Re: Monster Race
Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 5:01 pm
A neat little monster RPG by Koei where you race monsters and they join your team if you beat them in races. The aim of the game is to compete in and win the Very Best Cup and become the best Monster Racer. Each of the monsters have different elements and are good and bad at running on certain terrains such as grass or water etc. A nice feature is that you can switch out your monsters in the middle of races to change to ones better suited to the terrain you're on (or you can just stick to a monster you like). The monster has to slow down briefly to do this, however. The most recent game was Monster Racers for the DS, which is the most well known one outside of Japan since it got an english translation. I'm not sure if many people know, but there were actually 3 gameboy games in the series before the DS version, the first being Monster Race for the gameboy, and then Monster Race: Okawari (with Okawari meaning 'second helping'). There was also Monster Race 2 for the gameboy color, which was the last gameboy title in the series. There was also a playstation version of the original Monster Race game as well.
The overworld is sort of reminiscent of Pokemon in the first and second Monster race games, but the games themselves are fun and there are plenty of monsters to collect. The mascot for the games is a little pink porcupine creature called Ulrira, who's a grass type (Everytime I think of this guy's name I always think of Old Man Ulrira in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening xD). He's one of the starter monsters along with a yellow Triceratops-esque dinosaur called Tops (a Rock type) and a cute snake called Noko Noko (a water type). You get to choose one these three guys at the beginning of all the gameboy games and the playstation version I believe. The DS game changed the starters, but the 3 original starter monsters do appear in the game as wild monsters.
The series itself didn't get any merchandise, except for guides for each of the games. It did get a 4 koma manga based on it, but it's a very rare piece of merchandise to find and usually goes for about 6000 to 8000 yen online (way too much for a book really xD).
Monster Race 2 boxart
Monster Race playstation boxart
Monster Racers DS Japanese boxart
TAS (Tool Assisted Speedrun) of the origjnal Monster Race for gameboy.
Part 2 of the Monster Race TAS
Huge selection of playthroughs of the different Monster Race games on Nicozon (a video site). Also has BGM music as well.
Videos for the DS game Monster Racers
Monster Race comic (fanmade?)
The overworld is sort of reminiscent of Pokemon in the first and second Monster race games, but the games themselves are fun and there are plenty of monsters to collect. The mascot for the games is a little pink porcupine creature called Ulrira, who's a grass type (Everytime I think of this guy's name I always think of Old Man Ulrira in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening xD). He's one of the starter monsters along with a yellow Triceratops-esque dinosaur called Tops (a Rock type) and a cute snake called Noko Noko (a water type). You get to choose one these three guys at the beginning of all the gameboy games and the playstation version I believe. The DS game changed the starters, but the 3 original starter monsters do appear in the game as wild monsters.
The series itself didn't get any merchandise, except for guides for each of the games. It did get a 4 koma manga based on it, but it's a very rare piece of merchandise to find and usually goes for about 6000 to 8000 yen online (way too much for a book really xD).
Monster Race 2 boxart
Monster Race playstation boxart
Monster Racers DS Japanese boxart
TAS (Tool Assisted Speedrun) of the origjnal Monster Race for gameboy.
Part 2 of the Monster Race TAS
Huge selection of playthroughs of the different Monster Race games on Nicozon (a video site). Also has BGM music as well.
Videos for the DS game Monster Racers
Monster Race comic (fanmade?)