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This is something I have not commented on until now, but I can no longer put it off as its becoming more and more relevant within the team. Recently, there have been some external tools developed that affect Dragon Quest X, such as changing the text displayed on screen to appear in a different language, and possibly other functions. I've been asked about them and their use, and I've seen a few disputes occur within the community regarding them. The time has come that I need to make my position on them known. As leader of the Den Team, it is my responsibility to promote and encourage a safe and rule abiding manor of playing Dragon Quest X that follows Square-Enix's Terms of Service. Tools that change or modify an MMORPG or its files are typically viewed as a big no-no by the companies. As it is my job to keep the team safe, the position I take is that I advocate playing Dragon Quest X as it is delivered by Square Enix and the way they intend. There is no other position I can take on this. I am a central figure in the Dragon Quest X community, Square-Enix is aware of me, as is much of the general community. I cannot in good faith take any other position other than to encourage usage of the game as intended by the company providing it. I cannot encourage any behavior that could potentially result in a ban from the Dragon Quest X service for any member of the team. I am not going to make a rule saying people on the team cannot use such tools. It is not my place to tell other people how how to manage their games. Even if I did try and impose any sort of rule like that, we all know it would not be followed and would only cause dissent within the team. Instead, I will say that anyone that uses any external tools does so at their own risk. Should Square-Enix decide to take action against someone running any kind of tool or add on to Dragon Quest X, it is between you and them and you will have to address it with them yourself. I'm imposing a few team rules regarding this, related to etiquette. -There is no requirement nor expectation for anyone on the Den Team to use any kind of external tool or program with Dragon Quest X. Be it a communication channel such as Discord or a tool or add on program, all of these are fan-created and are not formally associated with the team, even if team members participate in them or are involved in their creation. -Team members are not to be harassed for their personal decision to either use, or not use, such programs. Everyone's individual choice on this is to be respected. I will not tolerate harassment within the team on either side of this issue. What is most important is that we support ourselves as a community and look out for one another. Fighting about whether or not any of us are using add on tools is not going to benefit us, and will just make us look bad to ourselves and to others. Never forget that we speak not just for ourselves, but for the English Dragon Quest X community as a whole. It is no longer just me that is the face of the DQX community. It is all of us. Remember that, and make sure we put our best foot forward and show that we can come together even when we disagree on things. ~Cranberry

For April 1st,@YangustheLegendaryBandit tried joking back and forth on DQ Slime Time Sidequest about things we always say & feel about stuff. We've gotten to know each other's favorites and pet peeves over the years. Was thinking maybe we could get to know y'alls. Here's the task, simply fill out the list below to help us know you a bit better: Favorite DQ game: Least favorite DQ game: Favorite DQ spin-off game: Least favorite DQ spin-off game: Favorite 1-off RPG: Favorite other RPG series: Least favorite 1-off RPG: Least favorite RPG series: Favorite DQ character(s): Least favorite DQ character(s): Favorite DQ monster(s): Least favorite DQ monster(s): Favorite other RPG character(s): Favorite other RPG monsters(s): Favorite color: Favorite pet(s): Favorite musical genre/artist(s): Favorite song(s): Favorite food(s): Favorite TV show(s): Favorite movie(s): Favorite sports team(s): Pet peeve(s):

Link to the dq 9 speed run

https://anchor.fm/dqslimetime/episodes/Episode-042---Sayonara--Quest-of-The-Stars-e13haiq Join @Bluestar, @Bururian, @Pendy and I as we reminisce about the now sunset western release of Quest of the Stars, and read through feedback from @miel and @liquidmetalslime and more!

