I finally finished this on the 3DS just the other day. Final playtime, including all post-game content, DLC, and job class grinding, was a whopping *254:50.*
@@PancakemonsterFO4 Yes. And god wasn't really that hard given how overpowered I had become after mastering every single job, including all the monter classes.
When I finished DQ 7 on the 3DS, I didn’t even realize the time it took me (around 95 hours) Took me around 10 more hours for postgame content + grinding but damn that game is soooo good that you don’t even notice how many hours you put into it
This is the 20th time i rewatch this video, i love this saga. Everytime i replay any dragon quest i always watch your videos before, during, and after playing the game. Thanks for this excellent content that always leaves me wanting more!
Thanks for the review! Honestly? All translators, heck, every dialogue writer here who worked on this ABSURD WALL OF TEXT that is this game deserve... forget a medal or a trophy, they need their image immortalized in a statue at the local square. Major props both to the small team who worked this game when nigh no one in the West was asking for it and the international team, Spanish in my case, who worked on the remake's text at a time where, yes, people were asking for it, but this behemoth (or should I say... "this Freezing Wingwyrm"? Ehh, if you get it, you get it, I never said anything about me being funny) was still too large for the demand. Again, thanks! And apologies for just watching this now.
Okay my dude. I really do like your stuff. I'm still stunned you only have 300ish subs. What you've gotten SUPER right right away is this: you make videos with a quality and tone like you have thousands of subs. That's great, it's excellent! I love that your videos are on the longer side. Long-form reviews are kind of hard to come by, probably because they're HARD to do! So I'mma stick around. I look forward to what you have in store for the future!
Almost 4 years later but those boss fights are unforgivable. My first playthrough of the game resulted in effectively a soft-lock because I was trapped in a dungeon that, for plot reasons, I couldn't leave and, because I was a bit clueless, using a party of vocations that were sub-optimal. After getting repeatedly wrecked, I gave up and had to start from scratch several years (yes, YEARS) later. Fine game, if excessively long, but it's hard to tolerate a locked failure state like that.
It's been a few years so pardon if I've gotten a detail or two wrong, but it's some kind of water temple. You're locked into the temple for story reasons (I think it's to do with the time travel aspect?). The temple was hard but doable 'til I hit the last boss and he wiped the floor with me. Kicked back to the last save point which is inside the dungeon. I could have escaped my relentlessly grinding until I was strong enough, but that was not appealing. It's strictly my fault for doing story missions while vocation grinding.
I played the 3DS Remake and it's probably my favorite Dragon Quest game as of now. Watching this video has made me consider playing the Playstion version at some point for the more in-depth puzzles. To my knowledge, this deeper puzzle-oriented level was design was never attempted again which is a huge shame. I would love to play a DQ game that feels equally focused on puzzles as combat.
I had to drop this game 3-4 years ago after the town where everyone was turned to stone because of exams, your video really motivated me to pick it up again!
DragonWarrior7 was the first Dragon Quest I played. I LOVED IT! Played the remake on 3ds and it's still my fave (excluded the Builders games which will always have my heart). Anyway, the fact that 7 is SOOO long and just keeps going was exactly what my heart needed at the time.
Just wanted to say your retrospective series of reviews on the dragon quest games are by far, the best in depth reviews on UA-cam !!!!! I’ve watched each one multiple times, especially this one because 7 is my favorite game in the series . I️ almost had a heart attack when I️ saw u released the dq9 video, it was so good! Keep up the good work man😇❤️
For me seeing screenshots during it's development of Dragon Quest 7 was what made me interested in Dragon Quest. Sadly with it taking so long to come out in the west I skipped this one as I transitioned to PC RPGs such as Baulder's Gate. It wasn't until Dragon Quest IX came out that I actually started playing the franchise. When the 3DS version came out I bought it right away and though the graphics were now a bit different I love the game and all Dragon Quest games. Side note, technically my first Dragon Quest game was the Rocket Slime game on DS. Truly that game is addictive.
I finally got my hands on a copy of the original PS1 version. Previously I had only played the 3DS version. Cost me about $80, and included the original case and manual.
You really put time, effort, and your own personal energy into your videos! Keep up the fantastic work and eventually I'll make it through more of them |-)
Probably one of my favorite games of all time. But all your complaints are ones that are valid, but it is still so freaken epic. Also the final boss fight being against God...awesome.
Nathan Palmer yea I'm really enjoying it I reccomend it if ur into dragonquest it's certainly value for money! Plus no more random battles. Although in the tight passages of some dungeons they are unavoidable
3 years later I'm still astonished and appalled by how criminally small GC's sub count is. Like c'mon people what is your aversion to quality! Finally got the time to play DQ11s and oh boy I cannot wait to finally finish that video by weeks end once I kill mordegon. But first, GCPDQR series once more from the top.
the Jojo reference omfg im deadXD thank you for making this series, I have always been curious about Dragon Quest since I have only played VIII and I can't get into very grindy games, which dragon quest games are kinda known for, which made me scared to try more of them
Surprisingly, a modern player won't find much grinding to be done in most of the Dragon Quest games. 1, 6, and 7 have the biggest cases of "grinding required" and in very small amounts. If you want a great, short Dragon Quest game without any grinding I highly *highly* suggest Dragon Quest IV.
heh, I did wathc your video on it and became interested, theres a DS remake and that's what you played right? I tend to find it easier to get into this kidn of games in portable ocnsoles sometimes, that would probably help
Even though I feel I might have exhausted my excitement over it, I'm still looking forward to the remake! They've done some pretty significant changes to stuff.
Surprised you didn't mention the 3DS remake. So much had changed from the opening dialogue to the first dungeon if you can call it that. That would be nice
The 3DS remake wasn't out until 3 months after I made the video, so I couldn't talk about it then, but I did play a little bit of the remake! I was disappointed that they cut out so much of that early start and that the puzzles were simplified in the remake. I understand that first bit since they no longer needed to appease players disappointed by VI's level design, but toning down more for a new audience felt unnecessary and even counter-productive.
