if we're only talking about pure monster collecting gameplay this bad boy is almost perfect, but in general it's dragged down by the story where the highlights are basically whenever the DQ4 party appears, the presentation that is on the same level as pokémon sv, and the season based exploration that is cute at first but soon becomes pretty annoying when you're trying to scout a particular monster that you need to make a cool rank s main game villain monster. Still it's a pretty good game, wish they kept the monster riding from joker 3 though