"I like builder games," I thought to myself sometime in 2023, "what if I played the Dragon Quest minecraft clone despite not having played a single DQ game?"
It turned out to be a great idea, actually! I had no idea what any of the references were, but I still had a fantastic time. As far as builder games go it's a little jankier than most (getting your tools yanked away from you every chapter felt kinda bad, and I dreaded getting into combat near my town because I'd have to rebuild everything manually) but the writing was often uproariously funny in a way I did not expect from a game about stacking blocks until they're vaguely room-shaped. And when I say "vaguely," I mean it. I've built some truly hideous houses in that game.
I don't think I'll really mess around with the creative mode, though. Part of it is that the second game is a lot more solid, part of it is that the story turned out to be the main appeal for me. Funny how that goes. For what it's worth, it did convince me to finally check out what this dragon questing was all about.
It turned out to be a great idea, actually! I had no idea what any of the references were, but I still had a fantastic time. As far as builder games go it's a little jankier than most (getting your tools yanked away from you every chapter felt kinda bad, and I dreaded getting into combat near my town because I'd have to rebuild everything manually) but the writing was often uproariously funny in a way I did not expect from a game about stacking blocks until they're vaguely room-shaped. And when I say "vaguely," I mean it. I've built some truly hideous houses in that game.
I don't think I'll really mess around with the creative mode, though. Part of it is that the second game is a lot more solid, part of it is that the story turned out to be the main appeal for me. Funny how that goes. For what it's worth, it did convince me to finally check out what this dragon questing was all about.