Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
- Created by Yuji Horii, Akira Toriyam and Koichi Sugiyama
- Create new species as you synthesize customized monsters from a selection of more than 200 different creatures
- Challenge your friends via local wireless play to see whose team is the strongest
- Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection component allows players to upload and download monster team data for battle on their Nintendo DS systems
Product Description
Enter the world of Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker as the young hero locked in a prison by your own father the leader of a mysterious organization known as CELL. Released under orders to enter the Monster Scout Challenge you will embark on a journey starting with a single monster and a scout ring unaware of the dark and mysterious intentions that surround the competition.Joker is the first game in the series to have online play via Nintendo Wi-Fi. The battle system is … More >>
The story is not that great; it’s incredibly cliched.
The bad boy look of his doesn’t match up to what you are doing, nor does his personality really shine throughout the game.
Incredible level-grinding, not taking into account breeding skills and levels to be ABLE to breed.
The upside to this is that it’s 3-d and there are many new monsters. This game isn’t as memorable as Dragon Warrior Monsters 1 or 2. They made this game too forced in terms of gameplay and level grinding; DWM 1 and 2 were much more accessible and player-friendly, plus it’s gameplay was much longer than this game.
This is truly a disappointment to the older games, even with it’s pro’s.
Rating: 2 / 5
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
Because I’m a devout fan of Dragon Quest video games, I got Dragon Quest Monsters to add to my collection. Monster collecting games like Pokemon do not appeal to me, because they involve tons of level-grinding. This game is no different.
In the game, there are 7 different islands. Each island has different monsters, ranked according to their power from “F” being lowest to “A” or “S” being highest. Going from one island to the next involve a dramatic increase in the challenge in this game–hence, the need to level-grind to increase the levels of the monsters in my party.
Fusing monsters is a key element to this game. However, doing so is a bit tricky. Fused monsters start off with stats that are half those of their parents. So, it’s best to level-up the monsters so that they won’t be too weak when starting out.
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker is the third entry in the Dragon Quest Monsters series to reach America. This game features many modifications. The player can now store up to 100 monsters in inventory from the beginning. The monsters no longer have the WLD feature that makes them unruly or run away. When monsters in inventory level-up, they gain skill points, which the player can allocate at leisure. The player assigns skill points to certain skill sets for their monsters to learn. Each monster can learn up to three skill sets when fusing them together. When both monsters know much of a skill set, but haven’t mastered it, their child can learn a more powerful version of that skill set. Another major change to this game is that the player no longer uses meat treats to tame monsters. Instead, the player tames monsters by using a scout feature, in which monsters attempt to impress a new monster by displaying their attack power. It works fine at taming multiple weak monsters at the beginning, however, the more of a type of monster a player has, the harder it is to impress.
This game makes minimal use of the touch feature. Touching the bottom screen moves the map and makes selections in inventory. The top screen shows the action in the game. I, however, tend to play the game without touching the bottom screen at all. It’s an optional feature that people can use, if they want to.
The most appealing aspect of Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker is the graphics. The game is full 3-D, just like Dragon Quest VIII. Pokemanics craving monster collecting in 3-D can look here to get their desires met.
This game uses a wi-fi feature that ranks the player against other players according to performance. The wins prizes for connecting to the network each day. The player can also battle copies of another player’s team, and can get a prize for winning, too. I have yet to try that, but I keep starting this game over from the beginning. The further I go into the game, the more level-grinding I have to do, and I *hate* level-grinding. However, folks that love level-grinding would probably enjoy Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker.
Rating: 3 / 5
This Version of the dragon Quest series is a welcome addition . Game plays well .. . And I quite enjoyed it and will continue to re-play this game many times over .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m a big fan of the dragon warrior monsters series. I loved both DWM 1&2. I bought Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker thinking this game would be like Dragon Warrior Monsters series. When i received my game, I right away opened the game and started playing it. It was fun for a few days. But after awhile experiencing it, the fun was fading away. Where is all the original monsters from Dragon Warrior Monsters 1&2? Why scouting? Why not taming monster with meat? Why are monsters soooooooo easy to make? They should have left the breeding the way it was like DWM 1&2. This game was overall fun and lasted me a few weeks but I decided to just wrap it up and give it away for a Christmas present. Sorry but this game isnt as impressive as I thought it was going to be. 4 Stars Overall and 3 Stars fun .
Rating: 4 / 5
DQM is a pretty good game for far. You could get frustrated, but I don’t know all of the game yet. I just got it. I’m at the first boss. Once you come in, you can’t go out. So, to beat the boss, I recommend you get a platapunk for your first monster because it knows body slam. If you get it to level 12 it does 158 damage to the boss but only 45 to you. It’s pretty awesome so far. I like it.
Rating: 4 / 5