Now im 100% serious,no bullshit here.
The game is a 90/100 it goes from awesome to slow lots of times,and to a weak story,to cool story segments and cool twsits at the end.
If LO gonna be that must have title it must stay on the path which BD lose itself from.
Now hardcore DQ fans likemyself will love BD but you will lose all these casual rpg gamers if you force them to do fight 10000 monsters and then hardly get any story and then force them on 10000 more,and then hours afterwards you get some neat plot twist and cool stuff to explore.
Anyway great game,a bit short though,took me around 30 hours,but could easily have finished it on ca 26-27 hours.
That is just too short-
Yes I know there is tons of freedom at the end with villages+dungeons+sidequesrt opening but the mainstory must be atleast 35+ hours.
Anyway the ending were a bit confusing but still cool.
Dont wanna spoil it for you drunk losers who hasn' t finished it yet.
+ Monster design and battlesystem
+ shadowsystem(work/job system as in previous FF games)
+ Graphic,its looks like a ***ing pixar movie sometims and the CGI is FF class
+Big world opens up to explore at disc3
+Character design,maruomaro and zola is ***ing awesome!
+the cities will stick in my head,some truly unqiue ones even if they' re small.
+DQ clone
+Akira has a huge influence and impact on it
+Lots of items,spells and equipment to get and put on,I think it were ca 6-8 equipment per character.
-too easy,way to easy at some places.
-sometimes there is too many monsters infront of you everywhere,obviously you could have run past them,but who thinks that way when he plays a RPG?
-A bit too short
-The game takes fro granted you know the goods will come,and let you be in boring dungeons+facing tons of monsters to make the game feel longer then it is.
-DQ clone
-This is not Sakaguchis game its Akiras and you understand it from the start to the end.
92/100
At the end of the day you get a short DQ clone with superb graphics,It has the old FF battlesystem but with more chocies to make which ever party suits you and its a beautiful journey but with a story that will leave no mark for the player but still does it job.
< Message edited by quezcatol -- 31 Aug 07 23:05:43 >