As you complete missions, you slowly turn this settlement back into a thriving agricultural town and in doing so, learn new recipes and items you can construct. Instead, you head out to other large islands that each have their own eco-system and, most interestingly, own items, characters and adventures.įor instance, the first island you visit is themed around the new farming mechanics – a small settlement needs your help at first overcoming the cursed soil that prevents crops growing. You begin your adventure on a large, expansive but ultimately quite empty island, but unsurpisingly there’s little you can do. The game structure is far more cohesive than the original game. Being called ‘fam’ by one of the characters was quite unexpected!” ”As well as the usual regional accents, there’s some genuinely funny gags and a surprising amount of modern slang. Weapons can be built and dished out to braver citizens so when a horde of enemies try to smash up your handiwork, you can fight back with a small army alongside you. Sure, you can plant each individual crop and place every block yourself, but as you level up your settlement, the inhabitants gain new abilities and become more willing to muck in and help out, allowing you to have a factory line of production going on back at base while you complete quests or explore the world. You can use these AI partners to automate as much or as little of the busywork associated with this genre as you wish.
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Of course, there is full four player co-operative play this time around, but you also find yourself with a party for most of the game – likely a callback to Dragon Quest 2 being one of the first console RPGs to have a proper party system. ‘Co-op’ is a much bigger part of this sequel. He’s basically your AI co-op partner, helping you out in combat, levelling up alongside you and can wield large weapons that you can’t. And we won't likely learn about any potential sequel until late in 2020.Anyone who has played the original RPG is going to know the twist regarding Malroth, but it’s still a cute setup that has you working side-by-side Malroth for the duration of the game. It's very early to actually speak about the future of the franchise when the game hasn't even had a full year for people to truly judge how well it did. So even in Japan it's still less than one year old. Just look at how many DQ Builders players in the west have grown to further look into the RPG propers of the franchise after playing Builders 1 and now more recently Builders 2.Īlso, another factor to keep in mind: this first released in December in Japan. If anything I even suspect that might be one of the reason they might keep the franchise around specifically to try and further build it into a "pipeline" title for the DQ franchise: to grow franchise awareness in the west to create new customers where there were none before. An unique situation for something from the Dragon Quest franchise. This isn't a *big* title so I suspect that even at 1 million sales it did a decent profit since I recall the team that worked on it also seemed on the small size? It definetely wasn't the budget of a "mainline" game as far as I can tell.Īnd unlike a lot of other games, it seem to be in a surprising situation where a drop of popularity in Japan was actually well offset by a rise in western sales. He did leave but afaik everyone else of the core team is still around. And it's not that unlikely to happen if you consider that even the Japan the game hasn't been out for even a full year yet. It occured to me that's currently the only DQB1 feature truly missing from DQB2 and also one the most ripe to be revisited in expanded form(like fishing and it's own exclusive questline) through a future paid DLC.
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One of the features DQB1 *also* had was a location called Terra Gladiatoris which was all about building series of siege challenges of your choice and even though you were alone there were fortified walls around and you could craft basic traps/ballistas/cannons. But fishing was initially missing in the base game(despite being in DQB1) yet was added, and expanded upon, through a DLC. Like, with all the traps introduced in Chapters 3, it's surprising that they cease being useful so early in the game. While the director just left Square Enix(and it sounds a case of "already found work elsewhere" rather than being fired or anything like that), he's actually staying around as an external staffer to "supervise the game's post-launch" which probably refer to the western rather than japanese release(the game was release on December in Japan).
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