Unsurprisingly, out of nowhere Nayuta appears ... which adds a heavier RPG factor to Monster Rancher EVO than the previous games. The adventure segments very much follow the archetype of Phantasy ...

TORRANCE, Calif. Jan. 28, 2006 - Tecmo today announced that Monster Rancher ® EVO, the next installment of the legendary monster breeding series for the PlayStation ® 2 computer entertainment ...

The main Monster Farm (Monster Rancher) series has already seen two ... The game's heroine is a brown-haired girl called Nayuta, a fifteen-year-old priestess who carries out rebirth ceremonies ...

Either way, Tecmo's battle sim with beasts has geared up for a fifth console game with Monster Rancher EVO, alluding to the evolution of the gameplay. Unfortunately, EVO devolves much more than it ...

Monster Rancher EVO represents a huge departure for the series, as it all but abandons the previously stripped-down formula in favor of something more similar to a traditional Japanese RPG.

Monster Rancher EVO marks the series' fifth appearance on the PlayStation 2 hardware and contains its most ambitious overhaul to date. We checked out a work-in-progress version of the game to see ...