This is the game I remember watching my brothers play before I knew what a video game was.
I've had the "Heavenly Village" theme stuck in my head for 20 years. It wouldn't be until quite a few years later I would learn that Akira Toriyama worked on the world of Dragon Quest. So his untimely death has got me reminiscing a little bit.
While I personally only played this game for a few hours maybe two or three times tops it left an everlasting imprint on my psyche.
Something about this game never left me.
Something about this game has bugged me for 20 years.
Maybe Toriyama's untimely passing really hit me.
But I started out this year literally saying "I want to play JRPG's" and everytime I picked one up I would remember Dragon Quest VII on my PS1.
This feeling I have, if not coincidental, then fate then
I will play this game to completion
I will finally finish what I started when I was 3 years old and couldn't even read.
I told my brother that Toriyama had a hand in Dragon Quest and it literally made him cry. It's making me kinda tear up right now so maybe I oughta finally get on with it.
I started a new game just to check if the copy still worked and when that menu booted up. When I saw that opening cutscene. When I heard Heavenly Village again for the first time in almost 20 years. I HAVE to play this game. Not for 22 year old James. But for that little kid who watched his brothers play this game over and over again only to forget to save or lose the memory card or pick up a new game. I owe it to me, to them, and to Toriyama to see this through.
This is literally the game I haven't stopped thinking about for 20 years. It has been there for as long as I remember and I'm not even sure we ever got to see combat since that's apparently at the 2 to 3 hour mark.
I've had the "Heavenly Village" theme stuck in my head for 20 years. It wouldn't be until quite a few years later I would learn that Akira Toriyama worked on the world of Dragon Quest. So his untimely death has got me reminiscing a little bit.
While I personally only played this game for a few hours maybe two or three times tops it left an everlasting imprint on my psyche.
Something about this game never left me.
Something about this game has bugged me for 20 years.
Maybe Toriyama's untimely passing really hit me.
But I started out this year literally saying "I want to play JRPG's" and everytime I picked one up I would remember Dragon Quest VII on my PS1.
This feeling I have, if not coincidental, then fate then
I will play this game to completion
I will finally finish what I started when I was 3 years old and couldn't even read.
I told my brother that Toriyama had a hand in Dragon Quest and it literally made him cry. It's making me kinda tear up right now so maybe I oughta finally get on with it.
I started a new game just to check if the copy still worked and when that menu booted up. When I saw that opening cutscene. When I heard Heavenly Village again for the first time in almost 20 years. I HAVE to play this game. Not for 22 year old James. But for that little kid who watched his brothers play this game over and over again only to forget to save or lose the memory card or pick up a new game. I owe it to me, to them, and to Toriyama to see this through.
This is literally the game I haven't stopped thinking about for 20 years. It has been there for as long as I remember and I'm not even sure we ever got to see combat since that's apparently at the 2 to 3 hour mark.