![]() I cried, I laughed, and I fell madly in love with the main cast and their journey. I’m not going to talk about any of the concrete details to avoid spoilers, but the story that plays out in this 80+ hour adventure is one of the best I’ve ever experienced. Every time you think the game seems like it is starting to fall back on traditional RPG tropes, it’ll find a way to surprise you. See? It seems painfully cliche, but Dragon Quest XI overcomes this label due to excellent pacing and clever subversion of expectations from the outset. He travels the world recruiting a party of wonderfully diverse and interesting characters like any fantasy RPG protagonist would do. You play as a young man who learns that he is the reincarnation of The Luminary, a legendary hero who is destined to save the world from a great evil. Dragon Quest games are sometimes disregarded as having overly simplistic narratives, but I would argue that since the monumental third entry the plots have always been deceptively simple. This home Yuji Horii seemingly has built just for me would be nothing without the foundation of a good story. The new buttery smooth framerate combined with that crisp resolution and the ability to make battles play out faster than they did on the original PS4 version, made me feel right at home. ![]() Not only does the new content and improvements invalidate the original (already amazing) game, but the visuals no longer feel like a noticeable downgrade thanks to an increase in resolution. I first played this game to completion almost entirely on my Nintendo Switch Lite, and it still looked beautiful thanks to its timeless aesthetic. The visuals technically aren’t as nice as they were in the original PS4 and PC version, since it is based on the Switch release, but I would hardly knock the game for this. All of the great quality of life mechanics, a new Japanese voice acting option, the option for orchestrated music, and new story content have all been carried over to this version of the game. However, that didn't stop me from loving every second of the great improvement to load times thanks to the console’s SSD. I played it on my PlayStation 5, and mention this only to say that at this moment there were no significant visual improvements that stood out to me. In my time playing it on PS4, I have enjoyed revisiting the previously portable rendition of the game I fell madly in love with, but now in a beautiful 1080p at 60 frames per second. Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age Definitive Edition on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC are the best ports of the best version of Dragon Quest XI. It made me spend this year ravenously devouring any Dragon Quest game I could get my hands on, which is most of them. Dragon Quest XI is simply too wonderful to not gush about. I will not let you ignore the potentially final release of one of the greatest role-playing games of the last console generation. ![]() It would have been monumentally easy to phone in a simple review of this improved port It would have saved both myself as a writer and yourself as a reader a lot of time, but I love this game too much to not want to talk about it in depth. Both gave the game a perfect score, and after reaching the credits myself earlier this year I couldn’t agree more. These reviews are great, and you should read them. Our own Elizabeth Henges and Chao Min Wu reviewed the original PlayStation 4 release and the improved Switch release respectively. This isn’t our first review of Dragon Quest XI, or even Dragon Quest XI S.
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