I love everything Dragon Quest. I have been a fan from day one when I was a kid. This game looks great on the DS and is fun to play. However, do not try and compare it to Dragon Quest 8 or Dragon Quest Monsters - Joker, both are better games with more replay value. Keep in mind this game has not been released in America just yet, so I am reviewing the Japanese version using an action replay to access the patched English language available. The game just has too many towns and too many people to talk to. I enjoy Dragon Quest much more when it is all about the monsters and grinding to level up. Now that is present in this game, but as I progressed and played through the game I just got sick of jumping from town to town to town to town.... you get the idea. I can only pray a complete remake of Dragon Quest 1 gets done in all its simplistic glory. Some people love this game, I find it to be OK, that being said it still get an 8.0 rating in my book for simply being Dragon Quest and thus I enjoy playing it with its shortcomings. The music is also just OK. I am usually blown away by music in Dragon Quest, the battle music is very underwhelming. You can change the overworld music by who is the leader in your party, but the choices range from OK to annoying. One plus though is the end boss fight is simply fantastic. I saved right before passing it the first time, so that I could go back and fight that battle over and over, quite an epic battle that never gets old. If you have played Joker and are going to play this next, then the end boss fight should be that much more satisfying.
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