#dqm3 spoilers

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

"Please stop asking how I got in here," the white haired kid said, annoyance laced in his voice, "All I want to know is if any of you can do detective work in the supernatural world!"

Constantine just barely opened his mouth before the kid turned on him, "Not you! You have terrible reviews!"

Bruce tensed as Lazarus green eyes locked on him, "How about you? You're the worlds greatest detective, right? I know you probably won't take gold as payment since Bruce Wayne is your sugar daddy, but I can offer up information on the Infinite Realms instead!"

Batman, calm and collected even as Green Arrow and Flash snickered from across the room, "Infinite Realms?"

Phantom grinned, "Is that an agreement? Cause Prince Psaro could really use your help. He has so many questions, and the answers may save his life. You want to save the life of a teenage boy surrounded by demons and monsters, don't you?"

Bruce stared at the teen, not looking away even with Constantine motioning not to agree, Bruce nodded.

And in a moment, they were gone. They reappeared in a grand hall with a ruby eyed teenager looking impossibly small from his place on the massive throne. Silver hair shined oddly in the light of the purples flames that danced in the sconces, making the boy seem more ethereal.

"Hey Psaro!" The white haired kid from before greeted, "I brought you a detective like you asked. Don't forget you have to teach me magic now!" The first teen vanished without a trace leaving Batman and what he now recognized as an angsty goth alone together.

As it turns out Psaro had many questions and offered to pay him a generous amount in gold each day.

Some of his questions include:

What kingdom was my human mother a princess of?

Why can't I remember key information from my childhood, such as my brothers very existence?

I was framed for the murder of all of the "Chosen Heros" loved ones. How do I prove im innocent before he comes to take off my head?

Why do Rose's tears shatter?

Is there a way to stop his younger brother from destroying the world without caging him or killing him?

Ect.

Bruce has his work cut out for him, but between the mysterious white haired kid popping in now and then to give him cryptic conversations, the team on litteral monsters he was given to defend himself with, and his access to royal libraries and vaults this might not be so bad

[questersrest]

here you go, here's a flowchart for choosing your starter monster in dqm3 (click/tap to enlarge if it's unreadable)

[perles-infinite-fictional-love]

Rose: I CANNOT believe you decided to destroy humanity!!

Psaro, who's been saying he wanted to destroy humanity since the beginning, very openly:

[corneille-moisie]

FUCKING FINALLY

[twonatic]

Update: done with post game battles after updating and grinding my team a bit, so now I guess I'm just gonna try to fill as much of the Monsterpedia as possible. I'm already nearly done with Slimes.

Finally finished DQM3.

I've been waiting 10 years for this and honestly, was very pleasantly surprised. I do have some criticisms, but overall I love this game.

Also having played Dragon Quest 4 earlier this year massively improved the experience.

[howwnowbrowncoww]

I've been playing dqm3 today and @vidramon and I were joking about Psaro and Toilen throwing hands because Psaro's curse says nothing about harming humans and what better place to duke it out than a denny's?

[squid-procrow]

I've been playing the new Dragon Quest Monsters game and I've had like, two thoughts -

everything is either huge or tiny and I LOVE it and

I never played the previous game but I know the general vibes of the story. I'm going to cry if they don't give Psaro the same love they did Malroth ;v;

Art spoilers for story (ig?) and a VERY late game monster I grinded for, literally 10h early game. IDK why I did that but-

Psaro IS SO TINY!!!

Also I literally raised E ranks into the true dragonlord- with the end goal of my boi malroth ofc. But getting half his tree done was so time-consuming I gave up and decided to continue into the mid tiers. and the DLC will probably help ngl

[satanslittlepup]

[slimereader]

Thoughts on the DQM3 demo

Overall, I had a lot of fun! This was my first experience with a Dragon Quest Monsters game, so if I write something everyone else already knows, forgive my ignorance.

Things I hope might actually be improved in the full game:

Synthesizing is fun, but the level 10 requirement makes it a bit tedious. I'm sure with higher-level wild monsters in later areas in the game, it'll be easier to scout level 10+ monsters to synthesize directly or at least grind for experience points.

I'm the type of person who wants to keep my first monster friend of every species, scouting duplicates for synthesis purposes. I used the favorites option to keep track of my first friend of each species, so I had marked lots of favorites pretty quickly. When sorting your monster roster, I found that you could sort by favorites first, but not the inverse. Actually, I wish you could hide favorites altogether on the synthesis selection interface. Also, more than one type of mark to put on monsters would help, so I could distinguish between "don't synthesize" and my actual party favorites.

In general, I found the synthesis interface a bit clunky (I'm sure it's an improvement over previous DQM installments though- in fact, I think I read that synthesis is more user-friendly than ever before). Sometimes I would plan out which monster pairs to synthesize together, so I would nickname the dracky "Slime" and the slime "Dracky". However, I found that you can only change a monster's nickname from the paddock interface, not synthesis. I know Monty and the paddock guy are standing right next to each other, but it still felt tedious switching between them when trying to organize my monsters! I suppose I would prefer if the synthesis interface included all the functionality of the paddock man.

I don't really want to give my scouted monsters a nickname most of the time. I wish there was an option to have it NOT ask you to type in a name every time you scout one.

