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[magnetic]

Small annoyance, but the menus feel more sluggish than the DS games. Like there's a delay when I click something.

Game is OK so far, and I can't believe I forgot

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to use the wooden doll in battle

. Argh.

Some boss battles also seem to have slowdown sometimes, like

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that dude that juggled eyeballs have some noticeable performance problems.

which is a shame since the bosses are especially well animated.

From what I can tell, those little slowdowns don't seem to be in the jaoanese version (going by the YouTube footage).

Definitely running not as smooth as the DS remakes, but thankfully nowhere near as bad as IX. That game made me run with three party members, since having four made the framerate stutter like crazy.

 

[Eiolon]

Man this game is sold out everywhere near me. Hopefully they do another printing of it, especially with holiday's coming up.

 

[Zetta]

Man this game is sold out everywhere near me. Hopefully they do another printing of it, especially with holiday's coming up.

I got my copy from gamespot and they had one left so hopefully this game is doing great.

 

[Dandy Crocodile]

So i only played a bit of VIII on the PS2 but would this be a great game to jump in for someone new to the series?

Absolutely!

 

[Jugendstil]

I'm a big Dragon Quest fan but this is the first time I've played VII and I'm really enjoying it. Since it's DQ, I'm really taking my time and exploring every building and talking to each NPC. Nothing is more nostalgic than destroying every pot and barrel and ransacking NPC houses! It almost brings a tear to my eye. T_T

 

[enoirmeplz]

4 is really good, but 5 is fantastic (a must play IMO.) 6 can be a hit or miss, but personally I enjoyed it a lot and didn't know it was disliked by some way after I beat it.

V is especially great. Up there with Earthbound and Chrono Trigger.

Thanks!

I'll look into picking them up. My backlog is ever increasing!

 

[Kuro Madoushi]

I thought there'd be a shortage of physical carts for this game. I managed to just walk into EBGAMES and pick one up though they had 3 and one of them was reserved so after I got one, there was only one left.

I hope this does well because I want to see more DQ games here, especially DQMJ.

 

[ghibli99]

Played about an hour and a half last night before going to bed. I think it really struck me that the thing I love most about the DQ games is that, for the most part, their worlds and inhabitants are simply... kind. There's a warmth and familiarity in the dialogue that you just don't get in a lot of games, and returning to these games is like putting on your favorite shirt.

And for the record, the music is perfectly fine, and sounds really nice, in fact. Anyone skipping this just because it didn't get the orchestrated soundtrack is missing out.

 

[CharminUltra]

Played about an hour and a half last night before going to bed. I think it really struck me that the thing I love most about the DQ games is that, for the most part, their worlds and inhabitants are simply... kind. There's a warmth and familiarity in the dialogue that you just don't get in a lot of games, and returning to these games is like putting on your favorite shirt.

And for the record, the music is perfectly fine, and sounds really nice, in fact. Anyone skipping this just because it didn't get the orchestrated soundtrack is missing out.

Battle theme is absurdly good. Probably in my DQ series top 5 (IV's battle theme is still my king, though.)

 

[watershed]

Played about an hour and a half last night before going to bed. I think it really struck me that the thing I love most about the DQ games is that, for the most part, their worlds and inhabitants are simply... kind. There's a warmth and familiarity in the dialogue that you just don't get in a lot of games, and returning to these games is like putting on your favorite shirt.

And for the record, the music is perfectly fine, and sounds really nice, in fact. Anyone skipping this just because it didn't get the orchestrated soundtrack is missing out.

That's the DQ charm. I think Fantasy Life is another game that did that kind of the world is a pleasant place jrpg feel.

 

[zbarron]

Ok I'm gonna have to ask I can't find him.

Where the hell is pike ?

If you're where I think you are, he's in his house by the shop in the castle town where the guy who flirts with Maribel works.

Man this game is sold out everywhere near me. Hopefully they do another printing of it, especially with holiday's coming up.

Why not just download it from the eShop? That's what I did. Now it don't have to switch carts or worry about losing it and hours of progress with it.

 

[Tiktaalik]

Yes. That whole segment in general was done more organically in the original. Instead of some pixie creature guiding you all the way through, the ruins were completely abandoned and you had to solve a lot of puzzles to get the four pieces of armour, not to mention having to figure out the statues riddles by yourself instead of the game doing it for you. Then you got to place the tablet fragments on the pillars by yourself. It was a much more adventurous, lonely, mysterious experience.

haha ok that makes some things make sense now. I just went through that part and I was baffled by how pointless and drawn out the experience was. Walking all the way over there just to stand on two plates in order to get this item just feels like a waste of time. Some puzzles would have made this make sense. I would have just cut all that shit altogether but I assume there is some plot reason for this armour to exist in the long term.

