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Collect and train monsters in this 3-D role playing game

Collect and train monsters in this 3-D role playing game

Vote: (52 votes)

Program license: Free

Developer: Maga Joy

Version: 1.3.0

Works under: Android

Vote:

Program license

(52 votes)

Free

Developer

Version

Maga Joy

1.3.0

Works under:

Android

Pros

  • A huge amount of authentically replicated Pokemon to collect and battle
  • A deep and engaging combat system combined with beautiful 3D graphics

Cons

  • Not officially released due to legal licensing issues
  • Prone to crashing mid game

Monster Park (SEA) may not be sanctioned by Nintendo, but it offers perhaps the most authentic and deep Pokemon games available for mobile devices. Nintendo tends to be incredibly protective of their properties, and that's as true for Pokemon as it is for any of their other popular games. While Pokemon Go provided an opportunity to catch your favorite pocket monsters in the real world, we have yet to see a game that replicates the popular adventures of the portable Pokemon games for phones. It's an egregious oversight, especially given how naturally these games would adapt to the mobile experience. Fortunately, a number of developers have helped fill that gap by creating their own off brand spin on the Pokemon formula. Few of these knock-offs pull from the Pokemon formula as egregiously as Monster Park, but few also manage to execute the formula nearly as well. While this isn't an officially sanctioned Pokemon game, it feels like it in everything but name.

What makes this game stand out from the competition isn't just the fact that it hews so close to the characters that players know and love. The production is top notch. If you didn't know better, it would be easy to mistake this for an actual Nintendo release. A huge selection of popular Pokemon are rendered in full three dimensional graphics, and they look just like you'd expect. The attention to detail here is superb, and everything fits in comfortably with the Pokemon house style. While the pocket monsters themselves are lovingly created and authentic to the source, that same attention to detail has gone into every element of the design. The lead characters look like they could have been ripped from the popular anime, and the environments themselves are rendered in the same cartoon style. The menus themselves are easy to navigate, and all the information is presented clearly. These are games that are dense with statistics, but Monster Park makes it easy to understand the strengths and weaknesses of your pocket monsters with a simple glance.

The story is original, but it fits comfortably into the format that players know and love. You're a new monster trainer tasked with wandering the world, capturing new monsters in the wild, and engaging in battles with both random and professional trainers. Just as in the core series, your ultimate goal is to beat eight elite trainers and earn your reputation as the best fighter around. The systems are practically identical to those in the core Pokemon games, and that extends to everything from candies you can feed your monsters to power them up to the complicated rock paper scissors system of battles that the games are known for. This may not be an officially Pokemon licensed product, but it's the closest you'll find on mobile devices.

Pros

  • A huge amount of authentically replicated Pokemon to collect and battle
  • A deep and engaging combat system combined with beautiful 3D graphics

Cons

  • Not officially released due to legal licensing issues
  • Prone to crashing mid game