Monster Collecting Franchises That Aren’t Pokemon thegeekempress.kinja.com

The franchise has been around now close to 25 years, and is indisputably, the head honcho in the monster collecting genre.
The game had better graphics than the original Pokemon games by virtue of being on the Playstation, and a more interesting combat system that was closer to a fighting game than a turn-based RPG.
AdvertisementDragon Warrior MonstersBefore Pokemon took over the world, the big bads in the JRPG game were Final Fantasy and its bruiser rival Dragon Quest.
In Japan, whenever a new Dragon Quest game came out, productivity would plummet for the next few days after.
InvizimalsInvizimals is a particularly fascinating franchise, because unlike the other monster franchises I’ve listed thus far, this one was never Japanese.