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"Unlock your disk! Take a risk!"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 48 / 54
Date: March 04, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I am TOTALLY addicted to this game! I've played many monster raising RPGs, but this one beats them all! The gameplay isn't long and boring, and the graphics are cool! The idea of the game is that you are a begginning monster trainer, and you have to raise the ultimate monster to compete in the major four, a set of the top hardest tournaments (I know, sounds a lot like poke'mon's Elite Four, but trust me, its different.) There are three ways to get new monsters, you can generate one from a CD, buy one at the market, or combine to of them to get a new one. I liked the combining part because the game tells you what chance you have of getting a good monster. After you obtain a monster, you take it to you ranch to be trained. You can increase it's stats, let it rest, or enter a battle tournament. The battles are very cool because they are simple without being easy. You control which direction you r monster moves, when it attacks and when, and ultimately how powerful its attacks are. The game gets more complex toward the end at a good pace. The plot lacks a little creativity, but that is quickly forgotten as one can easily get completely obsessed with this game.

The Pokemon Beater

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 13 / 16
Date: December 02, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I know that this game will get bashed for being like Pokemon. However, the first Monster Rancher came out in America 8 months before Pikachu. Now, this is a great game. Once you get the idea of how to play it (which isn't very hard at all), you'll become instantly addicted. Not for those with little time on their hands. Only problem is finding the rare components that will allow you to make the truly powerful monster. A great gift for kids. I can't recommend this enough.

Unlock your disk.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 11 / 15
Date: May 02, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the best monster raising rpg. You are a monster trainer, and you have to raise the ultimate monster to compete in the major four, a set of the top hardest tournaments. There are three ways to get new monsters, you can generate one from a CD, buy one at the market, or combine to of them to get a new one. I love grabbing all my music CDs and stuffing them in the Playstation wondering what my monster will look like. After you geta monster, you take it to you ranch to be trained. You increase the stats by training. You control which direction your monster moves! The only bad thing about this game is that you HAVE to spend your time on training.

Monster rancher 2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I enjoy this game alot because of the emazing variety of monsters and the use of your outher C.D's to get more monsters. I enjoyed training my creatures and scolding or praseing my monster after training.

A very impressive game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: January 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the one of the best games I have ever play, I find myself up till all hours in the night just training with my monster, if you are looking for a good game, spend a little extra money and get a really impressive and fun game.

Monster mania

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: February 17, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the best monster raising game ever (and this review is coming from a pokemon addict!). You can train your monters in alot of catergories including skill, speed, defense, power life, and inteligence. To learn new techniques, you go on "errantrys" in which your monster undergoes a series of tests that will teach it techniques. If you beat all of them, you fight a wild monster, if you beat it you get prize money which will equal out to about the same amount as it costed to send it on the errantry. You can also have your monster battle in tournaments. This is the best way to earn money. The coolest thing about this game is the way you obtain monsters. you put a CD into your console and it will make a monster with the info on it. The more obscure the CD the better. This is probably my favorite game right now and I think everyone shold enjoy it (buy the game)!

Just as Addictive as the First

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: November 11, 1999
Author: Amazon User

When I picked up the first MR I thought... "This could be a good change of pace" considering I had just finished FFVII and a few other long RPG's. It was on the used rack so it was cheap. I shrugged and took it to the counter. I don't think I put my controller down for more the 30 mins at a time to get food. MR2 is just the same. Though continually getting the "I regret to inform you..." message when I try and make a monster from a CD is getting kinda old. Too many rare monsters that you have to wait to get. OTher then that, it's great. A must have.

Great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: November 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

A great game, though different than any other I've ever seen[A few lines can get old though]. Once you get grant from IMA, the selection of monsters greatly improves. If you raise the monsters right, it can be very rewarding [Money wise].

Innovative concepts in monster generation

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: June 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is one of the most interesting games I've ever come across! No, yes, it's a little similar to Pokemon Stadium, but not quite. You have more control over raising the monster... and there are mortalities in this game... so it's semi-true to the life cycle. Now the most innovative concept is the Shrine Disc Stone Generation method. To make a monster this way, you insert any CD... and I do mean ANY! You can use DVDs, music CDs, Computer CDs, PS CDs... and *gasp* even DC DCs. For example, I inserted my Enya's Celts CD when prompted, and I produced a NobleSaurus. Another example, upon insertion of the Spice Girl's CD, I produced a RockHound. The concept works based on the structure of the data on the disk.. so every one of the Enya's Celts discs will produce NobleSaurus. Now there are some CDs that don't work quite yet, but that's only because you must build levels to release those monsters... and through experementation you can create a monster that no one else may have ever seen!

A very shocking game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: November 28, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This is a AWESOME game. It lets you make monsters,raise monsters, find monsters, and a lot of other stuff! This game is the BEST game I have ever played. I have also played MR1, that was neat too. I couldn't stop playing either of em! This is a must buy game.

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