DESCENDANT OF ERDRICK An RPG Maker MZ project Dragon Quest / Dragon Warrior has been a game that I've long desired to recreate in RPG Maker, but often have lost the drive to do so. With RPG Maker MZ's release and features, alongside the amazing work done by the VisuStella team with their (mostly) free plugins, I'm proud to present my own personal retelling of Dragon Quest 1: "Descendant of Erdrick." Using a combination of assets from Nostalgia by Ocean's Dream, Tyler Warren's 16 bit backgrounds, as well as several assets I made on my own (monster sprites and hero battlers), I aim to create a unique Dragon Quest experience that allows players to experience it with a different sort of nostalgia: In the style of Final Fantasy! The battle system uses RPG Maker MZ's default turn-based battle system with a few visual tweaks (compliments of VisuStella's amazing coding work). Thanks to their plugins allowing users to use "damage styles," I was able to create a stat system that kept damage values low and in a way that creates a familiar difficulty discovered in Dragon Quest 1. Here's some of the enemies I've redrawn! In the event of death, you encounter this screen and are sent back to King Lorik with half your gold, as experienced in the original game. Here are some animations for spell casting, Heal, and Sizz. I really hope to finish this project, and I aim to have a demo I'm comfortable letting people play soon. As a nice teaser, here is a brief battle between the hero and the Dragonlord, featuring a hidden spell... Kazap! ------------------------ I'll be posting here with updates on new sprites, other areas and features that get completed, as well as downloadable demos for everyone to try out. Stay tuned! :3

Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, bright copper kettles, warm woolen mittens, brown paper packages tied up with strings. These are a few of my favorite things. For real though Favorite Dragon Quest game: I bounce back and forth between 5 and 8 Least favorite Dragon Quest game: 6 Favorite Dragon Quest spin-off: DQM:J probably Least favorite Dragon Quest spin-off: Dragon Quest Wars definitely Favorite one-off RPG: The Last Story Favorite other RPG: Pokémon Least favorite one-off RPG: life is too short to play an RPG you’re not enjoying enough to have a strong opinion about it Least favorite one-off RPG: same deal Favorite Dragon Quest character: Milly probably Least favorite Dragon Quest character: Marihell definitely. Favorite Dragon Quest monster: Dracky probably Least favorite Dragon Quest monster: Dancing Devils Favorite other RPG characters: Makoto from Persona 5 I guess? Favorite other RPG monsters: do Pokémon count? Blaziken, Umbreon, Dragonite, Empoleon, and Galarian Ponyta for some reason. Favorite Color: blue Favorite pet: the family cat Kate Favorite musical artist: Rilo Kiley Favorite song: dunno Favorite food: steak Favorite TV show: The Simpsons maybe through to season 16 Favorite movie: I bounce back and forth between Spirited Away and Perfect Blue Favorite sports team: couldn’t care less. I guess I care slightly more when the Red Sox are doing well because I was growing up around the time when they were escaping from the shadow of the Curse of the Bambino. Pet peeve: when people don’t just say what they mean or talk out an issue.

The main DQ theme, Overture, was played during the parade of nations, at the start with Greece and also closing at the end.

This is my first post here, so I hope I'm doing it the right way! Here's a picture of the Sage class from DQ3 that I spent a lot of time on. Hope you like it!! Feel free to post Dragon Quest 3 fanart you've found or made

Thanks to @Yross for the latest update to the Monster Appearances List https://www.woodus.com/den/resources/monster_appearances.php Bunch of monster appearances added to DQ Walk, DQ Tact, and DQMSL. 30+ New Monsters added from DQM Super Light, DQ of the Stars, DQ Tact, and DQ Walk. And some name change for one monster.

Played another hour of SMT III so far today. I don’t know what it is about this game, but I find it very addicting. One of my favorite traits of this game is it’s dark, demonic feel. So very different from the traditional JRPG formula. So now, I’m split because I can explore the world, or explore the Labyrinth. I dug a good distance into the labyrinth before having to jam out to heal. I’ve still got somewhere to go in the main story too so I don’t know whether to head back to the labyrinth and go as far as possible, keep trudging up top to see where the world takes me. I guess I’ll decide shortly....I’m leaning toward at least one more push in the labyrinth. I also started Dragon’s Crown Pro, which is TOTALLY different than anything I’ve played recently, if ever. Loads of beat-em-up fun, but still very much an RPG. I’m becoming an Atlus fan, Hard and fast. Lastly, in Bravely Default, all of my characters are level 60 or higher, I’ve got about 60 hours into the game, and they’ve all got a few mastered classes under their belts. There’s tons of quest points on the map, and while I know they aren’t all necessary, I’m going to try to hit all of them.