Playing DQ VII on the 3ds. Sadly they took out most of the puzzles and a lot of the level design is pretty generic. It is however easier to find the shards you need.
They only changed the first puzzles the rest of the game was left in tact. I never thought the level design was generic, like you said it was all smart compact and fun
I never got around to playing the original psone classic. Its great so far on the 3ds though. Something about the battle being first person put me off. I really like maribel's character. She makes light of how ridiculous things are during the adventure. She reminds me of Tatl from legend of zelda majora's mask.
A lot of people seem to dislike the length of this game and regard it as one of its biggest flaws, but I see it as one of the biggest strengths. It really feels like you're going on an adventure, and the class system is one of the best I've seen in a videogame. I think that this is one of the most underrated games in the series and that it is the PS1's best RPG.
i think it was more due to the pacing. you had to explore each town twice and the dungeons all looked the same. so t made the game seem to drag and get repetitive. 11 is almost as long as 7 and was not as bad.
So, I just finished watching all videos in the Dragon Quest playlist; and I must say I rather enjoyed it. I was browsing UA-cam for videos about Dragon Quest (a series that I never had heard before) and I found your videos very informative. I like your sense of humor: it’s nerdy, but you don’t push it and become annoying and unbearable (some UA-camrs with a lot more subscribers and views than you do this). I also think all your video scripts were well written - I particularly liked the one for DQ VI. I feel that UA-cam needs more content creators that focus on old-school RPGs/Games and I think that you have the necessary qualities to be as good as other UA-camrs such as, for example, ProJared (my favorite in this kind of topic). You earned a new subscriber. Cheers and GL HF. PS: Don't forget to persistently advertise your channel on forums, etc.
I love your reviews! Great job! I actually just beat hell cloud (or cirrus rex, I played on 3DS) today and was a fun boss. He was really annoying but you had to get good at timing and I needed to have complete control of every action (no tactics here.) as for the 4 enemies summoned a smartly placed twack took care of 3/4 always
This game takes a long time to really get into and I mean a long time but once u get into it it's great. It actually makes a 110 hour game fun. Even skyrim struggles doing that. So qudos to dragonquest7
I’m in the process of playing this again. I did play it when it first came out and I put well over a hundred hours into it. I forgot so much about this game that it’s basically like playing it for the first time and I definitely forgot how long it takes before you actually fight your first enemy.
They really want you to just take in the world around you before setting off on your adventure. I guess to make that time travel reveal a lot stronger!
Amazing stuff, GC. I've been loving the DQ retrospective series and when you started it you really lit a fire under my ass to go play some more. Hell, it got me to run through the DQ3 snes translated version on your recommendation, pumped me for my already planned DQM2 replay and now I went out and bought the DQVIII ps2 version to start up because I've been in the mood. Regardless of that, I love your work GC and keep "playing positive" dude!
Honestly I think the 3DS version, while lacking the heavier puzzle elements of the original, is still the better candidate for a first time playthrough!
I bought this for ps1 a few years ago but never got around to playing it, soooo I bought the 3ds version and started it last night and thats why I'm here.
actually they do make another game after this, the original remake of DQ IV(the ps1 ver that is, which is the base engine squeenix use for the remake trilogy on DS) is their last game before going defunct.
It weird how Dragon Quest was Enix's cash cow yet compared to Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile it seemed Dragon Quest was a budget title when it came to presentation.
I think Dragon Quest's presentation is what gives it that simple look. The character designs aren't too over the top most of the time and environments are meant to resemble medieval towns and villages, so there isn't a lot of high fantasy elements to spend tons of money on.
GC Positive Well compared to other sprite based with 3D backgrounds PS1 JRPGs like Breath of Fire III,Breath of Fire IV, Final Fantasy Tactics,Wild Arms 2,Persona 2 Innocent Sin,Persona 2 Eternal Punishment and Grandia DQVII kinda looks bad.
this may have had more to do with how long dq 7 took to make. it was supposed to be for one system then it moved over to another so most likely all the original work got scrapped. had it came out in 97-98 i don't think it would have been considered as bad as it was when it came out in 2000.
These videos are great! I hope you can do a new series of videos on the 3DS remakes of DQ7 & 8, DQMonsters I & II, Joker I, II & III & DQ Heroes I & II, DQ Builders & Rocket Slime. All the best.
Ah, the game that got me into RPGs. Looking forward to it finally coming out on the 3DS. Much like the hilarity of the PSX release, of course, 3 1/2 years after it came out in Japan. -_-
I'm just worried that it may be... dated, by this point. And yeah, VIII is... something else. Which is unfortunate, as, in my humble opinion, that was the best out of all of them [at least the ones I've played, 1-3, 4-6 on the DS, and 7-9]
Eight was amazing. Had a great balance and was a ton of fun, despite what some say about the story and villain lacking. And it's to expected, I suppose, comparing the power of the 3DS with the PS2, in a way, but it does make one wish they could just do an HD remaster of it or something on current-gen consoles with the extra stuff added in.
It's funny I agree with you on all the games but this and 6. I found this game to be such a chore. The first few hours were boring to me, having played it on the 3ds where the beginning is somewhat devoid of meaningful gameplay. Also, this game is so long but doesn't really have much depth imo. Each island felt like a retelling of a previous story but less interesting, and it took too long to get to complex combat that made the first 20 hours almost autopilot, especially with the lack of a singular big open world to explore. The characters kind of annoyed me too, and it seems like the animations an dialogue boxes take longer to go through. Returning to the islands 2 or 3 times was frustrating as well, with not enough done compared to other games to make it feel like a brand new world. Once you get to the jobs it begins to open up a bit. This was also one of the only games I disliked overworld monsters in, as the halls tended to be so narrow in the dungeons that they were basically had the same effect as random encounters. All of this together felt like a bunch of disjointed experiences. When I compare this to DQ8 or 11, I think of this as a game that waste time and those two as games that fill up that time with things to do. Keifer was such a disappointment to me and I'm sad he was the focused of DQ7 Tome in DQ11. I actually made a post about this game a year ago here, which is when my Dragon Quest marathon almost ended for good because of this game. Thankfully after taking a looong midgame and post game break, DQ8 pulled me back in and the rest of the series just kept getting more impressive. The 180 hours I took to finish DQ11 and post game felt like a fraction of the 110 hours I took to finish this one.
