for the Plant Island Monsters in MSM:

Monster		Island		Level		Coins/Min		Max Coins
Potbelly		Plant		9		27		130
Noggin		Plant		9		43		130
Toe Jammer		Plant		9		17		216
Mammott		Plant		9		33		216
Shrub		Plant		8		47		768
Oaktopus		Plant		9		45		2,160
Furcorn		Plant		9		45		1,620
Fwog		Plant		9		54		1,620
Drumpler		Plant		6		36		864
Maw		Plant		9		43		2,160
Pummel		Plant		9		72		13,478
Clamble		Plant		?		?		?
Bowgart		Plant		9		50		13,608
T-Rox		Plant		9		72		15,552
Entbrat		Plant		?		?		?

The Mammott is the last monster you can create that does not require cross-breeding. After that, you need to start cross-breeding to create hybrids. Once you get to the Pummel, breeding gets even more complicated, as you need to successfully cross breed using a hybrid, which increases the number of potential combinations, and only one combo is the correct one. As you can see from the question marks, I still haven't gotten the right combo for the Clamble or Entbrat. The Entbrat in particular will be a challenge to breed, as it requires the right combo of two hybrids, which makes for breeding permutations that gives me a headache.

My advice would be to get to a Furcorn, Fwog, or Maw as soon as possible to start raking in the cash. Once you've bread a few of those, it's a pretty quick trip to get the 500,000 coins required to build the Green Crystal Mine, and unlock more islands. 

Note: The column titled "Coins/Min" refers to the number of coins per minute a monster will produce.

Musical Mutants

The only thing missing? Monster groupies.

No cavities.

In an App Store filled to the brim with a bajillion variations of the monster/dragon/zombie feed-n-breed ilk, My Singing Monsters stands out as a brilliantly quirky and creative take on a tired sub-genre. The concept is simple: you breed various monsters, each of which has a specific audio talent. Cross-breed them to create new musical mutants. The monsters come in all varieties, from percussion to strings to vocals. With every monster you add a new element to the tune being played. Add more monsters of the same type to increase their particular sound, or mute them to create a new take on the tune. 

There are three primary resources at your disposal to grow your band; gold coins which are produced by the monsters, food, which is made in the bakeries, and green diamonds, which are the defacto freemium resource you might be tempted to use real money on. Feed monsters food, and their level increases, which in turn increases both the rate and amount of gold coins they will produce. I'm not sure what the level cap is for monsters - I have a Level 11 Maw (think pink bean bag with a mouth and a voice like James Earl Jones) that shows no sign of maxing out, except he requires a pant-load of food in order to level up - 20,480 food for this level, and each subsequent level doubles the amount required to increase to the next level. But as a Maw is a relatively higher level creature, he produces a lot more money, and quickly. So if you want the cash to buy cool stuff, you must feed the beast.

"We're putting the band back together!"

Beyond just the sheer fun of listening to the monsters sing their tune, and uncovering what exactly a T-Rox sounds like, there are layers of fun waiting to be discovered and reward players. The Time Machine building? Genius. A mine to gather green diamonds instead of paying real money for them? Thank you very much, Big Blue Bubble. Additional islands with different tunes and different monsters? Here you go. It's a great game that is superbly executed, and a hoot to play.

Win, Place, or Show?

Having a bit of a minor dilemma over what game to focus on next. Also, from My Singing Monsters to World of Warcraft in one paragraph.

Miscellaneous/Micro-Review

At the moment, I'm simultaneously playing My Singing Monsters, Jurassic Park Builder, and Restaurant Story, with moments of Farmville 2, as well. Deciding on a focus is proving difficult as each has some quality that keeps me coming back hour after after. Monsters is outright musical, silly, fun, Jurassic has a really robust set of missions and realistic (for a theoretically improbable zoo) sim feel, and Restaurant Story is mostly sheer stubbornness on my part - I want a diner that still runs smoothly when I'm asleep. Then there's Farmville 2 - a game I swore I'd never play again. But the more I play, the deeper I find the gameplay. As soon as I unlocked the 'crafting' house in Farmville 2, it was all over. As a reformed crafting junkie from World of Warcraft days, turning apples into scones via the right combination of ingredients was all I needed to hook me.

UPDATE: I'm going with My Singing Monsters for my next review. I just unlocked a whole new island with a different song, monsters, etc. Plus: a Time Machine. Really.