Koei Tecmo announced that the release date of Monster Rancher‘s port for the Nintendo Switch… in Japan that is.
The Nintendo Switch port of the classic monster raising game will be launching on December 19th in Japan. It is something a lot of people have been anticipating.
【MF公式】：
初代『 #モンスターファーム 』移植版配信日決定！2019年11月28日(木)
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2019年12月19日(木)
Nintendo Switch ダウンロードスマホアプリ版の事前予約はコチラ！https://t.co/WJlBt1dqP4
> 再生まであと20日 < #モンスターファーム2 #MF pic.twitter.com/tzdgq0aex3— モンスターファーム【公式】 (@MonsterFarm_KT) November 8, 2019
At this time though it is not known whether this port will eventually see a western release.
About Monster Rancher
The premise of Monster Rancher is simple. Picture that old Barcode Battler toy merged with a Tamagotchi, except instead of cutting out and saving barcodes to generate monsters, Monster Rancher reads a small segment of any CD and uses the data to generate a fighting monster.
Some CDs will yield giant golems or dragons, while others will give you palsy little eye creatures and other not-so-impressive beasts. After creating a monster, you must train it to fight in the ring.
You control every aspect of the monster’s training from diet to what stats it will be striving to increase. Monsters can be frozen for later use, or even combined with other monsters to form hybrid beasts with multiple powers.
The point of the game is to become the greatest monster breeder around, and there are rankings and other stats that will clue you in as to how well you’re doing.
