Many consider it one of the best DQ of the series and, although I still think it is a good game, it aged badly in gameplay. For the releasing time, it was probably more impacting since the story is quite good, but still not a big fan of the game.
Me ha gustado ligeramente más que la IV entrega, conecta bien, fue divertido elegir a Stefania, la trama me encantó, tedioso a ratos por farmeo, pero una gran experiencia global.
My score is really more weighted heavily on both my personal preferences, as well as its relationship to other Dragon Quest games. So, if my score seems low, yes, I am in fact deluded and at least subjectively incorrect. This is the right of all critics!
If this game was being compared to almost any other JRPG, it'd be about a Star higher. Dragon Quest V, surely by the standards of the early 90s but still also in a way that has aged quite gracefully, has a narrative that is heroically ambitious. Even if you're mainly present for the most significant times of this character's life, you really do feel like you're playing someone's entire life up to adulthood. For this I have only praise for Dragon Quest V.
Where it loses me, and, I really cannot be more clear about this, is how that narrative structure gets in the way of the gameplay progression. This is a personal preference, but, I really dislike when RPGs switch up a roster of playable characters, especially when it does it a lot, and even more so when it seems to do it unpredictably. The way this happens in Dragon Quest V is artfully justified by the narrative, don't get me wrong! It's just that, I, personally, get so annoyed by this. And, I don't really love the monster collect-a-thon layer of it... you can't convince me that the monsters aren't just crappier versions of human characters.
So, do take my 3.5 star rating with a grain of salt. Dragon Quest V towers over many if not most other 16-bit RPGs, it just also feels like it went out of its way to annoy me, personally, over the long term course of its narrative and gameplay.
If this game was being compared to almost any other JRPG, it'd be about a Star higher. Dragon Quest V, surely by the standards of the early 90s but still also in a way that has aged quite gracefully, has a narrative that is heroically ambitious. Even if you're mainly present for the most significant times of this character's life, you really do feel like you're playing someone's entire life up to adulthood. For this I have only praise for Dragon Quest V.
Where it loses me, and, I really cannot be more clear about this, is how that narrative structure gets in the way of the gameplay progression. This is a personal preference, but, I really dislike when RPGs switch up a roster of playable characters, especially when it does it a lot, and even more so when it seems to do it unpredictably. The way this happens in Dragon Quest V is artfully justified by the narrative, don't get me wrong! It's just that, I, personally, get so annoyed by this. And, I don't really love the monster collect-a-thon layer of it... you can't convince me that the monsters aren't just crappier versions of human characters.
So, do take my 3.5 star rating with a grain of salt. Dragon Quest V towers over many if not most other 16-bit RPGs, it just also feels like it went out of its way to annoy me, personally, over the long term course of its narrative and gameplay.
My favorite game on the DS and probably the best RPG I've played. Really well done and executed story and gameplay. The music is amazing and memorable just as the other aspects of the game are.
did this for you Toriyama-san and i do not regret it, such a delightful and charming game.
Pickup it up as a child.
Even all these years later it's one of the best rpgs I played.
Even all these years later it's one of the best rpgs I played.
I struggle to see the appeal of this franchise. I get the charm, but at this point in my life, I need more than just charm from a game. The speed of combat being fast is nice, and it becomes kinda relaxing and enjoyable to play. My problem comes from everything outside of the combat. Every time I play a dragon quest game, I get confused where to go then end up having to talk to every fucking npc to figure it out. Maybe I just don't have it in me anymore to deal with this tedious stuff. I don't care for this story at all and if you find any of these characters interesting or fun, you probably like watching grass grow. All the DQ games I have played all have varying issues that makes them unenjoyable. 8 is REALLY slow and combat drags on, 7 is REALLY long and vague, and this is confusing and mind-numbing. I'll probably play 12 though when it becomes an action game.
This review contains spoilers
This was a DQ game that I never really had high hopes for, and I don't even know why I always felt that way about it. Looking back after beating this amazing game, I realized that prior to actually playing the game, I had no idea what the story was about. This is a story that spans over a decade as you follow Abel, son of Pankraz, who sets out to find the hero to avenge his father and find his mother. I feel like the party members in this game mean so much to me because they're family. The story means so much to me because it's about family. It makes it that much more impactful when things happen to your party members in the story because of who they are. What I really didn't expect from the story were all of the big twists across the multiple acts. It made for such an interesting story that I would gladly play again in the future. It was rather linear (despite the fact that it doesn't exactly hold your hand at times), but that means that it's lacking in fluff and unnecessary plotlines. I love the main cast and I think it's subversive story about having to find the hero instead of playing as him was a great change of pace. Ladja was an interesting enough villain, but I felt that he could've been a little bit more involved in the story at times. It's not the biggest deal to me, but he could've been a little more fleshed out at times. Overall this is a rather perfect RPG that I would highly recommend to any fans of DQ or RPGs in general.