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Author Topic: Let's Play Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2; Revenge of the Unnecessary Title  (Read 7841 times)

A Spoony Bard

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Alright, I'm sure most of you viewing this thread probably have no idea what this game is. I can't say I blame you. Dragon Quest Monsters for the gameboy was Square Enix's (at that time Square Soft) imitation flattery of the pokemon franchise. Now the series is all grown up and has two games for the DS (and one for the 3DS that is probably not being translated). However, I'm sure you came here to read a Let's Play and not the history of some pokemon knock-off homage. So without further ado, I present to you:

(sorry to those of you with slow internet, the rest of Let's Play will be under spoilers.
Spoiler: Update 1 (click to show/hide)
Next time on Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2: Revenge of the Return of the Unnecessarily long title; Super Extended Director's Cut:
The ship finishes crashing!
We get the first monster to our name!
Gameplay?

Also, for those of you reading this, please suggest some names for our monsters, I'll just compile a list of names and take them from down the list as we go on, as there is no way to rename monsters in this game, and nick-names are required by the game.
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Wolf Tengu

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Don't know much about this game, but I like DQ so i'll be watching, if I remember.
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Neonivek

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I always kinda wanted to play this game.
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Darvi

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GOKU GET OUT OF THIS GAME YOU'RE NOT EVEN A CHARACTER THERE.
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Neonivek

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GOKU GET OUT OF THIS GAME YOU'RE NOT EVEN A CHARACTER THERE.

Yeah... that artist doesn't have a lot of... character variety.

Lets just say that in Blue Dragon I was wondering why Trunks was in it. Also if you look at Crono really closely, he is also Goku with Orange Hair.
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Darvi

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And Magus is Vegeta with a slicker hairstyle.
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A Spoony Bard

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Even the lesser enemies in the dragon quest games tend to be recolored and used later pretty often. I recall in one game being able to see a creature and then a red recolor of it with only 15 minutes of the main storyline between them. Also, name suggestions for the monsters/creatures that are raised will/would be welcomed with open arms, since the game doesn't allow a default name-type thing as with pokemon, sometimes the names of monsters in the wild is even longer than you're able to input when naming them. Plus we'll probably get the first creature we're actually required to name in the next part, I am, unfortunately unable to say what it is as it's randomized with each play-through. However, I can say we'll be getting a slime alongside whatever monster we start with. The starter monsters are a cracked egg, a shishkebab, a platypus, a lizard, a bag, or a ghost.
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Seriyu

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Oh hey, recently got the first DQM Joker, after having a ton of fun with the gameboy Dragon quest monsters games. Still think they were much muuuuuch better then pokemon, the whole monster breeding aspect does a ton for it. Definitely be keepin an eye on this.

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Hm, I need to finish playing through this game. I'm gonna vote Mr. or Ms. Goo for the slime you get. Oh, so "sexes" aren't male/female, they're +/-, right? Does that matter for naming?
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Hm, I need to finish playing through this game. I'm gonna vote Mr. or Ms. Goo for the slime you get. Oh, so "sexes" aren't male/female, they're +/-, right? Does that matter for naming?
Sexes are indeed +/- I don't care too much about giving "sex" (I use the term loosely since the sexes are negative and positive) certain sex-specific names. If you give the name sally for a creature I'll give it to them regardless of their sex/charge/whatever they are. If you give names for only certain sexes/charges I'll respect your decision and give the name to a creature of the correct sec/charge.
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Seriyu

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Oh, so that's what that little mark is in the status screen.

That's a..... bizzare decision to say the least.

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So... what do the sexes do? Any stat changes, or is it just "pluses and minuses can mate"?
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A Spoony Bard

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So... what do the sexes do? Any stat changes, or is it just "pluses and minuses can mate"?
No stat changes, but once you beat the second area you gain the ability to combine a plus and a minus into a stronger monster, it's one of the main differences between this series and pokemon.
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Seriyu

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Yeah, and it's done really well too, if they've kept the mechanics from the Gameboy games. But I may be getting ahead of myself.  :P

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Next time on Dragon Quest Monster: Joker 2; When Does This Title Even Stop:
Treepidation!
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