Overall, a very loving reboot of the RPG Classic

Fantastic reboot of the classic RPG.

This ranks up there as one of my favorite video games of all time - playing the original on NES helped me learn to read as a kid. My dad and I spent countless hours leveling up and trying to solve the games puzzles and quests.

As an old-school DQ fan, I loved this version. Nice, revised graphics, Middle English text (like the NES v), and Koichi Sugiyamas excellent, familiar score. It definitely seems like this version was designed for fans of the original. Im not sure how it would feel approaching it freshly, having not played the NES version. Its definitely the game that launched an amazing video RPG franchise, and is in many ways an early template for what would follow. I think its best appreciated when taken that way.

I appreciated how true this version was to the original NES version, however, I felt there were a few downsides in the translation: the monster names were sort of weird and different (what is a Prestidigitator? Thats the new name for the creature that used to be called just "Magician"). That was my only major qualm.

At times, some of the dialogue seemed a little overwrought and long-winded. But its apparent that the translation team had some fun with this - the game has a good sense of humor.

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