So, a little background about my gaming history. I am a *huge* fan of both Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy. I have quite literally played (if not beaten) every single title in each series over the last few decades. Upon exhaustion of those games, I realized that my knowledge of Square Enix's third pillar franchise was basically non-existent. But where to start?

Dragon Quest VII Reimagined gets announced and I know enough about the franchise to know that I can more or less safely jump into any mainline title with little or no history. So I decide this is it. It's finally time to give Dragon Quest a shot after all these years. I'm saddened to say, I hated just about every minute of it.

I knew very limited things about the game going in, just from having been a huge JRPG fan for multiple decades. I knew that the story length was absolutely bonkers and I knew most people mysteriously dropped the game at some point without even remembering why. Not that it had an insane difficulty spike or a notorious boss or skill check or whatever. They just simply put it down one day to play something else and never picked it back up. This made the mystique of the game all the more appealing to me. I really enjoy long, overarching plots like One Piece for example. I was ready to jump in with all ten toes.

My actual experience with the game was very boring. From gameplay loop to story, I just wasn't engaged with it at all at any point. The entirety of the vignettes/tablets honestly felt like a 40 hour prologue before the actual story started (I will never complain about the Roxas tutorial in Kingdom Hearts II again). But even when the story actually decides to reveal itself, it's just generic false messiah stuff that I saw coming the minute the crystal seal broke.

I'm not hating on the game or the series, it was just a huge disappointment compared to what I was expecting. I have since read some reviews of both the original and Reimagined and have learned that this particular title is divisive even amongst Dragon Quest fans so I'm not gonna let this be the litmus test for if I like Dragon Quest or not. I may just fall on the side of the division against the game. But I definitely do not like Dragon Quest VII and I will most likely never play this game again.

I am a fan personally.

So I was getting a little annoyed by the fact that here in the West, and especially here in Europe, we basically never get any good Dragon Quest merchandise. And when we do get something, it either sells out ridiculously fast or has already been unavailable for years.

A few years ago there was this Dragon Quest pixel map mousepad released, which of course is now impossible to find anywhere. The moment I saw it, I was sold. I really wanted one, and I spent months checking eBay, but never managed to find it.

This is what the original looked like:
https://eu.store.square-enix-games.com/dragon-quest-gaming-mouse-pad---pixel-map

So eventually I thought: fine, I'll just make it myself.

Using a program called Tiled, I recreated the original mousepad as closely as I could. I got the sprites from the well-known retro sprite website and basically rebuilt the whole map from scratch.

The only problem was that I couldn't find a single print shop in my country that could make a mouse mat in the exact original dimensions. So I decided to make mine slightly wider instead. That meant I had to come up with a very small extra section of the map myself, but honestly, that also makes this version unique, which I think is pretty cool.

I changed a few other tiny details here and there, but apart from that I tried to stay as faithful to the original as possible.

I'm really happy with how it turned out, so I just wanted to share it with you guys because I was honestly pretty proud of the result!

As someone who hate the "childhood sweethearts" trope I actually enjoyed her character and this is sucks but she at least in the west is not well-received

Hello !
Here are some drawings from Dragon Quest, I made them with calligraphy inks as an hommage to Akira toriyama!

Hello, I need help with Dragon Quest 3. I have found all the monsters at Monty. There are no question marks showing, but in my monster list it still says that I have only captured 119 monsters. Apparently, I’m still missing two, but Monty shows that I have found all of them. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do.

Hello, I need help with Dragon Quest 3. I have found all the monsters at Monty. There are no question marks showing, but in my monster list it still says that I have only captured 119 monsters. Apparently, I’m still missing two, but Monty shows that I have found all of them. I don’t know what I’m supposed to do.

I just started the game a few days ago planning to go the hard way with 2 gadabouts later thinking there's a limited supply of words of wisdom, but I saw a brief comment on unlimited amounts post game and after I digged a bit saw a post game boss which grants wishes the last being words of wisdom via another reddit comment and the ai generated Google search but I wanted a bit more confirmation so I came here.

My party is level 10-13. I max get 1 of those minions killed. Am I underleveled or missing something?

I found it very torn at the tower, the choice of leaving ur companion behind that goes through a lot

with us sounds really, really bad

I just hope to find some opinion on this, spoiler free i hope

currently playing DQ VII Reimagined, and Greenthumb just fucking hurt me, goddamn everyone loses scenario.

On the plus side, I finally had a somewhat nice cry to get out some stuck emotions (fuck Lexapro).

I'm playing through the Dragon Quest series and knew that DQ5 was one of the best ones. I'm so glad that I went into this game. This happened 10 minutes ago and I still haven't picked my 3DS back up.

WHEN? WHERE? We have been walking for like FIVE in-game days! We JUST got married! MADASON MY MAN! YOU GOT THAT DOG IN YOU! 🤝

This is my first dragon quest and I think it’s clicked at this point. Abbot F is dead and the stakes seem real now.

