Release: 1992
Developer/Publisher: Square Enix
Gameplay Stats: 30 hours, game completed
Still working on my desire to complete the whole Dragon Quest series! So, how was this one? I really liked it! It was kind of a unique video game in that you actually play as the father of the hero instead of the hero himself. You start as a kid and get sold into slavery until you are an adult. Then you play as an adult and get married but get turned to stone for a decade. When you awaken you get to show your kids around the world, one of who is the hero of legend. It was kind of a second-person adventure which was neat!
You had a rotating cast of humans and monsters in your party. I wish that swapping party members worked a bit easier, there are two separate NPCs that you have to talk to to manage your human and monster companions separately. It was also unclear in the game which monsters were recruitable and which weren’t. I might have missed something, but it wasn’t cleat to me. I ended up looking up some guides online, but they made some changes in how the mechanic worked between the SNES/DS and mobile ports so that didn’t really help. The mobile ports of old games don’t seem to get the same love from guide writers.
I do think the inventory management in this whole series is nonsense. They make you do a ton of menuing and it’s so slow. Having the party inventory in FF games works way better because everything is in one spot. But I understand they don’t want you to have access to a million healing items every fight so it’s tricky to manage. Maybe having a combined inventory but you can only use X number of healing items each battle? Keep track of it like they do HP/MP? I dunno, but I do know the way Dragon Quest games handle inventory is incredibly annoying. When you pick up a new piece of gear from a treasure chest it gets randomly sorted to a party member’s inventory so you have to look through 4-8 inventories which each have up to 3 pages. It’s terrible.
Complaining aside, I really liked this game. The story was unique enough that I think this will stick with me for a while.
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