![]() One group of enemies, if given the chance, forms up like Voltron to try to take down your party. Some enemies do funky dance moves in battle that may cause your characters to start dancing and render them useless for a few turns. What keeps the battles interesting is Dragon Quest’s many unique enemy designs and their amusing sets of skills. Even then, boss strategies tend to boil down to effectively healing, buffing, and debuffing with a sprinkling of RNG rather than playing off of enemy weaknesses. It’s standard JRPG fare, but it’s well-paced and buoyed by a large and interesting world populated by memorable characters that add depth to the overall setting.Ĭombat takes place within a basic turn-based system that doesn’t really require much strategy outside of some boss fights. Along the way you’ll travel to distant kingdoms, recruit new allies, help a struggling monarch or two, and vanquish dark forces. The Hero’s quest to get his man serves as the main thrust for most of Dragon Quest VIII’s main narrative. That’s certainly a lot to unpack, but more importantly an excellent way to pull you into already-unfolding events. He and his crew, comprised of a king-turned-monster, a princess-turned-horse, and a loudmouth bandit (fantastically voiced by Ricky Grover) that acts more like a needy boyfriend than a sidekick, are in dogged pursuit of a murderous jester. Who is the man in black? Why is the gunslinger chasing him? What will happen when he does catch him? World building and backstory are revealed in dribs and drabs as the reader joins the protagonist mid-quest and has to play catch-up.ĭragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King similarly opens with our Hero chasing a mysterious ne’er-do-well. ![]() Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, which opens with the above quote, is a perfect example of how this tactic can immediately grab the reader’s attention by simply provoking questions they’ll undoubtedly want answered. I’ve always been a sucker for a story that starts in medias res, a literary device where the author starts the narrative in the middle of events rather than at the beginning. ![]() “The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.” ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |