Dragon Quest Heroes II

 PlayStation 4
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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 80 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 58 out of 80
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 80
  3. Negative: 14 out of 80
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  1. Topfpflanze
    Nov 20, 2018
    9
    Take the idea of turn based DQ8, put it in a modern format with action elements. Allow to fight against many enemies at the same time. But keep the idea behind everything, tell a story. Yuji Horii does it with DQH2. A perfect game, but maybe, too easy in the beginning. Fun, anyway.
  2. YellowKoala
    Sep 19, 2017
    8
    As a fan of the Dragon Quest series, I really enjoyed this game and being able to play as some of the characters from the main series. The gameplay is very different as it is now more of a hack and slash RPG. For the most part, it can be a lot of fun trying out each character and their unique set of skills. Unfortunately, the boss battles are not very fun at all. I found that hey wouldAs a fan of the Dragon Quest series, I really enjoyed this game and being able to play as some of the characters from the main series. The gameplay is very different as it is now more of a hack and slash RPG. For the most part, it can be a lot of fun trying out each character and their unique set of skills. Unfortunately, the boss battles are not very fun at all. I found that hey would drag on for too long, especially since most attacks from a boss will nearly kill you, which means you'll have to play it safe and wait for the right moment to attack. This also means you can't use most magic users since spells take too long to cast and only leave you open to attack (plus whichever character you control at the time will be targeted by the boss).

    The highlights for me are the large scale battles with many enemies spawning from portals which you have to stop. You have to make use of various tools to keep your allies alive while also stopping the enemies.    … Expand
  3. Himonji
    Aug 17, 2017
    3
    Glad i didn't bought this game.

    Thankfully a friend of mine has a ps4 and let me play it this vacations... wow just wow... It is terrible even compared to the first one, it has great new features but ultimately its defects make it overal worse than the first one. -First of all the AI SUCKS, completely, they do NOTHING, it is like they made terrible AI on purpose so you need to    Glad i didn't bought this game.

    Thankfully a friend of mine has a ps4 and let me play it this vacations... wow just wow...

    It is terrible even compared to the first one, it has great new features but ultimately its defects make it overal worse than the first one.

    -First of all the AI SUCKS, completely, they do NOTHING, it is like they made terrible AI on purpose so you need to rely on online players.

    -Enemy AI is CHEAP, they will 100% focus the character you are playing, they will never focus anyone else, FORGET ABOUT MAKING A TANK unless you want to main it, it is just as terrible as FFXII with 0 aggro mechanics.

    -Some bosses are ridiculously CHEAP on purpose to force you to go into multiplayer... THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SINGLE PLAYER GAME!, worth mentioning is the last boss of the game Fractos second form which is one of the cheapest bosses i have seen in my entire life. Most bosses have 2 shot abilities but some even have insane AoE like Fractos second form that you will ALWAYS get hit no matter what.

    -Upgrading is annoying on purpose, it is even far more terrible than the first one crafting, just overall terrible and tedious grindy crafting and it is WORTHLESS, you barely see any difference in damage once you get better accessories.

    -They got Sage WRONG, like what the hell?, Second classes are NOT supposed to be hybrids they are supposed to be UPGRADES of any of the paths that conform it and this is not the case if you are a Mage, where Sage is useless as a damage dealer it is a stupid DOWNGRADE, unbelievable... this guys seems like never played any DQ with a class system seriously.

    -Pointless open world, just useless waste of space seriously nothing worth doing in the entire map you will just skip everything and if you want to level may aswell just go to any map but the "world map".

    On top of that it has denuvo (which was cracked anyways).

