DRAGON QUEST MONSTERS: The Dark Prince - Nintendo Switch

Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince has been a game I've looked forward to with apprehension from it's announcement. I was not disappointed at all, if anything it's exceeded my expectations! Absolutely fun gameplay, and a great overarching story. The selection of monsters and the synthesis system really makes even the minimal grinding that's necessary for this type of game fun and enjoyable!

If you are a fan of the excellent Dragon Quest series, this is for you and you will love it. Fans of Pokemon style game will have a good time with this game.

A fantastic game and lots of fun to play. It's been easy to lose track of time playing it.

It's more of the Dragon Quest we love. I wish that the game was more involved, but it's a true throwback to the old Dragon Quest Monster game and holds up to the core mechanics that made it good.

For long-time fans of DQ - it’s such a wonderful return to the Monsters series. First off, the bad: the game has pretty poor framefrate, long-ish load times, and compared to other Switch RPGs like Xenoblade it looks closer to something that should be on the 3DS, BUT…that’s it. The gameplay itself is so satisfying, it has a cute story with fun characters (all the better if you’ve played DQ4 as this serves as a “prequel” of sorts), there’s over 500 monsters to collect, raise, customize, and combine, a surprising amount of environments to explore each with 4 rotating seasons that change the landscape, and just so much to do and find overall between the story, battling, and tinkering with your team. I’m just over 20-hours in and have scouted 12.8% of the total monsters, each of which have special, gold-framed, and small + large versions available, as well as up to x3 seperate skill / talent trees that are dependent on their Family Tree and how you combine them. If you’ve played a DQM before you’ll feel completely at home and in love, and if you haven’t…this would be such a wonderful place to start. Highest recommendation if you enjoy RPGs and/or “collection” type games.