Felt weird to play this game after playing the remakes of DQ7 & DQ8 on the 3DS, as it felt like I was going back in time to the Super Nintendo era with the lack of voice acting, worse graphics, and a feel that feels very similar to DQ3. Speaking of which this game feels like I am playing DQ3 but with a different story.
I played this game in 2022, so unfortunately the online play was already removed and this game feels like a shell of its former self from what I have read online. The game was made around the online play, so that's where the real meat of the game is.
It's a typical Dragon Quest adventure like all the others. They bring alchemy back from DQ8 and have it where you can change classes once again, but when you change classes this time it has more of a mmorpg feel like from FF14 where your level resets to level 1. This game is very grind happy, as it was made with many side quests in the base game and post game, and DLC (That you will have to use an action replay to access now), all the classes to level up and max out skill points for, items to craft through alchemy that will be the best in the game, post game dungeons, grottos, and perhaps some more stuff I do not know about. You are definitely intended to spend 100s of hours playing this game, which is fine if you want to do so. You can also just spend 25 to 30 hours beating the main story of the game if you are wanting to experience all of the Dragon Quest mainline games like I am currently doing.
It is definitely not needed to do any of the side stuff or even reclass even once to beat the main story. I beat the final boss at levels ranging around 40-42. As long as you have equipment from the the latest town, are around level 40 with a balanced party that includes a mage, priest, and martial artist monk you should be fine. You will have to abuse Oomph, Sap, Acceleratle and Multi-Heal but that's it. That's how I did it anyways.
It's unfortunate that you cannot speed up or skip the animations in battle like the previous re-done DQ games, but that's probably because I played remasters or remakes of the other DQ games, whereas this game has never been ported and remastered to my knowledge.
I can quite imagine how easy it is to break the balance of this game if you start reclassing and levelling up the other classes, as I have heard that stats you gain from other classes stay with you as you go into other classes to a certain extent.
It's possible that I will re-visit this game and do the side quests, grottos, level up the classes and such, but not right now.
I played this game in 2022, so unfortunately the online play was already removed and this game feels like a shell of its former self from what I have read online. The game was made around the online play, so that's where the real meat of the game is.
It's a typical Dragon Quest adventure like all the others. They bring alchemy back from DQ8 and have it where you can change classes once again, but when you change classes this time it has more of a mmorpg feel like from FF14 where your level resets to level 1. This game is very grind happy, as it was made with many side quests in the base game and post game, and DLC (That you will have to use an action replay to access now), all the classes to level up and max out skill points for, items to craft through alchemy that will be the best in the game, post game dungeons, grottos, and perhaps some more stuff I do not know about. You are definitely intended to spend 100s of hours playing this game, which is fine if you want to do so. You can also just spend 25 to 30 hours beating the main story of the game if you are wanting to experience all of the Dragon Quest mainline games like I am currently doing.
It is definitely not needed to do any of the side stuff or even reclass even once to beat the main story. I beat the final boss at levels ranging around 40-42. As long as you have equipment from the the latest town, are around level 40 with a balanced party that includes a mage, priest, and martial artist monk you should be fine. You will have to abuse Oomph, Sap, Acceleratle and Multi-Heal but that's it. That's how I did it anyways.
It's unfortunate that you cannot speed up or skip the animations in battle like the previous re-done DQ games, but that's probably because I played remasters or remakes of the other DQ games, whereas this game has never been ported and remastered to my knowledge.
I can quite imagine how easy it is to break the balance of this game if you start reclassing and levelling up the other classes, as I have heard that stats you gain from other classes stay with you as you go into other classes to a certain extent.
It's possible that I will re-visit this game and do the side quests, grottos, level up the classes and such, but not right now.