The first adventure
Dragon Quest released on the NES back in 1986 and considered to be the grandfather of the JRPG genre. Despite the game being 35 years old and consider one of the earliest JRPGs, the game manages to hold up really well in a simple and extremely open format that let people create some unique experiences within the game albeit with a very simple premise.
This game does something a bit different that I didn't expect after playing a bunch of JRPGs was that it's very open and flexible which lets you really do what you want and at the pace you want, the game be fairly challenging at times despite the combat being 1v1 considering it's just you in the party but the random fights here really fast. The music is decent and the art here for the monsters (at least for the switch version) looked really nice and clean meanwhile the character art is a give or take thing but I didn't mind it that much. The game gives you the simple goal of "save the princess and defeat the evil lord" some items and you're essentially off. The world is small enough that it doesn't feel overwhelming than I thought it'd be and nails a good balance with exploring and progression. Surprisingly enough I didn't have much need to grind and instead you can actually just come back when you're strong enough compared to other JRPGs where it railroads you into a boss with no way to progress until you beat it. With that said, I didn't have to do grinding at all until the end where it was extremely hard to properly do the final boss at a point.
The game gives you tools eventually to curb enemy encounters but it can be a bit much depending on where you end up. I want to say the game might be a bit too simple even though the game gives you appropriate tools but I found the spells in battle lacking except for healing so I mostly just ended up attacking for like 99% of the game.
This game is short, simple and sweet. It's not really a hard game to grasp in terms of the way the systems are and the game does a good job of telling you where to go. They don't really make games where you can literally go anywhere on the world map at the start of a map and despite the simple gameplay, it did the job it was suppose to do which is "become the hero, save the princess, defeat the evil lord" and sometimes that's all you really need.
Dragon Quest released on the NES back in 1986 and considered to be the grandfather of the JRPG genre. Despite the game being 35 years old and consider one of the earliest JRPGs, the game manages to hold up really well in a simple and extremely open format that let people create some unique experiences within the game albeit with a very simple premise.
This game does something a bit different that I didn't expect after playing a bunch of JRPGs was that it's very open and flexible which lets you really do what you want and at the pace you want, the game be fairly challenging at times despite the combat being 1v1 considering it's just you in the party but the random fights here really fast. The music is decent and the art here for the monsters (at least for the switch version) looked really nice and clean meanwhile the character art is a give or take thing but I didn't mind it that much. The game gives you the simple goal of "save the princess and defeat the evil lord" some items and you're essentially off. The world is small enough that it doesn't feel overwhelming than I thought it'd be and nails a good balance with exploring and progression. Surprisingly enough I didn't have much need to grind and instead you can actually just come back when you're strong enough compared to other JRPGs where it railroads you into a boss with no way to progress until you beat it. With that said, I didn't have to do grinding at all until the end where it was extremely hard to properly do the final boss at a point.
The game gives you tools eventually to curb enemy encounters but it can be a bit much depending on where you end up. I want to say the game might be a bit too simple even though the game gives you appropriate tools but I found the spells in battle lacking except for healing so I mostly just ended up attacking for like 99% of the game.
This game is short, simple and sweet. It's not really a hard game to grasp in terms of the way the systems are and the game does a good job of telling you where to go. They don't really make games where you can literally go anywhere on the world map at the start of a map and despite the simple gameplay, it did the job it was suppose to do which is "become the hero, save the princess, defeat the evil lord" and sometimes that's all you really need.