@TigermaskHow's the patch going? Looking forward to finally getting to play Torneko 3.

Definitely post here when you finish and have the whole torrent ready to go. Just dig around and found this all. This is information many here at the Den would enjoy, but I don't ever see talked about or posted here. yeah, currently I only need episode 26 of Element7 subs (from youtube). Since it is not available on YT anymore I'll just scour on the net or just check the grammar on my existing subs. and yes will definitely post here once all are done

Success! Save stated right when I defeated the bonus boss. Once work dies down a little I'll be able to appreciate the ending. I did happen to catch that there was more (I think new) character art during the credits. I'll need to go back and screenshot all that like I did when I beat the main story.

The mid-90's were a good time. The only thing lacking about it was localized Dragon Quest!

Discovered a new morning drink this weekend. Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer and Orange Juice. The kids call it a Man-Mosa. I quite enjoyed it.

Here’s the latest story trailer for SMT5. Now you don’t have to go through Facebook just to watch it. Haha

Nice, my plate says WOODUS (Imagine that )

Oh god, I don’t think I’ve even played 10 Falcom games. They can be so bloody long! Well, here’s a not top 10 of what I have played. 1. Trails of Cold Steel 1. Probably my favorite Falcom RPG so far. I’m not normally a fan of calendar systems in games and thought I wasn’t going to like it because the game seemed like some sort of take on Persona, but I was pleasantly surprised that it does it’s own thing. Great battle gameplay, tons of world building and character development from major and side characters, wonderful music, and a good start to the Cold Steel arc/story. 2. Ys: Memories of Celceta. First Ys game I played and made me a fan. I had heard of the series for a long while but had never checked it out. Picked it up on Vita and really enjoyed the action rpg arcade style the game had going for it. Felt like a good introduction to the series, and without repeating myself too much it has a lot of same reasons I liked it as Cold Steel above. 3. Trails in the Sky 1. A game I can’t seem to properly finish but one I still like. Seeing the story of Estelle unfold as she and her best friend head off to become Bracers while learning about some of the goings on in their world was interesting. 4. Ys 8: Lacrimosa of Dana. Another game I swear I’m doomed not to finish, there are a number of improvements and changes to this game for the Ys formula that I like. Sadly it goes below Celceta because of those awful forced monster raid missions. Too much progress halting for my tastes, but thankfully the game does have interesting locations and history to it. Have to take the bad with the good on this one. 5. Trails of Cold Steel 2. Ending the list here because this is the only other game I’ve put a good amount of time into. Haven’t finished Cold Steel 2 but it’s a direct continuation of CS1, with the war now in full swing and Rean trying to do what he can to help his country. Liked all that I’ve played so far, just need to go back and finish. And that’s all I got. Sorry, haven’t actually played that many Falcom games yet, but I certainly want to. Looking forward to playing the Trails of Azure Duology since NIS America announced a translation and hopefully finish off the Trails in the Sky series at some point too. I also plan to play Ys 9 once I’m done with Ys 8, but all in good time. For the next person, I call on @jay to give us his top ten RPGs that are NOT Dragon Quest.

