DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake

I played the original Dragon Warrior 1, 2 and 3 back in the 90's. They were difficult then based on challenges with technology, memory, game design, shortcuts (like resuming from auto-save, etc.). While I love dragon quest/ dragon warrior, DQ1HD is....painful. On the normal difficulty, be prepared to just get wiped out for no reason. You play as one character, with generally, 1 action per turn. Be prepared to just get savagely attacked through a defend for your entire health bar. Be prepared to attack, then miss - proceeding to get beat down by 5 attacks from the enemy that same turn. Be prepared to try and run a lot - then get blocked from running away, and just dying anyways. And all of this? This is with the best gear that you have available to you at that point in the game (yes, with Erdricks gear, etc.). It just feels like a game of attrition where I feel compelled to beat it for the sake of nostalgia, but the difficulty curve and RNG is just...completely artificial. By that, I mean I don't feel "clever" that I won a particular battle, I feel like I either just abused "Cop Out" enough and got lucky they didn't crit me, or I was _significantly_ overleveled for a given …

Graphics are pretty, music is great, dialog is a bit rough... But after playing about 12 hours having mostly fun comes a MASSIVE DIFFICULTY SPIKE. I went from enjoying the game mostly to loathing the idea of continuing. Now I have to grind for an our or 2 every time I want to go to the next part of the story.

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Fun fun!

Having played the original Dragon Warrior I & II on the NES as a child, I honestly felt like these games just wouldn't hold up by today's gaming standards. Boy, was I wrong. What an amazing modern adaptation of the original games. It fills in gaps that were barely explained outside of the manuals, while fleshing everything out into a beautiful world filled with fun characters, classic monsters, a grand adventure, and that good old-fashioned Dragon Quest soundtrack. The game is absolutely gorgeous, too. The HD-2D style feels like the perfect way to modernize something this old without losing what made the originals special in the first place. This is a shining example of how you put a fresh coat of paint on an old game that has long since passed its time. It doesn't try to turn Dragon Quest I & II into something they're not. Instead, it takes what was already there, expands on it, modernizes it, and gives these games a chance to shine again decades later. I had fun from the beginning of the first game all the way to the end of the second. I enjoyed it enough that I 100% completed the entire thing, and I honestly didn't want it to end. Beautiful remake. Amazing adventure. 10/1…

its simple but nice and cozy