The Book of Revenant

Well, there are twenty minutes left in the day. Then I bike with all my might to hope that they are not sold out of DQ4DS at the local game retailer.
Wish me luck, folk.

Finished Chapter 2 this morning and am now slowly making my way through Chapter 3.
There really aren’t any big differences so far, aside from the obvious graphical changes. And the menus. It was bizarre at first having X, not A bring up the main menu. The menus are very similar to classic DQ in their [...]

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 [...]

Knocked down chapter 4.
It’s a weird chapter, to be sure. And it is weird because it’s so normal. Follow me on this. After just finishing a chapter that’s based on acquiring money by selling equipment and is completely different from what you’ve done so far, you’re thrown into a very structured chapter. You start with [...]

Getting my way through chapter 5 now. Did the preliminary stuff, got the Chapter 4 ladies and now just got the wagon along with Hoffman. He’s a character with a ? level, so not permanently in my group. Honestly, I don’t remember this part at all, which is odd because I just played this game [...]

Well, I just got pooped on by King Leo. I don’t think I’m underleveled, but maybe I’ll throw down a few minutes of leveling before trying again.

King Leo lies dead on the ground. Huhfuckingzah.
And now Ryan gets to go into the caravan and stay there for the rest of the fucking game. I think that’s my biggest complain about this game. Too many of the characters are redundant and there is little need to use different ones. You’ve got seven but [...]

Woo!
Why do I get so much joy out of leveling up my characters in RPGs. I don’t get it. But I do.
I just killed my first Metal Babble in the game and that’s 10050 sweet XP. That’s 10 levels for all 8 characters. Woo! Some may say this is mind numbing, but I’m doing it [...]

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten so many enemy advantage fights in a game before. And I certainly don’t remember the casino odds being so stacked against me. Hell, I had better luck in Atlantic City on the slots. Croist!
I think DQ is starting to hate me. Which is sad, because I love it so.

Seven fucking forms, but the final boss of DQIV is down.
I really forgot a lot about this game, somehow, but I am glad I got a chance to play it again. Leveling on the go was just great. Many train rides over the past month were made a lot easier thanks to this gem sitting [...]