Editor's Comments Revision History Introduction: * Menu Translations * Basics of Monster Caretaking * Quest System Overview Dragon Quest Monsters - Terry's Wonderland Walkthrough Town Overview Future Additions Credits
Editor's Comments ( 04/17/99 ):
I just wanted to let all of you out there know that I am sorry for not having the time to update this FAQ and want to thank those who have E-mailed me with many compliments and offer your skills to help me. For those who have offered to help me, please E-mail me again as I have lost your addresses in a hard drive crash. I have been busy this past few months, switching jobs and school laying down harsh mid-terms as well as finals. But I have gotten many things back in control and will dedicate as much free time as I can to finishing up what I have started. Keep those compliments and any other tidbits of information coming as I do enjoy reading them. Another reminder is that my Japanese is very limited so any information that I missed, contributions, comments or criticisms (be gentle) can be sent to the E-mail address located at the bottom. Be sure to SAVE OFTEN and enjoy the game! Now, onto the good stuff.....
Revision History:
*v0.4 04/17/99: - Cleaned up more of the FAQ: minor structural changes, more spelling corrected. - Added more translations in the FAQ. - Continued further with the Walkthrough portion of the FAQ.
*v0.3 10/10/98:
- Cleaned up more of the FAQ: minor structural changes, spelling corrected. - Added homepage URLs to receive the latest version of this FAQ. - Added Quest System Overview. - Added Future Additions. - Seperated Town Overview from Main Walkthrough. - Continued further in the Walkthrough portion of the FAQ.
v0.2 10/05/98:
- Cleaned up, made minor structural changes, and corrected spelling in the FAQ. - Continued further in the Walkthrough portion of the FAQ. - Added Menu Translations, Basics of Monster Caretaking, Revision History and updated Credits.
v0.1 10/04/98:
- Initial FAQ release.
(*) - current version available
Introduction:
It has been a while since the last Dragon Quest has been released in Japan. But, after a long silence, Enix has once again outdone themselves in this old-school type RPG for the Nintendo Gameboy. It incorporates the aspect of having monsters in your group and fighting the battles as found in Dragon Quest 5. Many new elements are implemented such as finding items as you wander the land, hunting for monsters and building their levels so that you can compete with a friend via the gameboy link-cable. I have not played far in the game but from what I have seen, the game includes some monsters previously seen in the Dragon Quest series such as the Golem that protects Cantlin (Dragon Quest) and the tiger guarding Papa-san's sword (Dragon Quest 5). The music in the game should also bring back memories of those 8-bit and 16- bit days.
Menu Translations:
Turning on the Game (for the first time):
Start a New Quest
Turning on the Game (all other times):
Continue Start a New Quest Link Cable Battle ( Requires 2 Gameboys linked together ) Make Marriage ( Requires 2 Gameboys linked together )
In Battle:
Fight Item Tactics Run
Explanation of ( In Battle ) Commands:
Fight - Use this to command your monsters in attacking other monsters.
Item - Use this to use items in battle. Another use for this is to increase the chances of getting other monsters into your party ( See Basics of Monster Caretaking ).
Tactics - Use this to change the battle tactics for your monsters ( See Explanation of Status Screen Commands for more information ).
Run - Used to Run away from battles.
Status Screen:
Monster Stats Item Abilities/Magic Options:
Message Speed Party Order Tactics Save
Explanation of ( Status Screen ) Commands:
Monster Stats:
Main Viewing Screen:
Strength - Determines attack damage. Increase in strength results in larger damage.
Defense - Determines damage taken. Increase in defense results in less damage taken.
Agility - Determines which monster will fight first. Increase in agility results in fighting earlier.
Intelligence - Determines your monster's intelligence during battles. Increase in intelligence results in your monster learning skills faster as well as battle tactics.
Hunger - Determines your monster's hunger level. Decrease in hunger results in your monster obeying more of your commands as well as doing better in battle.
HP - Shows Maximum and Current HP
MP - Shows Maximum and Current MP
Second Viewing Screen:
Monster's Personality - What this monster's personality is like.
Monster's Race - The Category of Race this monster falls into.
Monster's Lineage - Monster's Family Line.
Monster's Trainer - Name of the trainer who caught this monster.
Current EXP - You currently have this number of EXP.
Next Level EXP - You need to reach this number for the next level.
