Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince Has "One Save Slot Per Switch Account"

That's disappointing as I was hoping to have multiple save files for this one. Oh well, guess I'll just use my second account to replay the story.

Outrageous. Same with Tears of the Kingdom, right? Darn lazy devs

"To play against each other online, each player needs to have their own copy of the game."

Unless you buy it digitally on a profile tied to one console, play on that profile on a different console, and use a different profile on the one it was purchased on. That totally works, done it before with 3D World.

This isn’t disappointing at all since a bunch of other games did this (miitopia the entire Pokémon franchise etc)
But they really should add more save slots to more games nowadays.

Still mourning my Animal Crossing villagers who I erased from my old Switch after transferring save data to the OLED… without realizing Animal Crossing required a separate app 🥲

Never really made multiple save files for games like these. It’s not like it’s a Fallout or Elder Scrolls game where multiple save files are practically required otherwise you run risk ruining a huge play file.

These games tend to be pretty linear and short. I just start over if I want to play again.

@adh56 That's not being lazy. I'm pretty sure it's to prevent save scumming since this game has competitive multiplayer. Games like Pokemon do the same thing. It'd be unfair if you can use multiple save files and use them to undo mistakes or catch rare monsters and then use them online.

@Lizuka it doesn't work if you want to play online, mate.

Locally, sure, but the second the non-main switch goes online it'll boot you from the game. Regardless of which account you use.

The reason for the one save slot was to prevent players from exploiting the game (meaning they can still choose to exploit it whatever that exploit could be but may risk affecting their only save file a.k.a. a scare tactic). This happen in every virtual pet catching game. The only monster joining DQ game without this restriction is still Dragon Quest V for the Nintendo DS and that's only because you can't battle another human player.

First a bland looking world, then day 1 greedy DLC, now this haha. I wonder when they start announcing good stuff about this game.

@Greatluigi Only games that are offline and single player or local co-op had multiple save files such as Sonic Mania Plus, New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, Skyward Sword HD, Metroid Dread, and Super Mario Odyssey. If the game had online trading or allow you to play against another human player online like say ARMS, Burnout: Paradise HD, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Pokemon, Splatoon 3, or Samurai Shodown then you only had one save file.

@Dom_31 I've done it, it absolutely does work (unless they changed it at some point in the past year or so anyway, but I kind of doubt it). It just checks for if the profile's online, not the console.

It's not a huge problem for me, but I fundamentally dislike a game's online side shaping it for those of us who just want to play offline.

@Zeroo Day 1 greedy DLC?

@DogDetective they have announced 3 sets of day 1 DLC (it's on the square enix website, not sure if I can link to it in the comments)

@Zeroo That DLC is AWFUL, in a game where you are meant to play against people online. Reading the descriptions, each DLC pack essentially makes it easier to level up and create stronger, rarer monsters, making the online component pay-to-win.

@Dom_31 It absolutely works, I do it all the time with my brother (we use to buy physical, but since we don't to pay twice for the same game, digital is the way now)

On the main switch, you need to play with another account, on the second switch, you need to have permanent internet but you can play with your account

Not surprising, I almost expect most games to come with one save slot anyways. Anything is better than Animal Crossing's data control, which only has one user per console

How is this surprising though?

@adh56 What are you on about?

DQ Monsters 1 and 2 were great games but also pretty linear games with no real variations, choices, or customization.

I think this is a non-issue for a series like this.

Dragon Quest IX had only one save slot, but that was on Nintendo DS, and the cartridge couldn't hold more, whats their excuse now?

I hate when games do this. How hard can it be to just let you have multiple saves?

@Baker1000 It is not hard, it's just a matter of priorities. For example, they might have had too much UI work and did not have enough time to create the menus necessary for save management etc. Game development is complicated. 99% of players would never use this feature anyways, this is a game without replay value.

@emhardesty I think you may have missed the sarcastic tone in @adh56’s comment there..!

@Zeroo Bland looking world? It may be time for you to get your eyes examined...

I view the multiple Nintendo accounts as "save slots" for the Switch. So I don't see a problem to this.

@MisstressBrea I don't mean to hurt your feelings but on the DragonQuest subreddit this is what we're talking about as our main negative. They seem to have taken 3DS graphics and said "good enough" instead of giving us DQXI graphics and environments.

@Zeroo Ah, I see! Sorry about that, yes that makes sense and I agree with that. I think the graphics are a fair amount better than 3DS, but definitely nowhere near as nice as DQ XI (or even S - Definitive Edition for that matter).
I don't think they'll put the same kind of effort, visually speaking into spinoffs as they do for the mainline series. It sucks but seems to be what they do.