Welcome, faithful readers and newcomers alike, to Slimeblog, Season 1, Episode 2. I’ll be your host, Truman B. Fitzgerald.

On today’s show, we’re going to talk about Rocket Slime (That’s DRAGON QUEST® HEROES: ROCKET SLIME™ to you uninitiated types). Most of you probably stumbled across Slimeblog by way of our highly informative and expertly designed product homepage. Or perhaps you were provided our URL while one of the ever courteous Slime Knights was helping you cross the street. Whether by sea or plane, though, odds are you know as much about Rocket Slime as I know French. If you want to know more, keep reading! If you already know everything about Rocket and the Plob, stop reading and come back Monday for the advanced course.

On a tiny island in the middle of the sea, there is a small kingdom called Slimenia which is, as the name implies, largely populated by slimes. The slimes live as peacefully as most RPG villagers do before they get attacked by the main villain. Then one day, the villain attacks. A gang of Platypunks calling themselves the Plob roll into (and over) town in their Monster Tanks and proceed to slimenap every last slime, except for a young blue slime named Rocket. Or whatever you want him to be named I guess. You’re Rocket and you get to pick your own name. I named myself “Truman,” but “DRAGON QUEST HEROES: TRUMAN SLIME” doesn’t scream adventure like “Rocket,” so we stuck with Rocket Slime.

Anyway, Rocket heads out to save the kingdom, true to Dragon Quest-hero fashion. Fortunately for you, the Plob have a somewhat sloppy work ethic and have left most of the blue treasure chests confining your friends just lying around the island. Early on your adventure, you’ll unearth a giant tank of your own, the Schleiman Tank. Load it up with all the cannon shells, arrows, rocks, apples and other junk you can find and duke it out with the Plob’s Monster Tanks in oversized boss battles.

But wait, there’s more…! After saving a certain networkishly gifted slime, you can exchange fire with other friends who have progressed at least as far in the game as well (Real-life friends, that is; not your in-game slime friends). A lot of people have said this is their favorite part. Personally, I prefer the adventure and story parts, but it is hard to not like the multiplayer excitement.

And there’s the basic overview. Whew, it was a lot longer than I expected it to be, haha. Go ahead and write about any questions you have and I’ll try and cover them in the advanced course.

Welcome to the beginning of Slimeblog. I’ll be your host, Truman B. Fitzgerald, Square Enix’s resident marketing slime.

“But Truman, I thought you had to be a slime to be in marketing!”

Not true! Most of us really are decent people.

I actually am a blue slime. (In fact, Blue is my middle name. My parents didn’t put a whole lot of thought into it.) I am also the only slime at Square Enix’s Los Angeles office.

And I would also like to preempt the comments accusing me of not being a slime because I don’t use slimetastic comments like the Slimenians of DRAGON QUEST HEROES: ROCKET SLIME™. Rocket Slime is a game. I am a person. Who happens to be 11 inches tall and gelatinous. You wouldn’t give the moogle in accounting a hard time for not ending every sentence with “kupo,” so cut me some slack.

My profile has a bit more about me if you’re still interested, but this blog isn’t about me. This blog is your chance to see how games get from our office to your home. Or at least one game. I guess every game is a little different. And I’ve only been here a couple months. But for the past few months and the coming few months more, I have been and will be working hard to make sure North America knows everything they need to about DRAGON QUEST® HEROES: ROCKET SLIME™!

Be part of the phenomenon that launched Rocket Slime!

¡Viva el Cohete del Limo! ¡No puedo hablar español!

And for the couple thousand Québécois who were nice enough to visit our web site last month, Je parle même moins français que l’Espagnol! Rocket Slime, oui!