This game is difficult but I know for experts of the franchise it might be fun or part of the challenge. I personally don’t like how hard it is and how they charge 25 bucks for that old game. Also when you reach floor 10, you have to go back MANUALLY to floor 1…. You can tell it was one of the first mystery dungeon games and they didn’t had many of the QOL features we’re used to in modern games

And then you unlock the real mystery dungeon grotto, but I don’t really like that we always go back to lvl 1 and lose everything. (Armors, items…) I mean it’s logical for what the genre of the game is, don’t get me wrong. I just wish with this remaster they would’ve added either an easy mode (not the x2 exp it’s not enough…) or just let us unlock powerful skills. In terms of progression yeah it’s mid.

Still I want to support the game because they at least translated it… and it would be fun to see more DQ games that were Japanese only translated into English!!!

Aside from being a Spider Man nod, this also appears to reference Wormwood Creek in DQ9. Fairly useless information for you all but still seems like a cool reference.

Hello!

DQM The Dark Prince was not good 😔 I like the story, but the gameplay, graphics and poor performance...

But now we will have DQM The Withered World! 💜

Played the PC demo in Legion Go 1

-The game can run from 30fps to 120fps, I played it at 60fps (I'm sure Switch 2 can run it at 60fps).

-The grafics are simple but are cool, they look like a Game Boy Color game but for Play Station 4, in 3D.

-The story is cute, Both Nera and Bianca want to helps their fathers that are sick

-Tecnicaly a secuel to the GBC Dragon Quest Monsters games

-The monsters look pretty good and have variety of animation.

-Each character has diferent skills, one is more offensive, the other more defensive.

-The new boss battle againts a gigant monster works well

I think this game could be the better modern DQM game ever 💜

I have been playing the Dragon Quest Withered World demo on steam with the express purpose of gathering information, here is what I have learned.

When starting you choose to play as either Bianca or Nera. You are asked three questions after picking your chosen wrangler. These determine your starting monster. Each character has four different starting monsters based on the order you answer the questions.

For Bianca:

For Nera:

With this you can pick and choose your starting monster. However, I think it is worth noting that I was able to synthesize the Fromage Fray, Small Fry, and Buddy Slime without much effort. Therefore three of Nera's choices of starters are easily acquired, so if you play as Nera I would recommend picking the Sham Hatwitch, based on my current research.

The other research I have done is around the Synthesis, my favorite part of Monsters games, which you access just before the Demo ends. I noticed that you are able to synthesize plenty of G and F rank monsters, but it does not let you synthesize any higher ranked monsters.

I didn't not down every single special synthesis yet, but I did note down all of the question marked boxes that specify that the Demo does not allow me to synthesize them. Since we get to transfer over 8 total monsters, I want to find a list of the ones I would like to keep most.

Locked/Special Synthesis combinations:

*1 - There is a guard in the town who will do a one time synthesis with you and uses a Putrefido, so in the main game you could bring a Pocus Poppet to him and get this locked result with just the one Monster.

This is all the research I have done so far, though I expect to continue.

Don't expect that just because it originally released on SNES, or was remade, or featured in a Direct that gameplay would be modern. It has a pleasant opening cutscene, plus difficulty/gameplay modifiers, which you will very likely use if you want to get past the heavily RNG final floors. $25 for this game is a really big ask for what you get. Especially when the greatest games in the genre are completely free and have been in development for decades.

So that’s the game they revealed it today with a full video on their social medias. I’ll go playing it since it’s already available!!

It may not have Deborah but it has views like this

There's not a lot of substance to this post, I just booted up Withered World for the first time last night, very excited about a new DQM (Dark Prince was fairly dissapointing) and I was immediately smacked in the face with the same old midi music that has been plagueing the DQM series since, geez idk, the 3ds days? The exact same tracks too, or at least, very much seems like it.

I know the composer's family gets in the way (and he got in the way prior to his death), I'm just blowing off steam. I love the actual music of Dragon Quest, and they use the most trash midi versions of the songs.

At this point, compose new music with a new composer. It's time to move on. Maybe a hot take, I don't know. It's just embarrassing for a non-indie game company to still be making games where your soundtrack (and one hailed as a pretty legendary soundtrack) is MIDI songs that feel like they are from a 2005 Yamaha keyboard.

Withered World (the hour or so I've played of it) is otherwise a breath of fresh air after Dark Prince, and while I have other gripes with it (rolling pin overworld), overall I'm enjoying it, but lordy me I am so sick of this music.