I commit a big mistake traying to play this game firts them i dropped and forgetting its existing ,years later when beat dq8 i back to this game and it clicked inmeadiatly This is for fans that already knew what the series was about play 4 ,5 or 8 first you will understand
Had the 3DS Remake not came out yet at this point? Cus every one of your vids up to this point is based on the remake, and the remake is pretty damn amazing for this game, with massive improvements abound. Shame you didn't base this one on the remake. If I'm not misaken, didn't the 3DS remake for this one come out in 2016?
Originally the last to be called 'Dragon "Warrior"' with a lot of name changes for spells, abilities, items weapons, and monsters were renamed in Dragon Quest series (Dragon Quest VIII was the first to be called the rightful title "Dragon Quest") which at that time I had to relearn everything and what which they do (some parts were very useful for the change). Both versions of Dragon Quest VII are flawed with different pros and cons. In fact they could've had some fights much faster or even have Gabo's wolf which I might've just call it Ruff to be use for speed sprinting through areas. Thus Square Enix didn't even have a many good ideas to set up Dragon Quest VII right on 3DS with not a lot of time nor probably budget since it's a huge JRPG game looking a bit sluggish which they confirmed. Thus a flawed masterpiece still has a charm of humor then Dragon Quest VI. Changing the original Dragon Quest VII from rated T to rated E10 was actually the biggest mistake ever. Why?, because some parts of humor were changed and doesn't flow well with mystery which is main thing what the game is trying to do. It's like opening a present to find what's inside though instead it's always a dramatic adventure that keeps you on your toes to figure of what the problem is going on in each parts of continents. Plus the getting rid of puzzle dungeon at the start doesn't change anything but the mystery of tomb raidering of the ruin that main character and Prince Kiefer is trying to do every time by solving every nook and cranny just to find treasure. Not going to spoil after that since it's one a huge game and two it is my personal favorite though unfortunately I give it tie with Dragon Quest V because that game made me cry with joy at start through very end.
It took me 80-90 hours to beat this game and i grinded a lot and didn't rush. Was kinda disappointed, I was expecting 100 hours T_T. Anyway I'm surprised you liked this game I was expecting you to hate on it after watching that DQ VI review (yeah the game has tons of problems but I still love the game ok?!?!). Anyway, I really enjoyed the world building aspect of this game. I actually felt like I was creating a world every time I went to the present after just saving an island and exploring the new one I just brought back. There was just so many different characters that felt MORE than just being NPCs you need to help out. The game can be pretty dark and depressing sometimes though when you learn and experience why each island was sealed away. Like the first island where the girl who used to protect the village was really monster the whole time and you're forced to kill her :( Or the island with the town where everyone is turned to stone and they can't turn back to normal ever again because they were outside too long. Or island where literally new born babies are kidnapped and are turned into monsters to attack there own homes... And this is only three I mentioned. There's a lot more! Still the game did have a lot of happy endings :D. My problem is that the game can get kind of repetitive after a certain point. Eventually it just comes down to you reviving and island then going to the present, going to the island you just revived, going to the village or dungeon of the island and finding the next shard to complete the pedestal to the next island in the past. And repeating that for HOURS of the game. Still I liked the exploration aspect of that too and I enjoyed visiting the island I just saved 4000+ years later and seeing how it changed and the legend of what I did to save the island. Those are the things that made me appreciate this game a lot.
Yeah I think VII was a lot of what VI was trying to get me to like but done in a much better way. While it definitely got a tiny bit repetitive in terms of, "go to the past, do the dungeon, come back to the present, rinse and repeat" I found VII just had a much better story to tell about coming of age and growing up and stuff. It's pretty high on the list for favorite Dragon Quests.
in the 3ds version they are gone the beginning is mutch! and mutch shorter! and nope its no chrono trigger hahah and those are no stone charts. now they are called fragments. hends the name: fragments of the forgotten past.
I'd recommend both honestly! Just look up some prices first because the market for these games is highway robbery. I suggest emulating them instead. I would rather someone did that than pay $100+ for a DS game.
I think you meant to say guest appearance by Chrono. Dude even has the spiky red hair! Ya know, given that you think this game copies off of Chrono Trigger & all. Missed an opportunity there to roll w that buddy.
DQ7 the duality game where the original dose some things better than the remake and the remake dose something better than the classic but don't actually fix the issue at hand just adds new ones
that tends to be my issue with alot of remakes. for every ps1 remake of lunar 1 and 2 that replace the original you get a resident evil 3 where you better off just playing the original.
Actually the first dungeon turned me off from the whole game when it first came out. I play an rpg for combat. Having puzzles straight out the gate and no combat. Ehhhhhhhh no.
Tell me about it. The worst ones are the first two videos, and the DS ports were headaches to figure out how to best frame them. I think I found a nice way of handling 9s display though. With VII the issue was I recorded on a PS2 using a knock off HDMI conversion box so that it would display on my television. This was before finding out that all PS3s are backwards compatible with PS1 games. If I were redoing these videos now, I'd probably do it different.
