Critics almost universally commented on its striking originality. It holds an 86/100 score based on five reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Monster Rancher was met with highly positive reviews. In Monster Rancher 2 and Monster Rancher Advance 2, Holly, the assistant from this game, cameos as a rancher from the group, AGIMA, for whom the player trains monsters.
Players cannot control the monster directly in a fight, but can call for their monster to stay away or close in, and attack with whichever move is available at the current range. While in battle, each monster has attacks available to it, some moves are only available at close range, others from a distance. The primary way to advance through the game is through monster fighting tournaments. The game can end if the player runs out of currency to manage the monster. It is possible to increase some of the monster's stats with food or vitamins, but vitamins comes at a price of decreasing one stat as well as shorting the life span dramatically.Ĭurrency can be used to purchase items in the game, earned by winning monster fighting tournaments. Monsters train either by doing chores nearby, or can be sent to be trained by experts, where they have the chance to gain new attack techniques. There are six stats that determine how the monster does in battle: Power fuels physical attacks, Intelligence fuels and defends against energy attacks, Life determines monster's hit points, Skill affects accuracy, Speed helps evade opponents' attacks, and Defense reduces damage received from physical attacks. The monsters can then be raised to fight other monsters. Monsters can be combined to create a new monster with a main type and a sub-type which are determined randomly. The rare types are Dragons, Magics, Apes, Ghosts, Hengers, Doodles, Nyas, and Disks.
The common types are Dinos, Golems, Suezos, Hares, Tigers, Galis, Monols, Worms, Nagas, Jells, Pixies, and Plants. There are twelve basic types of monsters that can be combined, as well as eight special types players can receive as rewards by completing tasks or inserting a CD into the PlayStation. Once the player has two or more monsters in reserve, they can be combined, creating a new monster with traits of both 'parents'.
The Windows, Switch, and Android/iOS versions retain the basic gameplay and content of the original, but do not support CD playback the monsters-from-CD feature is emulated by allowing players to look up CDs from a custom database. Certain CDs would result in unique monsters: for example, Tecmo's Deception gives the player Ardebaran, a villain from that game, and some Christmas music albums will give the player a monster of type " Santa". Players can use any readable CD, and the game creates a monster using the CD's metadata. 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).
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