Dragon Quest X Offline

I've put about 80 hours into it and I'm nowhere near done, but I'm also a slow reader who is learning Japanese. That aside, though, the scope of this game seems to exceed DQ 7 once you include all the side quests. In this game, you are a human in a doomed village who reincarnates as one of five "tribes", typical MMORPG races where you're treated to a unique introduction story for your race followed by a quest to gather ten key emblems. That's about how far I've gotten so far. On top of this, there are ten beefy sidequest lines (two per continent) for the tribes and ten more for the classes you can choose from and change between freely. An outside studio converted the original MMO into a typical turn based Dragon Quest game, so it's odd in a number of ways such as enemies being limited to 4 and purely linear level scaling, but it otherwise follows a series typical episodic format where you solve a town's problems which ties into the greater narrative. Only the main story is voiced, though, which is a shame because some of the tribe sidequests are otherwise on par in quality. If you're learning Japanese or just straight know it, try this one. You can even get a level 70 character in the MMO online version for beating this. If you want to play in English, though, get the PC version. That one has fan translations available.

This game comes in Japanese. I couldn’t read anything as I am an English user. That being said it was still fun to run around and figure things out on my own. A great but if you speak Japanese.

While it may be a dumbed down version of the online version, I feel this game is a good start for what it was intended to be. The character models are reminiscent of Dragon Quest 9 (and some of the environment is poorly rendered later in the game.), but its attempt at making a known MMO into a single-player game is interesting. The games design and setup does not stray too far from the online version which is nice since you can look up information from the online version to kinda figure out some of the quests. While the game does have a few differences from the online version it can feel like its own game. As a Dragon Quest fan I have been enjoying this game very much and I would recommend it to others. Hopefully in the future if this gets big enough we'll see an english release and more content down the line.