Name : Dragon Warrior Monsters
Format : Gameboy (color)
Released : 2000
Developer : Enix

I bought this game to play when I went on holiday to France. Having exhausted all my current games I thought I'd treat myself to a good RPG that would last. After my initial playing I liked what I saw. Although the storyline seems to be made up by a 4 year old with too much time you quickly negate that as you get engrossed in the game itself.

Being serious who in their right mind would think that this storyline is good. A dark fluffy thing jumps out of your draw, grabs your sister, and leaps back in with her, now a light fluffy thing comes through, talks to you and takes you in. You find yourself in the kingdom of the great tree. Here you have to get the best of the best to compete in the starry night tournement and win, therefor getting your wish to be re-united with your sister and sent back to your world. Now come on.

But the game really shines on it's monsters. Drawen by the great anime master Toriyama Akira, the person responsible for Dragon Warrior and Dragon Quest, Dragonball Z, DR Slump and the masterpiece Akira, they look great and have a real good feel about them. This game has scores of originality and the breeding option really is great. You can spend ages breeding after breeding just to see what you get.

To progress you must go into randomly generated mystic worlds and beat the boss of that world, sometimes the boss goes with you sometimes he doesnt, these worlds is also where the monsters are. To catch a monster you feed it meat at the same time as you attack it, then you cross your fingers. These worlds are almost maze like and although repetitive you still for some reason go back for more.

As for longitivity ( I think I just invented a new word ) it certainly has that, It takes months to complete the game and I doubt you'll have all the monsters when you do. The hardets monster of all, Dark Drium, is something like 10 levels worth of breeding.

Overall : This game is a great RPG and pokemon style game, with a more RPGish feel to it than pokemon it really is a good game, the monsters designs are great although the in game sprytes aren't great, on a Gameboy Color the only color worth mentioning is that of the monsters. Some tunes are catchy although some are just annoying.

In general a good game : 91%

Kieron Sean Rees