How Dragon Quest Monsters Evolved

[@DranikDQ]

I think joker 2 is the DQM game with the fewest flaws. It's my favorite game and almost perfect from start to finish. Great Video!

[@GCVazquez]

Thank you so much!

[@Coldysnapdragon]

@@DranikDQ textures:

[@SeppyLive]

@@DranikDQ I’m surprised by this, I thought joker 2 was a hollow husk of the first game. I should go back and replay

[@ericleyba3157]

My best friend and I played DQMJ2 played so much together. Eventually we both got Japanese 3ds handhelds with DQMJ3 Profesional just to play the new version. All 3 games are amazing. Wish we would have gotten Joker 2 Profesional in the States. Joker 3 Profesional was such a good end to the series. Plus riding any monster of any size was a super cool feature. The monster series completely blows Pokémon out of the water in my opinion.

[@hannariel]

Joker 3 would be the best DQM game if SQEX didn't nerfed the animations of the monsters and having more unique monsters... recolors of the same monster are too much in this game, it's awful... Detail: DQMJ3P still have less monsters than in DQM2 remake, it's ridiculous. Also I agree 100% with the Pokemon part.

[@hannariel]

I'm really liking these in depth videos about DQM, a such underrated series, Thanks GC

[@PhyrigianFlame]

Ah yes, the one game I was ever competitive at. At one point my team in Joker 1 was in the top 100 on the global leaderboards. You have no idea how long I spent grinding and breeding. Easily over 1000 hours

[@RedBeardRetroTech]

I miss joker, extremely nostalgic game for me. Certainly affected my life

[@andreaskohn3107]

Would you say, that Dragon Quest Monster The dark Prince is the best Monsters game?

[@PhyrigianFlame]

@@andreaskohn3107 Sadly haven't had a chance to play the full game. I loved the demo.

[@TotallyAmSam]

@@andreaskohn3107 most fans would probably say no although DQM3:TDP has some cool ideas and features. DQMJ2 Professional is most often considered the best

[@rontoonly6716]

@@andreaskohn3107 its the worst monsters game, but a great game nonetheless

[@christaylor86]

In regards to when you spoke about how each player will see a monster a different way, that's what I love most about these games. Monsters retain their identities through their traits and some stat growth, but other than that it's fair game. Your teams were so different than mine during the battle scenes you showed, and that sort of freedom and wonder when approaching the machine to synthesise, not knowing what this new level 10 monster is gonna be able to make, is unmatched. Edit; Ha, as soon as I'd typed that comment you spoke about the traits and stats.

[@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898]

Since I've never been a fan of the Monsters series,, I read "Dragon Quest Monsters" in the title and immediately though you were going to talk about the monsters, the enemies. But I stayed until the end.

[@Chelaxim]

Dragon Quest on the DS and 3DS was the peak of the franchise.

[@mandatorial]

Well, are you including the remakes? Because then it's simply a matter of MOST DQ games are on those platforms.

[@firstname7071]

it's always a great day when we get a new gc video!

[@GCVazquez]

Thank you!

[@real-horse]

Just remembered that the ZAM line of spells started with joker and not IX

[@pizzaoplomo3275]

To be fair, since Dragon Quest 8 was the first we europeans got (certainly the first I played in the series), I remember being a kid and seeing Monsters Jokers for the DS and i HAD to have it

[@azure8696]

DQ monsters on GBC was my first DQ game ever, and then Monster Joker one a few years later.

[@bitduelist]

DQM Joker & Joker 2 got me into Dragon Quest, the amount of customisation we got for the monsters is still so impressive and baffling and you could tell the developers knew that when they made the professional versions. My goal in every DQM game was always to create the most ridiculous god monster that could disintegrate the post game bosses XD. Also ive never seen DQ Joker in HD and now i've never felt older.

[@sadib100]

This game looks very good for a DS game.

[@SpoonyBard88]

It really does.

[@Davyn_Regnilfreid]

I purchased a copy of Dragon Quest Monsters Joker... over a month ago at this point (in its case, with the manual, too. Got excited when I saw it in my local store). I've literally been holding off on playing it because I was waiting for your video on it to finally come out. ... okay, fine, I'll admit, I got a LITTLE impatient and have already played the first 30-45 minutes and caught, like...6...-ish monsters. But beyond that, I've been waiting for this video to come out. And I'm really excited to jump in!

[@GCVazquez]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@rcwillia26938]

Love GC’s Dragon Quest videos.

[@darius4139]

Always love when you put out vids

[@barrypender8614]

Thank for another great retrospective, are you going to include DQ Treasures with the Monster games?

[@GCVazquez]

That's the plan!

[@enzoforgets9456]

As someone who heavily enjoys these retrospectives(got infinite wealth recently, been watching the yakuza series of yours) i genuinely cannot wait for each vid Thank you as always

[@GCVazquez]

I appreciate it! Thank you for the kind words!

[@GabMacedoo]

Hey, while I really enjoyed your video, just a bit of constructive feedback: I missed some more info regarding the games’s plots. Maybe it’s because of the plot being a bit thin in these DQ Monsters games, but it would be cool to know more about the game plot.