Favorite DQ game: either DQ III, X or XI, depends on the mood of the day, but that's the holy trinity! Least favorite DQ game: DQ V, but being the least favourite game in my favourite series is really not that detrimental, it's just that the whole marriage thing doesn't appeal to me Favorite DQ spin-off game: imagine me writing anything other than Rivals here, that would be a shocker (and a lie) Least favorite DQ spin-off game: Wars, I'm even a big fan of the genre but that game was a huge, huge mistake Favorite 1-off RPG: Final Fantasy Tactics (if that counts, I guess it does?), Rogue Galaxy, Soul Nomad & the World Eaters Favorite other RPG series: Etrian Odyssey Least favorite 1-off RPG: Geez, I tend to forget things I didn't like unless they turned into so-bad-it's-so-good experiences... no clue honestly Least favorite RPG series: I'm sure it exists and it's out there, but I have no memories left of it! Favorite DQ character(s): Serena, Milly, Anlucia — outside of the blondfest we have Trode, Sylvando, the Princess of Moonbrooke, Luida/Patty, Raguas Least favorite DQ character(s): the guard dude from V, what was his name again... Tuppence? Oh, and Terry and his "Gary was here! You're a loser!" moments Favorite DQ monster(s): Killing Machine, Crème caraslime Least favorite DQ monster(s): Giant Moth, that's not a monster, it's a nightmare with wings Favorite other RPG character(s): Lloyd from Tales of Symphonia, Gig from Soul Nomad, Finn from Fire Emblem Thracia 776, Celes from FF VI Favorite other RPG monsters(s): Moogles in any shape or form, then Pumpkaboo, Volcarona and Turtwig for my Pokémon choices! Favorite color: pastel pink Favorite pet(s): both dogs and cats! Favorite musical genre/artist(s): I listen to anything and everything, if I have to pick a random artist let's go with Mondo Grosso Favorite song(s): Labyrinth (Mondo Grosso), Owner of a Lonely Heart (YES), Music (Sakanaction), The Look of Love (Dusty Springfield) Favorite food(s): pizza, piadine, cakes and pies, everything that gives me the chance to bake or work with dough makes me happy! Favorite TV show(s): The Mentalist, Dr. House - Medical Division and if we're talking anime I would say Ping Pong The Animation, Hunter x Hunter, Chihayafuru Favorite movie(s): The first two movies in The Godfather trilogy, El laberinto del fauno, The King's Speech, The Iron Giant, The Black Cauldron, Treasure Planet Favorite sports team(s): as long as they strive for victory and give it all they've got, all of them! I have no allegiance, only respect! Pet peeve(s): poor hygiene habits in general, that's the one thing that enrages me to demon lord levels of evilness

Best one is Builders 2 and i won't accept otherwise. It has Boy Malroth, what else do you need? I agree with Xiggy on DQ7 being the best mainline game, it's such a great game! I loved every second with it.

I came expecting the video game cover band and was surprised to see a new game being made! Awesome, keep up the Erdricking!

Started playing Hitman 2 last week. Got an interest after seeing some gameplay (and from having heard about the series for a few years) and it’s been pretty fun so far. I’m definitely not used to stealth games like this, but I’m having a good time. It’s great you can play missions in so many different ways, there’s a lot of secrets and areas you can discover, and even though the game presents story stuff seriously you get a lot of silly moments too. Definitely a game I can appreciate with the freedom to discover levels and go at your own pace.

What's the best game in the DW series? Dragon Quest VII. Thank you, good night. (and I also share some of the above comments: Dragon Quest IX is my least favorite game of the entire franchise. Well, only Dragon Quest Wars was worse imo)

This is my cat and she's 1 year old. Name's Zorro!

Strange Journey Redux: Tried beating the final(?) floor of the Womb of Grief, but the game put a hard stop to that. Apparently you can’t cross the invisible floor, which doesn’t make sense seeing as how back on the 4th floor I was able to walk along the invisible paths. I know the last sector has a portion of invisible floors that you need a Demonica upgrade for that, but why did Redux allow me to traverse a dungeon floor in the new dungeon with invisible routes? I’m confused about that design decision. Didn’t do much else besides a little more exploration in Horologium and made a few new demons. Got Barong and Rangda, and it’s only a matter of time before I can fuse them and create Shiva for my party. Ys 8: Boy, the PS4 version has been very annoying. I’m at the point I got the 4th party member, I get the materials needed to help properly fight Primordials (basically this series take on dinosaurs) and I’m then introduced to a new bit of content in the PS4 version: Beast Hunts. You go to certain areas and fight the monsters directly, rather than the Beast Raids where they attack the Castaway Village and try to destroy it. Basically taking the fight to them. Well, as soon as you finish the introduction level to this new bit of content and get your upgraded weapons, the game immediately stops you AGAIN and makes you do a forced Beast Raid. Goddamnit, this is the kind of thing I hate in games. I just want to get back to the exploration of the island and play the game, not do a forced new quest and then immediately have to do another one. The beast raids are the worst part about Ys 8 because you can’t ignore them. And now there’s a new form of it with beast hunts. I feel like both are meant to pad out the game time, and at this point I’m just going to play them on the easiest difficulty setting just so I can be done with them all the faster. You really screwed the pooch by adding this into Ys, Falcom.

