Monster Rancher!

[Guest Maria_B]

Or, Monster Rancher 2 for the Ameeeeericans, and Monster Farm 2 for our Japanese friends.

I love this game to death!

My version, however, has died Still looking for another one out at Garage Sales and Markets, though!

I got a first generation Mew(Nya) into the Hall of Fame and beat both Master monsters Wheeee!

And also a Fifth Generation Jilt, buuuuuuuut she isn't really that impressive, fifth Gen and all.

Was on my way to getting her child, a Wracky (Yes, I bred a wracky out of her, don't hate, I had a Mocchi with a stat grid line up to fit a wracky offspring with 4 stats.) To the second Major 4 win when my CD died . Hey, after all that trouble beating Carmine D:.

[Guest Luna_Luv2942]

That sucks! I'm glad that my copy of Monster Rancher 2 still works.

I have only beaten one of the major four with a third generation Hopper/Suezo mix (it's on its last leg atm ): ).

How did you get a first generation Mew into the Hall of Fame?

[Guest Risu]

I LOVED this game soooo much way back when! I made the mistake of lending it to cousins who broke it

I trained mostly Pixie type monsters. Had a lot of fun with that game. I'd love to have another copy again sometime. I really miss it.

[Guest Maria_B]

I trained my Mew in Light/light/light/light with x/nuts oil/mintleaf/nuts oil in its baby years, Heavy/heavy/heavy/rest with mint/nuts/mint/nuts in its adult years and back to the baby years for it's elder years. Ran at 999 spd, 850 lif, 999 ski and like, 150str, int and 70 d. I used withering based techniques to drain monsters of their guts. Particularly the Joker, Carmine, in the Major 4, as it is a Ski attack and Ski stat based monster. As long as I kept it below 10 guts I was safe. Mew has a decent guts regen rate as a purebreed.

Basically, Spd + Ski + Withering Techniques + Huge health pool (To help with weaker ski based monsters like Rouge in the Major 4, where battles often ended 80% to 85%, since her guts regen is incredible, with the sub of a Pixie).

[Guest Maria_B]

I LOVED this game soooo much way back when! I made the mistake of lending it to cousins who broke it

I trained mostly Pixie type monsters. Had a lot of fun with that game. I'd love to have another copy again sometime. I really miss it.

I worked so hard to get my Pixies to Good so I could get Gigaray. Soooo worth it. Don't get me wrong, Gigaflame is nice but the sharpness in Gigaray made it so much more viable for later fighting, when you could no longer 1 hit wonder with Gigaflame. (I used to hit 600 at a time with Gigaflame too xD).

If you're wondering, Gigaflame is an evil tech and Gigaray is a good tech, so you can't have both Like Petal Vortex and the Petal healing thingy on a Mocchi.

[Guest Luna_Luv2942]

I trained my Mew in Light/light/light/light with x/nuts oil/mintleaf/nuts oil in its baby years, Heavy/heavy/heavy/rest with mint/nuts/mint/nuts in its adult years and back to the baby years for it's elder years. Ran at 999 spd, 850 lif, 999 ski and like, 150str, int and 70 d. I used withering based techniques to drain monsters of their guts. Particularly the Joker, Carmine, in the Major 4, as it is a Ski attack and Ski stat based monster. As long as I kept it below 10 guts I was safe. Mew has a decent guts regen rate as a purebreed.

Basically, Spd + Ski + Withering Techniques + Huge health pool (To help with weaker ski based monsters like Rouge in the Major 4, where battles often ended 80% to 85%, since her guts regen is incredible, with the sub of a Pixie).

Ah I see that makes sense now I always skrew up on that training regimen, I have a hard time trying to figure out what age they are in life. You know when I first played the game I had an Earthshaker (Naga/worm) and only worked on its strength. Could kill you in one shot if it could hit you, even had the coolest name for it: Shaft. Sad he died, I miss him especially since I can't find the cd I got him from ):

[Guest Maria_B]

I had a hard time training my Nagas, the guts regen was soooooooo slow. So, I bred one with a Pixie xD Didn't work out too well >_> so I used him to farm money from the B-A class tournies.

[Guest Luna_Luv2942]

Ya they do suck at that, which never really occurred to me back then. Probably the reason why I never made it past C rank lol.

Actually with my second time around I'm more focused on getting as many different kinds of monsters as I can. Also to re-enact the battle between Moo and the Phoenix, that is going to be so awesome! Did anyone else watch the anime?

[Guest Maria_B]

I did! XD

[Guest Luna_Luv2942]

Best show ever! I used to buy all the little toy figures they had, you know the ones? They came in yellow discs and had cards with them? I still have some of those XD How come they got rid of dinos after Monster Rancher (the first game in the US)?

[Guest Maria_B]

I unno. Monster Rancher the first for me is the second game for you. >_> Plus, we never got the merchandise down here >___________________<

[Guest Luna_Luv2942]

Oh that sucks! Its really hard to find the first Monster Rancher (loved that you can have Magic Johnson as a monster xD) and any of the merchandise. Have you played the card game? It was on the gameboy or ps1 not really sure.

[Guest Maria_B]

Only one I've ever played is my first (your second), I fell in love with it so much that I was a bit scared to buy follow ups haha

[Guest Luna_Luv2942]

I see, the follow ups are not as good. However in the 4th one (my 4th) you get to actually see who you are playing! You can even run around with them during the adventure trips. I really want to try again with Monster Rancher 1, see if I can get back my black dino (in that game they looked more like babies when they are first born in my opinion) lol. Also found Shaft on one of my old memory cards!! Too bad I can't breed him with any of my other memory cards ):

[Guest Maria_B]

I used to have a pile of CD's with rare and fun monsters on it, and then my Monster Rancher CD stopped working and I moved house, so I put all the CD's away >_< Going to be a fun time seeing which is which again

I've always wanted to see who I actually am in game! But I thought about it... That'd kind of ruin the whole atmosphere in a way, so would selection screens different than the static. Ah well.

[Guest Luna_Luv2942]

Ya thats true. Also loved getting tons of different cds and dvds (for the follow up games) and spending all night going through them. Was a pain in the butt getting the same ones but some surprised me! Like the Sueki Suezo: highest skills for a monster out of the disc and lasts only a week! But if you got two then combined them you get a suezo with slightly better stats and an extra skill (that was how I got my first monster this playthrough). Also loved the Errantry guy, such a jerk in the beginning but so nice after a while.

[Guest Maria_B]

I never got a special monster :<

I did however find a CD with a Worm that had 2 extra abilities already on it, plus 30 extra lif over a fresh-born Worm. That was pretty cool

[Guest Luna_Luv2942]

Yes I got that one too! It was the Offspring's Americana if I'm not mistaken.

And the Sueki Suezo is made from the Monster Rancher 1 disc so thats why you haven't gotten it.

[Guest Maria_B]

Remember; our disc lists are different, what your discs create is different than mine For example, in American Monster Rancher 2, Ant Farm creates a Monol, in Australian Monster Rancher 1, Ant Farm creates a Gengar/Gali cross.

[Guest Luna_Luv2942]

Oh right I that makes sense. Sorry about that.