DRAGON QUEST® XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ - Definitive Edition Reviews

Amazing, except Sylvando parts. Recommend to any who love classic RPG's, as this keeps the spirit and talent and vision of those classics. Beautiful score, endearing characters, and optimistic visuals.

This is my all time favorite RPG. I beat it once on Stadia already and then it shut down before I could 100% it. It was on sale here on steam so I decided since I had "unfinished business" with the game to buy it and play it through again. I found the story line engaging, I found myself drawn into each character and engaged in their backstories. One thing that I particularly found helpful was "The story so far..." synopsis each time you start your game from your save point. It's particularly helpful if you have a busy life outside of playing games so that you get a quick refresher to get your head in the game as it's booting up. I totally recommend this game.

best best best DQ series so far! highly recommended for JRPG fans especially dragon quest series. MUST PLAY!

good game that is a straight forward fantasy adventure. my first in the series and i am very entertained and happy with it and cant wait to play the others.

It's been my entry point into the series and it's left me wanting more. If you're looking for a classic turn-based JRPG with some innovations, this is a must play. Good story with interesting twists in a world full of details and enemies brimming with charisma. It starts off a bit slow but the progression is excellent until an end game worthy of envy.

Great game. If you enjoy RPG's then you'll love this one. very addicting. very chill.

An amazing RPG experience. My first Dragon Quest game. The gameplay is smooth, its easy to understand the story, combat is very smooth. Highly recommend.

I owned this on the Switch. Everyone else has already said great things about this game. If you do get it I recommend grabbing the mods on nexus called Project Rebuild so you don't have to play with Switch graphics.

I loved this game so much. Had a slow start but didn't take too long to start warming up to it and eventually took me over. The characters are interesting and well written, the party members feel like a family/close friend group the longer you spend time with them. The world is vast and beautiful and there is a lot to do. Perfect game to warm up my gloomy winter.

My overall thoughts on DQ11... It is an incredible game that is primarily marred by its first act. By that I mean it's boring, the story is cliche and the characters (while cool) have very little background given throughout. That combined with the old school turn based combat (RNG/%) which is boring, repetitive, grindy; makes for a bad combo. That's the nature of those old style games though, as you level you gain more abilities, which allows you to fight more thoughtfully instead of just spamming the same attack over and over. Act 2 the game improves vastly! The main story is still close to cliche but better than average. You get the real juicy bits of character background finally and its interesting and cool! The combat while still being the slow grindy turn based system opens up now that you have a bunch of characters and abilities, buffs, debuffs, heals, etc. However! The first half of Act 2 has a ton of gimmicky battles due to story and you are more or less railroaded from one location to the next. During Act 2 you see the world open up much more fully for exploration. Then you beat the game? But not really? You go through all the New Game+ motions. You more or less get a wave goodbye and the credits roll, save your game and reload the new save and thats how you begin Act 3. Why??? What was the point of all that... Anyway now there is Act 3 games not done, still got lots of new sidequest, past words, several tiers of armor and weapons, primary main storyline stuff!!!!! Also end of Act 2 going into 3... This is where the story is getting way better. Its not only optional post game content you need maxed out specs to do. At least 3/4 of the Act 3 content you can do at the level you beat the game. The game world feels both big and small, lots to explore but you also get sent to a lot of the same places over and over. Each Act you are making a loop around to all the different places. Lots of weird collision problems if you're trying to move between various objects, or you can jump from some places but not others, invisible walls?? The menu organization is whack AF. You have a (start button menu) a (triangle,Y menu) and within that menu is also a (misc menu). This game has a lot of weird menu, organizing, item use issues that the industry as a whole has already streamlined and I see this so I'm like wtf?? The music is good... average, lots of marching fanfare type stuff. Their are issues with switching between audio moving in between cutscenes and such that I felt had an affect on the tone of some scenes. Like the overworld music would be playing while the cutscene that was initiated is about something sad (trumpet noises) The voice acting was ugg so I switched to Japanese, much better... But of course the English accents are baked into the translation so you have to read gibberish half the time... The difficulty... easy for the most part. I did little to no grinding of exp through out the game, just worked with what was given to me along the way. I only found myself hitting a wall once and it was less about being under leveled than that having that one extra level gave me the healing I needed to survive from that point forward. All in all I've had lots of fun playing Dragon Quest 11. I'm around 124hrs, did the max level grind, finished all the story content... still have a few things left...checkbox/RNG stuff mostly... There is tons to do, lots of little secrets to find, challenges of increasing difficulty. Despite feeling like the game gets off on a bad foot... about 40hrs of bad foots... the more you play the better it gets.