Favorite DQ game: Dragon Quest VII Least favorite DQ game: Dragon Quest II Favorite DQ spin-off game: Dragon Quest Builders 2 Least favorite DQ spin-off game: Dragon Quest Wars Favorite 1-off RPG: Not sure if Super Mario RPG counts. Legend of Dragoon otherwise. Favorite other RPG series: Outside of Dragon Quest, it would probably be Xenoblade. Least favorite 1-off RPG: Eternal Eyes Least favorite RPG series: Kingdom Hearts Favorite DQ character(s): Alena, Torneko, and Morrie Least favorite DQ character(s): Serena Favorite DQ monster(s): Slimes, Mimic, and Robbin' 'ood Least favorite DQ monster(s): Lunatick Favorite other RPG character(s): Hector (Fire Emblem), Frog (Chrono Trigger), Locke (FF6), Teressa (Octopath), Pyra (Xenoblade Chronicles 2) Favorite other RPG monsters(s): Orcs! Slimes and Mimics... again. Favorite color: Neon Green Favorite pet(s): Cats and Geckos! Favorite musical genre/artist(s): Video game soundtracks, and Folk Metal (Korpiklaani) Favorite song(s): Too many to put in a list Favorite food(s): Burritos!!! Favorite TV show(s): Ren and Stimpy Favorite movie(s): Aladdin, The Dark Knight, and 007: Goldeneye Favorite sports team(s): Not really into sports. Only eSports. I do like Sumo though. Pet peeve(s): Walking in the house with shoes on. Loud chewing and swallowing (Misophonia)

Good luck with V-long. I spent so much time trying to get him from wifi eggs back when the game came out, but I never got him.

I don't think the DQM+ manga fits in any chronology because Clio meets the DQ2 trio not too long after meeting the DQ1 hero,and those three are descendants of the DQ1 hero... and as you pointed out, the DQ1 hero is still fighting the Dragonlord when he says goodbye to Clio.

Not sure where else to post this but... I went all in... Got dam bugs!!

I made this a while ago and never uploaded it to noticeboard, but here's my recreation of Madam Luca's house from DQVI! And unlike Unova, it actually has an interior!

Today's builds come from @Glaceon Mage! (This post's soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojEyUU2M6z4) Glaceon here recreated part of the Unova region from Pokémon Black and White, and their sequels Black 2 and White 2. These games are my favorite Pokémon games by far, so i was waiting for the moment Glaceon uploaded the island to the noticeboard, seeing their updates through Discord was very cool! Great job, Glaceon! This place is amazing and i loved visiting it! My feedback would be this: add static npcs here and there, if possible! Other than that, really good island to explore The island is still WIP, but visit their island with this id: 2AQFGJ7eU8P. I'll put some images from the original Pokémon games in a spoiler so you can see the effort Glaceon made!

I finished Metroid Prime1 at 100% completion, so I'm taking a break from Metroid at the moment, doing two games back to back like that. I'll likely continue on with Prime 2 after I go through another game or two from another franchise. I'm going through MMBN1, which I posted about in the RPG general thread.

A friend and i have been working on my Isle of Awakening recently. Long story short, months years ago i terraformed my Scarlet Sands into a witchgrass + poison swamp area, and made it some blocks higher than it was originally (that part was hellish). A while ago, i started working on this place again, and in the last few days a friend from Discord helped me add life and texture to this little town. These two screenshots are more or less around where the north-west corner of the pyramid would be, just some blocks higher. At first i only wanted to use dead trees, but the decaying yellow trees look great too, and add some color on top of the purple-ish and black-ish tones i had before. And so do the pumpkins! And the next two are in a cave connecting Scarlet Sands and Green Gardens, a bit south of where the river ends and west of the abandoned house. This town is super chaotic right now, but it's very nice to be in! I plan on uploading this island to the noticeboard in a month or so, maybe? For now, one of my Buildertopias is there, so feel free to visit it! ID: p6eipQsFao. I'll put some screenshots of my uploaded Buildertopia in a spoiler tag. If you come visit, please take screenshots and show me!

