Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3: details about the Great Riders Cup

Yesterday, Square-Enix revealed the latest batch of details and screenshots for Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3. The company teased a featured called “Great Riders Cup”, and promised that details would be revealed soon. Those details actually came today, via a scan from Jump magazine!

The Great Riders Cup is, as the name implies, a mode that takes advantage of the riding system (which allows you to ride on the back of your monsters when in the field, but also during battles).

Basicallly, they are races players (up to 4) can take part in via local wireless, or the internet. You can also race on your own, against the CPU. There are several ranks for the Great Riders Cup, and as you can imagine, the higher the rank, the better your rewards you get for winning races.

Jump magazine gives us an example of a race: each player has to head on the field, catch a Slime, and then go back to the starting line. In order to win, you need to take various things into consideration, such as the speed of your monster, or its acceleration. Apparently, your monster can dash if it’s accumulated enough tension. You can also select two skills to use during the race. Finally, there’s various items you can use, such as bombs or a shield.

Here’s the scan from Jump magazine:

Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 3 (3DS) comes out on March 24th in Japan.

Source: Jump
Via: Kazu