Who is this for? Isn't the chubby/unfuckable childhood friend meant to be a sidekick? Why did they copy-paste him, put him on ozempic and use it for a main character?
I don't think it's for everyone but I like unlikely looking protagonists in JRPGs, as rare as they are. Dragon Quest already has a ton of cool looking niggas with swords (none of them beat the 5 protagonist who's holding a staff though) so I'm glad they did something different for at least one entry.
A big problem I have is that everything looks like plastic. Like they animated some DQ7 figurines rather than trying to earnestly recreate Toriyama's characters. DQ7 is not a faggy and bright Pixar movie, it's actually relatively muted in a lot of places so adding this fucking plastic sheen to everything feels fucking lame.
Is Visions of Mana any good? I have it on my backlog and I wasn't really clicking with the demo but I always liked how the game looked.
I enjoyed it completely. In my opinion they did a pretty bang-up job doing what they did with the story. If you've played previous games you'll come across several characters canon to the series and be questioning their existence. But it all gets put together as you progress.
I need to check how Mirabel compares to how she was designed in the Warriors games.
Square's menus have been so lifeless, shitty, and less intuitive to navigate for a long time now. Sucks, minimalist shit like this is the antithesis to artistry.
Pretty based political views iirc
It's an industry-wide problem. Just look at the UI in literally any first-party Switch game and compare them to any predecessor on a previous console.
The visual design is amazing. Easily the best part of it. Gameplay, story, characters I found to be pretty average, but I would agree that it's worth playing.
The battle on a certain ship was super fun in my opinion. Im not sure if you've played the previous games but there's a lot there that's tied into the game. That battle is just one instance of that. I've been playing the series since it was on an old brick Gameboy though and have a special love for the series.
"Stuck with" is weird because VII has never been voiced before. Funnily enough - the first game in the series to have voices was Dragon Quest VIII but only in English.
Yeah, his position was basically, "Japan did nothing wrong in WW2 and even if it did it was 100% justified" and also really didn't like minorities or LGBT people. Lest you think he was based, he was also a notoriously vicious copyright cuck. DQ games weren't allowed to have orchestral soundtracks until XI S came out in Japan, because he insisted on being able to double dip by selling them separately. The one big exception was Dragon Quest VIII in Europe and the US because Squeenix paid him a pretty penny (and he was less interested in capitalizing on the foreign market) in order to have orchestral music so the game wouldn't be laughed at for having a tinny MIDI sample soundtrack in 2004.
DKB UI is decent.
The DQ main theme is up there with Mario and Zelda bro
I'd argue that the music of Dragon Quest is probably one of the major big appeals of the series. The music is fantastic and always invokes a sense of adventure, especially the boating themes. They might not be for everyone, but I literally cannot imagine the series without the orchestral music. Also the DQ3 overworld theme isn't as big as Mario and Zelda but it's iconic.
Yeah, I wonder if they're just going to use AI. There is an absolutely ludicrous amount of NPC dialogue in the game. Took five people a year to get the English translation done for the 3DS version.
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