Way better than anyone says.

User Rating: 8.9 | Other Life: Azure Dreams (Konami the Best) PS
This game is one of my favorites from the Playstation, it has a huge, constantly changing tower, cool monsters, great music, tons of minigames and a hover-scooter that looks a little too much like a naughty object.... Azure dreams has a lot packed into it. You can raise monsters, make the town a cultural mecca, treasure hunt in the monster tower to buy all the junk you could ever want or you can get crazy anime chicks to tottally sweat you. This game is just fun. while the graphics aren't the greatest it doesn't take anything away from the soul of the game. The 2D drawings of charcters are awsome and everything in the game is definable. The game play is not worse than what is needed, it works with the Chess like movement, playing is not frustrating and everything is fair and balanced. Setting up your monsters and attacks are easy too, there is no real flaw in the game's design. Sure the first few levels of the tower get broing after the hundredth time, and it takes a long time before you can venture far in to the tower and when you are too far trying to get out of the tower is frustrating. These difficulties are what make the game challenging, making everything you earn in this game rewarding. The auto save is bad though, you once in the tower and everything you had would be lost, but that is why you should be keeping a backup save for this game. Still this game is wonderful, and i still play it every so often, getting the baby dragon was worth all of it. The mini games are great in this game too, more games should adopt the versitility of this game. And face it the moped-hoover-scooter thing is the coolest ride in video game history.