Monster Rancher 2 | A Retrospective Analysis

Hello everyone, my name is Hadal and welcome to a “retrospective” analysis of the classic Playstation 1 title, Monster Rancher 2.

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00:00 - Intro
05:23 - Game Start
14:37 - New Monsters
21:09 - Visuals
27:30 - Ranch Mechanics and Items
56:10 - Raising Your Monster
1:08:14 - Tournaments and Combat
1:23:52 - Expeditions
1:29:17 - Music, Sound, and Atmosphere
1:35:36 - Unlocks and Combining
1:54:29 - DX Changes
1:55:56 - Community
1:57:41 - Conclusion
2:04:20 - Channel Update

[MonsterFenrick]

There's a whole lot covered in this though, and quite thoroughly. It's an excellent followup to the MR1 analysis!
🙂

A Heads up regarding Gold and Silver peaches around 55:08
- In MR2+DX any monster can find as many gold peaches as they're able to in their lifespan; They can only consume one of each peach type. (This is the inverse of MR1)
- In MR1+DX any monster can find only 1 Gold Peach and 1 Plant Egg, however, they can be fed an unlimited number of them.
- There is no 10 year wait period for Gold Peaches in MR2 (or MR1 for that matter). It is possible to get between 0 and 4 Gold Peaches per each ParePare expedition

[yams]

To clarify, you can actually find gold peaches every year. The whole "it grows once every 10 years" dialogue is just (misleading) flavor text. Hell, ive actually gotten two on a single expedition once, and ive seen a clip of someone finding three!

[acrab]

Attract mode is DEFINITELY not just for arcade games. Game stores/toys R us/walmart used to have TV's that rotated through the attract modes for all the games they sold.

We used to go watch them while our parents shopped, while trying to come up with an argument about how you absolutely needed that game specifically.

[TheBestGoblinKing]

It is here ! Thank you, hope you are better and things easier .

[makenshao]

Very lovely finding videos talking about monster rancher. If you make a video on 3 I'm really curious what you would say about it, since it seems like it's the odd one out, but for me it was the only MR I had of the main series, since I skipped the PSX. I loved the idea of seeing the different ecological adaptations of monsters in that game as an alternate to them being hybrids.

[borbie]

awesome video man love to hear from you. ive never played a monster rancher game so these thorough looks into this other world are so awesome

[teawch]

I really like how you could guess what I was thinking while watching the video, notably when you left out Zuum from the new monster list and when you incorrectly calculated the income from MR1 training.

1:52:53 Just so you know, 1% combinations actually yield the highest stats in both the original and DX. The 1% bug refers to how the last 1% combination in the list os unobtainable.
Try plugging in Zuum/Dragon + Bajarl/Joker to get a Bajarl/Bajarl, then Optimize Parents for Target and you will get a baby with all stats in the 700-800 range at birth

[seanvigil]

One of my favorite series of all time! I loved digging out every CD to check for every monster. Two was probably the one I got into the most as a kid, but I probably played the GBA ones the most. I hope you get to those one day!

[kitbarnes]

amazing video :3 very eloquent and well worded i love hearing you talk about things youre passionate about. definitley sold me on monster rancher once again!! hope the video does well 💌

[pnaurfr]

58:14 the type of game depends on the monster. The season doesn't really matter except during winter the mudball will change to snowball

[NihilisticWhim]

yeah, been waiting for this for a while. You even had the original reaction to ColorPandora that I did as a kid :p

[TheXBladeist]

I gotta say, as a lover of this game from the ps1 days, I really enjoy the review and a fun bit about Errow, the clerk from the errantry, he's actually jacked.

Also, on the peaches, you can get more than one gold peach per exploration, the 10 years limitation is only a myth.

[Mia-Solastasia]

I have to say, I still felt the sense of death on my first Monster Rancher game, MR4. The game telling me that my monster has "lost control of its body" and had to be frozen instilled in me more of a feeling of putting a pet to sleep to keep it from suffering. I still interpreted it as death as a teenager, ultimately.

Whilst MR4 is my favorite and will probably remain as such as none of the other games replicate its unique qualities [I've played MR4, EVO, and DS in the past and am currently going through MR1. I still prefer MR4 for mixing in more RPG elements into the series like proper dungeons, actually directly feeding my monster with my character and being more immersed, but without removing the micromanaging as EVO did. MR1 is still very fun though] I am so happy to have this in-length video to watch for when I start my playthrough of MR2 DX for the first time. I know 2 is more challenging. You speaking of your strategy to rest on it saying "seems well" will be a huge boon to me without having to finagle with the Advance Viewer, as I bought my copy for the Switch and didn't want all that information stressing me out too much. Thank you for this - it was genuinely useful knowing what I'm going to be getting into. [As was your MR1 video.]

[paulodiaz]

Monsters do grow with age. Baby monsters are really tiny compared to fully grown adult monsters.

[danieldantedev]

I would really enjoy a retrospective of the entire MR franchise like this, so please play Ultra Kaiju MR, i just finished and its great!

[QuietMn]

Thank god I can finally get good at this game

[suddenlyminotaurs]

Hey dude, hope family life is going well, and you're doing good! No pressure to churn out content! You popped up on my recommended list again today and I thought "huh! I hope he's doing good!"

[monsterrancherforever]

Awesome analysis^^
Also, most likely the lore is the same as the anime. Humans created monsters with the help of otherworldy beings. We used them as pets and then as soldiers. At some point a final battle between the two armies began. Each used their best monster, phoenix vs muu. In the battle all monsters were sealed, including them. Years gone by and they forgot the past. Therefore, they explain it as religion.thats what i think is the lore from playing the games.

[haze]

20:09 Godzilla (or Gojira) indeed is a mixture of the japanese words for Gorilla and Whale.

[codyS]

I want this game again! Nobody could touch my golem or zilla