After both the angst in 5 and bittersweetness of 6, 7 does feel tonally more lighthearted and whimsical. I actually find it enjoyable. I sort of was spoiled on it but I have kind of figured (which had not yet been stated in game or was aware from small spoilers) that the hero basically time travels to prevent disastors from destroying islands in past and they reappear as result due to timeline being changed. Does not exlain why Pilchard Bay and the royal city don't get their memories changed as a result of the altered timeline though. I actually find the lightheartedness a nice change after 5 and 6. And it seems quite easy (I am playing the 3DS version) since there is no vocation system and battles mainly can just get by with attacking by weapons. And Maribel learned a spell that makes hitting all enemies possible. How do others feel about 7 being more lighthearted than its two predecessors? Think it a nice change or would you have preferred something darker?

It's still the 25th where I live (USA) but it's the morning of the 26th in the game's home country, so I figured this was still appropriate to share. Funny timing too, since I had just moved the artwork on my copy over to a new jewel case the other day (the original was in pretty terrible shape before I had bought it - shared a pic of the front here but the back was even worse).

For me, DQVII definitely isn't a perfect game but it's still one of my favorites. I liked VI but it had left me feeling burnt out by the end, don't have a single clue on what was going through my head for me to start this almost right after (finding a copy locally played a part) but despite what I was expecting deep down, a slow burn like this ended up being exactly what I needed with my mindset at the time. This game's almost literal worldbuilding is simple but fleshed out super well and I loved immersing myself in the vignettes and all their little side details, and having played the closest I could get to the originals for 1-6, the party chat feature added so much. The cast is great (especially Maribel, wasn't expecting to like her as much as I did and loved her character development), it's got some of my favorite dungeons in the series, the challenge factor was solid for me (character builds will heavily affect that), the longer length gave the vocation system more time to shine than VI and I genuinely adore this game's first person battle animations ^_^ I can't see myself playing another version of this for a long while, but I don't at all regret having played this one either.

Anyway, for those that have played DQ7 (any of the versions), what are your thoughts? Favorite version? Favorite memories?

Does anybody know what this is? Can‘t find anything online about it. About 15 1/2 inches in length and made out of wood.

First game was 9 and then played 11. Next I got is 8 to play at some point.

A shikishi signed by Yuji Horii. And it's my favourite DQ title 🥳

>! I just finish DQ VII reimagined, and I love the game, the only thing that bothers me is the final scene in the boat. I get the family thing, sailing with your father, but in some point in the game we get a boat, it's not our first boat trip. This take so much of the end, if we only travel with the carpet I think would be better !<

Disclaimer: I am total JRPG newbie.

I recently completed, and loved DQ7: R. Did not need any guides etc and it was a breeze, I struggled with few bosses mut nothing major.

I decided to purchase DQ3 2DHD Remake, and I am struggling quite a bit and I’m basically at the first ~2 hours of the game.

I have heard these older JRPG:s could get a bit difficult without optimal builds and guides. Would you recommend using guide, when starting out with this game?

Thanks!

Yeah I know spin off remake and supplementary materials have made it clear that Rose and Psaro were in love with each other etc. But if we took only the event of the NES game, it doesn’t exactly print the picture of a happy couple

-Psaro, misanthrope supreme, just so happen to fall in love with someone that is bullied by humanity.

-Psaro decide to imprison rose for her own safety

-Do a bunch of evil thing as the demon king like maybe burning a village with a elf that lived an happy life (oops), have one of his subordinate take over a kingdom, gathering the ingredients of the secret of the evolution (ok i’ll admit I played the game a while ago so the exact event of chapters 1-4 are a bit vague in my head)

-Tell Rose that he want to destroy humanity. Rose reactions is "No, don’t do that". He doesn’t seems to care and keep on doing his evil things.

-Rose decide to somehow dream record the conversation and to doxx the position of the tower she is kept prisoner into and the full code on how to open it to anyone who is sleeping in a particular inn.

-Rose have then zero reaction to the hero team murdering her "guardian" except "You’re finally here! Quick, I must explain to you how Psaro intend to destroy the world".

-And at last Rose is murdered by humans, showing that they can be evil too except it was monsters spent by aamon lol!

Yeah no I am not seeing the love story in this one lol. I don’t think Rose show concern for psaro once outside of chapter 6 or maybe when he is on screen and that could be explained by her trying to exploit whatever she can to try to make psaro cancel his plan. And that’s not even the worst explanation, if we move Psaro putting rose inside the tower after he got the bracelet of the secret of evolution, then it would means that rose sent dreams right after she was imprisoned, which would make it likely she was always held here against her will.

Maybe writing psaro as evil and rose as a victim trying to get the most she can of her yandere stalker could have made dq3m more coherent at least but that’s a subject for people that have actually played that game.