Similarly, the handful of merchants and other NPCs you meet color the world, but none of their banter is very exciting or leads to anything resembling a storyline. Both games’ opening cinematics shed light on how a divine force sealed monsters in disc stones (i.e., CDs), but these bits are just background and don’t influence how the games unfold. Unlike its spinoff anime series, you don’t save the world, fight evil, or do much of anything other than collect, raise, and battle monsters here. With that said, don’t look to Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX for a compelling narrative. Does Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX capture the magic of the original games? For this nostalgic ’90s kid, absolutely! Though you now use an in-game CD database to generate monsters, this collection revives two classic RPGs and covers them with a coat of polish that makes their novel monster raising and collecting systems more accessible and addictive than ever before.
In a bid to give Pokémon a run for its money, Monster Rancher and its sequel boasted hundreds of unique monsters, each with their own stats, abilities, personalities, and colorful appearances.įast forward to 2021: Koei Tecmo brings enhanced ports of Monster Rancher and Monster Rancher 2 to the Switch. Monster Rancher’s trademark feature revolutionized the monster-collecting genre in the late ’90s: when you inserted just about any CD into the PlayStation, the game would generate a new monster for your raising, collecting, and battling pleasure. To my family’s dismay, I was hogging them - and countless others - to create new, game-changing monsters in Monster Rancher. Was nine-year-old me using said console to rock out to these albums? No, not even once. These were among the many CDs stacked up against my PlayStation in 1997.
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