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Title: North America Not Getting Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 'Professional' Content
Post by: TalesOfFan on July 22, 2011, 01:25:47 AM

Nintendo is bringing Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 to North America, but without the Professional edition's extra content.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/27246

The North American release of Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 will not include content from Japan’s re-release, Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 Professional. 

The Professional edition was released in March of this year in Japan as an improvement on the original, including new monsters and abilities.

Nintendo is instead localizing the original title. The game is set for release on August 28 in North America.

Title: Re: North America Not Getting Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 'Professional' Content
Post by: Chocobo_Rider on July 22, 2011, 01:29:14 AM

hmm, I was/am interested in this.  how much content are we talking here? 5 monsters/moves or 50?

Title: Re: North America Not Getting Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 'Professional' Content
Post by: MegaByte on July 22, 2011, 01:32:54 AM

"It has the same story, but adds a number of new features, including over 100 new monsters, a new map, new moves and skills for monsters, and more." (http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/12/19/dqmj2_pro_jump_pv/)

Title: Re: North America Not Getting Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 'Professional' Content
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 22, 2011, 01:34:02 AM

Why not localize the better version? I doubt we will get both.

Title: Re: North America Not Getting Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 'Professional' Content
Post by: Chocobo_Rider on July 22, 2011, 01:44:36 AM

Quote from: MegaByte on July 22, 2011, 01:32:54 AM

"It has the same story, but adds a number of new features, including over 100 new monsters, a new map, new moves and skills for monsters, and more." (http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/12/19/dqmj2_pro_jump_pv/)

100?! geeeeez.

Title: Re: North America Not Getting Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 'Professional' Content
Post by: Mop it up on July 22, 2011, 02:08:30 AM

I thought this was already confirmed, but maybe it's just what I was expecting to happen. I've never played a Dragon Warrior Monsters game, but I've heard they are good so I'll probably get this one. I'm not doing it just for the Club Nintendo coins. Really, I'm not.

Title: Re: North America Not Getting Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 'Professional' Content
Post by: TJ Spyke on July 22, 2011, 02:59:14 AM

The original game still featured over 300 monsters, so it's not like there will b a lack of monsters.

Title: Re: North America Not Getting Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 'Professional' Content
Post by: Ceric on July 22, 2011, 08:19:07 AM

Still odd to not get the better version.  I can't believe it would be very much more to do considering it launched in March.  FF we used to get what would become what would be the equivalent of the Professional Edition.

Title: Re: North America Not Getting Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 'Professional' Content
Post by: sigrah0x7ba on July 23, 2011, 07:00:50 PM

This may not be Nintendo's decision to make.

Remember, this game was developed and published in Japan by SquareEnix. The decision to only publish the core game without the professional content may very well have been made by SquareEnix and taken completely out of Nintendo's hands. It's not really fair to say Nintendo should have just done this or Nintendo should have just done that since they may have had absolutely no control over this decision in the first place.

Of course this does beg the question of why SquareEnix isn't publishing the game in NA themselves..

Title: Re: North America Not Getting Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 'Professional' Content
Post by: Mop it up on July 23, 2011, 09:34:07 PM

Quote from: sigrah0x7ba on July 23, 2011, 07:00:50 PM

Of course this does beg the question of why SquareEnix isn't publishing the game in NA themselves.

Because the Nintendo-published Dragon Quest IX and VI sold better than the Square-Enix-published Dragon Quest IV and V.

Title: Re: North America Not Getting Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 'Professional' Content
Post by: Luigi Dude on July 24, 2011, 02:06:52 AM

I wouldn't be surprised if NCL had NOA and NOE start the localizations months before Professional was even released and when it was, decide that the localizations were too far in development and didn't want to spend the amount of time and money needed to do all the content they'd have to for Professional.

Yeah Nintendo has the money but something like Dragon Quest Monster I'd imagine is kind of low on their importance scale and so they didn't want to spend too much on it.

Title: Re: North America Not Getting Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 'Professional' Content
Post by: SilverQuilava on July 28, 2011, 09:20:26 AM

OH thank god. At first I thought we weren't getting it at all. I'm just glad there's going to be another installment!