As a person who really started the series with LaD, I wanted to like this game but ended up hating that I had to get to a certain rank to progress the game.

Ichiban Kasuga is the GOAT. Using the frame of dragon quest and Ichiban’s wild imagination to suspend all reality, this game is able to tell a complex story while still feeling like a game that’s not taking itself too seriously. The side quests (called “substories”) were short and felt easily accomplishable, making it easy to detour into a math test or spend way too much time in a business simulator.

This game is cocaine but make it poker