![]() ![]() The latest in the series, Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2, has been out in Japan for over a year, got an expanded "Professional" version a year after that, and was released stateside on September 19th, 2011. With not one, not two, but five games in total, and that's not counting additional versions or re-releases. So when Pokémon came out, the creators of DQ were licking their chops, and decided "hey, we've done monster-training before, we can do it again!" And that is exactly what they did. Even if Dragon Quest VIII of all things is pretty much the only game where the Japanese got the short end of the stick (the US and European releases included an enhanced soundtrack and voice acting that’s actually good!). ![]() We established everything about DQ in our previous C&C, correct? We know it's like, the most popular thing ever in Japan. Today, we're not only going to be looking at one that came after, but we're also going to be looking at our first formal monster training game, AND our first series of it. In our previous C&Cs, we looked at two that came before the popular franchise came about. ![]() Welcome to the third edition of this horribly-stalled feature known as Compare & Contrast, where we look at various other monster training games and compare them to Pokémon and each other!Įver since Pokémon came around, it seems there's been a boom of monster-training games. ![]()
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