Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker Screenshots (DS)

[EvilBob46]

Japanese site Gpara.com (http://www.gpara.com/) has new screenshots (http://www.gpara.com/comingsoon/dqmj/0728/index.htm) of Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker for the DS. The gameplay revolves around breeding monsters and using them to fight turn-based battles in a giant world created with the same engine that also powered last year's Dragon Quest VIII (although significantly altered for the Nintendo DS). The game will have WiFi functionality.

At least graphically it looks very good (if you can appreciate a cartoony style).

[SexualChoc]

Is Akira Toriyama involved with this Dragon Quest aswell? The art definetley shows. I like it.

[Rook34]

Breeding monsters, eh? Sounds intriguing. Anyone know how many monsters there are to make?

[nein89]

Toriyama is involved with every Dragon Quest game, as far as I know. If they'd keep him for monster designs and just get somebody else for the human characters, it'd be fantastic.

Ah well. So many things would be better if only the universe conformed to my whims. Do we know whether or not this one's doing anything useful/interesting with the second screen yet?

[Evil Avnovice]

The last DQM game I played was the GBC version from long ago. My only question is will they speed up the pace? I loved Dragon Quest Monsters, but I remember quite clearly that like its console counterparts, the games are "molasses" slow.