Considering how hard you ragged on DQ6 I feel you were too fair to this game. I get that you played the DS version and didn't see how much effort was sunken into everything, but the DS version is essentially an inferior version of the SNES version. The SNES essentially had the DS standards down before all the previous games got those, and it actually puts DQ7 to shame in a lot of regards, especially considering DQ7 rips many qualities and queues from DQ6. You failed to mention a -lot- of things that would absolutely kill this game for anyone looking to play this game, and the real bad part that everyone remembers about this game that they desperately tried to fix in the remakes. It takes sooooo long to unlock jobs. Longer than any other game in the series. On top of that you only have 3 party members for that period of time, and they only have a handful of skills. Once you get your jobs there's a period of time where you lose your 3rd party member and it takes something like 5 hours to get a replacement, and even longer to FINALLY get your 4th party member (at the end of the game). Also a first for anyone praising DQ7's opening. 3 hours of no encounters is not a good experience. The dungeon isn't that long, but it's also not that fun. A lot of the time spent getting into the dungeon is wasted just talking to people in town and hoping you're progressing the plot only to realize you can now talk to someone for additional dialogue after you had already talked to them and were given no clues that they had new dialogue. This was such an issue that they completely gut this from the remake. I had to whip out a guide for this because I was tired of going between the two towns and talking to everyone and wondering what I was missing. I talk to friends about this all the time and they often agree that the only DQ game worse than 7 is 2.
whenever i hear people talking about the series. 7 is considered a more bloated version of 6. 7 is also the start of an issue i have with the series. they are way to long for no real reason. prior to 7 a dq game could be finished at around 20-30 hours. which is an average length. from 7 onward it become the norm for you to take about 80 hours to finish a dq game. i'm sorry but any jrpgs that is over 50 hours is way to long imo.
I was really surprised that they accused DQVI of padding and said that its vignettes were bad when I feel that 6 is definitely better than 7 in both regards. 7 has some real bad pacing issues and a lot of the vignettes were just kinda bland. I have a lot of trouble understanding how this game could be considered better than 6. Like, imo 6 has better combat, story, world design and characters.
Akemi Homura It may be long but once you get going it gets easier to continue playing. Also, the feeling of accomplishment you get from completing this game is almost overpowering
Seda Raybrandt I think it's fun! I like charts, and charting out each length of time the game takes to get you to the "open-world" segment every Dragon Quest has!
I finally finished this on the 3DS just the other day. Final playtime, including all post-game content, DLC, and job class grinding, was a whopping *254:50.*
B r u h
holy fucking shit :-D thats like a lot even to these days xD
No way you actually unlocked the estark class and got through Gods bullshit multiple times in a row
@@PancakemonsterFO4 Yes. And god wasn't really that hard given how overpowered I had become after mastering every single job, including all the monter classes.
@@Morgil27 how did you got enough decently leveled mobs to farm monster classes up so high?
I see the diploma. Congratulations good sir. Excellent video as well
Thanks :D! It actually JUST came in the mail not too long ago, so I figured I'd put it up for an episode to show it off.
Shesez you are popular in the future
The unexpected rodney dangerfield really made my day, My gosh that was funny.
Would you believe it was spontaneous?
@@GCVazquez you havea new fan for life
That JoJo Pillar Men bit slayed me. Well done buddy
VII was long as hell but it never became tedious. I think by the time I finished it I clocked in at 110 hours, and that was without post game content!
It's the kind of thing you look at in hindsight and go, "Oh wow, WOW that took forever!"
When I finished DQ 7 on the 3DS, I didn’t even realize the time it took me (around 95 hours)
Took me around 10 more hours for postgame content + grinding but damn that game is soooo good that you don’t even notice how many hours you put into it
This is the 20th time i rewatch this video, i love this saga. Everytime i replay any dragon quest i always watch your videos before, during, and after playing the game. Thanks for this excellent content that always leaves me wanting more!
Glad you like them!
Thanks for the review!
Honestly? All translators, heck, every dialogue writer here who worked on this ABSURD WALL OF TEXT that is this game deserve... forget a medal or a trophy, they need their image immortalized in a statue at the local square. Major props both to the small team who worked this game when nigh no one in the West was asking for it and the international team, Spanish in my case, who worked on the remake's text at a time where, yes, people were asking for it, but this behemoth (or should I say... "this Freezing Wingwyrm"? Ehh, if you get it, you get it, I never said anything about me being funny) was still too large for the demand.
Again, thanks! And apologies for just watching this now.
Okay my dude. I really do like your stuff. I'm still stunned you only have 300ish subs. What you've gotten SUPER right right away is this: you make videos with a quality and tone like you have thousands of subs. That's great, it's excellent! I love that your videos are on the longer side. Long-form reviews are kind of hard to come by, probably because they're HARD to do!
So I'mma stick around. I look forward to what you have in store for the future!
Almost 4 years later but those boss fights are unforgivable. My first playthrough of the game resulted in effectively a soft-lock because I was trapped in a dungeon that, for plot reasons, I couldn't leave and, because I was a bit clueless, using a party of vocations that were sub-optimal. After getting repeatedly wrecked, I gave up and had to start from scratch several years (yes, YEARS) later. Fine game, if excessively long, but it's hard to tolerate a locked failure state like that.
Wait...you got locked into a dungeon? But there's no game over state in Dragon Quest, what happened when you died?
It's been a few years so pardon if I've gotten a detail or two wrong, but it's some kind of water temple. You're locked into the temple for story reasons (I think it's to do with the time travel aspect?). The temple was hard but doable 'til I hit the last boss and he wiped the floor with me. Kicked back to the last save point which is inside the dungeon.
I could have escaped my relentlessly grinding until I was strong enough, but that was not appealing. It's strictly my fault for doing story missions while vocation grinding.
I played the 3DS Remake and it's probably my favorite Dragon Quest game as of now. Watching this video has made me consider playing the Playstion version at some point for the more in-depth puzzles. To my knowledge, this deeper puzzle-oriented level was design was never attempted again which is a huge shame. I would love to play a DQ game that feels equally focused on puzzles as combat.
