PLAYABLE MUNCHIE
I turned the game off for the night cuz I rememebered the tool bag quest and its permanent consequences but I can’t find his fucking house on the hill let alone the red tree with the tool bag oh my GOD I forgot how much 3d space sucks to navigate without a world map I’ll find a video and figure out where I fucking ran off to cuz i saved state in the middle of a random battle I didnt have the patience to intimidate my way through AGAIN while lost
Game Informer is back.
i know i tried for like 20 minutes to get around their paywall the other day so i could read their interview with yuji horii that starts with him recalling the time he visited toriyama’s house and discovered it was full of fishtanks
that said i’m going dark on dqvii reimagined stuff after that last trailer i wish i hadn’t seen
the time he visited toriyama’s house and discovered it was full of fishtanks
did he say whether the fishtanks were, in turn, full of small replicas of the house?
i’m having my second go at DQ3HD after losing momentum on the switch version after getting to the orbs part. realizing basically all my complaints about this remaster (blurry as hell and random slowdowns) were because the switch could barely run it. i’m going priest->warrior, thief->monster wrangler, mage->sage for the crew. priest is still a priest while he pines (austerely) for multiheal
we just beat orochi in the funniest way possible, the monster wrangler licking him into goosebumps every turn to completely shut down his double attack. dragon quest!
yeahhh that fan translation has some pretty nasty foreverially unresolved bugs one of which is you basically can’t open certain menus. going to be fun to deal with that at the next meetup longplay lol
just pass a ds with a flashcart around
i love that the story of Taloon is that he wants to be the world’s greatest uhh arms merchant (problematic fave Torneko Taloon) but his contributions to his own business are from doing Indiana Jones shit twice in between fighting a bunch of random monsters and taking 1 good commission from a king and the actual genius merchant is his wife who can upsell every piece of trash armor he brings her at 150% of its actual value
also play Torneko: The Last Hope if you want one of the best Mystery Dungeon™ games, it is the sequel to his chapter and that subtitle is hilarious
I’m optimistic that this will jot be a major issue. When are you really going to hit info all? Makes no sense. And casting Forget? Really?
The true horror is untranslated dialogue for when you go back to towns after major story events.
you’re going to have to remind me not to hit info-all at least once sometimes i just gotta see what everyone’s HP/MP levels look like!!
good savegame hygiene will be necessary
It’s like three menus deep and I think you’re reminded of those things all of the time. But yeah, we’re going to need to save a lot.
Look I wasn’t planning to come to the next one but sacrifices must be made.
I would love it if you could interpret the few bits of dialogue, but they’re not even left in the original Japanese. Sometimes I have to accept imperfection.
Yeah sadly I think the Japanese character space has to be replaced with English letters so you just get whatever character is at the address where the Japanese would be.
Im really digging on 6. Its so pretty. Its not the Operatic story of 5, but I like that.
Made it down the mountain, sold the tools and silks, gave into temptation and bought the Thief’s key and then stole back half of its value.
On one hand, cool to have the Theif’s key so early but on the other hand I wonder if the stuff it unlocks will even be that exciting…
Immediately hit a level wall over the bridge wiping half my gold (If I dont reload). Which is the money I need for the crown!
A few weeks ago, I made a joke that I would start playing multiple Dragon Quests simultaneously. Now the joke has become reality.
Monsters is on the backburner right now. I’m in a rut where it feels a touch too monotonous. The battle system is really interesting though. I am determined to never issue my monsters orders. Instead, I just give each one a general strategy and hope for the best.
I have X all setup, but I haven’t had a major session with it yet. It’s going to happen…soon.
I’m in the deserts of III HD. I’m on the “hard” difficulty and I think it’s finally going to start living up to that claim. My hero got a personality that debuffed so many stats in exchange for incredible strength. With a boomerang equipped, he just vaporizes whole lineups. I’m playing in Spanish, which is clearly based on the English translation. Fake Italian sounds better in Spanish because it’s mostly just Italian. I still heard someone say “mamma mia.”
Cookbooks started playing Pikmin 4 so I I have started the NES version of Dragon Quest IV. I love the numbers in this. Compared to III-HD, I’m strategizing constantly and trying to squeeze the best outcome out of every battle. I just started Alena’s chapter and it feels so good to make decisions with a classic trio like this.
i’m probably going to be x-ing for months at this point, it’s my current regular anything videogame
which is annoying because i have hobbies!! tasks!!
I’m still slowly working through the 2 remake and enjoying it. It’s got some good challenge to it, even if I am playing on babby normal mode.
I’ve been thinking a lot about how the game works as good nostalgic comfort food for me, even though I never really have played much of 2 before. I just never had a copy of it as a kid, and the guy I knew who did have it made me borrow dq4 instead, which honestly, not mad about. But I never really played 2 or 3 on the NES, but I think because the aesthetics and character of DQ games is so well established, even ones I haven’t plaed before still hit the nostalgia brainfeels in a really nice way.
My goal after this is to actually beat 7 before the remake comes out. I love 7 so much, but I have never finished it.
I’m playing it for the first time but this is me rn. I want to play the (probably worse) remake so bad based on the quality of the original because it’ll still be great
