I got a used copy of this game at a GameStop, easily over 10 years ago at this point, and got probably 2/3rds of the way through before getting lost in the underwater part and losing interest. Would come back to it every now and then, and at one point dabbled in playing an English patch of the original version for Super Famicom, but couldn’t muster the motivation to start from scratch and actually beat it until a couple years ago. Really good game, kind of barebones and the removal of monster capturing from the original was kind of a bummer, but they make up for it with special recruitable monsters you can get in side quests. Probably my favorite of the (nowhere near enough)Dragon Quest games I’ve tried out so far.