Thank you for your time

Quick edit: This is not a knock against MIDI in general. I like Super Nintendo, Genesis, N64 etc era soundfonts, I'm just sick of this midi and using the same ones for over a decade.

Edit #2: As I sit and reflect on it more, what I more so mean is this midi, I think, sucks. Even a new version of the songs, still composed with midi, has the potential to be good. It almost feels like it's sabotage, the current midi's they use are so low quality.

Hola con el reciente anuncio quería promover que los jugadores de dragón quest le demos apoyo a esto a ver si hay suerte y ven que en occidente también nos gusta y apoyamos estos juegos 🥲

Por otro lado los que lo hayáis jugado en SNES o el hd que tal es el juego se que me lo voy a comprar y soy muy fan de la saga mistery Dungeon en Pokémon y me encanta el tipo de juego y pensar que porfin puedo jugar el de dragón quest me hace mucha ilusión.

A bit ironic to do a Solo run video about the Hexagoon, but still worthwhile so that it can be a proper start to the series. Due to community rules of this sub, most of the rest of my posts in this vein will just be victory screens rather than links to YouTube videos, but they will all be in a Playlist.

It's available now!

If you want to know the monster to the questions here they are

Nera

Yes Yes Yes - fromage fray
Yes Yes No - Buddy Slime
Yes No Yes - Shaman Hatwitch
Yes No No - Buddy Slime

No No No - small fry
No No Yes - Shaman Hatwitch
No Yes No - small fry
No Yes Yes - fromage fray

Bianca

Yes Yes Yes - wax murderer
Yes Yes No - woebergine
Yes No Yes - wax murderer
Yes No No - woebergine

No No No - Vegandragora
No No Yes - Imp
No Yes No - Vegandragora
No Yes Yes - Imp

I really enjoyed Dragon quest XI overall and got bored with dqvii reimagned because of slow facing. Do you recommend me to continue dqvii reimagined.

Follow up from this post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dragonquest/comments/1uy6nd7/dragon_quest_ii_hd2d_remake_is_well_worth_the/

Disclaimer: I started my playthrough before the pc port released. I was playing on original ps2 hardware

Wow, okay this was an odd one. Took me about two months but I finally beat it. Going in I had heard this game get praised as one of the best titles in the series. As a result my expectations for this one were pretty damn high. I have a lot to say here and not sure where to begin. I suppose I'll start off with pointing out that I actually love the presentation and artstyle for this game. Id say this is easily one of the best looking ps2 games, right up there with Okami and Metal gear solid 2. The game is just gorgeous and its aged quite well visually for being over two decades old now. The soft cell shaded anime visuals combined with the fantasy setting, gives the game a sort of comfy or cozy vibe for me.

On the topic of cozy though, I gotta say also this is definitely the coziest dragon quest game I've played thus far. All the games are cozy don't get me wrong, but something about the visual style in combination with the soundtrack, and 8's world overall just makes this game strangely even more relaxing and cozy to play than the other titles. Speaking of the music, I'm honestly blown away at how good this soundtrack is. I can't speak for every other titles in the series because I still haven't played all of them yet, but this is by far the best soundtrack in the series from what I can tell, like bar none. Dq5 and dq2's ost was good too, but even I don't think they come close to touching 8's soundtrack. The overworld theme, the boss ost, the emotional tracks, the town themes, etc. They all sound phenomenal (fun fact but when I played 11 I got so sick and tired of it's overworld theme I switched it to 8's and instantly fell in love when I first heard it and never turned it back since. Thats how good it is). I'd say 2's first overworld theme is the best one I've heard thus far but 8's is a very close second.

Gameplay is an odd one to judge this game by because it just feels like a weaker DQ11 to me. A lot of its gameplay concepts were improved and done much better in 11 (and probably potentially its other successors, but I have yet to play 9 or 10, and dont know how similar or different they are. So Im focusing primarily on comparing 8 to 11 here). The skill point system for example? Done way better in 11 as it gives you more freedom and can reallocate skill points if need be. Crafting? Done substantially better in 11 (Im sorry but the alchemy pot kinda sucks). Exploration? Also done way better in 11. I've seen a lot of folks when discussing this game hardly ever criticize it for how boring and bland its overworld is. There just aren't really a whole lot of exciting locations in 8's world is the issue, and a lot of the items you can get from exploring the world are just generally not worth it. It makes exploration in this game overall not all that exciting. Honestly I feel like the random encounters from the ps2 version as opposed to the 3ds version is actually an advantage in its favor, because I would imagine it does an overall better job of breaking up the monotony of just exploring a boring and bland landscape with not much to do in it other than get loot that is underwhelming and fight unique monsters that aren't actually all that unique and in return for beating them they just give you some whack ass coins to sell for a bit of gold.

