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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 52 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 47 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] lvxferre@ani.social 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

It could be worse. Like, Pixie (Monster Rancher) tiers of worse:

(I liked the MR games way more than Pokemon or Digimon to be honest. Also screw Octachrome.)

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] lvxferre@ani.social 4 points 8 months ago

Por que nos los dos?

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Monster Rancher was a weird one. The whole idea of monsters hidden in our CDs was a cool gimmick. And I love their monster designs, even if it was reshading the same monsters.

But the overall gameplay wasnt fun for me.

[–] lvxferre@ani.social 2 points 8 months ago

The gameplay was hit or miss, I guess. Pokémon plays out like a typical turn-based RPG; Monster Rancher was management + action based. For me the fun part was fighting against time to get a perfect monster, it was surprisingly hard to do so (limited lifespan, the need to train good coaches beforehand, etc.)

A few games actually had different models for the sub-breeds, besides rehashing the old mons. Like MR4: