Raising up monsters is one of my favourite game play mechanics, but I don't see it done much. Some of my favourite games ever are Jade Cocoon for playstation and the original Dragon Warrior Monsters for GBC.
Anybody else got some awesome monster collecting games? I enjoy pretty much anything where you put together a large team of characters to train like Fire Emblem, but primarily I love seeing a ton of different types of monsters with many different appearances and abilities.
I've played and enjoyed many kinds of pokemon of course, Red, Blue, Silver, Diamond, Stadiums, etc but I've always felt those games were kinda limited, vastly preferred JC and DWM.
What really makes these kinds of games great are awesome breeding systems. I absolutely LOVE how you combine monsters in Jade Cocoon and the resulting monster will retain not only combat attributes of both parents, but would also would visually be a cross. Like if you combined a cat monster with a bird you might get a cat with wings or some crap. DWM / Joker's breeding systems are a ton of fun too. That's one thing I've felt Pokemon is missing somehow, it's breeding system doesn't speak to me at all.
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