The First Review For Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake Is In

70 hours is a lot. There must be a lot of side stuff that wasn’t in the game boy color version, because I remember that being more like 30 hours.

As I clicked on the article, I predicted the score would be 9/9/9/8. So close.

I still have DQ XI in my backlog. I've never played a DQ game but from what I've seen of XI S,I know I'll love it. For some reason though, I've been saving it for the right time. Feeling happy that I've got a special game to savour for when the time is right. I'm not sure when that right time is supposed to be though or if it'll ever arrive unless I take action. I am pretty sure I bought the game when I was 44.and yesterday I turned 47 so perhaps now is the right time. Today is as good a day as any.

@OorWullie exactly! I've got games I've saved that way and never got around to them! 😱😂

@OorWullie A belated happy birthday! Playing DQXI is a great present to yourself. I love that game.

I predicted a 37 from Famitsu, so I was way off. Thought such a beloved classic would get at least one 10, but I guess this shows it really is an old game with some spit and polish. Looking forward to it.

Everything gets great reviews by Famitsu, huh? It’s not like I care about reviews myself, just something I have always noticed.I think it just shows they enjoy games rather than tearing them apart and nitpicking like western reviews.

So we can expect even worse performance than Dark Prince? Guess I’ll buy on Steam instead.

Less score than Dark Prince, really? It sounds like you can't trust these guys much.

@OorWullie happy birthday for yesterday mate! Hope you had a good day. I’ll be 44 next year, we’re OG gamers I reckon 😅

@Krull Cheers 🍻 I think I'll start it tonight.

@AmplifyMJ Thanks pal. We're the OG gamers for sure. I'm 6 months older than Space Invaders 😅 And my earliest memory is seeing Adventure on my uncle's new 2600 on Xmas day 1980 or 81. Those moving pixels blew my mind.

@the_beaver Well, it is the same publication that gave Sonic Mania a 32/40 while giving Sonic Forces a 35/40 after all

I know they put in quite some work in this remake, but 60 € is too high for my interest in this game. It may be beautiful, it's still a 35-years old game with old game mechanics. I will wait for a price drop.

@OorWullie DQXI was my game of the year when I played it - absolutely loved it. Keep meaning to give it another playthrough...I clocked up about 150 hours in it!

famitsu gave splatoon 3 a 39/40 score so we know famitstu scoring is garbage..

i wonder why this game and lego horizon were not reviewed before they came out. that usually is not a good sign..

@jesse_dylan I still own the cartridge. Just don't have a gameboy to play it on. I look forward to purchasing this one. Just won't be on the switch. It would be a nice touch to have version exclusive stuff but that's just my wish. Switch gets DQ1 gear, PS5 gets DQ2 gear, etc.

Is there a version without censorship?

@Athropos I'll be completely honest with you, dragon quests mechanics have literally not changed since 3. I mean 11s main change is the skill tree. That's it. Otherwise it's mechanically the same game. That said, you are dealing with a 1988 story and game pacing and that can be pretty jarring.

@johnedwin I mean, it looks like a one for one remake of 3 with a few minor story transitions. So, unless it's actually broken, it's probably fine. Most people will probably hate it because playing literally one of the first modern jrpgs 30 years later is probably not a great experience for most people

@johnedwin Because Splatoon 3 is garbage?

@the_beaver It's a lesser score cause it's a remake of an older game. Dragon Quest games are known for their moments of surprise but for a remake the excitement of surprise ain't there anymore cause the audience already knew what to expect. Dark Prince had a higher score cause it's not an old game so those surprises are unexpected.

I played part of The Dark Prince’s demo and was completely put off by its lack of polish. Same with DQ Treasures. I’m expecting better from an HD-2D remake though. Live-A-Live was great.

@WiltonRoots Good to hear. Going to start playing in the next hour.

@JohnnyMind Thanks mate.

@Tainaru Get it on PC, there will be mods

@Keithustus No. Lol. Where did you get that from?

@MJF DP got scored 36, and DP runs like ass. There's no denying that. So if 3HD-2D scored less than that, there's really got to be some problems with it.

oh that makes no sense at all.
review scores aren't just based on how the game runs.
especially the difference of one point.
lol.

@Tainaru No unfortunately, but I am sure the mod community will start decensoring it somehow.

Gawd the comments in here.

@BTB20 splatoon 3 is 83 on metacritic not a game that deserves a near perfect score like what famitsu gave it..

@johnedwin Who cares. It has plenty of perfect and near perfect scores from various sites on metacritic. That on it's own does not make any specific site's scoring garbage.

@OorWullie let us know how you get on! I didn’t hold out much hope when I played the demo, me not being the biggest JRPG person. But after getting about 10 hours in I had to buy it.

@WiltonRoots I have been playing DQXI for the past few days and I'm around 22 hours in. I just made it to the open ocean... I'm in love with this game.. Everything about it is just superb. Like you, I'm not a huge JRPG fan, SEGA Ages Phantasy Star is probably my favourite from the ones I've played..This is just another level though. The best JRPG I've played for sure... I just had a monster session there. I had to force myself to stop playing.

@OorWullie good to hear mate! The characters all have great back stories, there is tons to do, plenty of secrets, the grinding sections you can pretty much do on autopilot to level up. And it looks great! Yeah I got sucked into its world…oh and I screenshotted the hell out of it!