Recordkeeping: Dragon Quest 2 COMPLETE
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xyzzysqrlA while back I beat Dragon Quest 1 and downloaded the second game to my phone, to play Any Day Now.
Because one of my friends is hard at work on the NES version, I decided THAT DAY WAS TODAY or at least that day was like a week ago. I also discovered that the mobile phone version is kind of the Soft Padded Nerf Version You Cannot Hurt Yourself With, so being a compulsive grinder like I am I finished the game something like seven levels above the mean.
This was certainly a landmark step in the field of JRPGs, introducing such wonders as "a party with different specialties", "cutscenes", "rare drops", etc. I feel like every time I play an older Dragon Quest game I'm simultaneously getting a lesson in what RPG history was like AND a good time.
Of course, even the Childproof Chewable version of DQ2 has a real rough spot at the ending. I'm told that in the less deboned variants of the game, the ending areas will actually escape the cartridge to physically murder you in real life. Kind of let down I didn't experience that, but welp, can't have everything.
I've already downloaded Dragon Quest 3 to my Switch. We'll see whether I actually play it in a timely fashion or if my next post on the series is in like 2027, read only by the superevolved viral nodes roaming the landscape in search of infection hosts to ravage.
Because one of my friends is hard at work on the NES version, I decided THAT DAY WAS TODAY or at least that day was like a week ago. I also discovered that the mobile phone version is kind of the Soft Padded Nerf Version You Cannot Hurt Yourself With, so being a compulsive grinder like I am I finished the game something like seven levels above the mean.
This was certainly a landmark step in the field of JRPGs, introducing such wonders as "a party with different specialties", "cutscenes", "rare drops", etc. I feel like every time I play an older Dragon Quest game I'm simultaneously getting a lesson in what RPG history was like AND a good time.
Of course, even the Childproof Chewable version of DQ2 has a real rough spot at the ending. I'm told that in the less deboned variants of the game, the ending areas will actually escape the cartridge to physically murder you in real life. Kind of let down I didn't experience that, but welp, can't have everything.
I've already downloaded Dragon Quest 3 to my Switch. We'll see whether I actually play it in a timely fashion or if my next post on the series is in like 2027, read only by the superevolved viral nodes roaming the landscape in search of infection hosts to ravage.
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