DRAGON QUEST TREASURES Reviews

fun game

I went in with super low expectations, but honestly? It's not bad. It's simple and fun. A nice spin-off, and nothing more. It doesn't need to be more.

Basic dragon quest game ... but search for treasures ... loads of fun ...

This is more a neutral review. The game is overall pretty nice and collection treasures and exploring the huge maps is fantastic and a lot of fun. The story is very basic but ok, visuals are nice, sound ok the same DQ soundtrack you have for every game. BUT the biggest problem are that this game is pretty much abandoned and some achievments are bugged. For example I am not able to get "Teachers Pet" even if I finished all quests for Cpt. Levanter. Also after you got around 700 treasures it will be hard to get the last ones I would expect 120-160h to get all 777 which is way to much and repetetiv. Also one achievment were you have to accumulate 99.999.999 Gold is nearly impossible because it would take 30h+ to grind. So overall if you just want to play you will take for the full story 20-30h+10h for every content after the finale.

I've been playing Dragon Quest/Warrior since 1, and this is a massive letdown that seems targeted at a younger audience but only accessible to older. If this were some other brand I wouldn't even have heard of the game. Tose has made some other great games like Dragon Quest Monsters, go play those instead. This feels more like a Squeenix cash grab. So many QoL failures. The dispatches and crafting feel like they intentionally waste time, digging up treasures feels unnecessarily long, waiting for travel abilities to re-pop, various unskippables (especially the special treasures from sidequests), the absolutely persistent voices from the monsters, the 3 annoying alarms for rival invasions... Everything feels absolutely tone-deaf, even for a relatively "look what you found!" series like Dragon Quest that hypes stuff up. Pushing gripes aside, most of the time spent was on finding crafting ingredients or, sadly, the failure that the main treasure hunting mechanic is. To give you an idea: When you're not in combat (which will get in the way of searching and the ally monster AI is braindead) you follow a compass to a nearby treasure, but the location difficulty has nothing to do with the value of what you dig up, will usually be next to a tree or something, and you can accident across it while going in the general direction and having a shiny spot scream at you from quite a few steps away. And you do this, walking around, occasionally riding, for potentially hundreds of hours to get all of the different treasures, every step feeling like a chore. And the ally AI... they will walk through lava, poison, stand in AoEs, and basically just go berserk on the enemy, and maybe accidentally heal themselves or teammates every so often when they notice. And then there's the story that was just thrown together to fit the game into the series. I don't want to go into that. I can't even recommend this to fans.

---{ 07 / 10 }--- This game gives me a vibe of Pokepark. It is not part of the mainline games and it knows. Instead of trying hard to become what it isn't, it focuses on fun gameplay, cute character interactions and collecting monsters. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is [b]☑ Beautiful[/b] ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- [b]☑ Very good[/b] ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good [b]☑ Good[/b] ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Story }--- ☐ It'll replace your life ☐ Lovely ☐ Good ☐ Average [b]☑ Some lore[/b] ☐ No Story ---{ Bugs }--- [b]☑ Never heard of[/b] ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' [b]☑ Easy[/b] ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks [b]☑ Isn't necessary to progress[/b] ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

Pleasantly surprised by how much I'm enjoying this game. I am a huge dragon quest fan. Shame that we couldn't get as many monsters as Dragon Quest Monsters the Dark Prince, but I realise that's a lot more designing cost. This game can be played in VR with the UEVR mod too. I saw a UEVR demo on youtube and knew I better try it. UEVR runs great and adds a fantastic level of enjoyment to it. PS: Hey Square Enix... Can we get a game like "World of Dragon Quest" where we can play with or without the UEVR mod? Pretty please? With all the elements of Dark Prince and Treasures into one game? That would be rad.

So... The game is kinda fun. I love the Treasure hunt part. What i really dont like is the lack of combat mechanics. You have a standard attack combo that you use over.... and over.... and over until the end of the game. Okay you can use a special attack but to fill the special bar... gues what. Yeah you have to attack over and over and over. I played through the game and thats basically the reason why i just couldnt find myself going for 100%. The Monster catching, team building and treasure hunting is quite fun tho. If you are thinking about buying it keep in mind that the combat just isnt that deep. I would wait for a discount.