Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age Review – The Final Verdict
Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age Review – The Final Verdict
Dragon Quest XI is a stellar game that displays a great command of the ins and outs of its genre the way few other games can and do. What it lacks in originality, it more than makes up for with its confident execution of ideas, showing that a game doesn’t need to be revolutionary or the freshest thing on the block to be an incredible experience. With a memorable cast of characters, a well-told, briskly paced story, stunning and vibrant visuals, and a beautiful and extremely varied world as its setting, Dragon Quest XI serves as yet another excellent instalment in this amazingly consistent franchise.
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October 22, 2018 @ 12:59 am
I would agree that the game could stand to steer you more towards a certain strategy for some boss battles, but otherwise, if you find the game too easy, you should stop over-grinding levels. The basic mob fights will last a turn or two longer. As well, every boss fight I’ve encountered so far – about 25 hours into the game – has left me worried that I wouldn’t be able to complete it. I’ve completed a boss fight where my last character had 2 hp remaining. The game is as easy or as tough as you make it. 🙂
October 22, 2018 @ 1:01 am
Just got mine
October 22, 2018 @ 1:03 am
i hope they do the legend of legaia remake
October 22, 2018 @ 1:03 am
Good review, but nothing tops the Kotaku review
October 22, 2018 @ 1:05 am
Don’t fight enemies so much, just avoid them, makes the battles so much harder and better
October 22, 2018 @ 1:06 am
Strongly disliked ni no kuni but love final fantasy games, should I avoid this?
October 22, 2018 @ 1:07 am
I miss this kind of battle system. But, the animations during battle seems a little slow. can you choose to speed them up in this game?
October 22, 2018 @ 1:07 am
U should keep the video to the first few hours of the game to avoid spoilers but otherwise a good review
October 22, 2018 @ 1:08 am
Why do the Japanese game developers always theme like 90% of there fantasy RPGs after medieval Europe. That’s cool and all but it would be nice to have a triple A fantasy RPG based off somewhere else in the world China, Greater Persia, West Africa or you know just… "Japan". Like damn mix it up a bit gosh. Same thing since they started making them Dacades ago.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:10 am
Dude, HOW DID YOU MISS THE DRACONIAN QUEST options?! It makes the game as hard as you want. You mention them, yet you don’t mention that selecting them will make the combat very hard? Dude, seriously. That is so lame.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:14 am
The music quality in this game is unacceptably bad literally garbage.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:15 am
ffx skill tree lol
October 22, 2018 @ 1:18 am
While i agree with some people’s sentiment that the kotaku review appropriately praises the game, and does a really great job of selling it to the audience…this review is actually a bit more accurate and fair (Rogers goes into so much depth that he almost ruins the element of discovery by spoiling every nuance that a player should be experiencing themselves). …anyway….I’ve been playing the game for about 15 hours now, and the music is so atrocious that it’s quite often ruining my immersion. Also…i found classic dragon quest games to sort of be superficially difficult. It was easy to die if you didn’t realize what invisible level you needed to be in order to beat a boss. And losing to them often meant a significant and annoying waste of time repeating an entire dungeon. Their slow pace, and simplistic systems (that often lacked true strategy) were to blame, and repeating a dungeon that was already boring and tedious was mind numbing. With that said, i find it shocking that this game feels like the easiest in the series so far. the addition of the pep system, and the forging system, both potentially open a lot of strategic options….and all of the quality of life changes make repeating an area much less punishing. So why not capitalize on that system and make the game MORE challenging? It feels like a wasted opportunity (so far). At least the draconian quests add some optional challenge…although I’ve never really liked applying optional challenge, it feels like laziness on the part of the developers so that they can call the game “accessible to all audiences”
October 22, 2018 @ 1:18 am
the purring cubs.. I usually run away or avoid em, who wants to kill that ;D also music modpack
October 22, 2018 @ 1:20 am
I love clasic JRPG!This game is amazingly beautiful,interesting,so enjoyable
October 22, 2018 @ 1:20 am
1:33 that didn’t look right lol I am deciding wether to buy this game or monster hunter generations ultimate
October 22, 2018 @ 1:21 am
Some characters look stoned,.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:23 am
This and persona 5 are the best jrpgs of this generation without a doubt
October 22, 2018 @ 1:23 am
Fml.
Spiderman, divinity original sin 2 and dragon quest 11.
Fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck
October 22, 2018 @ 1:24 am
main game was too easy.post game was tough though, and its when the game really became amazing for me. And its really massive(30+ hours). Not saying the main game was bad, just too easy without draconian options.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:25 am
1:08 Guess Android 21 something to do after Dragon Ball Fighterz
October 22, 2018 @ 1:25 am
11 hours in and loving it
October 22, 2018 @ 1:26 am
"Due to its unchallenging nature"
O god no.
