The thing about early RPGs was story was VERY minimal back in the day due to memory space in cartridges. So the developers would rely A LOT on player imagination in order for players to enjoy the game they were playing. It's one of the reasons why interaction is very minimal as well between characters as well. So while Dragon Quest 3 might not be for everyone it still does give you enough to have a grand adventure of your own and explore your own imagination when put in this world.
I really appreciate this balanced review. So many reviewers have just been like this is a perfect game based on the best game ever and minimizing how old school it still is. I really wish they had balanced it more. I played the original on the mobile version and spent like 2-3 hours grinding at each new area to be able to buy the new armour and weapons. It was fine overall since I knew it was an old game, but now that they've done so much work on it and put it at full price for a new game, I was hoping the gameplay would be smoother. I totally agree that this is one to wait for a sale on.
Grinding out the money to buy out every shop in a DQ is a fool's errand. What you're supposed to do is buy whatever you can afford, then go exploring. Every single town, well, secret spot, sparkly world map spot, and dungeon/tower is LOADED with stat-boosting seeds, healing items, and yes, lots and lots of equipment, often stuff that's better than what you can currently buy. Go out. Explore. Do one floor of a dungeon, loot it, then go back to town, sell things you don't need, and buy another Shield or whatever. All the time you're exploring and looting all these different areas, you're also "grinding" battles, XP, and Gold, but it doesn't FEEL like it because you're doing things that are much more interesting than just spinning in circles on the world map for hours on end, waiting for battles to happen. You can play the game and almost never have to grind if you just explore everything and everywhere thoroughly when it opens up to you.
You can also cast holy protection to keep from running into weaker enemies if you want to explore somewhere prior. It keeps those encounters minimal, but I wish the spell lasted longer. Great game otherwise. Nice video.
What I learned from playing this game is that the grind is unnecessary. While grinding helps make the game easier, I find switching to a different strategy is far more effective when dealing with difficult battles. There are so many items to be found in the overworld and towns too that equipment never became a problem.
After watching: very honest and respectful review. I totally understand the tedious grind and difficulty. I personally appreciate the challenge at times compared to others being too easy. But this is DQ at its core.
I enjoyed everything but after defeating Zoma it's over for me. I didn't need to grind a lot until that point and I don't plan to do it just for an insane post game with not really efficient and consistent way to level up. I preferred to move to another game.
was having a ton of fun until i hit the pyramid. like, wtf? gotta grind for 3 hours just to have a chance? switched to easy mode, and run out of enough MP to be effective. lol. i shoulda watched this review before my purchase. i vibe with it very much. i don’t have enough time to mindlessly grind. you’re so naturally under leveled that you don’t even have a chance to employ strategy. doesn’t respect my time - they shoulda done an increased xp mode. worked back in 88, as a 40 year old with kids and a job, don’t have time for it lol.
Half, and they ALSO keep the boosts from any Seeds you give them, so Seeds are never wasted and don't to be saved until a character is in their "final form", or all fed to the Hero.
Stats are also higher take the SWITCH collection of DQ1 to 3 even with 4x Females having the Vamp personality on that version GOOD lucky having them with 300 to 400 HP and even 500 HP AT LV 99 depending on the FINAL job classes you made in that version. In this remake version by lv 99 depending on the jobs you can easily have 600 to 700 HP and almost is much MP by lv 99.
I appreciate the feedback,! But the music is already at something like -28dB? Does it need to be lower? Because I can barely hear the music in places. (Everyone feel free to chime in on this one!)
I like this game. It looks beautiful. But it is basically a game I have played many times before. Already own in other forms, also don't like the PC "Type A , Type B" stuff in the character creator (making women type B implies they are inferior) so I can't justify dropping $60 on it. When it hits $10 I might bite.
I think you have missed the game’s artistic approach or simply didn’t appreciate the game’s minimalist approach. You get the story organically by exploring the world and talking to people. It’s a non-linear, open world storytelling approach. If you want to be inundated by lore and meaningless details that take you out of the game world, this story isn’t for you. And you only grind if you want to or if you’re a bad player and need to.
It's a great game, you modern gamers are total babies. Whaaaaaaahhhhhhhh it's too hard, too much grinding.... Welcome to DQ, we love it and don't need gen alphas with no attention span and cell phone addiction
Brother you are crying about a dissenting opinion. It’s not even the grind it’s the antiquated design of the game. No backstory for side characters, non linear story, and personally for me I can’t go back to first person turn based combat. It’s not immersive I’m in my 30s now we have had decades of RPGs evolving the genre. I’m glad you like it though I wish I did.
If you actually explore like THE GAME'S INITIAL 10 MINUTES TELLS YOU TO via the Chancellor's little speech (the one about heeding your curiosity), you almost never have to grind. There are piles of gold and items and gear laying around EVERYWHERE for you to find, and while you're exploring to grab these you're also "grinding" battles for XP and Money. But you have to put in some of the work, not just follow a waypoint marker from A to B until the credits roll, which seems to be something that a LOT of gamers struggle mightily with.
