Of course, you can't just train your monster into the ground: they need regular rest, food at the beginning of every month, and in Monster Rancher 2 they'll even demand to play a snowball fighting game. In Monster Rancher 1, a cartoon panel displays a fairly basic animation that reveals whether your monster is successful or not, with success leading to those oh-so-important gains. By selecting specific tasks for your monster, you can raise stats such as power, life, speed, and intelligence, all of which make them more capable in battle. Unlocking that monster type through gameplay will allow you to discover what that song ended up holding, and a record of the songs you've tried out is available, even if it doesn't track which monsters came from which songs.įor those unfamiliar with Monster Rancher, you play as a Monster Breeder, and one of your primary objectives in both games is to win all of the major tournaments. The exception to this is when the song is attached to a monster that you don't have the credentials to raise. Upfront, I can say that the disc swapping element has been replaced with a fairly smart process no disc drive required! Now, you simply type in a specific song or artist-from the game's extensive and up-to-date database-select the song you want to use, and out pops a monster.
Battling against a friend was another fun part of the game, especially given the variety of monsters and methods for raising and training them up.
I remember spending hours going through our parents' music collections and making labels for every CD to indicate which monster was contained therein.
While the monster training and battling are fairly rudimentary (at least on the surface), one of the most appealing aspects of these games was the ability to insert music CDs into the PlayStation console to produce different monsters. As someone who didn't grow up with an original PlayStation and only played these two games at a friend's house, the forbidden fruit that is the first two Monster Rancher games is a bit overripe with age, but there's just enough polish on these ports to make them worth a pick up, if more so for fans of the series.Īs the title suggests, Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX bundles together the first two Monster Rancher games, which originally came to North America in 19, respectively. On the heels of the Pokémon remakes and Shin Megami Tensei V comes a veritable diamond in the PlayStation rough: Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX, one of my most anticipated releases since its announcement. Switch has seen no shortage of titles this year that feature monster/creature/demon raising and battling.
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