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DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince comes to Steam®! Recruit monsters from the DQ series, synthesize new creatures and compose your ideal team.
DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is a rpg, jrpg and creature collector game
developed and published by Square Enix.
Released on September 11th 2024 is available only on Windows.
It has received 677 reviews of which 529 were positive and 148 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 7.99€ on K4G.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 64-bit / Windows® 11
- Processor: AMD A8-7600 / Intel® Core™ i3-3220
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 460 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 10 GB available space
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Hello Friends, Today I will review the game Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince. This is a monster catching game with some story elements mixed in. The main character is actually a villain from one of the mainline Dragon Quest games. In this game, players control the main character who is named Psaro. This is apparently the same villain as the character from the mainline Dragon Quest IV. I personally never played the newer versions, but i have played original version. The story revolves around this character and their actions in the game. Due to a curse, the main character cannot fight, so must become a monster wrangles to use monsters to fight his battles. The players will go around and catch monsters. Like a certain mainline Nintendo series, this is a monster catching game with story elements mixed in it. Don't expect a world shattering storyline. The main focus of the game is catching monsters. After playing different area's, the players will unlock the synthesize monster ability. This lets players synthesize 2 monsters together to create a new one with some of the abilities of the "parent" monsters that were synthesized to make the new one. Some monsters in the game are only available if you synthesize 2 monsters together, or more. Note: This version contains almost all the DLC from the original version. There are a couple that are missing. Someone mentioned this on the game forum. All storyline and main DLC are in the game though. PROS: - A monster catching dragon quest game. - Characters from dragon quest games. - A weather system that changes what monsters you can catch at what season. - Over 500+ catchable monsters, and including ones players can synthesize. - PVP and online functions. NOTE: Please read below in cons about a issue with online treasure trunks. CONS: - On using the treasure trunks, it causes a updated version of the policy revisions. Issue is it does not allow you to do it all the time. It can run into a error sometimes saying it cannot connect to the online policy servers. You can see the error here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3758802673 - Some players have reported ghost inputs for the game with controllers. Apparently a player also found a fix for this issue here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2175540/discussions/0/4628106985313728768/ - The game can get grind heavy at certain locations in the game, so if players are having issues with beating certain bosses, they may want to make sure they got at least one healer on their team. Do I recommend the game? Not at the full price it sells at. When I purchased the game, it was on sale for 10 dollars US. So I suggest it is a decent game to get on sale. It is a monster catching game like a certain famous Nintendo game. The difference between this game and that game is all the monsters in this game are from the world of Dragon Quest games. Also, the main character is actually from one of the mainline dragon quest games too, and is a tie in into the game world. For what it is, it is not a bad monster catching game, but some parts can be grind heavy.
I'm 50/50 on this. It's a very good game and bad compared to what I really want. I've only played Dragon Warrior Monsters and Joker 2, but mostly remember DWM more as I played that as a kid for hours. I hardly remember JK2 because I wasn't a fan of the talent tree and lack of end game content/farming xp that this game has. It was way more fun designing your own monster in DWM with every skill tailored to them and making even the earliest monsters overpowered at max stat across the board almost. This game has a ton of quality of life features I wish the gameboy color had so I could immediately go back to that game instead. Things I like: -Large ranch capacity: 1000+ -Backup party that you can just power level for synthesizing instead of fighting with. -Metal slimes are pretty farmable in this, they're in specific spots on the maps you can farm with a path easiest for you. DWM did it better as there was just an entire area you could randomly run into a bunch constantly which allowed for more diversity of scenery? It gets tiresome running through the same path 100 times in the cupcake land, then eventually learning you can just keep teleporting to the kingslime spots for fastest leveling. -I dislike the talent tree system, being forced to take a bunch of filler skills I don't need and can only have 3 talents in total for your monsters. Max stats are way low compared to DWM unless you go the high meta ones/classes. I think this is to balance their pvp aspect which I hate and have no interest in. Don't nerf my hammerhood for dumb reasons, he should become just as strong as Krystalinda if I wanted him to be. Over all it lessens my time spent in the game for end game content. -Their online features like the chest and shop are a waste of time and every other time I go to access it, they make me open up a browser for the policy agreements. So I stopped using those features entirely. Edit addon: Things I'd like to see or fix: -Talent combinations, to see a monster you already own is at the ranch still. (lost from synthesizing) -Talent tree is upgradable with a visual icon. (Very annoying