Dragon Quest Monsters - Joker 3 Professional (Japan)
Nintendo 3DS
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Reviewed in 2017
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✪ Reviewed on November 23, 2023
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Expanded re-release with new monsters, retuned balance and a meatier endgame. Same exploration strengths, same language barrier. Essential for fans who burned through the original.
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Category
RPG1 player7+
Description
Enhanced version of Joker 3 with expanded post-game. Published by Square Enix, released in 2017 in Japan. New monsters, extra dungeons, rebalanced gameplay, stronger online play. Japanese edition.
Dragon Quest Monsters - Joker 3 Professional review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
3/5
Music
★★★★★
"Memorable"
2/5
Story
★★★★★
"Classic"
Gameplay
"Solid"
Fun
"Pleasant"
Addictiveness
"Captivating"
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Massive"
Fleshed out with hefty post-game content, this Professional version further extends Joker 3's already abundant monster hunt. New monsters, extra dungeons and a reinforced online mode push the limits of optimisation. That surplus of material, grafted onto an addictive collecting loop, makes it the most generous cut for completionists.
Technical info
💾0,77 GB📅09/02/2017
Published by Square Enix
Dragon Quest Monsters - Joker 3 Professional (3DS) price, value & rarity
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
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Collector interest
An expanded edition of Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3, this Professional fleshes out the bestiary and endgame challenges for seasoned players, in Japan alone. Its status as a definitive version never localized makes it a doubly sought import among series faithful chasing the most complete content. Scarcity owes to the lack of a Western release and to persistent demand among monster-synthesis fans.
A questionable morality
Becoming the top tamer here involves a few habits one rarely questions: you capture the monsters you meet in the wild, make them fight on your behalf, then fuse two of them to obtain a third, mightier one. The process cheerfully erases both parents, yet the lure of an overpowered creature sweeps away any scruple in an instant.
