I have. I've even played it. Heck, I OWN it, and Prima's official strategy guide with monster list and merging recipes.

I'll post up a review of the game, once I get off work and actually get around to playing it a bit. Xp It's been a while... I've even forgotten what the main town is called. XD

Anywho, this topic will be for conversation regarding this game. Personally, I think it's a great game, and worth spending time on if you can find it.

I've played it and beat it... sorta... I don't remember the ending. So I bought the game on Ebay and currently playing it.

An artist from Hayao Miyazaki's studio did the character designs...

A rated "M" Jade Cocoon? XP Naa... It's rated "T". It's for the original Playstation. I got my used copy for about $15 bucks.

It's about this boy named Levant who has to become a Cocoon Master because the end of the world is coming... or something of that jest. Cocoon Masters use cocoons to trap monsters (which trapped monsters are called "Fireflies"). Fireflies are eeeevil and aren't usable unless they purify them.

In order for him to be a Cocoon Master in the first place is to marry a woman from the Nagi tribe. So our little to-be Cocoon Master Levant marries his best friend Mahbu so he could use her powers of purification. She could purify the fireflies, merge them, or weave them into silk (the only means of getting money in the game). Although Levant wants to build up his levels and get much more powerful monsters, he is afraid to because every time Mahbu uses her magic she gets sicker and sicker.

To make matters worse (End of the world, check. Newly wed wife dying, check.), the village that Levant and Mahbu lives in hates the Nagi. So Mahbu is getting sick and getting hated on whenever she leaves the house.

That's mostly all that I could understand. The background story is about why the end of the world is coming. It was something about this one Spirit got angry at some other two spirits for creating humans. Then there is another side story about this prince that met this Forest Spirit and... *scratches my head* ...something about the first Cocoon Master? Eh... something like that...

The whole game is kinda boring. There's story but hardly any character development. Levant and Mahbu doesn't seem to have much of a bond. If the manual and some sentences from the game didn't mention they were best friends, I would have thought they were total strangers forced to marry. Also the gameplay is linear, controls aren't very good, and it gets repetitive... real quick. To sum up the whole game, think of a Pokemon game with a dark and serious theme.

Pluses about this game is that you marry. XP (Okay... that's probably not considered a plus for most people when buying a game. ^^; ) The monsters, although aren't extremely customizable, you could create your own by merging different monster types to create hybrids. Some monster hybrids are really cool looking and powerful, but it takes a lot of time and luck to get the right look and abilities you want. Art design is good and atmosphere is interesting. Oh yea, then you reach high levels, weak monsters run away from you when you get close (so you can skip meaningless battles).


I might pick up Jade Cocoon 2. I don't know.

Edited by Breakman on June 2, 2006 at 22:21:00.

Something like that, I remember THIS part, at least. Xp (Sorry, I didn't get right to playing it after work. Sis has the PS2 locked up in her room, so I went to building stages on MMPU, and thinking up PsycheMan's character design. He's finished, yay!)

Anywho, the story goes that Levant is the son of Riketz, widely known as the "Lion of Parel", the greatest cocoon master ever known. However, one day, Riketz vanished in the forest, leaving Levant with his mother.

Now, in the game, you live in a small town which recognizes the forest as off-limits domain, as there are wild and unruly monsters lurking within. To keep these monsters at bay, each of the villages has a "Cocoon Master", who travels into the forest and tames/battles the monsters within, keeping the village safe is basically his job. The monsters are considered sacred beasts, so killing them is avoided whenever possible, which makes them an even more immediate threat.

Currently, as I allready mentioned, Levant's father has gone missing, so the village is a bit defenseless.

As the game starts, you find yourself playing the role of Levant, who is just coming of the right age to become a cocoon master. This means that he will take his Father's place as the Lion of Parel and go out into the forest and tame the beasts within.

Of course... this wasn't planned to actually occur for a long while, but it did anyway.

Especially after the Onibubu attacked...

Just a bit later through the game, the entire village gets hit by an "Onibubu" attack. Onibubu are nicknamed the "Locusts of the Apocalypse", and are huge, ugly bugs that spread an evil poison which turns people into stone.

Luckily, Mother Garai had manged to pull up a magical barrier just in time to keep the damage to a minimum, only a few of the villagers were, no pun intended, "stoned".

Anywho, the only known cure for this stone sickness is the legendary "calabas herb", which lies deep within the forest. Seeing as only a Cocoon master can enter the forest, the village elders decide it's time for Levant to step up to the plate, even though it's way earlier than planned.

Of course... this includes a marriage to Mahbu, as all Cocoon masters must have a Nagi wife to purify the angry souls of the beasts they capture. And Mahbu, being the only Nagi woman in the village left, ends up being that person. Of course, this engagement was destined since she was born... so it's not like it was a big surprise.

Anywho, you're now officially married to Mahbu, and you go into the forest, tame beasts, fight poachers, and mix monsters to make awesome new monsters with various skills and magics. Life is sweet. Xp

I managed to not only beat the game, but I also unlocked the Endless Corridor bonus. (Wait until the credits end, then save when it asks you to afterward. Start from the new save and you'll have access to the "Endless corridor", which is an endless forest with tons of new monsters not available in the main game.)

As for JC2, I didn't even know there WAS a sequal... I'd probably get it if I knew where to find it. Xp

Edited by FlareMan on June 3, 2006 at 1:14:55.

The only explanation here is that Dranzer's secretly a rabid pokemon fan.

No real anti-pokemon personality would bother comparing things to it.

Anywho, DigiMon had allready tagged the whole "training monsters to fight against each other" deal long before Poke Mon was even an IDEA. The only thing Pokemon added was catching them.

Catching and fighting monsters are the only two similarities to Pokemon that Jade Cocoon can hail.

Then again, Cocoom Masters have the guts to fight monsters on their own, while Pokemon trainers rely completely on their little monster pals who look WAY too cute to be ready to fight.

Edited by FlareMan on June 10, 2006 at 21:04:51.

Holy shiz. That's awesome! I'm glad that, at the very least, Levant didn't turn evil without a reason.

You say Levant's final form is , eh? Well, I think I can shed some light on to why this may be.