Leave a Review DRAGON QUEST
Land tiles are ugly as sin
This is a wonderful game and is very well suited to a mobile phone port. It also has an awful graphical bug that I can't believe they haven't addressed in, according to other reviews, at least eight years! While the pixel art of the characters and monsters is sharp and neat, the land tiles covering the majority of the screen alternate between thick and thin rows and columns of pixels. Instead of a charming fantasy landscape, the result is a godawful mess. You have to will yourself to ignore this problem for the entire game. You don't get to enjoy the art, especially during a certain moment when the tiles have changed. They have tried to disguise this problem in the store screenshots by shrinking and rotating the images, but you can see what I mean if you look closely. Developers: A sampler must never use a nearest-neighbor magnification filter unless every texture pixel will map to a whole number of framebuffer pixels. With a given level of zoom expected for gameplay, combined with unpredictable phone resolutions for future devices, you've set yourselves up to fail. This betrays the care given by your artists, who clearly wished to uphold the original game's charm. Since the character sprites do look correct, you can look to that implementation for a solution. Stakeholders: This is a modern player's introduction to the Dragon Quest series. Don't be cheap; make a better impression.Show lessKevin Conner
I LOVE DQ
I love the dragon quest series and everything about it (except for some games like DQ2 and DQ Heroes 1), so seeing that you can play the older games on mobile is amazing! I understand how at first the games can feel a bit bad at first, but the newer ones are amazing! As a Long-standing DQ fan (I've been playing DQ games for half my life), I feel so much nostalgia going back to the first games, and the Akira Toriyama's art style is so charming to me! All in all, this game is definitely worth the price, you should get it! (DQ Builders 1 & 2 are also amazing games and are definitely worth $60)Show lessTlc7psych
Grinding and enemy frequency not that bad
To elaborate on another review, where the cons were maybe too much grinding or too many enemies, I don't reckon either is the case. In my 15–20hr playthrough, I spent 1.5hr tops getting the best available gear by fighting gold golems (early-game: time consuming) and a lategame area to get the silver shield, etc. Levelling really accellerates near the end of the game, I've grown two or three levels just getting through the castle to the dragonlord a couple times.
As for enemy frequency, I stocked up on 20 holy water and stored them away. Whenever I start up, I grab three or four and use them on my way to the destination. You will use them all so don't worry about inventory space. This saves on MP which is better spent on healing.
Really wish mobile gaming was synonomous with retro gaming as it seems to have been in 2011. Great job Square Enix keeping this legendary release available.Show lessJackoThePokémaster