Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2

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Lightning strikes, the airship goes down, and a young stowaway wakes up on an unknown island crawling with monsters. For someone who snuck aboard to reach the Monster Scout Challenge, the world's great tournament for monster tamers, that is less a disaster than an opportunity. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 turns that shipwreck into a sprawling hunt for survivors, ancient secrets and, above all, new monsters to recruit.

Your hero never swings a sword. Instead you lead a party of three monsters in turn-based battles, giving direct orders or leaning on AI tactics, while using items yourself from the sidelines. Scouting is the hook: impress a wild monster in battle and it may join your team. More than three hundred creatures are waiting, drawn from across Dragon Quest history in Akira Toriyama's unmistakable style, from humble Slimes to hulking brutes, along with a handful of brand-new species.

Size changes everything in Joker 2. Large monsters take up two spaces in your lineup and Gargantuan ones claim even more, so every team becomes a trade-off between colossal heavy hitters and a balanced trio. Synthesis adds the deep end: combine two monsters to create a new one that can inherit skills from its parents, then keep breeding toward ever stronger and stranger forms. IGN called it pure, addictive fun, and it is easy to lose an evening chasing one perfect combination.

Developed by Tose, Joker 2 was a major hit in Japan, selling more than 1.2 million copies within months of launch, and Nintendo brought it to North America in 2011. Its online battles are long gone, but the island adventure and the endless tinkering of synthesis are all here. If Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince on Switch was your introduction to the series, Joker 2 is a satisfying step back to the scouting-and-synthesis loop in its classic handheld form.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB

Released: 2010
Publisher: Nintendo of Europe
Developer: Tose
Genre: RPG, Adventure
Players: Single player, Multiplayer

About the game

As Monster Scouts, players can recruit wild monsters to build a team and battle against other players in this turn-based role-playing game. Each year, monster scouts from around the world gather to compete for the title of world's greatest scout. Players crash-land on a mysterious island after their airship is struck by lightning. They must rescue their missing passengers and crew members by fighting various enemies using their own monster parties. The only way off the island is to solve its many mysteries.

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