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[TurnipFritters]

Big Update Y'all!

The Monster Park is still in it.

Like in the original game, sometimes when you beat up a monster it'll get back up and you can recruit it to the Monster Park, and you can find design docs across the world to help expand your Park with new biomes.

You can talk to the monsters you've recruited.

NEW FEATURE

There's now a mysterious cave in the Park. To explore it, you have to create a party of up to three monsters you've recruited and send them in. Inside, you can obtain Streetpass Shards. I'm gonna assume monster classes for the party have been excised in favor of this system.

The Streetpass Shards can be used in the Immigrant Town (the Immigrant Town is also back) to access new dungeons/areas/storylines(!)

Apparently once you get a Tavern open in the Immigrant Town, you can start passing things via the Internet?

If someone wants to clear some stuff up that I may have gotten wrong, here's the Gamewatch article and here's the Famitsu one.

 

[Boney]

I want this

 

[DenisQc]

this absolutely needs a version outside Japan !

 

[matmanx1]

The video gave me a warm fuzzy feeling. Hopefully this one will be USA bound before too long. I have a big soft spot for these games and would love to play this one on the 3DS!

 

[Aeana]

Split bump.

I'll also include the tidbit I posted about a couple of days ago that was too small to warrant a new thread:

This is such a tiny tidbit that it doesn't really warrant a new thread, so I'll just put it here.

Back at the reveal, it was noted that they were adding a guide for the lithographs/shards but it wasn't clear how it would work. Now we know.

http://www.dragonquest.jp/dq7/info/#sekiban02

He will serve two major purposes. The first is a replacement for the fortune teller that's in the original game: he can describe the location of shards you may have missed. This function can actually be accessed anywhere in the world from the menu, or by visiting him directly.

The second is an actual radar that shines on the bottom screen based on your proximity to a shard.

Between these two things, I think it'll be hard for people to miss shards like they apparently did in the original game.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

I...need this.

 

[Bladenic]

Can't wait to (hopefully) play this. I want a new DQ game.

 

[Aeana]

I'm glad to hear that they've implemented internet passing. It's become a nice trend in games that have streetpass functionality. Even if it's gimped, that at least doesn't lock out a whole area of the game for people like previous games did.

 

[flippedb]

Game looks fantastic. Please come to America!

 

[epmode]

I would like to purchase this entertainment for consumption in my soon-to-be-acquired American Nintendo 3DS XL.

 

[DXB-KNIGHT]

Game looks fantastic. Please come to America!

This a million times XD

 

[Darryl]

glad to see an expansion of some sort coming to immigrant town

 

[ace3skoot]

sexy.

 

[Aeana]

I'm really surprised. In this era, it feels like games are getting features removed. I was fully prepared for the monster park and immigrant town to get the axe. But not only are they still in, they're getting signiifcant new features.

I'm so happy to see DQ7 getting the treatment it deserves, but it just makes the treatment DQ6 got even more tragic.

 

[RPGCrazied]

I hope this sells a ton that they 3DSifi 8. We know PS2 games can be ported over. Tales of The Abyss did.

 

[Celine]

My most awaited 3DS game!

 

[Error]

I need this.

 

[Labombadog]

Holy shit. Had no idea this game was being completely remade for the 3DS. Oh, please come state side!

 

[MagiusNecros]

Japan Only.

Spoiler

There is no way this can't be localized. It has to come over. Nintendo made them survey it

 

[TurnipFritters]

I'm really surprised. In this era, it feels like games are getting features removed. I was fully prepared for the monster park and immigrant town to get the axe. But not only are they still in, they're getting signiifcant new features.

I'm so happy to see DQ7 getting the treatment it deserves, but it just makes the treatment DQ6 got even more tragic.

Yeah, I actually now give a crap about the Monster Park, and I think that having a dungeon specifically for monsters parties to explore is an elegant solution to the issues found in the original game's monster classes.

