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I put a roof in and a second story. #teamroof! When you go into a room and the camera is still outside just press R3 and it'll reset to where you can see your character.
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Dragon Quest Builders demo out now
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trikster40
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Loving all these positive impressions. Gonna skip the demo and just buy the game day 1 regardless, don't have time to play the intro twice
Pehaps the save file from the demo can be loaded into the final version? Anyone have the JP version and tried this?
I only played the first hour of the demo for the same reason (not wanting to have to play several hours of the same game twice). I pre-ordered this game a while ago simply because it has Dragon Quest in the title but was pleasantly surprised by the little I played.
I'm hoping I can finish DQVII by next week but that's not looking very likely.
I'm hoping I can finish DQVII by next week but that's not looking very likely.
Yeah I've been doing this and it is quite nice to have a proper enclosed space. Think I'll start off with open rooms and start working in roofs and extra floors if it feels right to do so.
I never played a Dragon Quest game at all. Went completely blind yesterday and you know what? Loved it.
The most amazing part was spending 3 (ingame) days to kill the dragon, dealing with the slimes and the ghosts occasionally. The reward was quite surprising.
Spoiler: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuHKRXMWcAEpzwY.jpg
Will buy.
The most amazing part was spending 3 (ingame) days to kill the dragon, dealing with the slimes and the ghosts occasionally. The reward was quite surprising.
Spoiler: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuHKRXMWcAEpzwY.jpg
Will buy.
I actually built a house in the water near the dragon so I could rest and fight it the next day when it was getting late
Well done. I did try a couple of things but in the end was easy to manipulate its pattern and so he perished. Long but fun fight especially with the random critical hits.
I wonder if there are more hidden health seeds. Will keep an eye on it.
Yeah, I had no choice but to build the house since it was getting too late. I was worried that the ghosts would ambush me to much and interrupt the fight at night. It was at least easy enough with the slimes around him.
I only found 2 health seeds out in treasure chests. Couldn't find anymore.
Interface23
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Played the demo as long as I could. Shame according to Play-Asia and HeavyArm Sony won't let them ship the Vita copies until November
AuthenticM
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His health didn't regenerate?
Dragon's health stays where it was when you last saw him. If it goes up, it goes up EXTREMELY slowly.
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JeremyEtcetera
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After playing this great demo I have high hopes for the full game. This feels like that sleeper hit title that could potentially be on people's top ten list for goty this year but won't hit the top spot due to it not being super high production.
AuthenticM
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I still put up torches in my town's entrance, ha. Because it's pretty.
I had the feeling that it generated slowly. I never stopped hitting it so don't know if resting/sleeping will make him regenerate fully.
I get it lol
SkyTurnsRed
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I LOVED this demo. Do any of the reviews give a length of time on the campaign?
50-60 hours if you just stick to the story according to an interview on Gematsu.
http://gematsu.com/2016/01/dragon-quest-builders-50-60-hours-long
With what we have atm I spent a couple more hours in it. Built a second floor, some rooftops and an underground cellar.
I guess I am finished with the demo now.
https://youtu.be/BCeltJnkPbo
I guess I am finished with the demo now.
https://youtu.be/BCeltJnkPbo
That's one of my concerns, as I thought the music they used in the demo looped way too often. It kinda got annoying. If worse comes to worse I can always mute it, I suppose.
Megawarrior
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I don't think I would have ever preordered this if not for the demo after hating heroes. I'm obsessed.
I haven't had the time to actually play the full game yet (I did play the demo, though), so I just started it up for a couple of seconds. Since it boots directly into the (unskippable) opening cutscene I'll assume that it's not possible to import your demo save file.
It's Dragon Quest... it shouldn't ever have such feelings of dread (IMO anyway).
I'll totally do it too. I'm just too used of it coming from Minecraft.
To be fair, this is not a standard DQ. I dunno, I feel like it adds a little more on the town management. There's some things absent from Minecraft that would add a lot on the exploration without feeling "alien" on a DQ game, like having a ship and being able to seal instead of just warping, or finding underground caverns...
Loved the game and I have it pre-ordered , but playing the demo it felt like it lacked something on the exploration side.
I have a day 1 edition pre-ordered too but damn, it's annoying how these editions have the exclusive ads in the box art.
ThatStupidLion
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pre-ordered cant wait to get my hands on it! enjoyed the first bit of the demo, but stopped playing once I learned teh saves dont transfer to full game.
This was one of the few things I found wrong with DQH - I didn't mind the field battle themes but there were only two songs you could use back at the hub area and they were both like 30 seconds long.
DQ has dealt in dread, the new localizations tend to over-whimsy the original scripts.
It's a little annoying, but in this case I think he means more from a gameplay standpoint. And yeah, with exceptions it should be a little kinder on THAT front.
Pyrrhus
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The original Dragon Quest definitely had some dread going into caves and dungeons as the ominous drone to the music would get deeper and slower for every floor you went down and your torches would slowly go out until you were enveloped in total darkness.
And Dragon Quest III had the day/night cycle where the sky would darken and tougher monsters, particularly the undead, would come out at night and ghosts would sometimes come out in the villages. Also the ghost ship you had to track and board using a compass made from one of the doomed crew's thighbones.
Is there anything else to do in the demo beyond filling out your little starting area? I have 8 rooms plus two kitchens, a workshop and a teleportarium and I can't see myself hitting level 3 unless maybe I cram every room full of pots and stuff.
Probably getting the game next week although the price difference between physical and digital is annoying (prefer digital), just want to get a bit more out of the demo
edit: Got to level 3 by turning each room into a tiny cell and filling them with chests or pots. Also found the area behind the cliffs with
. That seems about it for the demo world. Tried building a bridge across the water but it pushed me back with a 'mysterious force'
Probably getting the game next week although the price difference between physical and digital is annoying (prefer digital), just want to get a bit more out of the demo
edit: Got to level 3 by turning each room into a tiny cell and filling them with chests or pots. Also found the area behind the cliffs with
the dragon and the freaky trees
Grim Patron
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Does the spine have boring typical Square Enix white bg with black text or did we get a logo on the spine in EU this time?
nice! how did you get things like the tree trunks and stairs in the town?
edit : Ordered from amazon - £31.99 pretty good price. Random £2 discount for being a prime member.
The tree trunk I got from killing the tree monsters in the swampy biome west of the base. The stairs I got them at the spawn area. I strip it of its basic materials.
Freezasaurus
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Preload just started. PS4 here.