It has been nearly a decade since Square Enix disappointed me with the sub-par and inauthentic release of “Dragon Quest 9” in 2009 for the Nintendo DS. I didn’t have many, if any, kind things to say about that entry in the world’s first and most consistently good console RPG franchise. However, I was willing to give Square Enix the benefit of the doubt and hoped that the sequel would, once again, be on a real console instead of a handheld and, naturally, not suck quite so much. That sequel, “Dragon Quest 10,” turned out to be a Japan-only subscription-based MMORPG. Had it merely been Japan-only, someone would have made a fanslation, and I could have checked it out via unofficial channels, but with an MMO subscription tied to it as well, it automatically fell to the bottom of t... |
Rating of 4.5/5 |