12:07 I like how this is retroactively answered in that, the well that you see is how far it goes, and they just pick it up to move it around.
Just watched every one of your DQ videos and every video got better and better, keep up the good work, man glad that I found your channel :D
Yo thank you so much! Words like that are part of why I keep pushing for better. Hope you'll stick around for awhile!
GC Positive Much love, man ❤❤❤, keep the videos coming!
Yo, your DQ reviews are the best on youtube. Cheers man .•*
These dragon quest and yukuza reviews are great.
Jack frost
I had to drop this game 3-4 years ago after the town where everyone was turned to stone because of exams, your video really motivated me to pick it up again!
This series of DQ reviews in order is just what I needed!!! Awesome work sir.
Glad you're enjoying it! :D
DragonWarrior7 was the first Dragon Quest I played. I LOVED IT! Played the remake on 3ds and it's still my fave (excluded the Builders games which will always have my heart). Anyway, the fact that 7 is SOOO long and just keeps going was exactly what my heart needed at the time.
hmm, funny to see this in my recommended after playing Yakuza 7, a game where the main character sees real life as this specific game.
>_>
Just wanted to say your retrospective series of reviews on the dragon quest games are by far, the best in depth reviews on UA-cam !!!!! I’ve watched each one multiple times, especially this one because 7 is my favorite game in the series . I️ almost had a heart attack when I️ saw u released the dq9 video, it was so good! Keep up the good work man😇❤️
For me seeing screenshots during it's development of Dragon Quest 7 was what made me interested in Dragon Quest. Sadly with it taking so long to come out in the west I skipped this one as I transitioned to PC RPGs such as Baulder's Gate. It wasn't until Dragon Quest IX came out that I actually started playing the franchise. When the 3DS version came out I bought it right away and though the graphics were now a bit different I love the game and all Dragon Quest games.
Side note, technically my first Dragon Quest game was the Rocket Slime game on DS. Truly that game is addictive.
I love Dragon Quest VII.
I finally got my hands on a copy of the original PS1 version. Previously I had only played the 3DS version. Cost me about $80, and included the original case and manual.
You really put time, effort, and your own personal energy into your videos! Keep up the fantastic work and eventually I'll make it through more of them |-)
this was amazing, congratulations
A whole new level... Well played sir. I see what'cha did there.
Probably one of my favorite games of all time. But all your complaints are ones that are valid, but it is still so freaken epic. Also the final boss fight being against God...awesome.
I really like 7! I wish it wasn't so long though.
You are such an excellent writer! Dragon Quest is a great series.
1:16 "Whoooooa put her back in, she's not done yet!" 😂😂
Totally digging the new thumbnails on these videos.
I just discovered this channel and this is some good stuff. Looking forward to binging the other dq series vids
Great to see a new dragon quest video, I love this series of reviews.
We're almost done with all of them, (at least until DQ XI comes out) but the next one is my favorite one, and I might go overboard with it!
+GC Positive the more overboard the better ahah looking forward to it
I'm super excited to play this on 3DS this year! XD
Nathan Palmer yea I'm really enjoying it I reccomend it if ur into dragonquest it's certainly value for money! Plus no more random battles. Although in the tight passages of some dungeons they are unavoidable
3 years later I'm still astonished and appalled by how criminally small GC's sub count is. Like c'mon people what is your aversion to quality!
Finally got the time to play DQ11s and oh boy I cannot wait to finally finish that video by weeks end once I kill mordegon. But first, GCPDQR series once more from the top.
All in due time, my friend. The slow climb makes the summit all the more monumental. ^-^
@@GCVazquez awesome dude. Keep on doing what your doing and its just a matter of time. Cause fxxk knows these days we need that positivity.
the Jojo reference omfg im deadXD thank you for making this series, I have always been curious about Dragon Quest since I have only played VIII and I can't get into very grindy games, which dragon quest games are kinda known for, which made me scared to try more of them
Surprisingly, a modern player won't find much grinding to be done in most of the Dragon Quest games. 1, 6, and 7 have the biggest cases of "grinding required" and in very small amounts.
If you want a great, short Dragon Quest game without any grinding I highly *highly* suggest Dragon Quest IV.
heh, I did wathc your video on it and became interested, theres a DS remake and that's what you played right? I tend to find it easier to get into this kidn of games in portable ocnsoles sometimes, that would probably help
Hey, that was a great episode! I am really looking forward to playing it again with the 3ds remake
Even though I feel I might have exhausted my excitement over it, I'm still looking forward to the remake! They've done some pretty significant changes to stuff.
Surprised you didn't mention the 3DS remake. So much had changed from the opening dialogue to the first dungeon if you can call it that. That would be nice
The 3DS remake wasn't out until 3 months after I made the video, so I couldn't talk about it then, but I did play a little bit of the remake! I was disappointed that they cut out so much of that early start and that the puzzles were simplified in the remake. I understand that first bit since they no longer needed to appease players disappointed by VI's level design, but toning down more for a new audience felt unnecessary and even counter-productive.
@@GCVazquez thanks for the reply, I haven't played the original, but I do plan too. This actually kinda made my day better when I saw that you replied
@@thatonegy5616 no problem! Thanks for making my day a little better than it was by letting me know you watched! ^_^
That Pillar Man joke. Great stuff
Playing DQ VII on the 3ds. Sadly they took out most of the puzzles and a lot of the level design is pretty generic. It is however easier to find the shards you need.
Yeah I heard about that! I was super bummed out to find out about it; VII's level design could be really fun sometimes.
They only changed the first puzzles the rest of the game was left in tact. I never thought the level design was generic, like you said it was all smart compact and fun
dq 7 never had the best dungeon design. they were all kinda samey.