I love the deep NPC detail of the Dragon Quest series, and I've talked to most people in the towns just because that's what I like to do in DQ games, but completely aside from that, the intro does have a lot of tiresome, pointless backtracking. That's the part that I would have focused on tightening up.

 

[Flying Toaster]

Is it just me or do quillers look like a Disney version of half life headcrabs?

 

[Krammy]

I just finished the intro dungeon "quest" and damn that was awful compared to the original. They tried to shorten it, but was it really shorter considering how far out you have to trek, and how slow the graves work? If this was their answer to the original dungeon, then I'd rather they have just kept it the way it was. Yikes.

 

[SparkleMotion]

Does this game have the 3D effect? I know Dragon Quest VIII won't.

 

[Mr. Nice_Guy]

Got to sink a few hours into this last night and it is scratching that JRPG itch exactly how I hoped it would. I actually enjoyed the slow start, but don't think I would have liked for it to go on much longer like it apparently did in the original.

 

[SolVanderlyn]

Does this game have the 3D effect? I know Dragon Quest VIII won't.

It does, but it ghosts like crazy and isn't very good.

 

[Pancake Mix]

Does this game have the 3D effect? I know Dragon Quest VIII won't.

Yes, and it's incredibly deep and absolutely fantastic, like a lot of early 3DS games. Xenoblade Chronicles 3D, this is not.

 

[JoeyJungle]

It does, but it ghosts like crazy and isn't very good.

Yes, and it's deep and absolutely fantastic, like a lot of early 3DS games.

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[Deleted member 57681]

Fuck I started the game in german by mistake and now Kiefer is called Gismar (and the bag "Beutel" but whatever). Is the dude that lets me change names still in this?

 

[fester]

Well now the dilemma is deciding whether to finish DQ III (SNES version) or put that on hold and jump into this. I had been hoping to have it finished before DQ VII was released, but alas...

 

[Aeana]

Fuck I started the game in german by mistake and now Kiefer is called Gismar (and the bag "Beutel" but whatever). Is the dude that lets me change names still in this?

Yes, but you have to reach all trades abbey which is 15-20 hours in for most people.

If you're early on you might prefer to restart.

 

[BGBW]

Game is OK so far, and I can't believe I forgot

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to use the wooden doll in battle

. Argh.

Wow. I didn't even consider that as an option.

 

[Lunarwhale]

Well now the dilemma is deciding whether to finish DQ III (SNES version) or put that on hold and jump into this. I had been hoping to have it finished before DQ VII was released, but alas...

They're surprisingly different-feeling games, so I would stick with III if you're still enjoying it and move on to VII after. Both are fantastic though, can't go wrong either way on that.

 

[AdanVC]

Man this game is sold out everywhere near me. Hopefully they do another printing of it, especially with holiday's coming up.

Nintendo gonna Nintendo. Here in Mexico for example the game is rare af and it's being sold at $60...

 

[Deleted member 57681]

Yes, but you have to reach all trades abbey which is 15-20 hours in for most people.

If you're early on you might prefer to restart.

Thanks, I guess I will just restart then.
It's weird though. I mean I can kinda (but not really) understand why character names don't carry over when changing languages, but why does the bag stay "Beutel" lol?

 

[Ladekabel]

Got the last copy in a store yesterday. Psyched to finally play a Dragon Quest. But first I have to finish AA6.

 

[R0ckman]

Are you overleveled when monsters are fleeing half the time in battles? I'm so used to RPGs now that I don't even need to worry about draining my MP in dungeons, I only use Bang when I encounter a large batch of monsters and have no desire to grind out the battle.

 

[Flying Toaster]

Are you overleveled when monsters are fleeing half the time in battles? I'm so used to RPGs now that I don't even need to worry about draining my MP in dungeons, I only use Bang when I encounter a large batch of monsters and have no desire to grind out the battle.

You should be 7 for the first boss and 9 for the second. Where are you?

 

[Pancake Mix]

Nintendo gonna Nintendo. Here in Mexico for example the game is rare af and it's being sold at $60...

It should definitely be getting reprinted if it's sold out this fast. Might take a bit of time to reach Mexico though...

But, yeah, I said this in another thread, it's been obvious since FE:A that Nintendo is trying to encourage digital to increase their profits and reduce their costs/risk. It sucks for us physical gamers, but they do make enough (well....unless it's a special edition) of niche RPG's they publish for pre-orders. If at all possible (and I'm not sure how pre-ordering works in Mexico), that's probably the way to go for niche games anyways. Someone in that thread thought the game would be on shelves for ages, but NOA has shown they don't frankly print that much for niche games, so even if this wasn't a success it wouldn't languish on store shelves.

Really, even before digital, Nintendo made it obvious they do very low-print runs of niche RPG's, just look at Xenoblade and to an extent, Dragon Quest VI.

