Play Dragon Warrior Monsters 2 : Cobi Online

Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi’s Journey is one of those Game Boy Color games I keep coming back to—it’s Pokémon if Pokémon let you mash monsters together to create unholy abominations. You start as this kid named Cobi (or Tara if you grabbed her version), tossed into a world where everyone’s obsessed with monster breeding. At first, it’s just catching slimes and weird little goblins, but then you discover the breeding system and suddenly you’re spending hours trying to hatch a dragon with a scorpion tail.

The dungeons are randomized, so no two runs feel the same, and the turn-based battles have that classic Dragon Quest vibe—simple at first, but with way more strategy than you’d expect. The real magic? Trading with friends who have Tara’s Adventure and then absolutely demolishing them with your Frankenstein monster team. It’s got that perfect mix of nostalgia and depth that makes it way more than just a Pokémon clone.