I’ve got a Uromastyx names Yangus. Super hearty desert lizard with a lifespan of about 30 years. He’s also got awesome spikes, which inspired his name. He is friendly and enjoys being handle. Eats a handful of greens about twice a week and munches in lentils and dried peas in between. He needs no water as he gets what he needs from the greens.

If Horii is to be believed, you'll be a regular for 10-20 more years!

Happy Troll Trivia Tuesday! The troll monster appears in six out of the eleven main line games. Since VIII, it has been a regular customer and has appeared in every game!

Been back at work doing camp for a couple weeks. Looks like a small Covid quarantine is going to screw me out of a couple hundred dollars next week as a pair of students won't be able to come to my camp due to contact at another one. Oh well. 11 days until we go back to school for real.

Second attempt at the bonus boss, coming up. My previous attempt the boss was one-shotting my max Buff'd MKS, because the monster's max HP was too low. I've since class changed the MKS to a Pural, which ended up being a terrible idea (slow stat growth, low HP and defense), so I class changed him again to a Golem. It's a 3 star monster, but my stats by level 40 are all around the 700-800 range, with max HP at 529, by level 40. I also class changed my Trumpeter elephant into a King Leo, and his stat increases really shot up at each level. By level 40 the King Leo's Attack is now 999. His defense is still the weakest in my party, at 707. It's interesting, though. My Andreal's attack is 868 at level 40, but he attacks harder than my 999 attacking King Leo, because the Andreal has two soldier support characters, while the King Leo has two sages and a mage. I can't swap these two monsters, because the soldier wagon would be overweight with a King Leo. So I just deal with the fact that my Andreal is still my top damage dealer. Here goes. Bonus dungeon, attempt 2!

I wouldn’t mind going back to the mid 90s myself. Not only to see what it was like when I would have been a baby/toddler, but maybe grab a rare SNES game or two…

Favorite DQ game: i assume this is for mainline? VII in that case. I also really love II, VI and XI (S). Least favorite DQ game: Its gotta be either VIII or IX. Nothing against them, i just like the rest way more. Favorite DQ spin-off game: Builders 2. Least favorite DQ spin-off game: DQM Joker 1, closely followed by Wars. Favorite 1-off RPG: Radiant Historia, Eternal Sonata. Favorite other RPG series: Pokémon. Least favorite 1-off RPG: Can't think of any atm. Least favorite RPG series: Persona. (The PSP port of 1 has some banger songs tho!) Favorite DQ character(s): Mysterious Ashlynn? Sweet Serena? My man Carver? Any of these three, i think. Least favorite DQ character(s): Terry. His kid self is ok tho. Favorite DQ monster(s): Heh. Least favorite DQ monster(s): the Drohl family. Why are they so ugly? Favorite other RPG character(s): N (Pokémon), Yuri (Tales of Vesperia, he's kind of an ass but he's fun as a main protagonist), Isabeau (Shin Megami Tensei IV). Couldn't think of anything else. Favorite other RPG monsters(s): Volcarona (Pokémon) -- Favorite color: Blue Favorite pet(s): Cats! Gotta love my kids: Kyo (RIP dear friend ), Mel and Kida. Favorite musical genre/artist(s): Im gonna say City Pop. Favorite song(s): Lately it's Turn it into love, by Wink. It's the japanese cover of a Kylie Minogue song by the same title. Favorite food(s): A specific kind of soup my grandma used to make xD Favorite TV show(s): Dark. Favorite movie(s): the LOTR trilogy. Favorite sports team(s): hah, none. i don't like sports, nor esports. Pet peeve(s): wearing the mask incorrectly (like ok plague rat, wear it under your nose!)), clout chasing, chewing very loudly, slow walkers (specially when its hot outside)... i could be complaining all day long hahaha

Had a glorious time during the Bidoof Breakout. Got not one, but three 100% Bidoofs. They're named MaximumDoof, Bid Doofus, and Doofalicious. Caught one shiny, my girlfriend caught one that she traded to me and turned three stars and lucky, and I got a third from a friend. They are named Bid 'Doofin', Sparkledoof, and DonaldB.Doof. I don't really care about shinies unless I like the color scheme or it has good stats. Got a shiny Dieno during GoFest. Already have a 98%. I've got a friend who takes shiny hunting too seriously, so I messed with him by sending a screen shot and said, "Stats were trash, so I transferred it." He lost his mind. It was great. I was hoping to get a shiny Snorlax just so I could turn up my sound and transfer the one next to it.

