This review contains spoilers

Dragon Quest IV is my second favorite DQ game. Hearing that Psaro the main villain of the game was getting his own game, I was beyond excited.

The story is absolutely awful. Its a non cannon alternate take on DQ4, that doesn't understand the original's brilliance. Psaro should have had dialogue. Instead we get an awful yes and no feature that fails at every turn.

This game should have had you defeat Randolfo the Tyrant then have it end with Rose being killed, setting up the chosen's quest to revive her and save both her and Psaro. Instead Toilen Trouble uses time sand to show Psaro the future, so they save Rose and Psaro looses his redemption.

but i guess i got to use Calasmos, cool

Reviewed on Jan 11, 2024


1 Comment


3 months ago

Oh this is so sad. I was happy for it to just fill in his tragedy a bit more but this is absurd. Glad I only grabbed this through my library.