Just finished Chapter 3. I love it because it’s such a different compared to everything in the Dragon Quest series. The main goal is money. Lots and lots of it. Torneko, the character of this chapter, can even spend time acting as a shopkeeper and bring in, relatively little, money.
As in real life, the daily grind is for suckers. Keep that up and to get the 35,000 gold to buy your own shop would take, well, about 350 in game days. Ew. So I headed out on risky treasure hunting and after saving a cursed village, getting a broken bridge fixed so a maniac king could attempt a siege on a local country, only to be averted by my hooking up of the estranged prince and princess of the two countries. Then, it’s all about fat loot hunting.
A friend told me a trick for this chapter way back when I played the PS1 remake. If you work the shop long enough, eventually someone will sell you an expensive sword. Don’t let anyone else buy it and quit working. Now, when you have the money, go to that shop and fill your inventory with that expensive sword. When all the different chapter characters come together in chapter 5, only their equipment, not their money, is carried over. But having a stock of 11 or so expensive swords to sell is just as good, eh?
The thing is, in this remake, every character has access to the bag. The bag in DQ games is basically a storage container of infinite space, but you can’t use any items in it during battle. Although, with this ability, you could technically stock up on lots of these swords, as it is relatively easy to gain cash during this chapter. Then, when Torneko joins the main quest, his stock of shit adds up big time.
I, although, am lacking patience in my years. I only ended up with 7 swords to carry onto the final chapter. Oh well.