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I never got around to playing the original psone classic. Its great so far on the 3ds though. Something about the battle being first person put me off. I really like maribel's character. She makes light of how ridiculous things are during the adventure. She reminds me of Tatl from legend of zelda majora's mask.
I thought Maribel was an annoying b*tch but I can see how she could be appealing to some people. lol
I think the first person battle system works with these old SNES/DS/PS1 graphics, but not so much with the new 3D ones.
A lot of people seem to dislike the length of this game and regard it as one of its biggest flaws, but I see it as one of the biggest strengths. It really feels like you're going on an adventure, and the class system is one of the best I've seen in a videogame. I think that this is one of the most underrated games in the series and that it is the PS1's best RPG.
i think it was more due to the pacing. you had to explore each town twice and the dungeons all looked the same. so t made the game seem to drag and get repetitive. 11 is almost as long as 7 and was not as bad.
So, I just finished watching all videos in the Dragon Quest playlist; and I must say I rather enjoyed it. I was browsing UA-cam for videos about Dragon Quest (a series that I never had heard before) and I found your videos very informative. I like your sense of humor: it’s nerdy, but you don’t push it and become annoying and unbearable (some UA-camrs with a lot more subscribers and views than you do this). I also think all your video scripts were well written - I particularly liked the one for DQ VI. I feel that UA-cam needs more content creators that focus on old-school RPGs/Games and I think that you have the necessary qualities to be as good as other UA-camrs such as, for example, ProJared (my favorite in this kind of topic). You earned a new subscriber. Cheers and GL HF. PS: Don't forget to persistently advertise your channel on forums, etc.
I love your reviews! Great job! I actually just beat hell cloud (or cirrus rex, I played on 3DS) today and was a fun boss. He was really annoying but you had to get good at timing and I needed to have complete control of every action (no tactics here.) as for the 4 enemies summoned a smartly placed twack took care of 3/4 always
This game takes a long time to really get into and I mean a long time but once u get into it it's great. It actually makes a 110 hour game fun. Even skyrim struggles doing that. So qudos to dragonquest7
Holy shit, JJBA joke fucking killed me. Doing great G, keep up the amazing work!
I’m in the process of playing this again. I did play it when it first came out and I put well over a hundred hours into it. I forgot so much about this game that it’s basically like playing it for the first time and I definitely forgot how long it takes before you actually fight your first enemy.
They really want you to just take in the world around you before setting off on your adventure. I guess to make that time travel reveal a lot stronger!
Ugh that sky puzzle made me so motion sick
Whoa, Rodney Dangerfield gets a thumbs up from me.
Amazing stuff, GC. I've been loving the DQ retrospective series and when you started it you really lit a fire under my ass to go play some more.
Hell, it got me to run through the DQ3 snes translated version on your recommendation, pumped me for my already planned DQM2 replay and now I went out and bought the DQVIII ps2 version to start up because I've been in the mood.
Regardless of that, I love your work GC and keep "playing positive" dude!
Thanks, Red! I'm glad I convinced you to do that.
Dragon Warrior VII is my favorite game in the series.
Great video my guy. Would you recommend the original or 3DS for a first time playthrough?
Honestly I think the 3DS version, while lacking the heavier puzzle elements of the original, is still the better candidate for a first time playthrough!
I bought this for ps1 a few years ago but never got around to playing it, soooo I bought the 3ds version and started it last night and thats why I'm here.
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Great review! I was on the fence for DQ VII, but now that 3DS remake isn't looking bad.
That 3DS Remake looks like it's taken steps to fix a good deal of my complaints, and I'm ready to play this game again!
Great videos man, just subbed thanks to Austin recommending your channel
7 was always my fav dq game
Dragon Warrior 7 still is one of the best games I’ve ever played
actually they do make another game after this, the original remake of DQ IV(the ps1 ver that is, which is the base engine squeenix use for the remake trilogy on DS) is their last game before going defunct.
7:01 Hang on. When a party member dies, do you actually drag their coffin around?
This game is amazing.
It's been that way in every single DQ game since like...forever.
This was the 2nd Dragon Quest game I've ever played.
It's a good one too!
It weird how Dragon Quest was Enix's cash cow yet compared to Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile it seemed Dragon Quest was a budget title when it came to presentation.
I think Dragon Quest's presentation is what gives it that simple look. The character designs aren't too over the top most of the time and environments are meant to resemble medieval towns and villages, so there isn't a lot of high fantasy elements to spend tons of money on.
GC Positive Well compared to other sprite based with 3D backgrounds PS1 JRPGs like Breath of Fire III,Breath of Fire IV, Final Fantasy Tactics,Wild Arms 2,Persona 2 Innocent Sin,Persona 2 Eternal Punishment and Grandia DQVII kinda looks bad.
@@Chelaxim oh! Yeah VII looks a bit off
this may have had more to do with how long dq 7 took to make. it was supposed to be for one system then it moved over to another so most likely all the original work got scrapped. had it came out in 97-98 i don't think it would have been considered as bad as it was when it came out in 2000.
What I'm afraid of going into this one after playing 4-6, is that the one novelty of this game is made obsolete by the DS remakes of 4-6.
You could always play the remake of 7! It's on the 3DS, and has a TON of Quality of Life updates.
Have you played the 3DS remake, and if so would your review of DQ7 be changed much?
These videos are great! I hope you can do a new series of videos on the 3DS remakes of DQ7 & 8, DQMonsters I & II, Joker I, II & III & DQ Heroes I & II, DQ Builders & Rocket Slime. All the best.
what a great review! *SUBBED*
I like how you say Dungeons in Dragon.. Quest hahahahaha
Ah, the game that got me into RPGs. Looking forward to it finally coming out on the 3DS. Much like the hilarity of the PSX release, of course, 3 1/2 years after it came out in Japan. -_-
Yeaaah...at least it looks good though! Can't say the same for the re-release of VIII.
