Post by Aim on Dec 10, 2005 0:14:46 GMT -5
I've always been a fan of the series myself, and in my past experience, the PS2 games are usually very good and longlasting titles. In these games, you breed a variety of literally hundreds of unique monsters, from the small, yellow one-eyed Suezo to the beatiful fur-clad Pixie; from the tiny cat doll Mew or the adorable spongy Mocci to the giant rocky Golems and huge, winged dragons. Furthermore, each game comes with an element to further advance the uniqueness of your monster; Monster Rancher 3 comes equipped with habitual adaptions where your monsters adapt to their climate and change appearance. Monster Rancher 4 has an enormous reserve of monster fusions, created by combining two monsters to produce another monster with similar traits of the two (Suezo+Golem=Yellow Golem with eyes all over his body). Graphics tend to be amazing, and these things have unlimited lasting power, unless they become defective or something of the like. You can take on a friend in two player matches, and you work through a decent storyline in the campaign. Perhaps the most unique function of the games is how you go about collecting monsters. To make new monsters:
a) Collect a stone on an adventure.
b)Fuse two monsters or allow yours to adapt to an environment.
c) The PS2 can actually read any other PSX, PS2, or music CD and generate a unique monster from it. There's no telling what you'll get (unless you're a crummy cheater who likes to use strategy guides for that sort of thing <_<). From what I hear, you can even get cameos from other games, such as a Matrix themed monster, a monster resembling Kasumi of Dead or Alive, or even the actual monkeys from Ape Escape.
Character designs and graphics are amazing, and the artwork featured in the games is beautiful. By the looks of it, Monster Rancher 5 will be no exception. Monster Rancher 5, to be released for the PS2 sometime next year, is an amazing cel-shaded game which strays from the normal Monster Rancher style in that it is a heads on RPG, unlike the strange linear battle system used in previous games. Also, you manage a carnival using your monsters. I have a page here from Gamespot containing 3 great trailers and a nice developer interview. www.gamespot.com/ps2/rpg/monsterrancher5/media.html?sid=6140950&autoplay=6140950 The trailers feature a sexy dancer, great mugshots, a new monster, Suezos, beautiful graphics, and another sexy dancer.
Good graphics galor. The only real problem here probably lies in the slightly hard to distinguish narrorator of the interview. "Umm...uh...ummm...I think...moonstah...ummm...." 
Anyways, it's completely awesome. If you haven't tried one yet, try this one when it's released early next year. The Suezos are to die for.
a) Collect a stone on an adventure.
b)Fuse two monsters or allow yours to adapt to an environment.
c) The PS2 can actually read any other PSX, PS2, or music CD and generate a unique monster from it. There's no telling what you'll get (unless you're a crummy cheater who likes to use strategy guides for that sort of thing <_<). From what I hear, you can even get cameos from other games, such as a Matrix themed monster, a monster resembling Kasumi of Dead or Alive, or even the actual monkeys from Ape Escape.
Character designs and graphics are amazing, and the artwork featured in the games is beautiful. By the looks of it, Monster Rancher 5 will be no exception. Monster Rancher 5, to be released for the PS2 sometime next year, is an amazing cel-shaded game which strays from the normal Monster Rancher style in that it is a heads on RPG, unlike the strange linear battle system used in previous games. Also, you manage a carnival using your monsters. I have a page here from Gamespot containing 3 great trailers and a nice developer interview. www.gamespot.com/ps2/rpg/monsterrancher5/media.html?sid=6140950&autoplay=6140950 The trailers feature a sexy dancer, great mugshots, a new monster, Suezos, beautiful graphics, and another sexy dancer.
Good graphics galor. The only real problem here probably lies in the slightly hard to distinguish narrorator of the interview. "Umm...uh...ummm...I think...moonstah...ummm...." Anyways, it's completely awesome. If you haven't tried one yet, try this one when it's released early next year. The Suezos are to die for.