Things I want that are unlikely to be changed at this point:

I really miss the monster fortes from Dragon Quest Treasures. At least Psaro can jump, but his maximum height is frustratingly low in comparison. God, at least let me jump over the little fence in Rosehill!

Also, the 3 party monsters following you around everywhere in Treasures was so cute and fun! I really felt attached to them. If not all 4, I wish at least your lead party member was present in the overworld (outside of encounters). Basically I really loved Treasures <3

Personally, I associate Toriyama Akira's character design style (for humans) to include eyes that are relatively close together, especially early on in the Dragon Quest and Dragon Ball series. I'm sorry, but Rose's wide-set eyes in this game are unsettling to me. Also, her mascara made her top and bottom eyelashes stand out jarringly, but then I realized: when she closes her eyes, they look like thorns!

One monster-recruitment feature I really love from other games (DQV, DQ Treasures) is that each monster already has its own name. It gives them so much personality! Do they really not have default nicknames in other titles in the DQM series either? I suppose it would be difficult with the sheer number of duplicates you're expected to catch to synthesize new ones, but I still miss it.

And now, screenshots.

My starter partner, Jack-o-lantern the mud mannequin!

Vegandragora snoozing atop a rock in spring. So cute!! Vegandragora is definitely one of my favorite monster designs now.Screenshot from the demo of Dragon Quest Monsters 3: The Dark Prince.

Observing my monsters in the paddock was a cute feature as well.

I decided to stop the demo here. I finished the quests, won the tournaments, and synthesized 16 monsters (wait, that many?!). I can't wait to play more, but I'm going to try to wait until December! See you then, my monsters!

[questersrest]

right. furgil. my guide to the 6 realms of nadiria.

[questersrest]

well i finished the middle echelons and middle level of the cradle of corruption and saw that whole part of dq4’s story.

it’s very interesting to play like a prequel to dq4/part of the events of dq4 from the other side. like we know what happens to rose but seeing it first hand was still emotional. then seeing it finally radicalise psaro. ohhhh it was so good.

always like the new lore that estark is actually how those outside nadiria know one of the unholy trinity. and like

hello????? one of the other members of the unholy trinity is the king of calamity from dq10?

also this whitewhorl the watcher bitch was like a palette swap/variant of barbarus and greygnarl’s second appearance from dq9 i though he was gonna get split in 3 and tell me that dq9 was actually a sequel to dq4 in some way

[questersrest]

..............a divine being....... like a zenithian perhaps?.............

truly terrifying beast:

[questersrest]

i forgot to change out some thangs with my team before this but whatever i GUESS i won

[twonatic]

honestly surprised they gave us this much to work with already that said i think you can't fuse any monsters above F rank

i was cooking too hard and they had to stop me in my tracks

i was gonna compile a list of all the monsters that appear in the demo of dqm3, but they give you access to synthesis which just blasts the possibilities wide open so i am not going to do that. i looked at all the monsters i could potentially make with the monsters i have right now and i am full of excitement, this game is going to be incredible

so many new friends, so many old friends that have never appeared in a game that was localised, so many old friends that have only appeared in dragon warrior era localisations and finally have updated names.

the TreeSlime from dqm1 and dqm2 is finally called buddy slime.

[perles-infinite-fictional-love]

It pisses me off how Percival most likely used to be human before he was massacred and turned into a possessed armor, but nobody EVER BRINGS IT UP

[slimereader]

DQM3 - Aamon and Doph

After beating Aamon in the Circle of Caprice, it was off to the Circle of Conquest for Psaro's family reunion! Major plot spoilers for Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince ahead.

Can't say I suspected that the golems and such were cursed elves. Was Aamon's destruction of the elf kingdom ever mentioned in DQIV or the other games in the trilogy? Also, I know the giant elf queen saved us, but how was Aamon able to crawl back to Randolfo perfectly fine?

I remembered these friendly monsters from the beginning of the game. However, the touching reunion was ruined by rendering issues. At first, I thought the cutscene was stylistically black, but as it wore on I realized this was not the case. The textures in Hopeful Haven still didn't load properly the first time or two that I visited. When it finally showed up, I said, "Oh, so this is how it was supposed to look!"

Then we fought Randolfo's loyal shrine guardians. They all knew Psaro when he was young, which I found odd because I thought his father immediately cursed him and kicked him out. Also, their stories conflicted. Sir Sabrefang maintains that we three brothers used to hang out together, but Sir Beefdrake (love that name) asks if I've EVER MET Ludo. The game also presented our run-in with Ludo earlier as if it was our first time hearing about him, let alone meeting him.

Rather than a fair fight, Dolph attacks us with a pitifully small army of monsters, and then- OH MY GOD, THE CAVALRY'S HERE. I think I will make Torneko my profile picture.

Ugh, this is stupid. Does Solo know that Psaro was framed by Dolph for destroying his village? Dolph was JUST talking about it. Of course, Psaro has committed other crimes (conveniently just off screen), but without reminding the audience, Solo's reasons for vengeance are unclear. Rose is alive and we even re-sealed (most of) Estark! Even more maddening is that the hero party leaves before even trying to fight Randolfo. If Psaro is the only one who can defeat his father, they should at least prove it somehow. Unless it's a fake-out, looks like I'll be facing my father next. I hope Solo honors his damn promise and is the game's final boss.