Monster Rancher 2

aka: Monster Farm 2, Monster Rancher

Moby ID: 5130

Released

February 25, 1999 on PlayStation

Credits

72 people

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Developers

Moby Score

7.4

#8,381 of 24.3K

Critics

76% (9)

Players

(13)

Review Ranking

#354 on PlayStation

Collected By

33 players

Genre: Action
Strategy / tactics
Perspective: Diagonal-down
Art: Anime / Manga
Gameplay: Fighting
Managerial / business simulation

PlayStation Specs

ESRB Rating: Everyone

Number of Players Supported: 1-2 Players

Buy on PlayStation

$33.85 used on Amazon
$35.00 used, $1,099.99 new on eBay

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Description official descriptions

Monster Rancher 2 is at heart an arena fighting game with a lot of ancillary game play thrown in. As a trainer of a fighting monster you have to train, reward, punish, cajole and bribe your minion to build up its statistics. You then take your monster into the arena where it battles with other monsters for cash prizes, prestige, and better stats. Like the original Monster Rancher, this game allows players to create a monster using an innovative technique: you can stick in any CD you own (PlayStation, audio, PC, or other) and the data that is read off the CD is used to generate the characteristics of the monster.

Spellings

モンスターファーム2 - Japanese spelling
怪兽农场2 - Chinese spelling (simplified)

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Credits (PlayStation version)

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Planning	Nobuki Nagai (N. Nagai) Tetsuya Watanabe (T. Watanabe) Jun Kato (J. Kato) Hajime Tabata (H. Tabata) Yasushi Tsujii (Y. Tsujii)
Programming	Shiro Sakamoto (S. Sakamoto) Masaki Asakura (M. Asakura) Manabu Kiguchi (M. Kiguchi) Taiyo Aramaki (T. Aramaki) Takeshi Yoshizawa (T. Yoshizawa) Masaki Fujita (M. Fujita) Mikiyasu Kambayashi (M. Kambayashi) Kojiro Seino (K. Seino) Jyun'ichi Ogino (J. Ogino)
2D CG	Makoto Komatsu (K. Komatsu) Hirohisa Kaneko (H. Kaneko) Shusuke Ohki (S. Oki) Ryosei Muraki (Y. Muraki)
Field CG	Ryouto Shinzato (R. Shinzato) Youichi Hirose (Y. Hirose) Masaya Ikarashi (M. Ikarashi) Nobuyuki Sakurada (N. Sakurada)
Monster Textures	Jumbo Matsumura (Y. Matsumura) Misato Sakaki (M. Sakaki) Yukio Hosoya (Y. Hosoya)
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Reviews

Critics

Average score: 76% (based on 9 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.7 out of 5 (based on 13 ratings with 0 reviews)

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Related Sites +

Monster Rancher Metropolis
Message Board, FAQ, and tips site covering all Monster Rancher Games. Site has detailed info on items, monsters, and raising methods, and hosts tournaments.
Wikipedia: Monster Rancher 2
Information about Monster Rancher 2 at Wikipedia

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MobyGames ID: 5130

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Game added by Kurt Sample.

iPad, Android, iPhone, Nintendo Switch added by Rik Hideto.

Additional contributors: Unicorn Lynx, //dbz:, Lisa Shock, DreinIX, Grandy02, DarkHyren.

Game added October 13, 2001. Last modified February 27, 2023.