12/27/2023 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

An Echo of an Elusive Age of Good RPGs

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age was released for Windows and the PS4 in 2018. This eleventh installment of the series comes at a time when many faithful fans of RPGs, or so I’m told, have begun to lose hope in the perennial publishers from the golden age of the genre. I have always enjoyed RPGs, spending most of my time in the Final Fantasy series. The only other Dragon Quest game that I have played was the first in the series, receiving it for free in the late 80s/early 90s from some type of giveaway (I think it was either Nintendo Power magazine or through a cereal company promotion). I am no expert, but am hopeful for the future of the series after playing this one. It seems that Square Enix hasn’t completely destroyed the IP, like it wants to with the Final Fan...

10/08/2018 (3 of 3 found this helpful)

Thank You, Square-Enix!

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...

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