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The fun from the Playstation version continues on GBA

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Monster Rancher and Monster Rancher 2, both achieved success on the Playstation thanks to Nintendo's achievements with Pokemon. As with the two previous Monster Rancher games, Monster Rancher Advance allows you to breed, train, and battle a wide variety of monsters. In the previous two games, you could use a CD of any sort to bring a monster to life. In the GBA version you instead input a combination of letters, symbols, and numbers. At first, not all monster species are available for you to use. As you progress through the game and win special tournaments, you earn the right to train higher species. Along with training your monster for battle, you may combine it with other monsters, earn money from tournaments, fight off wild monsters, and do other miscellaneous tasks. The graphics on this game are excellent. All the monsters are very well detailed and exhibit excellent animations. The play control is almost non existent. All it consists of is navigating through menus, and going through battles which is all very simple. The sound/music is standard fair. There's not much to it, but it's interesting enough to keep you from turning the volume down. The game design is clever and well thought out. Always interesting, at times it can be impossible to put the game down. It's not quite an RPG, but it provides the hours of game play that an RPG has. It's a great solid title that can be enjoyed by anyone.

A cool ERBS man.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is so cool to play it and I think you play PS2 one this games be out world.

A barely known classic for the Advance...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Since I purchased this game (one of the first three games I purchased with my Gameboy Color years ago), I've gone on to own Monster Rancher Advance 2 and am now waiting on Monster Rancher 1 for the Playstation 1 system to come in the mail. This should tell you a little of my feelings regarding the game.

Yes, it's a tad repetitious, but then, aren't RPG games in general? You do a lot of the same events again and again to advance further in the plot. In the beginning, you are a monster trainer in charge of turning a Monster Ranch around. You create a monster based on a random set of characters (anything from Blob to z?z!j) and you'll get a monster. There are hundreds of different monsters you can create, with about twenty primary species, so you can always be sure to get a monster to suit your fancy.

Basically, you just train your monster, training it in Strength, Defense, Agility, and so on. Your monster fights in battles against other trainers and other monsters to give it experience points and rare items. As you progress higher, you can create certain kinds of rare monsters not allowed to you in the beginning of the game. You have to be careful with training your monster, as it can get tired or stressed and not respond to commands as much.

There are a few random events in the game, however several of them are silly and mean nothing to you, the player. Just silly interactions between different characters in the game. Also, the type of food that you feed your monster doesn't seem to really have a significant effect on it. Honestly, I would suggest getting Monster Rancher 2 for the Advance, if you're going to get an Advance game. But as I got this game before the sequel was out, I owned it first. It's a quality game that will easily give you 50-100 hours of gameplay. It's a little bit older game, so you might have a hard time finding it. But believe me, it's a treasure.

After a long business day

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Well I ordered MRA on monday June 24th over Internet. I even paid 14 dollars more just to play it the next day. Well on June 26th the game finally arrived and it was GREAT. The graphics are good and the fact that you can't die an that there is no ultimate or bad monster is very appealing. Although the sound gets kind of annoying after a while the gameply and random events left me paying this game all day.

Monster Ranchers Unite

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: November 28, 2002
Author: Amazon User

If you are a veteren to the monester rancher series, this game is for you!

BANG BANG BANG I WWWIIINNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: December 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is decent.But when you get to battle there is nothing
better.

Monster Rancher

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

At first I thought, hmmm... a game where you train and raise virtual monsters, AWESOME!!! Then I actually got the game and was thrilled by it. Cute monsters that you could spend hours finding by putting in random letters, symbols and letters. Then when you find a monster you like, you take it to the ranch and train it using one of around ten pre-programmed coaches. Each raises a stat in a certain area, although some also lower X stat.Then I had to turn it off for some reason (I forget exactly what). When I was ready to play it again I turned it on and hit continue. It just made a sound that sounded like a buzzer and wouldn't let me resume game play. There was ABSOLUTELY NO visible way to save. I thought it was just a one time glitch and started again. This happened again and again. Once I lost a Rank A monster because of this. If Tecmo EVER decides to release another version of this game, they should put a SAVE option! I hate starting over!!! Sometimes when you enter random codes to get a monster you get one of three 'locked monsters' that you have to beat later in the game to allow you to raise them. It makes me wonder why they even put them into the game at the beginning in the first place. My third complaint is that there are not many ways to get items there are about four, but I might be forgetting some: 1:your monster gives them to you. 2: You beat a stray monster and it drops one. 3: You pay unreasonable prices to get one from Crow, although most of the items he sells serve little/no purpose for the price. 4: You manage to win first place a once a year tournament and get a wood box, iron box, silver box or gold box. The battles take about a minute and once you start battling another monster there's no way to stop or pause the battle until you finish it. In most battle games, like Pokemon if you need to take a break to check on something you're cooking or a screaming toddler or something like that, you just leave it on the attack screen without choosing a command. In this game, you either put it down and most likely lose as your monster can't attack without you, KO the enemy (which is often hard to do) or wait to attend to whatever needs attending until the battle is over. The time frame is VERY unrealistic, I mean, would a monster REALLY take a week to run under rocks and get points in speed or understand another monster talking with odd symbols? I wouldn't mind restarting every time I played it, other than those facts, except for the fact that it takes AT LEAST five minutes to input a name for your character AND listen to a lot of pointless talking. It's interesting the first time, but honestly after having to start over twenty million times, it gets boring and annoying. If you or your child or grandchild or neice or nephew or anybody you know wants something you can take care of and nurture, I suggest a Tamagotchi. They are a lot less frustrating than this and the characters are still very cute, although they don't battle.

Graphics are average( my one star should be ??? )

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 22
Date: November 22, 2001
Author: Amazon User

If u have read November's Nintendo power, there are pictures of the upcoming Monster Rancher Advance game. The graphics are kinda shaky though

Best GBA game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: December 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love this game you can Get a lot of new mosters and it is easy.

techmo

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is really fun! Creating and battling if what I do best at. I've had it for a month now and still don't get bored.

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