Lenna's Inception
Lenna's Inception is the game Bytten Studio developed before Cassette Beasts. Cassette Beasts has multiple references to characters and events from Lenna's Inception. Lenna's Inception also has several references to aspects of Cassette Beasts.
References in Cassette Beasts
Returning Characters
Lenna appears in Cassette Beasts as a secret optional boss in Brokenhead.
The Traveling Merchant in Cassette Beasts is implied to be the same Traveling Merchant from Lenna's Inception. He mentions having given his shirt to a woman in need, which is a reference to the item trading side-quest in Lenna's Inception.[1][2]
Design and Name References
- Cat-5 was initially designed as an homage to the Archangel Catsiel, Cat-5 being a cat with a screen on its head similar to Catsiel being a cat with a CRT on its head.[3]
- Pyromeleon's design was based on the Pyromeleon monsters from Lenna's Inception.[4]
- Archangel Mammon shares its name with the capitalistic-themed character from Lenna's Inception, Chairmon Mammon.
References to Cassette Beasts
Diary
An obtainable book called "Diary" (with corrupted letters) discusses an event that is likely lore of Cassette Beasts.
Author(s): ???
2020-02-15 15:30:41
Welp, it won't be the Alpha Centaurians finding the 17th book. Last month the spacetime capsule stopped beaming signals home from the Oort cloud. No official word from NASA yet, but amateur astronomers are absolutely going nuts over it!
What they're saying is that signals from the capsule red-shifted away out of view, as if it crossed some kind of event horizon. So it didn't just crash into a rock! What's even weirder is that after it vanished, something much larger blue-shifted into the same spot.
There aren't any clear photos of it yet, but the people who have been studying it have been accused of stockpiling cassette tapes. I'm getting worried...
2020-03-07 16:16:21
The first blurry pictures are showing up on social media. There's a lot of disagreement about what it is. I think it looks like... No, that's insane.
I'm keeping my Skullbeak tape close. I know it won't help, but it makes me feel better.
2020-04-20 16:20:52
People are calling it the Object, but it's pretty clear now that it's a train... hurtling through space in a cloud of glass shards.
It's arriving at Earth on May 11th... but there's some uncertainty because its speed isn't constant — it's periodically changing speed and direction by jettisoning reflective objects and wooden doors. Weirdly, the total mass of all the objects it has thrown out is more than the object itself could have carried. So just what are we dealing with? A new archangel?
2020-05-11 20:19:11
It IS a new archangel!
Grab your cassette player, it's time to transform!
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Train
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References
- ↑ "Don't let my lack of a shirt discomfort you — I traded it to a young woman who gave it to a bear a while back. Let no one tell you I ain't dedicated to the cause of distribution!" - Traveling Merchant (Cassette Beasts)
- ↑ "Oh that briefcase would be very useful for carrying my goods... You want something in return? Hmm... How about my shirt?" - Traveling Merchant (Lenna's Inception)
- ↑ "Cat-5 was designed very early on as a sort of homage to a boss monster from Bytten Studio’s previous game, Lenna's Inception. The game featured a cat with a television for a head, and Cat-5 is kind of carrying on that tradition!" - Cassette Beasts: Artbook, page 8.
- ↑ Pyromeleon was designed first - and is once again heavily based on a monster from Lenna's Inception - with Salamagus coming after." - Cassette Beasts: Artbook, page 13.
