In the world of Onegai Monsters, when kids turn 10 years old, they can become a monster trainer. They collect their first monster from their local professor. These monsters are part of different elemental types, and will fight each other in turn-based battles before gaining enough experience to evolve into a new form. The concept sounds interesting and I’m surprised nobody else has tried to do something similar.

Onegai Monsters has a fairly impressive overworld map, and it looks like there is a lot to explore – unfortunately, you don’t get to do this at all, as you can’t leave your starting village. Instead, you send your monsters out to explore for you and watch them move around the map, only having input when a battle starts. While I had a lot of translation issues with the game, I know that this is something that is true. So if all your monsters are out, all you do is wait (especially when they sleep) – although luckily there is a fast forward feature.

The battle seems interesting, although far too complicated for Google Translate to handle the job. While for the most part it seems similar to Pokémon, however you can move forwards and backwards, which likely has some meaning and tactics to it, although there is an “auto” button to let the computer decide what your monster does. Defeating a monster will also add it to your catalogue, so you can try and discover all 500 monsters. The ones I encountered seemed quite decent.

But, unfortunately, there’s a lot of text. I was unable to figure out how to get more eggs to hatch new monsters. I bought stuff from the shop I got my first one from, and I sent my blob called Bob out on adventures, yet never got an egg. There are other aspects, like matching food colour to element type to have even better stats.

It’s an interesting looking game, but I’d need a translated version to be able to understand more.

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Remake or Remaster?

The concept of sending monsters out seems more suited to a mobile or idle version of this.

Official Ways to get the game

There’s no official way to play Onegai Monsters