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With the rumours of a new Pokemon game floating around, you’d think you already had enough monster catching, breeding and fighting on the horizon. But you were wrong, you fools!

Anyone else remember the title screen above? Dragon Warrior Monsters (or ‘Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry’s Adventure’ in Japan) came out over ten years ago as a spin-off from the main Dragon Quest series. This was back when Enix was its own company and the merger with Square was a few years of furtive glances over the negotiating table away. And now Square Enix, on their Japanese site, have announced a remake for the Nintendo 3DS.

The game, for those who didn’t pick it up (and I get the impression many didn’t, seeing as it seemed like a shameless Pokemon cash-in, even though many of the mechanics had been established back in Dragon Quest 5), revolves around acquiring a huge variety of monsters by exploring randomly-generated game maps, levelling them up and fighting against other monsters and other tamers like yourself. Unlike in Pokemon, however, sentimentality for the critters is kept to a minimum, as to get the most powerful creatures, you must breed them with others, which results in the two parents running off into the sunset. It’s basically a finely-honed animal eugenics game.

The remake is planned for release next year.

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