I'm just worried that it may be... dated, by this point. And yeah, VIII is... something else. Which is unfortunate, as, in my humble opinion, that was the best out of all of them [at least the ones I've played, 1-3, 4-6 on the DS, and 7-9]
Eight is my favorite one. It's a shame the 3DS port doesn't look as good as I'd hoped.
Eight was amazing. Had a great balance and was a ton of fun, despite what some say about the story and villain lacking. And it's to expected, I suppose, comparing the power of the 3DS with the PS2, in a way, but it does make one wish they could just do an HD remaster of it or something on current-gen consoles with the extra stuff added in.
It's funny I agree with you on all the games but this and 6. I found this game to be such a chore. The first few hours were boring to me, having played it on the 3ds where the beginning is somewhat devoid of meaningful gameplay. Also, this game is so long but doesn't really have much depth imo. Each island felt like a retelling of a previous story but less interesting, and it took too long to get to complex combat that made the first 20 hours almost autopilot, especially with the lack of a singular big open world to explore. The characters kind of annoyed me too, and it seems like the animations an dialogue boxes take longer to go through. Returning to the islands 2 or 3 times was frustrating as well, with not enough done compared to other games to make it feel like a brand new world. Once you get to the jobs it begins to open up a bit. This was also one of the only games I disliked overworld monsters in, as the halls tended to be so narrow in the dungeons that they were basically had the same effect as random encounters. All of this together felt like a bunch of disjointed experiences. When I compare this to DQ8 or 11, I think of this as a game that waste time and those two as games that fill up that time with things to do.
Keifer was such a disappointment to me and I'm sad he was the focused of DQ7 Tome in DQ11.
I actually made a post about this game a year ago here, which is when my Dragon Quest marathon almost ended for good because of this game. Thankfully after taking a looong midgame and post game break, DQ8 pulled me back in and the rest of the series just kept getting more impressive. The 180 hours I took to finish DQ11 and post game felt like a fraction of the 110 hours I took to finish this one.
I commit a big mistake traying to play this game firts them i dropped and forgetting its existing ,years later when beat dq8 i back to this game and it clicked inmeadiatly
This is for fans that already knew what the series was about play 4 ,5 or 8 first you will understand
Had the 3DS Remake not came out yet at this point? Cus every one of your vids up to this point is based on the remake, and the remake is pretty damn amazing for this game, with massive improvements abound. Shame you didn't base this one on the remake. If I'm not misaken, didn't the 3DS remake for this one come out in 2016?
it did JAPAN however got the remake around 2011.
Does the psone version have native widescreen support?
When is the DQVIII episode coming?
Ričardas Mikelionis it's the next video coming out! might take a tiny bit though!
I can't wait! Just binged all of your DQ videos :D
I bought that game, played it, got very far storywise but than got stucked, brocke up, started part VIII and forgot about VII.
Yea, but did you know that Bad Eggs hatch into random monster if you wait a few turns?
Originally the last to be called 'Dragon "Warrior"' with a lot of name changes for spells, abilities, items weapons, and monsters were renamed in Dragon Quest series (Dragon Quest VIII was the first to be called the rightful title "Dragon Quest") which at that time I had to relearn everything and what which they do (some parts were very useful for the change).
Both versions of Dragon Quest VII are flawed with different pros and cons.
In fact they could've had some fights much faster or even have Gabo's wolf which I might've just call it Ruff to be use for speed sprinting through areas.
Thus Square Enix didn't even have a many good ideas to set up Dragon Quest VII right on 3DS with not a lot of time nor probably budget since it's a huge JRPG game looking a bit sluggish which they confirmed.
Thus a flawed masterpiece still has a charm of humor then Dragon Quest VI.
Changing the original Dragon Quest VII from rated T to rated E10 was actually the biggest mistake ever. Why?, because some parts of humor were changed and doesn't flow well with mystery which is main thing what the game is trying to do. It's like opening a present to find what's inside though instead it's always a dramatic adventure that keeps you on your toes to figure of what the problem is going on in each parts of continents.
Plus the getting rid of puzzle dungeon at the start doesn't change anything but the mystery of tomb raidering of the ruin that main character and Prince Kiefer is trying to do every time by solving every nook and cranny just to find treasure.
Not going to spoil after that since it's one a huge game and two it is my personal favorite though unfortunately I give it tie with Dragon Quest V because that game made me cry with joy at start through very end.
That rotating camera reminds me a lot of Xenogears. . .
Will you do a retrospective on that game soon?
Doctor Toast As of right now? I don't think so, but you never know!
It took me 80-90 hours to beat this game and i grinded a lot and didn't rush. Was kinda disappointed, I was expecting 100 hours T_T.
Anyway I'm surprised you liked this game I was expecting you to hate on it after watching that DQ VI review (yeah the game has tons of problems but I still love the game ok?!?!). Anyway, I really enjoyed the world building aspect of this game. I actually felt like I was creating a world every time I went to the present after just saving an island and exploring the new one I just brought back. There was just so many different characters that felt MORE than just being NPCs you need to help out. The game can be pretty dark and depressing sometimes though when you learn and experience why each island was sealed away. Like the first island where the girl who used to protect the village was really monster the whole time and you're forced to kill her :( Or the island with the town where everyone is turned to stone and they can't turn back to normal ever again because they were outside too long. Or island where literally new born babies are kidnapped and are turned into monsters to attack there own homes... And this is only three I mentioned. There's a lot more! Still the game did have a lot of happy endings :D. My problem is that the game can get kind of repetitive after a certain point. Eventually it just comes down to you reviving and island then going to the present, going to the island you just revived, going to the village or dungeon of the island and finding the next shard to complete the pedestal to the next island in the past. And repeating that for HOURS of the game. Still I liked the exploration aspect of that too and I enjoyed visiting the island I just saved 4000+ years later and seeing how it changed and the legend of what I did to save the island. Those are the things that made me appreciate this game a lot.