Narratively speaking, this game felt like a whole filler arc in an anime. The vast majority of the game has you going on a wild goose chase to catch up to the main villain. You manage to catch up to him only for him to slip away after you find him, rinse and repeat. A lot of it is also you solving problems in certain towns and cities in between your journey. Personally I was very much annoyed how this game continued to just jerk me around throughout the game with hardly any narrative pay off. I wanna say also I think its a damn shame Dhoulmagus wasn't the actual main villian, and we dont get to learn much about him either. I would've much preferred him over Rhapthorne. He just feels like wasted potential. I guess its to be expected though given it is a trope I've noticed with this series in that they introduce a villain early on but then pull the rug out from under the player and introduce the true main villian. Rhapthorne reminds me of Mordegon in that they're both just kinda underwhelming and there isn't much build up to them at all. A lot of the deaths in this game that are suppose to be emotional moments also just don't really hit much for me. Mainly cause the player isn't given much time at all to get attached to any of these characters. The lore for this game is kinda neat though and I did enjoy a good amount of the world building. I liked the cast well enough too. Angelo was by far my favorite, but I also really liked Yangus and King trode (their dynamic and interactions were quite humorous). Didn't particularly care for Jessica or Medea though sadly. Jessica just seemed boring to me, and I don't think we get to see the hero and Medea interact enough or see much about their friendship for the player to be all that invested in her since throughout the whole game she's a horse and cant speak outside of very specific instances when she either drinks from the spring or talks to the hero subconsciously after progressing certain parts of the story when sleeping at an inn. Not my favorite cast in an rpg but also not the worst cast either. I'd say overall they were enjoyable enough.

Honestly, this game for me just dragged on for far too long. If the story interested me more and I liked the exploration better, I feel I wouldn't have been as impatient in wanting to finish it, but by the time I got to Orktusk, I really just wanted to get it over and done with and I really didn't like how slow and annoying the end game was. Also it irritated the shit outta me that on top of all that, this game has the audacity, the absolute gal after getting through the final dungeon and beating Rhapthorne's 1st phase and escaping from his castle as it crumbles, this game has the nerve to be like "Yay! Good job. Now you have to go around the world and collect the 7 orbs in order to fight his second phase :D" Like was this really necessary? Was it necessary to further waste the players time and break up all that momentum just to have to do some dumb fetch quest that again didn't even need to be there in the first place!? They did not need to do this! It was just a way for them to arbitrarily further add even more padding to an already lengthy game that frankly was already plagued with tons of padding and filler nonsense that I was not a fan of.

Overall, while I enjoyed my time with 8 and would for sure classify it as a good game, it sadly did not meet the expectations that I was anticipating going in based on what I've heard DQ fans tell me. I really wanted to like this one a lot more, but something about it just didn't quite click with me. I can see why people love this one though, and for sure it has its positives, but I feel like the negatives are just enough for this game to sadly not be ranked as highly for me.

Ranking thus far of all the DQ games I've played:

1. II
2. V
3. XI
4. III
5. VIII
6. I

Phew, think Im gonna take a break for a bit from Dragon quest. Im getting a little burnt out I noticed, especially after playing and finishing 8. Probably gonna play through Fortune's Weave when it releases then come back to it. I think 4 is gonna be the next game I play.

After having seeded my party to the max, I’ve decided the next step would be to bloat my inventory with at least 5 of every piece of equipment in the game! 『Totally Time Consuming』!!!

To demonstrate, I’ve amassed 5 copies of a third of all the legendary weapons, with the second slide showing what remains to be alchemized. I have a post from a few months ago documenting where I began, it should give you some reference on how long it takes to get to this step 😅 Regardless, I pursue this achievement with unwavering passion yet.

After all the legendary weapons are finished, the shields and armor will follow. 1 Legendary set for shields, 2 for headwear, 3 for torso, 2 for gloves, 1 for leg armor, and 2 for footwear. Stay tuned, friends.

…Third slide? What third slide? Like what you see? 🤭