Fascinating game.
I think in some areas this is the best Dragon Quest of the first 6, but when looking at the complete package it sits at the worst.
The story is very interesting and fun, the graphics are amazing, the music is great, the quality of life improvements are so great they've added them to basically every remake of the previous games.
I feel like a few things drag it down. The mechanics are interesting and ambitious but feel undercooked and lean more towards tedious than fun when it comes to the job system. It feels like it overstays its welcome and the final parts of the main world map to explore just aren't that interesting. Finally, it just doesn't feel like it captures the charm of the previous games- it's basically impossible to follow up 5 anyway, but something is missing here and it feels hollow.
Some of it may be due to the unfinished translation I played (a lot of the return visit dialog wasn't translated, for example) and maybe the remake with an official translation would fair better but I really loved the unique way the SNES version looked compared to the DS remakes that all looked the same as each other that I had to play that one first.
Not a bad game at all though! Dragon Quest continues to be a solid series, just felt like I was forcing myself to finish it near the end and it just kinda sat there with me having just the final boss to conquer.
I think in some areas this is the best Dragon Quest of the first 6, but when looking at the complete package it sits at the worst.
The story is very interesting and fun, the graphics are amazing, the music is great, the quality of life improvements are so great they've added them to basically every remake of the previous games.
I feel like a few things drag it down. The mechanics are interesting and ambitious but feel undercooked and lean more towards tedious than fun when it comes to the job system. It feels like it overstays its welcome and the final parts of the main world map to explore just aren't that interesting. Finally, it just doesn't feel like it captures the charm of the previous games- it's basically impossible to follow up 5 anyway, but something is missing here and it feels hollow.
Some of it may be due to the unfinished translation I played (a lot of the return visit dialog wasn't translated, for example) and maybe the remake with an official translation would fair better but I really loved the unique way the SNES version looked compared to the DS remakes that all looked the same as each other that I had to play that one first.
Not a bad game at all though! Dragon Quest continues to be a solid series, just felt like I was forcing myself to finish it near the end and it just kinda sat there with me having just the final boss to conquer.