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Necesita DEMASIADO grindeo, los niveles están del asco. Pero gracias a que puse cheat de experiencia lo disfruté bien y realmente es muy entretenido. Los bichos están cool, el sistema de evoluciones y fusiones y tales es bastante profundo y adictivo, si dan ganas de hacer muchas combinaciones, mas los ataques y las habilidades cambiantes. En general tiene mucha libertad de team building como me gusta de los juegos de captura de monstruos. Bastante bueno en general, igual es un Pokémon, debia hacerlo muy mal para no gustarme xd.

Pokemon with Dragon Quest monsters, pretty good.
Very nice game for NDS.

An extremely unusual creature-raising sim, mostly to its benefit but sometimes not.

Whereas Pokemon and SMT offer huge, linear worlds and DWM 1-2 have procedurally-generated dungeons, Joker has a small set of mid-sized sandboxes. They look good, but repeatedly traipsing over the same ground gets old—and this is a grindy enough game that you have to do that. Fert Isle is the worst; it's too linear.

Joker's full-3D, over-the-shoulder graphics are very impressive for a DS game; I struggle to think of another DS RPG that took the same approach or another DS game of any genre with such detailed models. It's Dragon Quest, so the monster designs are great, though the palette swaps are a little disappointing coming from other raising sims that aren't Monster Rancher.

The soundtrack is good but tragically unvaried. Of the seven explorable islands, five share a single theme; all of the dungeons but the last share a theme; and so on.

I don't like how the skill point system forces you to choose between interesting skills and vital stat point boosts, or the way it pushes you to spend a monster's skill points before fusion (which requires you to swap them into your party, annoyingly).

The English text is well-written and well-edited.

lo recuerdo como el mejor juego de la historia me lo kiero volver a jugar ahora de mayor


Este juego impulsó mi amor por los "Monster Tamming", de inicio a fin lo borda en narrativa, diseño e interés mantenido en el recorrido, con un ligero pero buen post-game como añadido a una experiencia casi perfecta

could be better but the premise is peak

This is one of the most graphically appealing 3D environment DS games. It even has monsters running around the overworld which is both a first for the franchise and something extremely uncommon for the genre on DS. Very few RPGs were this ambitious on handhelds in 2006. The combat is standard turn based combat where you control three monsters in a 3v3 format. The way you scout and fuse monsters is moderately akin to the SMT/Persona series. The story isn't anything crazy but it does have a few twists in its relatively short run time.

This game's sequel was one of the first games I've ever played but I never went back to play this one for some reason until now. I played the older Monsters games first. The first two Monsters games were great GameBoy monster tamers but clearly showed their age. I did not enjoy Caravan Heart. That said, this game and its sequel reign supreme when it comes to the genre during this era. They're both quite fun and I'd still recommend them to people today.

I do prefer the sequel for having giant monsters, a more interesting setting, and some QoL changes but it's hard to say I was disappointed in this game in anyway at all. I guess movement speed is a little slow but eh. Overall a wonderful experience. Peak DS monster tamer duology.

Fun, fairly short creature collector starring DQ monsters. A pretty standard affair.

Is not bad, but is not great.
Honestly I remember little from it, but adquiring new monsters was a hussle.

Uno de los juegos que más veces he rejugado, aunque es una historia muy sencilla, es muy original y funciona de sobra para introducirte en el juego, los personajes tienen mucha carisma (base mi personalidad en el prota) y es el primer Monsters que jugué, así que lo recuerdo con mucho cariño

Tiene una cantidad de farmeo insana, pero tiene un no se qué que me hace viciarme y pasármelo genial.

Le jeu est trop kiffant, c'est juste dommage qu'il n'y ait quasi 0 postgame et qu'il manque de persos secondaires

Très sympa, une map sympa et un bestiaire varié, il me semble que je n'avais pas beaucoup avancé dans le jeu (qui vu aujourd'hui n'est pas très beau) Musique plutôt sympa

Mon tout premier Dragon Quest. Le jeu est très bon mais j'ai jamais réussi à le finir c'était trop dur pour moi quand j'étais petit. Je dois le refaire pour prendre ma revanche.

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Dragon Quest Monster joker 1 has great graphics beautiful areas and Animations but lacks in everything else.
The story is cliche you can predict everything that's coming before it happens (darkonium crystal)the soundtrack sucks due to it's repetitive nature the theme is good but i got sick of hearing it.
The game is short and very grindy plus empty, most of the time you Will be just grinding your monsters without any story or character development happening(since the Cast in this game is pretty small and bad).
The lack of post game content is another issue,after beating it there is almost nothing left to do.
If you don't have a whole lot of time on your hands just play joker 2 it's way better than this.