She doesn’t appreciate the game’s minimalist approach. You get the story organically by exploring the world and talking to people. It’s a non-linear, open world storytelling approach. And you only grind if you want your or if you’re a bad player.
i dont know why they keep insisting on those outdated battle visuals. for christs sakes its not that hard to do like 10 different animations for each sprite (from behind/over the shoulder). a slash motion, a throw motion, a cast motion etc. there isnt even that many. im sorry but i just cant look at a static picture of monsters and see some disembodied animations of the protagonists actions.... not in 2024 (i categorically refuse on principle)
@@derekzicari2181 im clearly not 50? is that supposed to be an "insult"? yeah, i was born in the 80s and i spent the entirety of the 90s playing through clunky, minimalist, memory conservative, limited crap which would make the console explode should it ever have to render more than 4 sprites at once... i dont wanna do that again in 2024.but you go ahead and watch a static screen while you imagine your characters "doing attacks" (if thats what you wanna spend your pension on)
@@AlgorithmMockery pretentious, stubborn against his own best interest and clinging to a failed, regressive ideology while gaslighting himself its the only way? nah, that sounds more like YOUR "jam"...
@@doubleclick4132 you’re an angry little boy. Classics weren’t your thing so I suggested something the kids seem to enjoy. Sure it’s a massive failure with shitty writing and lousy characters, but kids don’t seem to care much anymore.
The thing about early RPGs was story was VERY minimal back in the day due to memory space in cartridges. So the developers would rely A LOT on player imagination in order for players to enjoy the game they were playing. It's one of the reasons why interaction is very minimal as well between characters as well. So while Dragon Quest 3 might not be for everyone it still does give you enough to have a grand adventure of your own and explore your own imagination when put in this world.
Omg it's so pretty. If I could be a pixel, I want to live in this place. 😍
I really appreciate this balanced review. So many reviewers have just been like this is a perfect game based on the best game ever and minimizing how old school it still is. I really wish they had balanced it more. I played the original on the mobile version and spent like 2-3 hours grinding at each new area to be able to buy the new armour and weapons. It was fine overall since I knew it was an old game, but now that they've done so much work on it and put it at full price for a new game, I was hoping the gameplay would be smoother. I totally agree that this is one to wait for a sale on.
Grinding out the money to buy out every shop in a DQ is a fool's errand. What you're supposed to do is buy whatever you can afford, then go exploring. Every single town, well, secret spot, sparkly world map spot, and dungeon/tower is LOADED with stat-boosting seeds, healing items, and yes, lots and lots of equipment, often stuff that's better than what you can currently buy. Go out. Explore. Do one floor of a dungeon, loot it, then go back to town, sell things you don't need, and buy another Shield or whatever. All the time you're exploring and looting all these different areas, you're also "grinding" battles, XP, and Gold, but it doesn't FEEL like it because you're doing things that are much more interesting than just spinning in circles on the world map for hours on end, waiting for battles to happen. You can play the game and almost never have to grind if you just explore everything and everywhere thoroughly when it opens up to you.
You can also cast holy protection to keep from running into weaker enemies if you want to explore somewhere prior. It keeps those encounters minimal, but I wish the spell lasted longer. Great game otherwise. Nice video.
What I learned from playing this game is that the grind is unnecessary. While grinding helps make the game easier, I find switching to a different strategy is far more effective when dealing with difficult battles. There are so many items to be found in the overworld and towns too that equipment never became a problem.
After watching: very honest and respectful review. I totally understand the tedious grind and difficulty. I personally appreciate the challenge at times compared to others being too easy. But this is DQ at its core.
I enjoyed everything but after defeating Zoma it's over for me. I didn't need to grind a lot until that point and I don't plan to do it just for an insane post game with not really efficient and consistent way to level up. I preferred to move to another game.
was having a ton of fun until i hit the pyramid. like, wtf? gotta grind for 3 hours just to have a chance? switched to easy mode, and run out of enough MP to be effective. lol. i shoulda watched this review before my purchase. i vibe with it very much. i don’t have enough time to mindlessly grind. you’re so naturally under leveled that you don’t even have a chance to employ strategy. doesn’t respect my time - they shoulda done an increased xp mode. worked back in 88, as a 40 year old with kids and a job, don’t have time for it lol.
Looking for a good rpg but if the game doesn't have in dept story and characters it might be a pass for me. Thank you for the honest review.
She forgot to mention that you keep a percentage of your stats when you change classes. I read that half are kept.
Half, and they ALSO keep the boosts from any Seeds you give them, so Seeds are never wasted and don't to be saved until a character is in their "final form", or all fed to the Hero.
