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Monster Rancher 2 Game Also Launches on Smartphones in Japan on September 17
posted on by Alex Mateo
The official Twitter account for Koei Tecmo's Monster Rancher (Monster Farm) franchise revealed on Wednesday that the Monster Rancher 2 (Monster Farm 2) game port will launch on iOS and Android devices in Japan on September 17, the same day that it will launch on the Nintendo Switch.
The release features more than 400 monsters, and includes new elements as well as improvements based on the results of a promotional Twitter campaign.
Monster Rancher 2 initially debuted for 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 port of the original Monster Rancher game in Japan for iOS and Android devices in November 2019 and for Switch in December 2019.
The first game in the Monster Rancher series debuted for the PlayStation console in 1997. The game tasks players with raising a variety of monsters to fight in tournaments, with the game deciding how to raise the monster, which then determines how the monsters fight. A notable feature of many games in the series is the ability to generate a random monster dependent upon discs that the player provides for the game to read.
Source: Monster Farm franchise's Twitter account via Hachima Kikō
