Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince Combines And Commands This December

One of my favorite announcements from the Direct. This looks great. Really happy S-E is localizing the DQM games again.

Psaro and Rose? YES PLEASE!

The initial announcement piqued my interest. Especially since I have yet to try a DQM title (Most of these are expensive or were never released outside of Japan). Mostly sold at this point.

So this game is tie to Dragon Quest IV? I can see the Chapters of the Chosen hero at the end so it must had took place during the Zenithia saga.

Dragon Quest Monsters 3!!! So excited.
Edit: So nobody else tags me, this game is an entry in the DQ Monsters 3 series in Japanese.

I assumed this was a prequel of sorts to DQ4 since Psaro looks younger and more simplified than his NES self.

I missed DQM so much. Day 1 purchase. SMRPG, SM wonder, Pikmin 1, 2, 4, are all purchases for me.

Another hugely underrated game from the Direct. No DQ 3 HD2D but I'm sure that will pop up later this year

@Axecon I think Dragon Quest III remake and Dragon Quest XII will be shown in a separate showcase. Usually Yuji Horii when he showcase his Dragon Quest games he announced them in their own Dragon Quest focus showcase, he doesn't want to associate his games with the Final Fantasy or Square Enix crowd cause that takes away the focus from his games. Dragon Quest unlike Final Fantasy still had their original creator handling the series whereas Final Fantasy no longer had theirs (Hironobu Sakaguchi though creator of FF is no longer associate with FF). This is why Dragon Quest is still fantastic and Final Fantasy is not anymore.

@Ryu_Niiyama DQ Monsters 3 is actually on the 3ds, it just only came out in Japan. Definitely play the fan translation if you can, it's a beautiful game.

@CR0J0 This game is Dragon Quest Monsters 3 Mazoku no Ouji to Elf no Tabi (the Dark/Demon Tribe Prince and the Elf's Journey -I'm too lazy to switch to JPN keyboard right now) in japanese. Which is the version I am buying. I have DQ Monsters 3 Joker Professional already in Japanese on the 3DS. This is also an DQ 3 Monsters entry.

@Ryu_Niiyama I stand corrected, thanks for the insight

@CR0J0 No prob. It didn't occur to me that someone would get confused by my referring to the Japanese title...I had just finished watching the JPN direct when I posted. Was too excited I guess.

I thought this looked very uninspired. Bland environments with some dragon quest monster models popped in. Pokemon SV looks miles ahead of whatever this is.

@Serpenterror
You play as the villain of Dragon Quest IV.

Hold on. Your telling me that besides solo appearing at the end of the trailer but we’re also playing as Psaro the final boss of DQ4 which is my very first dragon quest game? DAY ONE BUY INSTANTLY!!!

Wow wow wow. That was the only game I was really stoked for on the direct. Where is 10? Where is three? Who cares another dragon quest, I’m here for it. Which means when is three coming out? Will, we get it in this year? Don’t even get me started on X. I have it for Wii and can’t even understand a damn thing I’m doing. I was kind of disappointed in Dragon Quest treasures, but I still push through. I’ve always love the monster series.

@Serpenterror I definitely agree with the last part of what you said. Dragon quest is still good because the creator is still attached and final fantasy is not because The creator is not.

I strongly believe all intellectual properties should stay and die with their creators.

I am a Dragon Quest fan. I am also partial to DQ Monsters. It therefore follows that this is a likely instabuy pending a disaster, lol

@Serpenterror XII is going to take a long time but 3 HD2D feels like it's been done for a while now. We've gotten like 5 HD2D games announced and released since DQ3 was announced. I really do wonder if Horii's cryptic messages were true and it might actually be a HD2D trilogy compilation of all the first 3 DQ games.

Buy it so that Squeenix knows we westerners like DQM.

They've been very stingy with translating the series of late.

A Dragon Quest Monsters with Psaro the Manslayer was not my first guess for today. Definitely getting it! Didn’t expect DQM in the west again, so this was a nice surprise.

Getting to play as the villain is an interesting take. I love Dragon Quest and creature taming games, so this was a no brainier buy for me. Honestly, really want a DQ V remake for similar reasons. Enjoyed the heck outta that game.

@Zeroo
Going to have to disagree. I thought this looked great! Interesting and colourful environments. Pokemon SV looks miles behind this game. Also it'll actually be polished, unlike the jank, bugs and severe frame rate issues in Pokemon SV.

Half a year is "not very long" apparently.

Also how well did the mid AF DQTreasures even sell to convince SE to finally give us a new DQM?

@Ryu_Niiyama DQM3 and DQM Joker 3 are not the same thing. The third game was Carvan Heart which bombed in Japan so it was never localized (and yet there was a mobile game we also never got based on it for a while for some reason).

This is the first numbered game without "Joker" before the number since DWM2: Cobi and Tara/DQM2 Iru and Luka

Also there is no such thing as a "DQ Monsters 3 series" it's DQM series.

@Mattwo I never said they were the same thing. I said that the new game was a DQM3 game which it is. The person I replied to mentioned DQM3 on 3DS and I mentioned the one that I have (as I assumed he was referring to the Joker games). I worded it the way I did to keep the "well actually's" at bay (as it distracts from the simple fact that I am excited for the game an I merely stated that) and apparently that didn't work because you are now tagging me. Can I be excited for the game? Is that ok?