Players can create monsters out of drawings, words, and even their voice in Monster Rancher DS. In our interview Koichi Yamaguchi outlines the technology and hints at one future feature.

After Monster Rancher Neo, Tecmo moved the Monster Rancher series from consoles to handhelds.

The last Monster Rancher game came out three years ago. You may have forgotten what a Suezo is. Maybe you don’t know what a Suezo is.

In Again: Eye of Providence you play as Jonathan Weaver, a FBI agent with the power to see in the past.

Monster Farm Jump or Monster Rancher Hop-A-Bout, as it is known here, is not the highlight of the Monster Rancher series. Instead of creating charming monsters from CDs and raising them Monster Rancher Hop-A-Bout only hopping monster in a board game setting. Yeah? Well, I’m content with not getting that as a PlayStation Classic here. [...]

One feature I always appreciated in Tecmo’s Monster Rancher series was how you gained access to new monsters. You don’t “catch” them like in Pokemon, you create them from CDs, DVDs or in the case of the Game Boy Advance spin offs use words. Monster Farm DS 2 goes a step further by adding in [...]

  Tecmo came up with a clever idea when they released Monster Rancher on the Playstation, use CDs/DVDs as the data to create monsters to raise. It was a gimmick, but it separated the Monster Rancher series from the burst of Pokemon-clones released in the 90s. When the series came to the Game Boy Advance [...]

Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword for the DS got almost all of the attention from Tecmo’s press conference, but Tecmo has two other games that have nothing to do with Ryu Hayabusa. Monster Farm DS (Monster Rancher series) has been in development for quite some time and it is scheduled to come out on July 12, [...]