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- Platform: Nintendo DS
- PEGI Rating: Ages 7 and Over
- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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- Collect over 200 monsters to create the ultimate team of monsters!
- Train your monster to learn from over 160 skills. The combinations available are almost infinite!
- Synthesise amazing new creatures that inherit the best abilities of their parents.
- Battle other teams of monsters, using awesome powers to see who is best!
- Explore a rich, visually stunning 3D world filled with monsters, treasures and surprises!
- Challenge a friend and their monster team via DS Wireless Play!
- Take on foes from Europe and the USA via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection!
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DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: Joker is a hot new monster collection RPG for the Nintendo DS. With advanced 3D graphics and a unique multiplayer system - fighting, collecting, training and breeding monsters has never been so much fun!
Product Description
Welcome to Green Bays, a cluster of mysterious islands that sparkle like jewels in the shimmering ocean! But travellers beware! The islands are not as peaceful as they seem, for they teem with a multitude of monsters both great and small. Green Bays is also home to the famous monster scout challenge. This renowned contest, held once every few years, determines who will be crowned the world's greatest scout. It is time for you to begin your quest to become the greatest monster scout in Green Bays and in history.
Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker is a hot new monster collection RPG for the Nintendo DS. With advanced 3D graphics and a unique multiplayer system - fighting, collecting, training and breeding monsters has never been so much fun! You have the option of challenging your friends via local wireless play or the robust Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection component to see who team is the strongest in the Wildcard World Cup! Battle and trade monsters with your friends via the local wireless play. You can either play head-to-head in teh Standard Battles or participate in the Elimination Tourament to see who's the best out of your friends!
- Collect over 200 monsters to create the ultimate team of monsters!
- Train your monster squad to be the strongest! With over 160 skills to teach your monsters, the combinations are almost infinite!
- Synthesise amazing new creatures that inherit the best abilities of their parents and perhaps gain some new rare skills too!
- Battle other teams of monsters, using awesome powers to see who is best!
- Explore a rich, visually stunning 3D world filled with monsters, treasures and surprises!
- Challenge a friend and their monster team via DS Wireless Play!
- Compare and challenge your team against players in Europe and the USA, via the Wildcard World Cup available with Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection!
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Dragon Quest Monsters initially began as Enix's answer to Pokemon. However, since it's beginnings on the Gameboy, it has grown into so much more than just a Pokemon clone. Dragon Quest Monsters Joker has its own spin on the "gotta catch'em all" philosophy. First of all, rather than using "pokeballs", you must impress Monsters using your Scout abilities to get them to join you. The higher rank the monster is, the more powerful your team must be to impress it. Second, your team consists of 3 primary monsters and 3 backup monsters. During battle, you are allowed to have out 3 monsters, but you cannot switch to your backups during battle, making for some difficult fights. Monsters level up in the style of Dragon Quest 8, where you gain skill points in addition to stat boosts that you can allocate as you see fit to the monster's skills. Monsters can use spells and abilities just like in the regular Dragon Quest games. Third, rather than breeding monsters, monsters are synthesized to create new breeds of monsters.
The main difference between this game and the regular Dragon Quest series is that rather than have random monster encounters, you can actually see the monsters on the field. This is great because you don't have to go through the guesswork of having to encounter the monster you want as you do in Pokemon. You can just walk around until you see it, then run up to it! Personally I like being able to see the monsters before I fight them so I don't have to waste time looking for certain ones. Also, the monsters respawn at a fairly rapid rate, so you don't have to worry about running out of monsters to fight when leveling up. An interesting part of this is that as you explore, you may notice certain strange objects in the area. These are actually indicators of rare monsters that may show up in that area. For instance on an early level, you walk by a campfire and some giant stones that look like dumb-bells. If you come back, you might encounter a Gigantes in that area!
As if that were not enough, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker also has an online battle portion where you pit your team against other teams on a regional, national or global scale to find out who's the best. Unlike other games where your only reward is bragging rights, this game has in game rankings and you earn items and monsters for each victory!
Dragon Quest Monsters offers solid gameplay on par with the main Dragon Quest series. With over 200 monsters to choose from, excellent online play and a great storyline, this is one game that is not to be missed!
