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 Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 2:18 am
Hi there everyone! ^_^ So over the course of the summer, I've started playing Dragon Warrior I for the Nes. As I've explained previously in the introduction thread, it was an Rpg that I really wanted to come back to because I never could get into the game back when I first played it. Since I've been in the DQ guild for awhile, I thought I'd share my thoughts on both Dragon Warrior I and II if that's alright? Well.. There may have not been much of a plot in Dragon Warrior, but the game was simple and I really liked it very much. I felt this was a great introduction to the series, and it was the first Dragon Warrior game that led me into the series.
Right after I finished it, I was interested to try out Dragon Warrior II for the Nes. When I first started playing the game, I felt the game was much improved upon from the first game.Not only did it have more of an engaging plot, but the menu screen also seemed to be pretty different. Dragon Warrior I just had so many commands, and that's pretty understandable because it's the very first game. So it's nice that they shortened up it a bit in Dragon Warrior II. It was also the battles that felt pretty new to me because you get to battle groups of enemies this time instead of just a single one. And while you do get more allies across your journey, the battles can become intense, long, and even difficult at times. Especially when fighting enemies that use the strange jig move, which basically takes about 15 of your Mp. So it can be very frustrating to deal with enemies like those.
I'm still playing through the game and I've been enjoying this one very much! Actually, I think I really like it just a bit more than Dragon Warrior I. There are some nonlinear parts of the game where I've been wandering aimlessly to find out where my next destination was. But after awhile it began to grow on me, I really liked that they introduced the boat for your transportation. It became rather fun to look around for new things to discover, finding all of the crests, getting the water gate key from the rouge fastfingers was very amusing too!
I've also decided try out the remakes on the super famicom just to see how they are in comparison. I have actually managed to discover a few bugs that I found pretty interesting to say the least. When you stay at the town's inn of beran, something strange will happen to Kain( A. K.A Numor the prince of cannock castle) He'll become cursed and will be unable to continue on in your party. The only known way that I've figured out is that you use the leaf of the world tree which will help him from that curse. Another bug I managed to find is that you'll come across a Kain/Numor clone in the village of Leftwyne. I'm not exactly sure if this is a translations error or something? But besides all of that I really love the remakes too! The music sounds so very beautiful!
Especially Endless Universe it's such a nice theme to listen to. I haven't encountered any odd bugs in Dragon Quest 1 but it's also a decent remake with some slight changes. The graphics have been improved quite a bit, same with the 2nd Dragon Quest game. Personally I feel that both games aren't as difficult compared to the NES games. I felt like there was just so much grinding that was required. I mean, the remakes do require grinding but just not as much. But they still are very challenging games! There are some new items to help you on your quest like stat boosting items like the magic nut, strength seed etc. I'm currently going through the cave towards Rhone and boy is it tough... It has certainly. earned it's reputation for being frustrating. ^_-
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:44 am
I'm really happy to hear that the first two games still have the power to draw in new fans. A lot of people pass them off as too old and say that they haven't aged well. I'm so glad that you found a good time with them and joined the DQ fans. Not only are they important to the series, but both of them, especially the first one, are extremely important to the JRPG Genre. You know, what with the first one being the original turn based JRPG. All JRPG fans should celebrate it, and not just fans of DQ, in my opinion.
I can't help but wonder how I'd be if I grew up with Dragon Quest. For me, the series brought a big change in taste once I became a fan in my teenhood, along with another game that still remains one of my favorites. I sort of envy people who got to see the series unfold and improve upon one another from the get-go. I played the series out of order, so I never really had that (though as an American I really wouldn't have had much a choice when it came to the games that weren't localized during their initial release).
And I'll be tracking down the SFC version. No need for links here, no need to get illegal.
Did you hear about the 25th anniversary re-release of the first three games?
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ThePersonInFrontOfYou Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:58 am
ThePersonInFrontOfYou I'm really happy to hear that the first two games still have the power to draw in new fans. A lot of people pass them off as too old and say that they haven't aged well. I'm so glad that you found a good time with them and joined the DQ fans. Not only are they important to the series, but both of them, especially the first one, are extremely important to the JRPG Genre. You know, what with the first one being the original turn based JRPG. All JRPG fans should celebrate it, and not just fans of DQ, in my opinion. I can't help but wonder how I'd be if I grew up with Dragon Quest. For me, the series brought a big change in taste once I became a fan in my teenhood, along with another game that still remains one of my favorites. I sort of envy people who got to see the series unfold and improve upon one another from the get-go. I played the series out of order, so I never really had that (though as an American I really wouldn't have had much a choice when it came to the games that weren't localized during their initial release). And I'll be tracking down the SFC version. No need for links here, no need to get illegal. Did you hear about the 25th anniversary re-release of the first three games? Mhm. I guess I can understand why a lot of people wouldn't play the old games.. Most people nowadays are into more modern games, and that's not a necessarily bad thing either. But this is coming from someone that didn't grow up with the NES games, or actually any NES games since I kinda grew up with the Sega Genesis. Though, I did get an Snes a bit later.(I didn't own too many games for it though unfortunately.. >.<) I think the games aged pretty well for its time. They can be both fun and challenging. It's more of an to each their own type of preference I suppose? I hope you enjoy playing the SFC games. They're fantastic remakes! ^_^ No I haven't heard about that actually.. It's great that they're doing an anniversary re-release of the games.
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Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2012 3:43 pm
The re-release is already out, I made a thread on it a while back, in this forum. What with the grand total of threads in the original trilogy subforum being only 4 at this point, it's not too hard to find. :B
There's some other stuff in there that deserve their own threads, though. I'll be getting on that eventually.
There's a stigma that a lot of people tend to have in regards to simple stories. I can see how in this day and age, DQ can be an acquired taste. When I reccomend DQ to someone who has never played it, I usually tell them to start with VIII or one of the DS Zenithia remakes. They are all great games, but the little bit of paranoia in me always thinks that they'll go "Defeat the evil demon boss? WHat is this? Where are the long talky pre-rendered cutscenes? Isn't that what JRPGs are about?" Because the idea of what a JRPG is has changed, so that the simplistic Dragon Quest series that started it all might look like the odd man out in comparison to things like modern day Final Fantasy and their imitators (At least in the west, where FF is far more popular than DQ instead of the other way around). The fact that Dragon Quest VIII has absolutely no pre-rendered cutscenes opens the door to plenty of other visual storytelling tricks that DQVIII takes advantage of. But that's something very different, and a topic for yet another thread.
This is my inner artistic ideals coming out, but just because a story is simple does not make it bad. In fact, to me, the real masters are the ones that can say a lot with a little, and create a good story without having to talk your ear off for hours or anything of the sort. And in that vein Dragon Quest succeeds more than many other series out there, especially in the JRPG category. At least, in my opinion. This is especially apparent in some of the later games, where the series does not lose its simplistic charm and layout, but rather uses the increased technology and space to get more creative and innovate in how they tell each one.
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ThePersonInFrontOfYou Vice Captain
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