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oh my god!. this game is cool!

monster,monster, monster!
i like to make a monster!

awesome game! my main is an mp3 file, I also have one from the game executable . game is awesome!

It's not a long game. I already completed it. I played for 2.5 days straight. It is interesting, yeah, but short.

Win all four competitions up to s4 rank.

@115 yeah, for those who have not much time to spend it will be a pritty long one, lol.

You can do searching by getting your monster to 20 popularity. I mentioned some of the keyboard shortcuts I found in post 43, which include g to check money, b to check about your monster, v to return to previous menu, f5 and f6 to change sounds and music volume and w y and m to check the year, month and day respectively.

As to completing the game, since most monsters that you encounter whilst searching are S rank, i assumed that winning competitions was only half of what you had to do, then again my monster is only c rank at the moment so there's still a lot further to, go for me, and of course there are lots of other monsters to try, indeed you seemt to have a monster spotter book in your house which lists different monster types you've encountered with info, and filling that will take time I think.

From what I can gather, you learn techniques by having your monster see them used in battle against you, though what monsters learn what techniques or whether this is related to the intelligence stat I'm not sure.

I'm personaly less bothered about online battles or contests than I am about seeing more events and things to do, EG dungeons with bosses to fight as Bookrage said the monster rancher games had, which  you to train different monsters and blend them together to get strong enough creatures to complete, but hay, even if your monsters  possible to slaughter the game at s rank that still leaves lots of stuff to do.

I'll be interested to see the new updates, I hope some of the search items are translated.

in regards to completing the game.

Beating S rank is always a goal in those games, but it is not all. And there are also crazy hard things to do in many games like this even after you beat the S Ranks stuff such as supercompetitions you can't enter until you have beaten S. Also beyond just winning once, the game has a very large assortment of monsters. Just because you won with a goblin doesn't mean it wouldn't be fun to win with a worm too, and each species would present its own unique challenges.

It's sort of like a fighter game. In MOrtal Kombat, you might be able to beat the game on hardest difficulty with sub-zero, but what about Scorpion, Sonya, Kano, and everyone else? They play differently so even with your mastery of Sub-zero, you'll still have a challenge.

Also there is a lot of secrets in the old Monster Rancher series that are very well hidden, such as things you can do to unlock special hidden monster types, hidden dungeons/items/pieces of equipment, special competitions that don't normally appear until you have done certain things. and the like.

In the Monster Rancher series, beating S rank was no easy task, but finding all the secrets in the game often took months, even if you played a whole lot. Even a lot of secret stuff in many of the monster rancher games despite me playing them and doing very well, I never actually found, even though wikis told me about them and I knew they were real.

as for ribbons, don't know for certain, but sometimes giving items to monsters makes them happy or helps them rest or other things. For example, in the older monster rancher games, you could give honey candy to a monster to make it happy. It also made them a little fat so it was bad to do it often, but it could boost your bond. Most monsters like getting gifts. You also can use certain items to slim down a fat monster, help them rest, or other things. Or you can give them toys which help make them happy. or make them train better.

I don't know what ribbons do specifically, but just a possibility of what they do.

As for jewel fragments, if they are labeled as a particular species, you can add them to combinations of monsters to shake things up a bit. for example, you could add a goblin jewel fragment to a combination to bring some goblin into the mix or make goblin crossbreed outcomes more likely.

I'm not sure if that is how it works but there was an item in the older monster rancher series called "disk chips" that did that sort of thing.

This one for sure.

The latest update translated stuff relating to searching.

Does your save data carry over once you beat the game? That will be reason enough to keep playing.

If you revive a new monster and take it over, what happens to the current one? Does it lose happiness in the hibernation chamber?

It seems currently that searching is better done when you have tougher monsters, especially because not all the search points are in good places,  pretty much all the wild monsters are S rank, so even whe your finished withe competitions there are things to do, and of course there are always f rank competitions. Then again I've only just got to b rank in contests and c rank in everything else, so I've got a ways to go yet.

i'm also interested in that when you start experimenting with gems, occasionally you find a description of one that is "too dangerous to handl", one  these was amusingly enough when I tried to make a monster out of the main title theme from season 1 of game of thrones .

Since you seem to have a trainer rank based on what competitions you've won, I assume therefore that more powerful  creatures can be created when you've leveled up, making  game potentially very possible to play for long periods with different creatures, especially since creature creation seems pretty random.

The only thing I do wish is that  some items were more logical, for example I'm not sure exactly what feeding your monsters some foods does, EG there is a herb in the volcano that is said to make your monsters angry, and one of the sweets apparently makes them confused, but neither seemdd to have any effect, unless your supposed to use them over a sustained period.