to spec into something only to find out it can't become better.) -Remove the go in for the kill tactic when one enemy opponent is left. When you're evenly matched or slightly under, healers ignore the teams health in battle and lose an easy win. Only encountered this with colosseums since I can't order them to use common sense. So the only simple solution is to breed an overpowered group and win that way. -Remove save scum by making metal monsters frequent random encounters, making the ring fusion not so random and even destroying all of them in the process. No one likes wasting resources for no reason... I think. -Way to tell how strong the current monster is from max maximum stats, like how much father can I go without having to google all the raw data/future synthesis? Like my Tuffy Tot is capped at 487 attk, how much more higher can I go with future synthesis? *shrugs* I'm tired of googling boss.. Story is atrocious, potentially good characters have horrible dialogue, the game is linear yet constantly asks you 'yes' or 'no' during cutscenes and if you say No you aren't going to rule the world they respond with: "I don't believe you! I'm going to stop you!" which eventually infuriated me to a comical level, letting my friend laugh my rage and complaints. Plus the going back in time and fixing things is getting really stupid. DQ11 did that crap too and I hated the last half of the game's story for it. Even for a 'happy' ending it just didn't feel legit to me. And don't get me wrong, I prefer a happy ending, but the way these are done just don't sit right with me. I'd give it a thumbs down honestly, but I am hoping to see more improvements over time in the next games, before some Indie developer does it for them like Palworld did with nintendo. They need to make a good quality game as these are just minor titles to me. The newest one coming out... Withered World? It has a co-op feature listed and if it actually is a good co-op game I will definitely get it to play with my friend. If it doesn't this may be my last game. Glad I got this for 10 bucks (honestly 30 would have been max/fair) instead of 60 on switch. But the restricted content would have made me so mad at paying full price and playing it at 30 fps on the console (not to mention separate DLC on there as I didn't even know the mole hill was DLC since it comes with this game version). Also use WeMod/Wand to walk faster to avoid fighting fodder when trying to find metal slimes or causing them to despawn. I think this series will eventually become stale and fade out if nothing is done to grab more attention. I honestly think they could have been so much more than pokemon, but are too scared to aim higher. Indie will take this genre from then eventually.
Loved playing through another Dragon Quest Monsters title. It has scratched an itch I've had since playing Dragon Quest Monsters 1 and 2. In addition, the story follows along with the events of Dragon Warrior 4, which was a favorite NES game growing up. Cant tell you how many nerd moments I had playing through this while remembering the events of DW4 and going "AH HA!, that explains that!" The game is meant to be kid friendly and simple. If you are a fan of Dragon Quest/Warrior series, and enjoy pokemon type games, you wont be disappointed at all with playing this one. If you expect a full blown AAA title, then you will be disappointed. I have completed the game almost 100% at about 80hrs of gameplay, including getting all of the monsters. There are some online interactions that are completely optional, (dont know why people are complaining about that). The game has played flawlessly on my PC with no issues, running 1440p 140hz. Loads quick and efficiently. Overall a good quality game by todays standards. I bought it on sale and would buy it again in a heartbeat!
Feels like a game made for Switch and ported to Steam, in that its lacking a lot of environment detail and animations that one might expect from a modern game. However, if you are a fan of DQMJ or creature collectors like me, then this is a good game, just looking past the story which is incredibly simplistic.
Umm... so it's DQM, and if you enjoy monster collecting, the gameplay is actually quite fun. But the story? It's so brainless to the point that it made me laugh... The main character is a half-demon, half-human who's seeking revenge on his father, the demon king, because humans bullied him, betrayed him, and caused his mother's death.... yes, nothing to do with his father... And then we have the female lead, an elf who was captured by a human slav* trader. After the MC saves her, the first thing she does is curse him for being cruel, since he attacked the human to save her... (ノ￣□￣)ノ ┻━┻ Umm... the MC doesn't care and heads home, but she follows him and insists on staying with him, swearing to do anything for him... Holy moly! How can someone write such a brainless story? And this is from SQE... overall it's still fun because it's DQM
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DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is currently priced at 39.99€ on Steam.
No, DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 39.99€ on Steam.
Yes, DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince received 529 positive votes out of a total of 677 achieving a rating of 7.42.
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DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince was developed and published by Square Enix.
Yes, DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is not playable on MacOS.
No, DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is not playable on Linux.
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No, DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince does not support VR.
DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is a single-player game.
No, DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince does not currently offer any DLC.
No, DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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