Monster Rancher
Monster Rancher is a console game released in 1997 for the PlayStation system. It is the first game in Tecmo's Monster Rancher series, featuring the raising, fighting, and breeding of monsters.
Monster Rancher is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Tecmo, released 24 July 1997 on PlayStation. The main story takes about 10 hrs to finish.
What Monster Rancher is
Monster Rancher is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Tecmo and released in 1997. It is available on PlayStation only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Although it is possible to acquire a monster in-game, the series is known for the ability to acquire new monsters using Compact Discs (CDs). Players can use any readable CD, and the game creates a monster using the data stored on it. Certain CDs would result in unique monsters: for example, some Christmas music albums will give the player a monster of type "Santa". Once the player has two or more monsters in reserve, they can be combined, creating a new monster with traits of both 'parents.' Once the player has a monster, it can then be raised to be a fighting machine. There are six stats that determine how the monster does in battle: Power fuels physical attacks, Intelligence fuels and…
How it plays
Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the monster rancher series
Monster Rancher is the first of 9 entries we hold in the monster rancher series. The next entry was Monster Rancher Battle Card GB in 1999.
How it was received
Monster Rancher holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 3,811 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 1997 averaged 65, so it scored 35 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 10 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 28 hrs, roughly 2.8 times the length of the critical path.
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