As a security recommendation by the latest version of the forum software it recommends switching the login method to be email address rather than display name. Since email's are hidden generally and display names are not it would make it harder to have compromised accounts. Anyone have an issue with that?

Mario Golf: Super Rush. Beat it. Didn't take long I guess, the whole Adventure Mode RPG was all of 4-6 hours, tops. Took a few tries to beat the final boss, but got him with only 4% of my life left. Not a hard thing, just wish there was more to it. At least it's an infinite fun game with the kids too!

I mentioned this on FB Messenger earlier, but in greater detail, I got to the first post-game final boss and he kept 1 shotting my level 46 MKS, despite the fact that my monster was max-buffed for defense. Basically an MKS with 180 max-HP and 999 defense is getting one-shotted by a bonus boss who is somehow still able to do 200-300 damage in a standard hit. I just walked right back out of that dungeon. Leveling up two more to max of 48 for my MKS and then I'll have to class change to something with better HP gains.

Oh, very cool! I didn't expect more work to be done on this. Since my last post I went ahead and cleared the game, the post game, and what I imagine to be left of the post-post game. There was only a single thing I noticed so far about what I assume is the patch locking me out of content (I don't know if this has been reported yet, I've been too busy playing the actual game to look up all of my problems :[ ) When you get the second speed conduit for the race in the post-game area, the game doesn't allow you to choose between yes/no as the dialogue closes out before you get the chance. I'm not sure if this has been reported already but it locks you out of both that race's end shop and participating in the last one as the NPC won't give you the conduit for the next race, Other than that this patch is honestly a dream come true. I've been playing the DQM series since Joker hit NA in 2006(?) and finally beating the last game in the Joker series 15 years later in full English has been a really amazing experience.

I'm so excited that this is a thing that exists now. I've been waiting to play PRO in english for so long. A couple questions just to make sure I did everything right; Some monster names aren't appearing in battle (I remember this being a thing in the original Joker 3 eng patch), some text is overflowing from dialogue boxes, and most dialogue text is broken up between lines. Also, some location names and pretty much all text that's stored in what I assume to be an image file (some HUD elements, location names, etc.) are still in JP (I assume because this leaked translation only injects text and doesn't modify other assets) and some translated text isn't in full width, resulting in an unreadable jarble of characters that are too close together. Of course the game is 100% playable and fully understandable in this state, I just want to make sure that this is the intended case and I haven't just jumbled something up in patching.

Strange Journey Redux: Finished off Sector Grus and have reached the final area, Sector Horologium. Ran into the Pale Rider while progressing in Grus, and boy, that was a hard fight. He was 20 levels above me for one thing! Luckily I managed to beat him and unlocked him for fusion. Before moving on to the new sector, I’m going to go back and see if I can complete more of the newly added dungeon in Redux. Need a bit of a break from all the story stuff that’s happening so it’s back to exploration! Ys 8: Fired up my Vita and resumed this game again. Mainly did side quests and exploration to get used to the controls again, and afterwards completed the next story dungeon. I like how the game works in using the past and present to solve certain problems. Reminds me of DQ7 a bit in that regard.

Strange Journey Redux: Well, we’re at the point where two of the lead characters have been altered. Kind of a shame Redux reveals these changes in the opening cinematic as they were very surprising reveals, but they still leave an impact in this version. I can now make a lot more progress in Sector Grus, and I’ve been making some good progress on the Demon Compendium. Currently have 61% of the demons, and even got lucky and found another Fiend while working on the compendium!

Wow this is amazing!Thank you for your hard work on both the English and Spanish versions, can't wait to play the later version myself the next time i replay DQ2!

Saigan does good work. Some DQ YouTubers are real mush mouths, hard to listen to for too long.