Third Viewing Screen:
Displays the Monster's magic or battle skills acquired up to now.
Fourth Viewing Screen:
Displays which monsters were mated (if any) to create the monster you are looking at.
Item:
Displays the Items that your party is currently carrying. When in this screen, pressing Select will arrange the items.
Abilites / Magic:
Displays the Magic and Battle skills acquired thus far for each monster. You can also use any healing spells in this screen by selecting that particular magic and using it on another.
Options:
Allows you to change settings in your party and/or the game.
Explanation of ( Option ) Commands:
Message Speed:
Allows you to change the speed that the messages are presented.
Party Order:
Allows you to change the position of each monster. Monsters on the end usually receive less attacks.
Tactics:
All Out Attack - Your Monsters will attack aggressively
Magic Attacks - Your Monsters will use Magic more often in battles.
Defend & Attack - Your Monsters will defend more often to preserve HP.
Command Attack - You will be able to choose which attacks your monsters will use.
Save:
Allows you to save the progess of your game. Only 1 slot is provided, unlike the 3 slots as seen in the rest of the Dragon Quest games, so be careful in saving your games.
The Basics of Monster Caretaking:
Here are some tips that may help you with developing a nice group of powerful monsters:
* Ensure that your monsters fight alot so that they raise levels quickly. The best strategy is to gain a few quick levels and tackle the bosses (which comprise of stronger monsters) and have them join your party. This ensures that your party can take on other monsters which yield more XP.
* When you wander the land, do you see a nice pork rib? Be sure to collect as many of these as you can, because your monsters do get hungry. To tell how hungry they are, enter the Monster Stat option and look at the numbers. The number located third from the bottom is the hunger meter; the higher it is, the more hungry the monster is and it will pay less attention to your commands in battle, so keep this number at 0 whenever you can.
* There is a feature which deals with mating monsters together. As you will notice, there are two sexes of monsters and when you bring both types, either the same or different, to the monster master. You will hatch a new type that will inherit both or either skills of its parents..More on this to be discussed soon..
* Here is a tip to increase the chances of obtaining monsters into your party:
- During battle, go into your inventory and select a piece of meat.
- When you select it, rather than using it on your own party, select the second option to toss it out.
- If you have done this right, Terry will throw the meat out and a little musical note will float around the other monsters signalling that it was successful.
- Do this as many times as you want, in battle, to increase the chances of gaining monsters into your party. But, remember that this does not work all the time =).
Quest System Overview:
Dragon Quest Monsters revolves around the Quest system. The Quest system consists of surviving thru several levels of various terrain, many of which have been seen in previous installments of the Dragon Quest series. The terrain is randomly generated each time, so entering the same quest several times will yield different ones. Each terrain consists of monsters, scattered items and a warpgate which allows you entry to the next floor of the quest. When you progress further and further in these quests, the levels you must endure are increased before you confront the final boss of that particular quest.
When going on quests, you might drop to a level where you meet either a special character inhabiting only one floor which makes things easier:
The Bishop: who will heal you completely and enable you to save in the middle of a quest.
The Merchant: who will sell you items if you are in need of any and enable you to save in the middle of a quest.
Treasure Chests: full of good basic items such as healing herbs, anti-poison herbs, wing of the wyvern, etc.
On occasion, you may encounter some people walking the land, be careful because before they will give you any help, you have to pass their tests which is a battle with some extremely strong enemies:
The Bishop: he will completely heal you after you successfully defeat the monsters.
The Warrior: he will give you an item (although I am not sure..but it could be seeds which raise a particular stat..more info on this in the future) after you successfully defeat the monsters.
The Old Man: he will teleport you to the level before the quest boss.
The Bard: she will increase the maximum MP for each monster in your party.
Treasure Chests: some which yield valuable items or may be man- eating chests.
Here is a list of the items you may encounter as you walk around the terrain:
* Pork Rib - Used to satisfy the hunger of your monsters or increase the chances of obtaining monsters.
* Wing of the Wyvern - Used to return to the castle.
* Leaf - A healing herb used to regain partial HP or status recovery herbs.
* (G) - The only method of gaining gold. Be sure to pick it up when you have the chance.
* Potions - There are many types of potions available. I have seen ones that regain HP and some that recover MP.
* (?) - Usually Random Items earlier on, but in later levels..they become seeds used to increase monster stats.