Um, could you look over those articles and make sure I was correct about that stuff? There's some stuff I don't quite follow in the immigrant town sections (something about monsters turning into humans?)

Japan Only.

Spoiler

There is no way this can't be localized. It has to come over. Nintendo made them survey it

I think the addition of ~internet features~ instead of just relying strictly on streetpass suggests that they're looking for an international audience.

 

[darkjedi187]

Need this so bad

 

[RurouniZel]

Split bump.

I'll also include the tidbit I posted about a couple of days ago that was too small to warrant a new thread:

I...

... THANK YOU BASED ... um, who's developing this remake again? I don't care! THANK YOU!! I had to give up on DW7 all those years ago because I couldn't find the damn shard I needed to continue! >>;

 

[Aeana]

Yeah, I actually now give a crap about the Monster Park, and I think that having a dungeon specifically for monsters parties to explore is an elegant solution to the issues found in the original game's monster classes.

Um, could you look over those articles and make sure I was correct about that stuff? There's some stuff I don't quite follow in the immigrant town sections (something about monsters turning into humans?)

It's kinda vague, but it sounds like when you get the monster shards from the dungeons, you can pass them to other players and then the monsters show up in human form in your town. I personally don't really get whether that's independent of placing them on the pedestals or not.

I think the addition of ~internet features~ instead of just relying strictly on streetpass suggests that they're looking for an international audience.

Well, they did the same thing for Bravely Default, and... well, we'll see!

 

[squall211]

Day 1 if it ever comes out here.

 

[Jeremy092387]

Oh god.....need this....now. Please come to our shores! I never finished DQ7, too damn long. But with it on the go I will surely give it another go!

 

[urfe]

I'm so happy to see DQ7 getting the treatment it deserves, but it just makes the treatment DQ6 got even more tragic.

Care explaining? It's the one DQ game I never really got into. (played about 5 hours of the SFC game)

 

[t26]

I don't mind streetpassing as long as Nintendo organized some type of event like they did for Dragon Quest IX

 

[speedpop]

Holding on to my US 3DS just in case, but I feel that PAL has a higher chance of receiving this.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Well, they did the same thing for Bravely Default, and... well, we'll see!

We'll see....in japan.

 

[liger05]

Dopeness

 

[alf717]

I've been collecting the series so that one day I would sit down and play them all. I would like to see this come to the US.

 

[Reluctant-Hero]

Holding on to my US 3DS just in case, but I feel that PAL has a higher chance of receiving this.

If PAL receives this before the US, I'll cry. Then I'll wipe away my tears and import a PAL 3DS XL.

 

[bluemax]

So internet passing means those of us who don't ride the Subway/bus/live in Japan might actually get to use those features?

The only time I've ever had Streetpass work on my 3DS was at E3. Other than that I've had a few random encounters from what I assume is a neighbor kid who only owns Mario Kart 7. I never used the Street pass type stuff on DQ9.

 

[TurnipFritters]

Then I'll ... import a PAL 3DS XL.

The first time anyone has ever said this.

 

[Aeana]

Care explaining? It's the one DQ game I never really got into. (played about 5 hours of the SFC game)

The DS game is not much of a remake at all. Yes, they made it 3D, but it manages to feel and look really similar. Well, except for the pacing, which If eel was completely wrecked in the DS version. I prefer the SFC version by leaps and bounds because the music is better, and the vignettes have more impact.

So internet passing means those of us who don't ride the Subway/bus/live in Japan might actually get to use those features?

The only time I've ever had Streetpass work on my 3DS was at E3. Other than that I've had a few random encounters from what I assume is a neighbor kid who only owns Mario Kart 7. I never used the Street pass type stuff on DQ9.

Presumably. It'll probably work like Bravely Default, where you get a couple of "free" passes per day by connecting to the internet. It's nowhere near as effective as actually going out and getting real people in a city in Japan, but it does give you an option.

