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Title: Dragon Quest Builders
Platform: PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita (Not PSVTV Compatible)
Release Date: 10-11-2016 (US)
Genre: Action / Adventure / Role Playing Game (RPG)
Publisher: Square Enix
Player(s): 1 / [ONLINE: Supported] Player(s): 1
ESRB: E (Everyone 10+)
Price:
PlayStation 4: Physical / Download $59.99 (File Size: 869 MB)
PlayStation Vita: Download $39.99 (File Size: 269 MB)
Official Dragon Quest: Builders US Homepage
PlayStation 4 Demo (590 MB) US PSN
PlayStation Vita Demo (225 MB) US PSN
In regards to the demo version, it basically is the starting portion of the game on the very first continent you wake up on. You will know when you reach the end of the demo when the middle-aged looking bearded guy askes you to make a hammer and set up the portal to the next continent. If you try to use the portal the game will tell you this is the end of the demo then just take you back to the game and continue playing on the starting continent.
*NOTE* Save Data from the Demo does not carry over to the Full Game.
*Credits to Gematsu
- Selectable Male or Female Protagonist. Hair / Eye / Skin color is customizable.
- Story Mode & Free Build Mode. Details on these in the next section below Features.
- Various materials to build with and items to craft for use and decoration.
- AI controlled NPCs that populate your settlements and perform various tasks dictated by the type of room you have created. Such as cooking, crafting, etc.
- Map based off of Dragon Quest 1.
- Equipment is visually represented on your character in game.
- Different weapons to be used on different materials. Big Hammer Vs. Stone, Stone Axe vs. Tree.
- Large Boss fights.
- MINECARTS!
*Credits to Gematsu
- Story Mode - In Story Mode, you’ll build your own towns in order to revive the world devastated by The Dragonlord as you aim to defeat him. You’ll enjoy a Dragon Quest series story where you’ll meet and help out various unique characters, as well as battle many formidable foes.
- Free Build Mode - After you clear the first continent, an “Unknown Island” will appear, where you can freely build to your heart’s content in Free Build Mode. All the recipes acquire during Story Mode can be used freely here.
Producers Comment Regarding Free Build Mode - “In Free Build mode, since the entire map is like a town, monsters won’t surface. If you want to battle monsters, you can go to the ‘The Island of Cleared Stage Materials’ or the ‘Battle Island,’ which will be a private island where you can fight. On Battle Island, you can get special rewards by using Battle Tickets.”
- Home Area - In this area, in addition to being able to make things using any material, you can also upload or download buildings by connecting to PlayStation Network.
- Clearaed Continents Area - In this area, you can obtain the materials not obtainable in the Home Area. There are also monsters roaming this area, so you should also try to get the materials they’re holding.
- Battle Island Area - In this area, you can use a special ticket to battle against an army of monsters. If you win, you could obtain blueprints and recipes.
Announcement Trailer
What is Dragon Quest Builders
What is Dragon Quest Builders
#0:
A: No.
#1:
A: "In Dragon Quest Builders you gather materials, craft items, and build everything you can imagine in a sandbox world packed with memorable characters and dangerous monsters."
*Credit to SEJ West Community Manager, Square Enix
Basically with PR speak out of the way, its a game where you advance in the story by building up towns for the villagers who are "lost" in the world and need your help. Each map has its own unique scenario and landscape for you to enjoy as you progress through the story. The story bits can be a bit dialog heavy, though thats just part of what the DQ series is about.
#2:
A: Unfortunately there is no FPV for the camera, let alone camera settings in general. Makes for navigation in any structure with a ceiling or low ceiling location such as a self dug tunnel a bit of a hassle as you need to move the camera around so that it will turn into a semi-behind the character view. Though other situations cause it to appear to be a first person view, but its more the camera has just moved into the characters head, due to the lack of space.
#3:
A: Yep its called "Free Build Mode" Official answer on that is as follows from the games producer Fujimoto-san, “In Free Build mode, since the entire map is like a town, monsters won’t surface. If you want to battle monsters, you can go to the ‘The Island of Cleared Stage Materials’ or the ‘Battle Island,’ which will be a private island where you can fight. On Battle Island, you can get special rewards by using Battle Tickets.”
#4:
A: The games producer said about 50-60 to beat the main game without doing extra stuff, fully exploring and doing as much of the games content would easily take 100 hours.
#5:
A: You will earn new recipes as you progress in the story. Unlike minecraft you are unable to create new items from experimentation.
#6:
A: In Story Mode the game will have a pre-set location where you will place the home banner that becomes your claimed land for the village. The boundaries of the active town borders will be lit up on the ground showing the maximum effective range of the banners influence / town border. So basically you need to build the town within said space for it to be considered an active town for the villagers to live in. Also a word of warning ahead of time this has to do with boss fights and will be tagged in spoilers
when a boss fight starts it will erase anything outside of the town border so be sure to try and not actually build your town outside of the borders as they will be erased when the boss zone appears.
#7:
A: In this game will be building a brand new town for each scenario / location of the world that you are transported to. So basically once you finish the scenario for the current section of the world you are in, you will be transported to a different location in the world that will have a new scenario for you to play through and town to build.
So basically to answer the question you will not be working on the same town through the entire game.
#8:
A: No in this game you will not have to worry about "grinding" for exp and money. There is no actual levels for the Main Character. Though you do raise HP by finding Life Seeds. Items and resources can be harvested, crafted or dropped when an enemy is defeated.[/URL]
#:9
A:
*Credits to Jimmyfenix
#10:
A: English Trophy List via Reddit
- Thanks goes out to Square Enix for the resources used to make up the graphics in this OT.
- Thanks goes out to Gematsu for the informational resources found within this OT.
- Thanks goes out to Nicole Bachman for the Arcade Boxes font.
- Thanks goes out to DaFont.com website for having an awesome selection of fonts to download and use.
