So, a couple of you may have remembered me mentioning a rumor that started with Dragon Quest music composer Koichi Sugiyama stating a new Dragon Quest Monsters game may be in development many months ago.  Well, it seems that rumor was indeed true.  A couple days ago, on the official site for Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker, it was announced they are making a sequel to the game.

Not too much is known yet, just rumors and small facts.  So far it seems that the game will have direct player battles over WiFi and is rumored to have 300+ monsters (90+ monsters over that of the original Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker).  Also, judging from the scans, the game is going to take place in a much more varried landscape than the limited 7 islands found in the original Joker.  And the games hero has either been altered in apperance or it is a new hero, as you can see in the scan below.

http://www.nintendoeverything.com/31725/

link cant see the scan

I wish these were more like the (incredible) original Dragon Warrior Monsters 1 and 2 for Gameboy.

beautiful!!!... I love the new heroes design...Damn theres just too much JRPG goodness this year!

As long as they focus the next game more on exploration and having more varied monsters, I think it will be.  Part of what made the first two DQM games so good was they were simply like the actual Dragon Quest games, focusing on exploration, gameplay and etc.  DQM Joker, while still good, seemed to lose some of that because it focused everything on just leveling the monsters and exploring 7 small islands.  After you explored those 7 islands, which only took about 30-40 hours at most (even with trying to take your time), the rest of the game just turned into grinding.  Which in and of itself wasn't entirely bad because I do think the fusion system introduced in Joker was fantastic, but Joker still could have been much more.

What I'm hoping is, Joker 2 can combine all of what made the first games great (exploration, the characters, the 'quest') with the stuff that made Joker 1 great (the fusion system, the enhanced graphics, the non-random battle system).

no one cared about this when I posted it a couple days ago. :(

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=99298

Sorry...frankly hardly anyone cares much about any Dragon Quest announcements.  Face it, the series is about as popular as Tamogachi outside of Japan.

So..........much.......JRPG..........greatness.

I CAN CASHT THE SHPELL!

haha, the angel slime (slimette?) looks so cute!