Known as Let's Start Writing and Talking!: Monster Farm DS in Japan, this game was released for the 10 year anniversary of the franchise but was never localized anywhere else, much to fans' dismay. Despite rumors that it would be made into a new game called Monster Farm Jamboree, this also never came to pass, although the game's sequel, Monster Rancher DS, finally made it to the USA in 2009.
Story[]
The game takes place in the city of Borgan on the Northern Continent and brings back several characters from previous games while introducing many new ones.
Gameplay[]
The main character is never seen on screen, but always talks to his apprentice, Cleo, directly. The player chooses his actions and choices through menu options.
Acquiring Monsters[]
Monsters are created primarily through two ways drawing pictures in the Magic Field using the touchscreen or reciting an Incantation using the microphone. Other methods include combining two existing monsters to create a new monster as well as an additional unrevealed method.
New to the combination process is the "modoki" monster, a glitch monster whose purpose is to give you a monster when you attempt combinations that are not in the game, and appear as a light blue untextured version of the normal model, and appear as the last monster in each monster's entries in the monster encyclopedia, using the ???-subtype normally used by special monsters.
Monster Battles[]
The way you make money, and gain ranks, is by having your monster fight in tournaments. In a fight, your monster starts with a fixed amount of guts, which is basically energy to spend on the moves they know. You can control the monster yourself, or let them fight on their own as they do when they get into a battle in the wild.
Adventures[]
Monsters[]
This game contains 29 main monster breeds, some of which can be combined to form new monsters (270 monsters total). For a full list, see Monster Farm DS Encyclopedia.