[@PengWinDood]

This is a great video!

[@GCVazquez]

Thank you!!

[@ChromaSoul]

Great video, I'd love to hear you go into Joker 3 and how all the "professional" versions compare to the base games.

[@GCVazquez]

Joker 3 video is coming up after I cover the remakes of Monsters 1 and 2!

[@zacharywong483]

Great video, as always!

[@GCVazquez]

Thank you so much!

[@Robert-rw5lm]

I actually did try to play joker 1 after playing 2. It felt like a chore, and I just couldn't finish my second

[@real-horse]

I have replayed joker 2 so many times, but after playing it I have never wanted to go back to the first joker with all the quality of life gone

[@GCVazquez]

This is very much how I feel

[@Rihcterwilker]

Have been playing both joker 1 and 2 since their release. 1 is still my favourite. Along Rocket Slime and DQ9, are great games to have on the go on the ds. And the prequel to Rocket Slime on the gba will be getting an english translation soon, we'll just have to wait a little more.

[@hemangchauhan2864]

I wish my monster collecting pokémon zinger from teen years still existed. Teen me would have loved this game.

[@janschmitt1351]

Dragon Quest Monsters 1 and Pokemon Gold were my Childhood 👌

[@culIen]

best video of the year I should give you my life savings

[@GCVazquez]

I will save it and return it to you with interest

[@Robert-rw5lm]

Man I put so many hours into Joker 2 when I was kid

[@Bunni89]

Fun fact: people credit Joker for replacing the breeding system with the synthesis system, in the Japanese version it was actually still called breeding. The weird polarity symbols were just regular gender symbols, it was simply a revamp of breeding rather than something entirely new. It's unknown why the localisation decided to make such a big change. Perhaps they felt the system had changed so much it needed a new name? Or perhaps it was a resistance to the idea of neutral genders being an option? That one seems unlikely to me though, as Pokémon already had genderless legendaries at this point.

[@Bunni89]

Another more funny fact: ever wonder why the heck the series is called Joker? Its cos the Incarnus's final form was originally called Joker in Japanese. No clue why the translators changed it, we now miss out on like.. the entire reason for the title, lol

[@kentonroush]

Ooh. I didn't think this series was gonna cover the japan exclusive games. While I've played and love Joker 3 (It's jankier than 2, but has way better exploration and I think a better plot overall, plus continuing QoL tweaks) I never got a chance to check out the DQM1 remake, real curious to hear about that one.

[@GCVazquez]

Yep! Covered Caravan Heart a video ago, and the remakes are next on the chopping block!

[@IvanAnimated_]

Goated video and channel

[@GCVazquez]

Thank you!

[@SeppyLive]

I think I’ll go back and replay DQMJ2 but I actually liked that 1 had ruins and dungeons and cool terrains that were less open and felt more designed. Joker 2 felt a lot more like a bland open world area to me. I really dislikes joker 2 despite joker 1 being top 5 all time for me. Guess it’s time to replay both

[@otmbrandothagoat4114]

Nice

[@felixvids7238]

as a big time joker fan, the prevailing sentiment, how much better the gameboy games were, always confused me. great video, can't wait for the dark prince one.

[@GCVazquez]

Glad you enjoyed it! I actually have a dark prince video out already!

[@felixvids7238]

yeah, i just noticed 😅😂

[@KhaosElement]

Man, I loved this game when it came out, though I hated his gravity defying chains.

[@joshstout2415]

Love dragon quest monsters so many wasted gbc batteries paved my path to monster master just now started playing joker 2 and 3 professional I will say I absolutely loved the original remakes they took the pitfalls of the original games and improved them so much

[@GCVazquez]

My next video will be on the remakes!

[@joshstout2415]

I'll be on the look out for those, great work on the video watching some of the other ones now.

[@matthewsimmons9277]

Why is finding the dqmj2 pro translated rom so hard?

[@GCVazquez]

I'm going to guess the answer to that question starts with an "N" and ends with an "Intendo" Probably a victim of them shutting down rom sites en masse.

[@hannariel]

Because it never got fully translated, But there is a fan translation who translate only the menu/items/spells.

[@obsidianchao]

I’ve been hooked on DWM2 for a few weeks now, haven’t been able to put it down. So good.

[@rafresendenrafresenden.1644]

Dragon Quest Monsters - Joker 2 Professional NEVER EVER

[@BagzAndPresident]

In the Japanese joker 1 they still breed

[@ararebeast]

YANGIS!

[@Dragonmist19X]

Banger video

[@GCVazquez]

Thanks!

[@richardtust6355]

If you ask me dq kobis journey was peak

[@shlappymac2926]

you say archipelago wrong. think ark like electricty, not arch like march.

[@ChasingGeek]

Bell gang rise up

[@EduSolsa]

Joker was the first Dragon Quest I ever played. I battle 3 monsters on the first island them deleted from my flash card. Found it boring, confusing and uninteresting... which is weird, cuz the guy who recommended it also vowed for Devil Survivor, which I fell in love quickly. Now rhat many eyars has passed and I had a lot of fun with Dark Prince, maybe I should it a chance again (but will skip to the second)

[@neogenesis7706]

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