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==Uses== | ==Uses== | ||
Obtaining the book is purely optional and not a requirement to beat the game. It is essentially a convenience for the player, showing all monsters (with some exceptions between games) the player has fought while listing other statistics like the amount of EXP awarded and how many of that particular monster the player has defeated and | Obtaining the book is purely optional and not a requirement to beat the game. It is essentially a convenience for the player, showing all monsters (with some exceptions between games) the player has fought while listing other statistics like the amount of EXP awarded and how many of that particular monster the player has defeated, and even display the monsters' battle animations. Defeating a large number of a single kind of monster will usually result in a minor reward for that monsters page, such as showing more of its animations and revealing what items it drops if the player has yet to obtain any from the monster in question. | ||
Starting with Dragon Quest VIII, the book also features short descriptions of monsters as well, describing various attributes such as habitat, species family, and natural behavior. Often times these descriptions will allude to resistances or weaknesses of a particular monster, giving clever players an edge in battle. | |||
==Appearances== | ==Appearances== | ||
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Absent from the original game; handed to the [[Hero (Dragon Quest IV)|main character]] at the start of Chapter 5 by his/her adopted father in the remakes shortly before the village is sacked by monsters. Note that it will include performance data from the first four chapters. | Absent from the original game; handed to the [[Hero (Dragon Quest IV)|main character]] at the start of Chapter 5 by his/her adopted father in the remakes shortly before the village is sacked by monsters. Note that it will include performance data from the first four chapters. | ||
Encountering each monster will result in the player being awarded 250,000 tokens for the [[casino]] in [[Endor]] and [[Immigrant Town (Dragon Quest IV)|Immigrant Town]]. | |||
===[[Dragon Quest V]]=== | ===[[Dragon Quest V]]=== | ||
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===[[Dragon Quest VIII]]/[[Dragon Quest IX]]=== | ===[[Dragon Quest VIII]]/[[Dragon Quest IX]]=== | ||
Though not | Though not named as such, the functions of the book were integrated into the [[Battle Records]] menu. | ||
{{DQIV}} | {{DQIV}} | ||
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[[Category:Dragon Quest VI items]] | [[Category:Dragon Quest VI items]] | ||
[[Category:Dragon Quest VII items]] | [[Category:Dragon Quest VII items]] | ||