Still I hated how Kiefer just up and left the party forever.
Yeah I think VII was a lot of what VI was trying to get me to like but done in a much better way. While it definitely got a tiny bit repetitive in terms of, "go to the past, do the dungeon, come back to the present, rinse and repeat" I found VII just had a much better story to tell about coming of age and growing up and stuff. It's pretty high on the list for favorite Dragon Quests.
great video. and dragon warrior 7 ps1 is my favorite rpg of all time. on 3ds it's ok. did i mention great video
in the 3ds version they are gone the beginning is mutch! and mutch shorter! and nope its no chrono trigger hahah and those are no stone charts. now they are called fragments. hends the name: fragments of the forgotten past.
god i get movement sickness just watching this gameplay. Thank got it got remade for the DS
YEP!
This guy said "that's a fucking career"🤣🤣🤣🤣
Want to buy this for the 3ds🤠
I'd love to watch the rest of this episode but the camera is giving me motion sickness. God damnit.
I love rpgs, if I’m going to pay £50-60 for a game I want a game that I’m not going to finish in 4 hours on the hardest difficulty.
On God I might get a 3DS just to play this and IX
I'd recommend both honestly! Just look up some prices first because the market for these games is highway robbery. I suggest emulating them instead. I would rather someone did that than pay $100+ for a DS game.
I think you meant to say guest appearance by Chrono. Dude even has the spiky red hair! Ya know, given that you think this game copies off of Chrono Trigger & all. Missed an opportunity there to roll w that buddy.
DQ7 the duality game where the original dose some things better than the remake and the remake dose something better than the classic but don't actually fix the issue at hand just adds new ones
that tends to be my issue with alot of remakes. for every ps1 remake of lunar 1 and 2 that replace the original you get a resident evil 3 where you better off just playing the original.
60+ hours and I still don’t have the job classes yet. It jacked me up how long this game was! I’m loving it though!
IT'S SO LONG. FIFTY HOURS FOR A REVIVE SPELL. FIFTY HOURS. WHAT THE HELL.
@@GCVazquez oh shoot! That’s long! 😂
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Mirabel is best girl
Actually the first dungeon turned me off from the whole game when it first came out.
I play an rpg for combat. Having puzzles straight out the gate and no combat. Ehhhhhhhh no.
3DS 9.5/10
Man, I really dig your content but you struggle with aspect ratios in almost every video in this series :/
Tell me about it. The worst ones are the first two videos, and the DS ports were headaches to figure out how to best frame them. I think I found a nice way of handling 9s display though. With VII the issue was I recorded on a PS2 using a knock off HDMI conversion box so that it would display on my television. This was before finding out that all PS3s are backwards compatible with PS1 games. If I were redoing these videos now, I'd probably do it different.
Considering how hard you ragged on DQ6 I feel you were too fair to this game. I get that you played the DS version and didn't see how much effort was sunken into everything, but the DS version is essentially an inferior version of the SNES version. The SNES essentially had the DS standards down before all the previous games got those, and it actually puts DQ7 to shame in a lot of regards, especially considering DQ7 rips many qualities and queues from DQ6. You failed to mention a -lot- of things that would absolutely kill this game for anyone looking to play this game, and the real bad part that everyone remembers about this game that they desperately tried to fix in the remakes. It takes sooooo long to unlock jobs. Longer than any other game in the series. On top of that you only have 3 party members for that period of time, and they only have a handful of skills. Once you get your jobs there's a period of time where you lose your 3rd party member and it takes something like 5 hours to get a replacement, and even longer to FINALLY get your 4th party member (at the end of the game). Also a first for anyone praising DQ7's opening. 3 hours of no encounters is not a good experience. The dungeon isn't that long, but it's also not that fun. A lot of the time spent getting into the dungeon is wasted just talking to people in town and hoping you're progressing the plot only to realize you can now talk to someone for additional dialogue after you had already talked to them and were given no clues that they had new dialogue. This was such an issue that they completely gut this from the remake. I had to whip out a guide for this because I was tired of going between the two towns and talking to everyone and wondering what I was missing. I talk to friends about this all the time and they often agree that the only DQ game worse than 7 is 2.
whenever i hear people talking about the series. 7 is considered a more bloated version of 6. 7 is also the start of an issue i have with the series. they are way to long for no real reason. prior to 7 a dq game could be finished at around 20-30 hours. which is an average length. from 7 onward it become the norm for you to take about 80 hours to finish a dq game. i'm sorry but any jrpgs that is over 50 hours is way to long imo.
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I was really surprised that they accused DQVI of padding and said that its vignettes were bad when I feel that 6 is definitely better than 7 in both regards. 7 has some real bad pacing issues and a lot of the vignettes were just kinda bland. I have a lot of trouble understanding how this game could be considered better than 6. Like, imo 6 has better combat, story, world design and characters.
This game drags on and on for wayyy to much time. And that’s not a good thing for me.
Seems like the 3ds version removed some of the good aspects of this game.
hell no. fuck puzzles. the time it takes to finally unlock alltrades abbey is long and boring enough
@@creme8338 all it really did was streamline the first temple. the rest of the puzzles are still there.
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100 hours. i'd avoid it like a plague.
Akemi Homura It may be long but once you get going it gets easier to continue playing. Also, the feeling of accomplishment you get from completing this game is almost overpowering
Akemi Homura It's definitely lengthy game but an enjoyable experience.
Well over 100 hours. Highly recomended due to this fact.
Why do you always say "time to boat/class" in *every* DQ game? It's getting annoying.
Seda Raybrandt I think it's fun! I like charts, and charting out each length of time the game takes to get you to the "open-world" segment every Dragon Quest has!
it would be like if someone did an final fantasy series and used time to airship.
Oooh! That'd be fun!
Dragon quest final boss walks to the hero.
Pillar men come from the pillar monsters: allow us to introduce ourselves.