 

[R0ckman]

You should be 7 for the first boss and 9 for the second. Where are you?

I beat the 3rd and I'm level 14-16

 

[Deleted member 125677]

Downloading! Yaaassss

 

[Aeana]

Thanks, I guess I will just restart then.
It's weird though. I mean I can kinda (but not really) understand why character names don't carry over when changing languages, but why does the bag stay "Beutel" lol?

You can rename the bag too, so I assume it just stores it as a variable just like the characters.

 

[Neoweee]

Does 3DS Homebrew have a Pro Action Replay type thing code hacker? I recall DQ9 having invaluable codes to increase the text speed and framerate. That's my only hope to play this at this point, rather than return it and wait for the Mobile version (assuming their interface performance and text speed is improved like their previous ports).

 

[Herb Alpert]

I got it, but between MH and Ace attorney, I won't play this until a few weeks...

 

[PhoenixSFT]

I love the deep NPC detail of the Dragon Quest series, and I've talked to most people in the towns just because that's what I like to do in DQ games, but completely aside from that, the intro does have a lot of tiresome, pointless backtracking. That's the part that I would have focused on tightening up.

Having never played the original, I think leaving the puzzle dungeon intact instead of shortening it would have been better. The backtracking is so easy to cut. Kiefer could have come with me to the hermit's house the first time, instead of me leaving the ruins, going to the hermit, then finding Kiefer in his room and taking him back to the hermit.

 

[Agent Unknown]

V is especially great. Up there with Earthbound and Chrono Trigger.

This times 100. I just finished V last night, it's an apprx 30 hour game but my file has 106 hours on it, absolutely loved it.

 

[Eyothrie]

Game surprisingly is dropping frames. Wasn't expecting frame rate issues

 

[Neoweee]

This times 100. I just finished V last night, it's an apprx 30 hour game but my file has 106 hours on it, absolutely loved it.

I'll agree with 5 being the standout. The DQ games have been increasingly difficult for me to get through, but 5 is the only one in the last decade that I pushed right through. The mobile version is pretty good, too.

 

[Teriyaki Blues]

Just (big thing that happens about 15 hours in)

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lost Kiefer

and am having all the sad feelings about it. Some of these vignettes have been very hard hitting, always forget just how much they make you care about these little lives and stories, something that I miss in a lot in other games, especially contemporary RPGs.

 

[R0ckman]

What classes fit the main character? He seems to fill this supporty role, while the prince is the tank so I'm just going to have him do all the tanky attack roles.

 

[R0ckman]

I'll agree with 5 being the standout. The DQ games have been increasingly difficult for me to get through, but 5 is the only one in the last decade that I pushed right through. The mobile version is pretty good, too.

I loved being able to have an RPG where my party is my family including wife and children.

 

[Kinsei]

The game is really great at instilling a sense of adventure in you. Exploring new towns and watching the stories of their inhabitants unfold is great. I've just finished the second boss and I'm really excited to see what became of the descendants of the citizens of Emberdale.

I really like how (Very minor spoilers)

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my habit of talking to everyone after each major event ended up saving me from backtracking. I know some games wouldn't have let me get the Wholly Holy Water until after it was clear that I needed it.

 

[Zippedpinhead]

Most of the changes I really don't mind.

But what was wrong with Borkano?

 

[Tiktaalik]

Having never played the original, I think leaving the puzzle dungeon intact instead of shortening it would have been better. The backtracking is so easy to cut. Kiefer could have come with me to the hermit's house the first time, instead of me leaving the ruins, going to the hermit, then finding Kiefer in his room and taking him back to the hermit.

Yep that was the backtracking loop that seemed like an easy cut to me.

If you wanted to cut things even further cut out the initial failed visit to the ruins and come up with another way to establish that Kiefer is a bad boy other than stealing the ring (stealing a book and messing up a library seems like that could work...)

 

[R0ckman]

One thing I will piggy back off of is making you care about NPCs and how they dont feel like worthless do nothings with aome if them actually helping you in battles, it brings tgis world to life and really makes it feel like the world doesn't just sit there while the main character does everything. The series is great at that.

 

[R0ckman]

Ran into some boney fish that almost kicked my ass and have not seen one since? Is this a special monster? It jumps in the air then drills through the whole party for tons of damage.

 

[SOLDIER]

Has an official reason been given why they switched out the orchestral music? Is there a chance they'll put it back in with an optional patch/update?

 

[SuperSah]

It does, but it ghosts like crazy and isn't very good.

I've noticed zero ghosting. Hell, I was impressed when I entered a well and the objects by the black background didn't ghost - a usual place for it to take place. Mind you I'm on N3DS with improved 3D so it may be that?

 

[Already Torn]

Does this game have the 3D effect? I know Dragon Quest VIII won't.

Yeah, but it looks bad even on new 3DS.