A fun turn based strategy game for the DS. The inclusion of 2-4 system local play, 1 system pass and play, and internet play help the experience. Although, I wish there was more single player content, as the 10 training levels will only last you around an hour, and the only single player content besides that is to play against CPUs. Definitely recommend picking up on the eshop if you are into dragon quest or strategy games like Fire Emblem or WarGroove. I would love to see this series make a return on modern consoles/PC. I think an online ranking mode, would help replay-ability, and the ability to have a 2v2 team mode for playing cooperatively with friends would also be fun.

it's shocking to see such a bad strategy game coming from Intelligent systems, this would work as a tabletop game, but as a $5 DSi game, it doesn't. nowadays it only supports local multiplayer and the single player mode is basically just a tutorial so you can use your skills online... which is gone. some unbalances in matches make me wonder if this was even tested much before release, there's clearly some stuff that wasn't. one of the biggest downers is that, while Dragon quest has a massive roster of monsters to choose from, Intelligent systems decided to only use FIVE of them in the game they expected this to become some kind of modern chess but the strategies it allows are too shallow for something like that as a die hard fan of dragon quest, I definitely don't recommend this game instead save those 5 dollars for Dragon quest heroes or a possible future release of the 3ds games