The main difference between this game and the regular Dragon Quest series is that rather than have random monster encounters, you can actually see the monsters on the field. This is great because you don't have to go through the guesswork of having to encounter the monster you want as you do in Pokemon. You can just walk around until you see it, then run up to it! Personally I like being able to see the monsters before I fight them so I don't have to waste time looking for certain ones. Also, the monsters respawn at a fairly rapid rate, so you don't have to worry about running out of monsters to fight when leveling up. An interesting part of this is that as you explore, you may notice certain strange objects in the area. These are actually indicators of rare monsters that may show up in that area. For instance on an early level, you walk by a campfire and some giant stones that look like dumb-bells. If you come back, you might encounter a Gigantes in that area!
As if that were not enough, Dragon Quest Monsters Joker also has an online battle portion where you pit your team against other teams on a regional, national or global scale to find out who's the best. Unlike other games where your only reward is bragging rights, this game has in game rankings and you earn items and monsters for each victory!
Dragon Quest Monsters offers solid gameplay on par with the main Dragon Quest series. With over 200 monsters to choose from, excellent online play and a great storyline, this is one game that is not to be missed!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this game purely on a whim, just to pass the time on long journeys and that sort of thing...but I seriously can't stop playing it! The graphics are surprisingly good, and the diversity of the monsters isn't bad either. However, the best part has to be the sense of pride that you feel when you finally manage to synthesise an S- or X-Grade monster.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
If you ever played Dragon Quest: Monsters on the old Gameboy, you're sure in for a treat. This game has sprawling 3-D levels that allows you to roam freely and encounter monsters that will chase you, run away or stand their ground as you approach them. The game takes you to the world of Green bays, a cluster of Islands that are inhabited by monsters and their masters alike. You are the hero who had been locked up by your own father and your are released to compete in the Green Bays tournament to collect Darkonium and fight your monsters to win the sacred Mark.
At some point you will see a monster called an Incarnus- I won't tell you what happens as it will spoil the story. This game is not like pokemon as this involves 'scouting' which determines if you can recruit the monster into your growing monster team or not and also micromanaging your monsters' skills and attributes to become the ultimate fighting force.
If you complete the monster library and monster skillset library you'll have a lovely surprise waiting for you so you may determine a certain monster's overall form!
At some point you will see a monster called an Incarnus- I won't tell you what happens as it will spoil the story. This game is not like pokemon as this involves 'scouting' which determines if you can recruit the monster into your growing monster team or not and also micromanaging your monsters' skills and attributes to become the ultimate fighting force.
If you complete the monster library and monster skillset library you'll have a lovely surprise waiting for you so you may determine a certain monster's overall form!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Good Game Great Price
Good Game. Great Price. No problems with the game loading or playing. Now need DQM 2 to be cheaper now!
Published 4 months ago by Mr. P. Gibson
AMAZING
This is an amazing monster training RPG. Its similar to pokemon, monster battling, you can have triple battles,the monsters have magic points, instead of wandering through grass... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Rob1221
Good Game, Highly Addictive
The game is similar to Pokemon in collectly, training and battling monsters. The controls are easy to pick up and the gameplay makes sense. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mr. A. R. Young
Inferior to its gameboy color ancestor in all ways. Decent apart from...
The ai,game design dungeon design, encounters, encounter speed, monster breeding system, cpu opponents, bonus bosses, lastability, replayability,depth and difficulty are all a big... Read more
Published 22 months ago by Paul Teevan
Almost like pocketmon - that's the annoying thing
It's delightful seeing the monsters turning into 3D, dragon slashing, war cry etc is fun. The islands are good to explore. Read more
Published on 2 Nov 2008 by Ms. C. Y. Wong
Good game at first... but does get repetitive.
When i first got this game it was realy good... untill i found out how repetitive it can realy be. This game is pretty hard and once you have a high level monster it takes forever... Read more
Published on 10 Oct 2008
DQM: Joker out does any Pokemon or other Monster game
I bought DQM: Joker because of the fond memories I have with the older Game Boy versions. This new DS version brings back many enjoyable memories (ie, Monsters and sounds) from... Read more
Published on 16 April 2008 by P. Noble
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