Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince. Review. An exclusive to match.

The Dragon Quest saga took an unexpected turn and with the help of the “Dark Prince” we immersed ourselves in the game “Pokemon” to take Dragon Quest to unsuspected levels, all below.

Adventure development:
We put ourselves in the role of Prince Psaro, a being half human and half demon, Psaro challenges his father, the king of demons Randolfo, who after defeating him and as punishment for his daring, takes away all of Psaro’s powers, banishing him to Terrestria. the human world. Psaro without powers realizes that he needs to do something, that’s when a village advises him to train wild demons with the little power he has left in order to carry out revenge on him.
During his adventure, Psaro will meet many friends who will help him on his journey as the elf Rose. As he meets friends, his village will grow.

Gameplay.
In the game we will have to fight with monsters and support them in their battles at all times, for that we will have to travel with our friend Psaro different maps, fight with the monsters, know their weaknesses, beat them and if we want we can also recruit them for our army, in total they are 500 monsters we can catch. The mechanism is simple, very similar to a deck of cards, we will have a maximum of four main monsters to fight and four substitutes, the others that we recruit when the creature decks are full, will end up in a field in the village where we can change them whenever we want.
Each monster will level up in each confrontation, thus obtaining new abilities, but I fervently believe in maintaining balance in this aspect; By this I mean training them all equally.
However, we cannot fail to take into account that the maps we visit will depend on a very important factor, the “weather”, that is how it is on the maps while we hunt monsters the seasons will change and the monsters will change with them, so it is It is essential to know in which seasons each monster prowls.

Graphics and music.
The graphics are very good for the Nintendo Switch, and we cannot stop talking about the visual section created thanks to the hand of the master of manga masters, the same “Akira Toriyama” creator of the highest-grossing anime in all of history “Dragon Ball «, and as in every game in the «Dragon Quest» saga, it gave life to its characters, the music also goes very well, in addition to having that flavor of the Dragon Ball soundtrack, it goes with everything in a very satisfactory way, whether in combats, adventure, etc.

The Colisseum.
In addition to collecting monsters, we can battle in a coliseum against other monster “trainers”, there will be 3 rounds to climb the ranking, each ranking is “quite a bit” more difficult than the previous one and you will have to be prepared, believe me.
It is a very good mode, however we cannot deny that it is copied quite a bit from the “Pokemon” saga.

What I liked least:
In my case and the person who writes to you “Joe Tesone” is the similarity that the game has with the “Pokemon” saga, there is no originality, although it should be noted that in the monsters themselves, the title has its own creativity.
Sometimes there are FPS jerks too, but nothing serious.

Conclusion:
Fans of the “Dragon Quest” or “Pokemon” saga buy this game, you will not regret it.

Editor and writing:
Joe Tesone
Final note: 8.5. Very good

We thank Square Enix LATAM and Square Enix Global for the provided copy.