Stats are also higher take the SWITCH collection of DQ1 to 3 even with 4x Females having the Vamp personality on that version GOOD lucky having them with 300 to 400 HP and even 500 HP AT LV 99 depending on the FINAL job classes you made in that version.
In this remake version by lv 99 depending on the jobs you can easily have 600 to 700 HP and almost is much MP by lv 99.
It's good. Though def grindy (15hrs in). The 'super fast' battle speed is almost average.
Dragon Quest 5 has a much, much better story. Still hard though. Interesting that Japan prefers this series over Final Fantasy.
I don't think modern remakes of Dragon Quest are particularly difficult. Maybe I'm misremembering the Android version of this one.
If I could provide some feedback. The music is WAY too loud against your voice.
I appreciate the feedback,! But the music is already at something like -28dB? Does it need to be lower? Because I can barely hear the music in places. (Everyone feel free to chime in on this one!)
I like this game. It looks beautiful. But it is basically a game I have played many times before. Already own in other forms, also don't like the PC "Type A , Type B" stuff in the character creator (making women type B implies they are inferior) so I can't justify dropping $60 on it. When it hits $10 I might bite.
I think you have missed the game’s artistic approach or simply didn’t appreciate the game’s minimalist approach. You get the story organically by exploring the world and talking to people. It’s a non-linear, open world storytelling approach.
If you want to be inundated by lore and meaningless details that take you out of the game world, this story isn’t for you.
And you only grind if you want to or if you’re a bad player and need to.
The ending is a slogg but otherwise good
It's a great game, you modern gamers are total babies.
Whaaaaaaahhhhhhhh it's too hard, too much grinding....
Welcome to DQ, we love it and don't need gen alphas with no attention span and cell phone addiction
wasting hours to level up is not fun
Brother you are crying about a dissenting opinion. It’s not even the grind it’s the antiquated design of the game. No backstory for side characters, non linear story, and personally for me I can’t go back to first person turn based combat. It’s not immersive I’m in my 30s now we have had decades of RPGs evolving the genre.
I’m glad you like it though I wish I did.
If you actually explore like THE GAME'S INITIAL 10 MINUTES TELLS YOU TO via the Chancellor's little speech (the one about heeding your curiosity), you almost never have to grind. There are piles of gold and items and gear laying around EVERYWHERE for you to find, and while you're exploring to grab these you're also "grinding" battles for XP and Money. But you have to put in some of the work, not just follow a waypoint marker from A to B until the credits roll, which seems to be something that a LOT of gamers struggle mightily with.
damn i was going to pick this up, but I don't have time for a grindy RPG with no story. too bad
She doesn’t appreciate the game’s minimalist approach. You get the story organically by exploring the world and talking to people. It’s a non-linear, open world storytelling approach.
And you only grind if you want your or if you’re a bad player.
Play the game at your own pace, there's no GACHA or obligatory daily quests, it's singleplayer JRPG, not MMORPG that consumes your life into it.
@@allanprodrigues There are other games that will value my time more. my leisure time is limited.
@@amanasd26 amen. I'm not 12 and have 8 hours a day to run around in circles doing 1000s of battles
Your loss.
I only bought this in hopes it will encourage them to bring us dragon quest 12 when it comes out
We are getting DQ12 what do you mean?
@naofumitempest1365 if dragon quest does not get enough support over here they may not localize it for America, plenty of jrpgs do not get over seas
i dont know why they keep insisting on those outdated battle visuals. for christs sakes its not that hard to do like 10 different animations for each sprite (from behind/over the shoulder). a slash motion, a throw motion, a cast motion etc. there isnt even that many. im sorry but i just cant look at a static picture of monsters and see some disembodied animations of the protagonists actions.... not in 2024 (i categorically refuse on principle)
You were clearly not born earlier than the 80s.
We don't care. Go play FF17 or whatever they are up to now
@@derekzicari2181 im clearly not 50? is that supposed to be an "insult"? yeah, i was born in the 80s and i spent the entirety of the 90s playing through clunky, minimalist, memory conservative, limited crap which would make the console explode should it ever have to render more than 4 sprites at once... i dont wanna do that again in 2024.but you go ahead and watch a static screen while you imagine your characters "doing attacks" (if thats what you wanna spend your pension on)
You should try dragon age veilguard.
Sounds to be more up your alley.
@@AlgorithmMockery pretentious, stubborn against his own best interest and clinging to a failed, regressive ideology while gaslighting himself its the only way? nah, that sounds more like YOUR "jam"...
@@doubleclick4132 you’re an angry little boy. Classics weren’t your thing so I suggested something the kids seem to enjoy. Sure it’s a massive failure with shitty writing and lousy characters, but kids don’t seem to care much anymore.
Thank you for tyring this game so we don't have to play it 😅. It looks nice but also seems like a total SLOG.