Dragon Quest can often feel like a lengthy series, from grinding out experience and cash to solving every town’s problems again and again and again. DQ7 will test your endurance more than any other in the franchise, but I promise it’s so worth it.

The cast is one of the strongest I’ve experienced despite only two party members carrying plot relevant reasons to endure the journey. Gameplay progression systems from DQ6 return with far more balance and updated use, making them welcome additions this time around.

The story really relies on your thirst for adventure in the first 15-20 hours or so as you begin to feel out your companions and you all start to see the effects your actions enable. It’s built mostly on what would be considered small subplots for over half the game before you’re hit with point blank narrative relevance. Despite the lull of story beats, each subplot is more interesting than the last and the myriad of themes presented throughout each are a treat each time.

Unfortunately I can’t praise the game’s finer points without major spoilers, but in conclusion DQ7 is well worth the time for those with some patience and a hunger for the unknown

Goddamn this shit got so meandering.

I love dragon quest as a franchise, but this one kept just getting slower and slower and losing more and more of my interest narratively until Maribel, who is easily the worst character in the franchise yet, just killed the remainder of it when I was forced to include her back into my party.

A really cool gameplay concept and the statisfaction of collectible completion kept me going til the credits, only to find out the reward for doing that is meeting a god who doesn't particularly care that you unfucked his mess. If you like DQ, go for it if you're thirsty for more, if you want a better narrative, play 11, 8 or even 9 if you haven't.

El juego comienza con una cantidad absurda de dialogo en que lo mas que puedes interactuar es mover al personaje para hablar y hablar de punto A a B.
La música es repetitiva, repiten los mismos modelos para distintos personajes, siendo tan pero tan monótono.
Depende bastante del farmeo para poder avanzar contra los enemigos, además que las armas y armaduras son ridículamente caras, que solo podrás ir comprando si te pones a farmear, lo cual es mas tiempo muerto. Ya de por si su jugabilidad es la de un rpg genérico y super mecánico.
La historia llega a un punto en que se siente tan repetitiva, siempre es la misma formula de entrar a una isla nueva donde debes resolver el conflicto que lo llevo a su extinción, donde en ocasiones meten historias ridículas como romances entre personajes, sumado a que repite mucho los modelados y la misma música en todos los mundos. Además para que la historia avance necesitas visitar partes tan especificas del mapa para que salga una animación y que la historia siga avanzando. Yo tuve que andar recorriendo los mapas una y otra vez visitando cada esquina hasta que por fin saliese la animación para que continuará la historia.

You may have to use a walkthrough 1 or 3 times in the game to know where to go or what to do for the main story, but other than that it's not an incredibly cryptic game like the older ones in the series. It's not as long of a game as people say it is, as I beat it with almost 70 hours into it, when others say it's a 100+ hour experience. Solid gameplay as usual, the class system is nice, but requires a ton of grinding out battles to level them up. Game is very easily broken balance wise. You do not need to get the most advanced classes to beat the game, for if you get them the last battles will have you yawning. I really like how with the inclusion of this 3DS version there are no more auto battles and so you choose if you want to battle or not. If you are in a dungeon most of the time you will have to fight the enemies on screen as hallways are too small to avoid them. It's very easy to grind battles with metal slimes if you keep moving the screen around, forcing the game to load new enemies.