Monster Rancher spin-off game for Switch coming this year
Kodoani.com – Bandai Namco Entertainment revealed during its panel at Anime Expo on Saturday that it will release the game. Ultra Kaiju Monster Rancher by KOEI Tecmo Games in English.
The game is a spin-off of the Monster Rancher series. The Nintendo Switch game tasks the player with taking care of the kaiju monsters in the Ultraman series. The game will also release this year in Japan and Asia with English subtitles.
Players can collect a variety of kaiju from the Ultraman series and perform various activities with them, including feeding, training, learning, and adventure. Players can submit their kaiju for tournament matches, and can also combine different kaiju for unique results, with around 200 kaiju in the game (including fusion).
KOEI Tecmo Games and LINE Corporation are also releasing a Monster Rancher mobile game this year.
The first game in the Monster Rancher series was released on the PlayStation in 1997. The game required the player to raise a variety of monsters to fight in tournaments, in which the player decided how to raise the monsters, and then decided to raise them. determine how the monsters fight. A notable feature of many games in the series is the ability to generate a random monster depending on the disc the player provides for the game to read.
Monster Rancher 2 originally launched for the PlayStation in Japan in February 1999. The game then launched in North America in August 1999 and in Europe in October 2000.
KOEI Tecmo released a version of the original Monster Rancher game in Japan for iOS and Android devices in November 2019 and for Switch in December 2019. The company released a version of Monster Rancher 2 on the devices. for iOS and Android, and for Switch in Japan in September 2020. Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX, updated versions of the franchise’s first two games, launches in December 2021 for Switch and PC via Steam in Japan and for Switch, PC via Steam, and iOS devices in the West.
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