Monster Rancher 4

Whether you're a seasoned MR breeder or new to the game, the fourth version will be easily playable while still offering challenges for us "old timers". The larger your CD/DVD collection is, the more likely you are to get more monster choices. The game will walk you through "extracting a monster" from your discs. Computer discs, music CD's, DVD's, and game console CD's are read by the game at specific points and will display a monster held within for you to keep or not.

The interface (the yes/no options) are a bit tricky, be careful when clicking through to speed text up as sometimes it will click "yes" when you're not ready and tend to destroy a battle or result in purchasing an item you really weren't ready to spend your money on.

The music is nice, low-key, and fits well with the scenes. The monster models are excellent, very cute. Their animations while training/fighting are well done.

All in all, I love the game despite the minor issues with the interface at times. I am a long time MR player, so I was already hooked before I ripped the plastic off the case. :)


The only (MR) game with an adventure element, and it gets trashed?   July 23, 2008
Thomas F. Hooker (Accomac, VA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

Why?

It has the closest thing to the actual flavor of the Monster Rancher anime. Granted, it isn't perfect, but it has at least tried to burst out of the monster fighting box, and people rate such comments as "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." I must be the only one who actually understands this expression. This refers to overfixing to the point of wearing something out through repeated repairs, it DOES NOT refer to never fixing anything ever until it actually breaks, because being set in ways is a type of brokeness.

Besides I like monster fighting/adventure games, which is why I enjoyed the Pokemon gameboy games, but didn't even wanna buy some of the later Poke Tournament ones.


Fun   May 21, 2009
campbell1216 (cle elum, wa)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I love playing the original monster rancher. I was not sure if I would like this one or not. If you get this so you can play like the original, don't get it. If you get this to raise, train, and fight your monsters then get it. It is fun to play for the whole family.


The best one yet!!   November 13, 2003
4 out of 9 found this review helpful

From what I hear, this game's gonna rule!! There is an adventure mode, you can train more than one monster at once, you can use other cds and dvds to regenerate monsters, Monsters don't die and leave a "monster heart" behind, there are a bunch of new monsters (Ripper, ape), and the graphics have improved alot (The work they've done with Jell is... "phenominal")! Now they have breeds and sub-breeds, like on Monster Rancher Advance 2 (They changed depending on where you trained them on Monster Rancher 3). www.MonsterRancher.com has more information and screen shots, so check it out! This game's got 5 stars with me, and I'd give it ten if I could! I can't wait for it to come out!