Monster and Me
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Monster and Me is a chinese fantasy themed MMORPG developed by TQ Digital. The game consists of catching monsters and training them, which is in some ways similar to Pokémon. The game is currently free to play.
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| Developer(s) | TQ digital |
| Publisher(s) | TQ digital |
| Release date(s) | January 31, 2003 |
| Genre(s) | MMORPG |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | N/A |
| Platform(s) | Windows |
| Media | Download |
| System requirements | Intel Pentium III 800 MHz equiv. CPU, 128 MB RAM, 16 MB or higher 3D graphics card such as GeForce 2 or better, 1 GB hard drive space, DirectX 8.1, Internet connection of at least 56 kbit/s |
| Input | Keyboard, Mouse |
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[edit] Downloading & Costs
Downloading and playing Monster and Me is free forever. Currently the game is totally free, but you can purchase gems to help you with game play.
[edit] Game-play
Monster and Me is a turn-based role playing game where leveling is crucial to success in a battle. The game has a player killing system called the Martial circle. If you join the martial circle you can hurt other players and steal from them, but only if they are in the martial circle also. Another major focus of the game is the pet raising system. You need at least one pet and as such you start out with one. If your pet dies in battle or you die in battle your pet gets something called injury degree. All pets have a growth rate to begin with but as you gain injury degree, your pets growth rate diminishes. As you gain levels you gain opportunities to advance to different levels of divinity. You can become a basic god, junior god, senior god, super god or master god. You can also become devil forms of all of these excluding basic god. Also, There are 7 types of Master God/Devil.However,some types are only available to God while some are only available to devil.Those available to both would be Pet Raising, Cultivation and Virtue. Those available to only God would be Wuxing Creativity and Kungfu Creativity God, while those available to Devil would be Thievery and Reputation Devil. When you achieve the spot of junior god you also gain the opportunity to reincarnate. Reincarnating starts you off from level 1 again at the last level of divinity you have achieved. Reincarnating gives you something called cultivation. The amount it gives you is 1/2 your current level. Meaning if you get to level 1200 as a Master god and reincarnate, you go back to level 1 and gain 600 cultivation. Cultivation is a secondary level that in terms of equipment is much better than actual levels. It allows you to wear much more powerful equipment in the game, this is because they have high cultivation requirements. You gain one point of cultivation for each level you gain from junior god on.
[edit] Challenges
There are a lot of challenges that you can achieve.The most basic one would be to achieve higher ranks, like from Mortal to Basic God, Basic God to Junior God/Devil,Junior God/Devil to Senior God/Devil,Senior God/Devil to Super God/Devil,Super God/Devil to Master God/Devil. The Next challenge would be to reborn a set number of times.Reborning would make you a mortal again and everything would be reset,you will leave your guild and you will also divorce your spouse,unless you do the couple reborn.You can reborn an infinite number of times,but the max number that can be shown to others would be 99.You can recgonize the amount of times they reborned by looking at their rank. It would be something like (Virtue God[99]).It means that the person is currently a virtue god, and has reborn 99 times(or more) before that.However,there is no need to do that as that only makes other players recgonize your experience rather than your ability and strength.Therefore,an alternative would be to train a very powerful pet.Another one would be to challenge a very strong dungeon called Sky Pass. It is actually more of like a tower.You are required to defeat a monster at each floor to pass through. There are a total of 100 Floors, and each floor increases the monsters' level by 50.This means that at 1F,the monsters are level 50,at 2F,the monsters are at level 100,and so on and so forth. The only exception would be at 100F,where the monsters are at level 8000.It is nothing to fret about, cause with the ability of Wuxing, we can create power equipments to increase our stats and makes us stronger.As for the pet,we should find a pet as powerful as possible.At the end of Sky Pass, you will get a pet.These are just one of the few challenges.There are much more of those when playing Monster & Me.Therefore,you can play it straight for 2 to 3 years and you still won't be finished with the challenges,as TQDigital is updating more and more challenges even now.Therefore,even if you finished the challenges and took a break,if you do not check the updates after a while,you would not be able to keep up with the new challenges TQDigital set for us.
[edit] Elements
The game is highly reliant on the idea of 5 elements:Metal, Wood, Earth, Water, Fire. This plays a key part in most processes in the game. Fire melts metal. Metal breaks Wood. Wood gains power from Earth. Earth absorbs water. Water puts out fire. In pet battles for instance you might have a pet that is a water pet. If that water pet fights a fire pet, then the water pet will take much more from the fire pet and the fire pet will do very little damage to the water pet. Each element has a strong attribute. Fire = attack, Water = Dexterity, Metal = Defense, Wood = mana, and Earth = Life. These are important for wuxing.
[edit] Wuxing
Wuxing is a process of item creation. There are 8 spots on the wuxing board. Going in clockwise order staring from the top: 1st:element metal,armor,poison. 2nd:wood,adornments. 3rd:water,shoes. 4th:earth,adornments. 5th:earth,healing items,headwear. 6th:wood,belts,adornments. 7th:fire,weapons. 8th:metal,armor. Each spot has an element and as such has an item that preferably in that position in order to strengthen it most efficiently. Every spot in the world also has an element and influences wuxing to a degree. When you wux to create an item, you choose a main element. This influences the outcome of the process. Different pieces of equipment have different "bad" attributes. These are based on the elemental principals. For example: You place a weapon in spot 7 and a piece of armor in spot 8 and set the weapon as the main attribute. If you wux them, the weapon will gain a -defense value. As a result of this, the level requirement of the weapon goes down. This idea is important for making very powerful equipment. For example if you sacrifice the attribute mana and attack on various pieces of equipment, then you can gain high defense and dexterity earlier.