* Treasure Chests - Either contains items, gold or become a Man- Eating Chest.
* Wands - Can be many of the different types available. I have encountered: Thunder Wands, Blizzard Wands, Healing Wands and Teleport Wands.
more items to be uncovered in future versions.....
The game begins with the main character, Terry and his sister, Mileyu who are in the middle of getting ready for bed. When night falls, both characters begin to sleep and late in the evening, you awake to hear a strange noise. A demon appears from your dresser and kidnaps your sister. You begin to chase after her and disappear into a new world, where an old man awaits and takes you to see the king. When the king has addressed his concerns, you have to form your party. Head upstairs and talk to the kid standing beside the slime, he will have a monster menu which deals with adding, removing and keeping monsters (More to be discussed later). After adding a slime to your party, let the king know so that he allows you to enter into the basement, thus giving you access to your first quest - defeat the healer.
During some battles, you might defeat an enemy that wishes to join your party. Here is the "translation" of the screens in order:
1) A wishes to join your party. Do you accept? Yes / No - If "NO", the battle ends and the overworld appears, no monster joins your party. - If "YES", goto 2)
2) Edit Name Screen appears.
3) Are you sure you want to join your party? Yes / No
- If "NO", the battle ends and the overworld appears, no monster joins your party. - If "YES", the monster joins your party.
YOU CAN ONLY ALLOW UP TO 3 MONSTERS TO JOIN YOUR PARTY AT ANY GIVEN TIME!
After dropping down 4 - 5 warpgates, you should be on the same level as the healer (Dragon Quest 4), talk to him and a battle will ensue. If you defeat the healer, you will be given the choice to allow the healer to join your party and then you'll appear back in the castle. Talk with the king again and then you'll be able to walk around freely again. Be sure to open the treasure chests in the room left of the king's throne and after doing so, leave the castle and go down the steps and into the battle casino (the room with the slime emblem on the doorway). Be sure that your party is strong and at full HP then talk to the lady left of the big monster faced door and select the 'G' option that costs 0 G, you have entered a contest where you have to last through 3 battles with 3 monsters each time. After you win, the bishop will summon you back into the castle and after a long speech, you should head back down into the basement and another door will open up to the right of the door you entered for your first quest.
After entering into the new door, you will enter a room with 2 warpgates this time. Each warpgate leads to a seperate quest:
The upper warpgate - Defeat the Green Dragon that kept Princess Gwaelin captive (Dragon Quest)
The lower warpgate - Defeat the Golem protecting Cantlin. (Dragon Quest)
When you have defeated both quests, you will be warped back into the castle and access to more of the town will be given (actually the next floor). Here, you will have access to the library, the vault, an item shop and another quest - defeating the axe knight (Dragon Quest) which should not be tackled until you have reached defeated level 'C' of the battle casino. Since we are on the topic of battle casino, after you have defeated both quests, head back into the casino and try your luck on level 'F'. If you manage to win, head back into the castle and down the basement again; you should notice that the door on the right side should open up allowing access to another 2 quests:
The left warpgate - Defeat the tiger guarding Papa-san's sword (Dragon Quest 5)
The right warpgate - Defeat the Monster Tree (Dragon Quest ???)
Eventually you'll be able to keep going till you fight the tiger (Borongo), defeat him and he'll join your party if you choose to. When you are about this far, the entire town should be available for you to roam around. If you think your monsters are ready to continue further into the game, head into the battle casino and earn the next level. Should you defeat the monsters, 2 new quests will open up in the castle basement. Head to the castle, down the stairs and left to the next screen. A door on the right side will open up and if you enter it, two warpgates will appear:
The left warpgate - A punk-like slime (Dragon Quest 6?)
The right warpgate - A cyclop bear-like monster (Dragon Quest ???)
After defeating the quests, you should be strong enough to clear level 'D' of the monster battle casino. After defeating the casino, the bishop will summon you back to the castle and you will be talking with the king. After the conversation, the 2nd big door will open up and inside are two quests.
The right warpgate - Dragon carrying the axe (Dragon Quest ??? )
On the right warpgate, you have a chance to gain about 300 exp for fighting one dragon. Be careful though, you will need strong characters with high HP. To gain this exp, you will need to reach the boss of this gate but do not approach the dragon just yet. Search the eggs that you can reach and you that egg will hatch, revealing a dragon which you must fight. Good Luck!