 

[Diablos54]

The first time anyone has ever said this.

So true lol.

 

[Kandinsky]

It looks so damn good and charming, I cannot wait for this and X.

 

[Reluctant-Hero]

The first time anyone has ever said this.

So true lol.

Good old region locking at work. But seriously, I'm sure the US will get it if PAL will. Just may take longer like with Xenoblade & Last Story.

 

[AgentOtaku]

The DS game is not much of a remake at all. Yes, they made it 3D, but it manages to feel and look really similar. Well, except for the pacing, which If eel was completely wrecked in the DS version. I prefer the SFC version by leaps and bounds because the music is better, and the vignettes have more impact.

Ouch

It's the only english version I got though =(

 

[Neuromancer]

Oh wow, forgot all about this game.

How is it compared to DQ8, which I loved?

 

[bluemax]

The DS game is not much of a remake at all. Yes, they made it 3D, but it manages to feel and look really similar. Well, except for the pacing, which If eel was completely wrecked in the DS version. I prefer the SFC version by leaps and bounds because the music is better, and the vignettes have more impact.



Presumably. It'll probably work like Bravely Default, where you get a couple of "free" passes per day by connecting to the internet. It's nowhere near as effective as actually going out and getting real people in a city in Japan, but it does give you an option.

I'll take what I can get. I think I did use the internet shop thingy for DQ9 but I never got to use the Inn or whatever.

Also I didn't realize DQ6 was nerfed so much on DS. Maybe I'll have to play the SFC version at some point this year.

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Oh wow, forgot all about this game.

How is it compared to DQ8, which I loved?

DQ7 is the best DQ game ever made, so there's that.

 

[duckroll]

This game looks so good. It's also the first real DQ remake since DQV on PS2! It really makes DQVI DS feel all the lamer since they could have put in more effort into that. :/

 

[urfe]

The DS game is not much of a remake at all. Yes, they made it 3D, but it manages to feel and look really similar. Well, except for the pacing, which If eel was completely wrecked in the DS version. I prefer the SFC version by leaps and bounds because the music is better, and the vignettes have more impact.

Interesting, thanks for the reply. The American import of the DS version is always cheap on Amazon Japan, and I'm always tempted, but perhaps I'll stick to the SFC version for when I got time to settle in front of a TV.

On topic, I'd like to say this game is day one for me, but I'll be waiting a little while just in case there's a downloadable version released. Looks amazing, and I can't wait to play it.

 

[Dark Schala]

I've never played DQ7 but I have to say that Monster Park idea is adorable. The cave bit reminds me of that one Arc the Lad II sidequest where you can only use your recruitable monsters to get to the end.

It looks so pretty.

 

[theMrCravens]

How is it compared to DQ8, which I loved?

Worse of the series.
I've played them all in order they came out, and when this was released, I thought the series was dead.
VIII was decent though, and IX was great.

It's still a DQ game, so might be worth playing if you're into jrpg.
I'm not picking this one up though.

In my world, I pretend it never came out. :O

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

Worse of the series.
I've played them all in order they came out, and when this was released, I thought the series was dead.
VIII was decent though, and IX was great.

It's still a DQ game, so might be worth playing if you're into jrpg.
I'm not picking this one up though.

In my world, I pretend it never came out. :O

...I....I need to sit down.

Spoiler

and I am sitting down.

 

[encephalon]

This is going to be my first Dragon Quest in February. Hopefully future titles will utilize the Phantasy Star battle setup.

 

[Aeana]

Worse of the series.
I've played them all in order they came out, and when this was released, I thought the series was dead.
VIII was decent though, and IX was great.

It's still a DQ game, so might be worth playing if you're into jrpg.
I'm not picking this one up though.

In my world, I pretend it never came out. :O

You didn't explain why you don't like it.

 

[jj984jj]

I haven't been interested in a DQ game as much as this since DQVI DS came out 2 years ago, I want this.