Megalosaro
Banned
I thought it did. Gave the area personality and build up. Now it's just sort of there
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Dragon Quest 7: Fragments of the Forgotten Past |OT| Roman numerals are hard
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Bitanator
Member
You are wrong mister it is one of the best parts of any DQ game, anyone who has played it would agree, it adds so much to an already special game
Cindi Mayweather
Member
I wouldn't say the island is just "there" at all. It's still emotional and unsettling. You only think it's just there because you've played the original. Many in this thread playing for the first time find it very sad. Personally I don't really mind and can understand why they cut it. The other stories just aren't as important. It's still one of the best parts of any DQ game, remake or original, doesn't matter.
Pancake Mix
Copied someone else's pancake recipe
Yeah, noticed that too. Interesting touch even if I don't know what they're saying.
I suspect the next town, Emberdale, is a specific type of English accent.
Interesting. Found the boss rather easy since it was susceptible to sleep.
Lol no, like Cindi said, it's definitely still a sad tale even though it had less content.
Present island story for the robot island is insanely lame.
Why the hell would Autonymos's decendant Ambrose or whatever his name is leave his ancestors bones on the bed and in such a pathetic scene for "eternity" under some deluded claim of decency? It's hypocritical. Give the man a proper burial you moron!
Sir Griffith
Member
Yea... I thought that whole story of the present day Faraday was really lame.
Agreed. That part of the story would have been better to me if it was simplified and more subtle about it. Like
Autonymous's home and history being long forgotten and the area rumored to be haunted, the player knowing about it would visit and see ELLIE still trying to revitalize the corpse, the kingdom trying to pursue mechanical technology after discovering the ancient roomba... all that is fine but perhaps Ambrose should be like he doesn't know anything about that side of his family history but that he just has a knack for tinkering.
I wonder though if the Captain ended up marrying the lass in Frobisher. lol
You guys are monsters.
That's one of the most emotional storylines in the game for me.
JebaÄBiedÄ
Banned
how can one game be so charming and polished? my god.
Totally agree with you here. The present day was an amazingly sad pay off. I liked the island in general. I also don't mind the pacing issues at all here although that is usually one of my biggest gripes with video games in general, as it incentives revisiting locals during the story and not only as a clean up effort after the fact.
Monster Tamer class has a passive ability
Okay, I guess I'll stop trying to tame them and hold off until I gain the ability to change classes.
Sammy Samusu
Member
I didn't tame Kingfuchsia but I got his heart on our first fight.
(I'm not sure if its rare but I got it anyway)
I'm not sure if this is spoilers since its not important to the overall plot but I'll tag it, its a question.
Did I miss something in the Dill, Lavender, Carraway story? I only have a loose idea from the present after he left the old Garden, he formed a new one but they are both burried at the convent. I tried to look for things that give more details but didnt find anything. A man in the new town says he was a bachelor his whole life so I'm wondering if Lavendar fled to look for him despite being married to Dill and was punished by being burried at the edge of the mountain with Carraway?
Felix didn't seem awfully concerned, himself.
RPG_Fanatic
Member
I was really annoyed because the game kept telling me I should be able to open up a new area with my fragments even though I had entered them all and nothing unlocked. I messed around with it for awhile thinking I was missing something. It turned out I had to go to a tower for another piece first. The game shouldn't be so inconsistent in its guidance.
mugurumakensei
Member
Florin? There's a character named Florin in the English version perhaps it's Florian in French trans.
Yeah, apparently a quick talking to was enough for the kid.
My party was lv 12 then and I'm finding the game a bit easy. I'm not avoiding any encounter, but I don't go out of my way to fight enemies neither.
Just got Gabo at the 8 hour mark. Not a fan of the new name they gave him.
Also, holding a 3DS for several hours a day is starting to take it's toll on me. Same thing happened when I got Smash 3DS. The menus are a bit of a pain. There's a clear delay on the inputs and if you press 2 inputs too fast only 1 will register.
Still thoroughly enjoying the game though.
Also, holding a 3DS for several hours a day is starting to take it's toll on me. Same thing happened when I got Smash 3DS. The menus are a bit of a pain. There's a clear delay on the inputs and if you press 2 inputs too fast only 1 will register.
Still thoroughly enjoying the game though.
That story affected me so much when my wife played the original I didn't want to play it. She's reading these responses and wondering if the translation got hosed for that section somehow.
It was real hokey in Japanese when I played it too. Though returning far later in the game and
finding her permanently shut down over his corpse was far more emotional than every NPC just harping on and on about how awful they were for taking this supposedly "alive" robot away from what many would interpret as a living hell, honestly should have just went with that final bit I mentioned first and truncated most of the present storyline into something less preachy.
Boomerangs are always worth it in any DQ game.
He's on the pier.
Dsyndrome
Member
Thanks, didn't venture down far enough when I boarded the boat.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, but it still hurts that I can't upgrade any other gear because of this.
Sigh, still 2300 gold to go if I want another. Maybe I could farm slime hearts to get the gold or just continue playing.
OnionPowder
Member
Wow, Amazon sold out. I wonder if Nintendo didn't have much confidence in the release.
I might just pick it up on the eShop
I might just pick it up on the eShop
I'd say skip grinding for now. The next couple of hours are pretty easy even without two boomerangs.
You can always grind for gold if you get stuck.
Dr. Benton Quest
Banned
The entire point of Dragon Quest are these vignettes, and 7 has the best in the series. The one you're referencing is near the top.
Older ones were easier to remember too. Well, Rexwood is anyway, Emberdale is alright.Edit: Oh right, I forgot they changed the names for those places. I'm so used to what they were called before.
And it's still exasperating to me, but isn't bothering me as much since it doesn't come off as blatantly shoving puns wherever so far, some of the original names were too conspicuously Japanese, and stuff like Hank is frankly kind of bland.
EDIT: Also a good chunk seem like stylistic reinterpretations of the original names, like Melvin to Mervyn.
Almost all of them have been in my opinion.
You should have a Salvation Stone in your inventory, if you do, give it to Maribel and have her on healing duty. It's an infinite Medicinal Herb pretty much.