The left warpgate - Granite (?) Titan (Dragon Quest 4)
After defeating the two quests, you should begin to manage your party and gather 3 of your best fighters. Wander through the most previous levels to gain experience until you are strong enough. The reason for this is because the next step to take would be to tackle the new and higher levels of the battle casino ( C , B , A , S ). You should begin by tackling level 'C' and if you are successful, you will be given two new quests.
The right warpgate - the fire dragon (Dragon Quest 3)
The left warpgate - a huge parrot-like bear? (Dragon Quest 4)
Before you tackle the new quests, walk around town and talk to people...this is a good chance for you to take advantage of some of the merchants and the vault. As you progress further, the town will change and you may have access to places you weren't able to go before. This should probably be a good time to level up your characters as the game begins to get progressively harder from this point on. When you believe your characters are strong enough, it is now time to challenge the next level in the battle casino, level 'B'. Should you be successful, you will be given 2 more quests in the lower level of the castle.
The left warpgate - a goat-like eagle? (Dragon Quest ??)
I have encountered a battle arena while heading towards the quest boss. I am not sure if this is a random encounter or is part of the level, but it automatically places you in a battle with other people's monsters just like Dragon Quest 4. You have to beat 3 groups and are given a choice to either continue to beat more groups or continue down the levels. The choice is up to you, but be sure to save up your heal potions for the last boss as he is extremely hard. When fighting the quest boss, be sure your characters are at least level 30. This boss fights hard as he dishes out 3 hard hits per round, 1 hard hit for huge damage or strong magic spells. Be careful!
The right warpgate - Swordman (Dragon Quest 3)
When fighting the quest boss, be sure your characters are healed and level 34 or higher. When fighting, you will notice that this boss is not alone and has hard hitting monsters on either side. The trick is to take care of them quickly and use any wands that you may have for additional damage so that the swordman will have to face you alone. Good Luck!
To open the other door, you will need to advance further in the battle casino (level 'A'). This is about the part where I am stuck so all I can advise for now is to level your characters and obtain more and stronger monsters by walking around the land and using the meat tactic to increase your chances of getting monsters. Until the next update...Good Luck! =)
Town Overview:
Battle Casino -A place to test your monster's battle skills by enrolling into a tournament and earning rank depending on your success. Located near the main stairs, 3rd level.
Library - A place to cuddle with a good book..Located near the main stairs, 2nd level.
Monster Mating - Talk with the old man about mating different monsters. Located south of the room where the old man found you in the beginning of the game.
The Vault - A place to store and retrieve your belongings for a price. Located east of the library.
The Item Merchant - A place to buy items such as healing herbs, wing of the wyvern, etc. Located east of the Vault.
more to come.....
Future Additions:
Below are some of the things I would like to add to this FAQ. If time permits as well as motivation, I will hopefully add these soon:
Sugoi (pocky@sprint.ca)- The maintainer of this FAQ (that's me). If you have questions, comments or can offer me ANY translations at all, please E-mail me. As always, any help is greatly appreciated and credit will be given where it is due =).
Akira Toriyama - The manga artist responsible for character designs in this great series. His other works include the Dragon Ball series and Chrono Trigger to name a few.
Enix of Japan (http://www.enix.co.jp/) - The company responsible for releasing this great series and others, which unfortunately might not make the light of day here in the US. Some games I highly recommend from this company are: Star Ocean and the sleeper hit: Bust a Move.
Ian Kelley (http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ikelley/Main.html) - The only person who assisted me with Dragon Quest 6, provided translations and other tidbits of information relating to the series.
Phosphors Magazine (http://www.phosphors.com) - They provide many good translations as well as editorials for many of the Japanese games released. A good page for some good information, check their page out.
"Sugie Bear" - My significant other who has stood behind me for the 2 years we have been seeing each other thus far, told me to always try my best when tasks seem difficult and taught me a life lesson in love.
Copyright Information:
Dragon Quest Monsters - Terry's Wonderland FAQ (c) copyright 1998 by Sugoi. No part of this FAQ can be modified, packaged with the game for monetary gain, sold individually for monetary gain or anything else that does not adhere to copyright laws. Please respect the work of others and if you need this FAQ on your site, please ask for permission.
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