Flashbacks of the immense boredom I felt playing Dragon Quest VII 3DS.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:26 am
Can we customized our main character? Every video I see about this game always have the main character wearing a purple “gown”
October 22, 2018 @ 1:26 am
I just finished it, it was my very first dragon quest. At first I thought it was very dull and the music kinda outdated but it grew on me the more I played. I loved every main character , never understood why everyone didn’t like veronica, I thought she was funny and the fact that she was in a little girl body made it even funnier. And also the voice actors , I think they did a fantastic job and i’m the kind of weeb who despises english dubs in my jrpgs.
What else… pep attacks, some were funny, other ones were cool; costumes , I wish there is a transmog system of some sort; gambling I HATED that part because it forced me to play it to complete a sidequest; story cliche, old but it’s told in a very good way; post-game content was amazing, I dare to say it is one of the best post game content out there… etc etc
And to finish this, I’m gonna whine about to 3 things I didn’t see in the game:
1. Mc not revealing what was happening at the beginning of the post-game
2. Not seeing Dundrassil being restored to it’s former glory
3. Not seeing the wedding of mc (even though there is a picture)
To sum it up , amazing game 9/10 would pay someone to make me forget everything and played it alm over again
October 22, 2018 @ 1:28 am
I love the dragon quest series I have played 1 4567 and 8 but I wish they would have gave this game the final fantasy 15 treatment
October 22, 2018 @ 1:28 am
Dragon Quest is not Final Fantasy.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:30 am
Is there an option for real-time combat like in ninokuni 2 or is it only turn based? Thank you :).
October 22, 2018 @ 1:32 am
Money is a complete non issue in this game; what are you talking about?
October 22, 2018 @ 1:32 am
One thing I noticed in the Footage is that you get Characters Kinda to fast IMO seeing you are level 18 and it seems you have all of em already
October 22, 2018 @ 1:32 am
What? i thought the English release of dqxi has full orchestral ost. That sucks.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:33 am
I still say an HD remaster of DQ8 would be a lot better because DQ8 was one of the greatest games ive ever played (i would say of all time but that would start an argument)
October 22, 2018 @ 1:35 am
Great game, fantastic RPG. My only gripes is the missed opportunity to match the beautiful story with a beautiful orchestrated soundtrack instead we get a midi on the entire game . It just takes me away from moments of intensity or emotions.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:35 am
if you use these two dracona quest settings, "harder enemies" and "no Flee" your game will be plenty hard. i am having a harder time then persona 5 in the first 15 hours.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:36 am
Just picked my copy up on the way to school sucks i have class until 9pm. I think i might be getting sick.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:38 am
Is it only for PS4?
October 22, 2018 @ 1:41 am
honestly speaking,i buy it just to pass time while waiting for yakuza 4 remaster but it alot better than what i expect ?
October 22, 2018 @ 1:42 am
Thank god music isn’t orchestrated,.. that is what I think was so off in DQ8 in the west,.. kinda did not wibe with the game at all. (where they mixed and matched old-school sound effects and cues with orchestrated music,.. just felt wrong) This sounds just perfect.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:43 am
If it changed throughout the years it wouldn’t have survived this far. Diversity isn’t strength.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:44 am
70 hours is actually short for a jrpg
October 22, 2018 @ 1:46 am
This game is really good everyone
October 22, 2018 @ 1:47 am
Why won’t they release the 3ds version over here?
October 22, 2018 @ 1:47 am
I’m pepped up right now mane
October 22, 2018 @ 1:47 am
Obviously you don’t play DQ games and their intent has gone completely over your head.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:48 am
Long time DQ fans: You will love it
New players: You will love it if you enjoy old school, NES/SNES style JRPGs.
Oh and I don’t think this player understood the party line-up mechanics lol. I see what he was going for, putting less HP characters in the "middle," but was ultimately shooting himself in the foot.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:52 am
The reason I still love and buy Dragon quest games every time they get released is because they play the same as I remember playing as a kid. Final Fantasy has completely changed its format so much over the years I have no interest in playing any of the new games.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:52 am
This now, or be VERY patient and wait for switch so I can play it at work on my midnight shift?
October 22, 2018 @ 1:52 am
Dragon Quest 8 was my childhood. Just got this game and I’m already in love with it. I feel like its a sequel to my childhood.
October 22, 2018 @ 1:55 am
Gotta play in hard mode otherwise there’s no challenge
Even with hard mode, it’s not That hard
October 22, 2018 @ 1:58 am
Interesting. It seems like Dragon Quest is Square’s traditional platform while Final Fantasy is their progressive platform.