nsacop.blogg.se

So having all of these 2D throwbacks is great but the real icing on the cake is that Square Enix has actually released the original trilogy of Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest II and Dragon Quest III on the Switch as well.Īgain, these were only available in Japan around the time Dragon Quest XI was originally launched, so to have them finally available in the West on console is something I am hugely grateful for. How this is all accomplished is obviously complicated and spoiler intensive (if you are curious, I talked about it last year for the PlayStation 4 version). You see, Dragon Quest XI is tied into the original Erdrick Trilogy of games that started the whole Dragon Quest series. The new 2D mode has side quests, which have you travel across time. These side quests take you to important parts of the Dragon Quest timeline and it’s here we get to the Erdrick sized extra that accompanies the release of this game. Thankfully, if you want to sample the 2D mode you can also get sucked into special time travel related sidequests that are displayed in 2D, with lovely retro infused music to match (shown below). So if you are not careful, you can end up at the start of a long dungeon crawl that you have already done in 3D mode and vice versa. One word of warning on the 2D mode though is that you switch to it as you save and it only works from the start of each gameplay chapter, rather than your current progress. The game plays the same in many ways but having this setup is great, as it can really speed up progression and is wonderfully nostalgic in tone. This 2D mode is actually from the Nintendo 3DS version of the original Dragon Quest XI that was only available in Japan. Though the real highlight is the new 2D mode. No, the good stuff are things like the option to use Japanese voices or a full orchestral score. These all add up to making the game flow faster and better but that’s not even the good stuff.