Dragon Warrior Monsters

I think the ranking system from Joker really helped out the Dragon Quest Monsters series immensely. It's kind of a pain in the ass to breed in the original Dragon Quest Monsters because there's no real way to tell which monsters are better than others (except for obvious ones like boss monsters).

I don't think that Dragon Quest Monsters holds up very well. It's way too slow and menus/battles take too long to load, even for a Game Boy game. That said, I did have some fun with it, and I was able to just barely beat the Master Battle.

I am severely annoyed over how many times the translations pchanged throughout the series.

Imagine pikachu was called zapmouse in a sequel and then electrachu in another game

figured there would be more love for this series

>>3721272
Like everything DQ, it didn't get noticed in the West but was big in Japan. DQM outsold Pokemon Crystal there, DQM was also quite popular.

>>3720369
The thing about breeding is that it doesn't matter too much what you end up with. Since bred monsters carry over stats from parents (averaged and divided by two) they're guaranteed to be increasingly powerful anyway, and due to the way the ability inheritance works you have full control over which abilities you want to keep throughout generations. Don't think about it too much - they're relaxing little games and if you put too much effort in to trying to optimize your party it probably won't be as fun.

>>3721330

i just want my boys to look cool

>>3718494

>>3720401
The menus definitely could have used some more speeding up, and as far as I can recall the 2nd game tried to address that.
It was more challenging and had a more interesting way to get powerful monsters in comparison to Pokemon, but that could just be me being biased since I like Dragon Quest.

Not retro, but I'd buy a 3DS on the spot if they localized the DWM remakes

>>3721272
DQM is the only thing DQ known in Europe in the 90s because it's the only thing that made it over. It's a bit of a cult classic in Germany.