I love Dragon Quest XI so I was excited at the prospect of running around as Erik and Mia and finding treasure with all my cute monster friends, but unfortunately the gameplay just wasn't very satisfying for me.

There's just too many arbitrary factors that interrupt the (admittedly very pleasant) treasure hunting/ hide and seek type exploration and force you back to the hub world. And randomising the treasure forecast each time you return to base made it feel like I wasn't making any real progress on any one of the larger maps.

It's the type of game where I feel like I could be playing anything else and it would feel less like a waste of time.