Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2: Difference between revisions

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[[Heroic Mime|The hero]] decides to stow away on a zeppelin heading towards the world monster tournament, observing as the [[Alpha Bitch|reigning champion]]<ref> Solitaire from the original Joker</ref> declares the ship unfit for someone of her caliber and storms off to find more appropriate accommodations. This turns out to be prescient, the ship is brought down shortly after takeoff, right after the Hero is caught as a stowaway and forced to work as a deck hand for the crew.

Waking up near the crashed ship, the engineer, [[Punny Name|Rory Bellows]] finds him and sets him off on a quest to attempt to find survivors. It seems that the ship has crash landed on an island populated by hundreds of monster species -- fortunately for him, he always wanted to be a monster scout...

 

 

Each monster also has from 1 to 4 traits, passive benefits (or penalties) that affect them no matter what skill trees they have inherited from the breeding system -- for example, some monsters are just naturally able to move two or three times a turn, this is something they cannot pass on to children of a different species.

 

 

* [[Actually Four Mooks]]: Played straight -- only one monster appears on the map, but up to three appear in combat. It's further played with by the size system -- monsters can be size S, M, or G -- taking up 1, 2 or 3 party slots respectively. Size 2 monsters get a huge stat boost, can have more skill trees, and have more (and better) traits to make up for their size. Size 3 monsters are literal parties in and of themselves, and get outrageous stat boosts and can have 5 skill trees at a time.

** Unfortunately, Size G is reserved for truly gigantic boss monsters that cannot be scouted. {{spoiler|Until the [[Playable Epilogue]], of course.}}

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: The reigning champion, who refuses to even get on the ship, and Lily Gilder, a [[Too Dumb to Live]] [[Rich Bitch]] who torments you throughout the game.

* [[Artifact Title]]: The previous game had "Joker" as the [[Canon Name]] of the main character, taken from the game's playing card [[Theme Naming]]. While set in the same universe, ''Joker 2'' doesn't feature the protagonist ''or'' the theme, making the "Joker" part of the title meaningless.

* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: {{spoiler|The Incarnus makes a return in the postgame, and has an even bigger appearance in the [[Updated Rerelease]].}}

* [[But Thou Must!]]: Several times.

* [[Cap]]: All monsters have their own stat caps, level cap is based on how many "pluses" a monster has. (0-4, level 50; 5-9, level 75; 10+, level 100) Stat cap can be increased by getting stat bonus "skills", and there are even specific stat bonus skill trees you can take.

* [[Chest Monster]]: The Mimic / Cannibox / Trap-Box line makes a return, and are fairly powerful material type monsters.

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: The Scout system, which takes into account your physical damage capabilities vs the enemy's power, and gives you a percent change to capture them based on this.

* [[Disc One Nuke]]: The King Slime combination that was so heavily abused in ''Joker'' was removed; instead Drackys and Great Sabercat Cubs take it's place. These two have negative traits that decrease their usefulness, but this is easily fixed by breeding them away to equally powerful Rank C monsters without the negative trait.

* [[Escort Mission]]: In Iceolation, Lily Gilder refuses to go back to the ship, instead she keeps running off unescorted by even a single monster, only to be cornered by various '''hellhounds''', requiring you rescue her. This happens multiple times, and she remains ungrateful until the very end {{spoiler|when you beat back a 3 story tall minotaur... thing to save her again.}}

* [[Expy]]: {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Rigor Mortex]] is arguably one of [[Pokémon|Mewtwo]]. Both were artificially created as a super powered clone of one of the most powerful monsters in their respective world, both ultimately rebelled and slaughtered their creators, and both plot to destroy humanity. Although while Mewtwo had an (arguably) [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|altruistic]] reason for his evil, Rigor Mortex is simply a [[Card-Carrying Villain|card carrying]] [[Omnicidal Maniac]].}}

* [[Fusion Dance]]: As started by the ''Joker'' translation, "breeding" has been localized as this, called "synthesizing." It uses "Plus and Minus" instead of "Male and Female" (Possibly because "Hermaphrodite" and "Neuter" are also options), but [[G-Rated Sex]] is very much there.

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: {{spoiler|The researchers on the island wanted to make an artificial monster stronger than Leonyx.}} They succeeded.

* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]: You get bonuses for catching certain numbers of monster types, although most only worry about 1 or 2 families until the postgame.

* [[Inevitable Tournament]]: Mulitples.

* [[Infinity-1 Sword]]: Several:

* [[Magikarp Power]]: The X and XY (Stronger and Strongest) system. Through patience, hard work, patience, careful breeding, and ''still more patience'', you can turn any of the Mascot Mooks into endgame monsters. These come with updated traits (such as moving twice per turn) and each gain an "ultimate" ability, translated as Uber in the original Joker -- Uber Healing, Uber Breath, etc etc. This system was expanded in the [[Updated Rerelease]] -- you could use any monster in the game until the endgame, provided you continued working on empowering it to the X and XY forms.

* [[Mascot Mook]]: One for each monster family.

* [[Mons]]: 300 (800 in the [[Updated Rerelease]]) of them.

* [[Olympus Mons]]: Multiple Examples, including several flavors of evil deity [[Big Bad]], alongside the return of {{spoiler|the Incarnus}}.

* [[Original Generation]]: Several original monsters, most notably the final boss and the [[Bonus Boss]], were created by [[Akira Toriyama]] exclusively for this game.

* [[Playable Epilogue]]: You didn't think becoming ''world champion'' was going to be good enough, did you?

* [[Power Nullifier]]: There are multiple status effects that cause people to be unable to hit, cast, or do anything at all. And there are multiple counters to this.

* [[Punny Name]]: Every area (save the ship) is named after an emotion -- Treepidation, Doubtback, etc. Every member of the ship's crew and passenger's list is also punny -- Eugene Pool (an expert in monster breeding), Rory Bellows (an expert in the seemingly coal powered ship's engines), etc etc.

* [[The Rival]]: The reigning world champion is too snobby to fly on the ship, meaning she misses out on what may possibly be the most important discovery in the history of the world's monster breeding / training / etc society. She does return for the post game.

* [[Randomly Generated Levels]]: An unfortunate exception, although there is a semi-[[Roguelike]] like bonus dungeon that doesn't randomize it's layout, but does randomize each room's monster family and layout.

** The default names for your starting monsters are references to the Edios translation of ''[[Dragon Quest Monsters]]'' 1. For example, the Ghost is named Spooky.

** Mostly particularly iconic characters -- [[Big Bad]] and [[The Dragon|Dragons]], mostly -- have their own skill unique sets, which give them their iconic abilities and strategies. These can (and should!) be inherited if and when these monsters are bred away.

** {{spoiler|Solitaire makes a return, and uses the exact same team as she did in the previous game.}}

* [[Silent Protagonist]]: Lampshaded.

* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: One of ''Professional's'' bonus monsters has this. No seriously, his throne is a part of his graphic.

 

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