Monster Rancher DS returns for another season
by JC Fletcher 
on May 23rd 2008 6:00PM
We never heard much about
Monster Farm DS (or
Monster Rancher DS, as it
would have been known in the west, had it ever come out over here). We knew about the wacky new yelling-based,
touchscreen-based, and GBA-cartridge-based monster creation systems that were added ... and that's about it. For whatever reason, the import never got much attention, and it was never released outside of Japan. For a popular series like that on the most popular console, that's kind of a
bad sign.
Still, Tecmo must have done okay in Japan, because they've announced another one for this August.
Monster Farm DS 2 keeps the same input systems as before, but adds a character input system of some kind, that will allow players to write Japanese or Chinese characters in order to generate monsters.
That's neat and all, but having gameplay be so dependent on kanji just makes it even harder to localize.