    Glad i didn't wasted my money on this game seriously it is not worth it not even 10% of what they are asking for it.    … Expand
  4. SuperkenGaming
    Jun 1, 2017
    7
    Dragon Quest Heroes 2
    Fun But Repetitive
    A kind was murdered and you set out to travel the 7 kingdoms as your preferred character and class and set out to get to the bottom of it... This is a party based action RPG, you start out with 2 characters and along your journey you’ll run into more characters to join you on your journey... A lot of them you have to beat before they’ll join you    Dragon Quest Heroes 2
    Fun But Repetitive
    A kind was murdered and you set out to travel the 7 kingdoms as your preferred character and class and set out to get to the bottom of it...
    This is a party based action RPG, you start out with 2 characters and along your journey you’ll run into more characters to join you on your journey...
    A lot of them you have to beat before they’ll join you though, which is a nice chance to see their stuff in action and choose if you’d like to swap them in as your party can only hold 4 characters at a time…
    But each character feels unique and uses different weapons that can be bought in a little hub town
    Which is where you’ll spend your time organizing your goods, crafting accessories for stat boosts, and playing through dungeons on line if you’d like
    This is also where you swap your members and prepare for battle
    The combat here is fairly swift.. But not as satisfying as it could be...
    Sort of like the dynasty warriors games... there are enemies everywhere…
    defeating these enemies will give you experience to level your character up...
    Every character seems to level up at an even pace as well as inactive party members... and you dump your skill points into new moves and stat boosts in a skill tree
    Combat here is very easy to pick up and super simple...
    You’ll pull off cool moves by just mashing the light and heavy attack buttons
    There are also special attacks you can use that use up magic points, and when you build up your super meter you basically go super saiyan and are invulnerable and have infinite magic points until it runs out
    you can also alternate between your other party members at any time to use their special attacks too..
    And eventually you’re even able to do tag moves as you swap
    you also have healing gems and herbs for tough battles that replenish when you enter a new one…
    Every once in a while characters will also drop coins when you beat them
    These coins summons in that monster for some assistance
    And each coin has its own unique action, some will even turn you into a giant monster for a short period of time
    You can really only use them until you go to a new are though.. so there is no point in holding onto them even though the game advises you to…
    That as well as your super meter depleting when you go to a new area is definitely a bit annoying and feels like a waste sometimes…
    at moments id be holding on for an epic fight that never came and my time was just wasted slashing these a bit too spongy enemies…
    And the game stays this way throughout…
    The formula is fairly predictable with a few puzzly moments thrown in there to break the pace a bit..
    But it’s a lot of get to the point on the map and level grind if you want…
    its decently fun but definitely gets repetitive as again enemies do feel a bit spongy, causing the progression to feel a bit sluggish at time...
    The story and characters are intriguing though and are good enough to pull the player through the end…
    I did start getting bored on my journey in Dragon Quest Heroes 2..
    But this action rpg is enjoyable one that I feel Dragon Quest Fans will appreciate... new fans can have a decently fun time with just game as well…
    But the repetitive nature and spongy enemies may discourage you from finishing this 30 hour journey
    I Give Dragon Quest Heroes 2
    a 7.5/10    … Expand
  5. MARUYAMA
    Oct 2, 2019
    9
    It's great and I feel like it improves immensely on the formula of the first game, but, not having the characters from the first game playable outside of a side mission mode is very disappointing.
    At the very least, I wish they were unlockable
  6. OrionHamake
    Sep 7, 2017
    7
    - Horrible, childish and irritating soundtrack. I had to put the volume in mute to be able to play this game.

    -Bosses only attack the character you are using, ignoring the rest of the team. And your team is useless, they do practically no damage - Some missions are extremely annoying. You will have to defend some NPCs at times. If they die you will fail the whole mission and will    - Horrible, childish and irritating soundtrack. I had to put the volume in mute to be able to play this game.

    -Bosses only attack the character you are using, ignoring the rest of the team. And your team is useless, they do practically no damage

    - Some missions are extremely annoying. You will have to defend some NPCs at times. If they die you will fail the whole mission and will have to return from the beginning. The game's artifical intelligence is extremely dumb and these NPCs keep jumping in the hordes of enemies, which makes it all the more annoying. You have no command to make him back off or something like.

    - The game has many characters, making most of them misused in the plot and uninteresting. Besides being useless. It would be much better if the game focused only on the two protagonists and some other character. At first the game was doing it right, focusing only on desdemona and the two main characters, but then the bunch of generic characters began to appear and I just did not care about anyone else there anymore.

    - The monsters are too childish, it looks like they were made for a cartoon for 5 year olds. Ridiculous.

    - Skill Tree useless and brings virtually no real change in your character.

    Despite these cons, the game has its advantages, for example, the characters are well detailed and the graphics are well made. Combat is addictive and that's what motivates you to continue playing.    … Expand
  7. William91
    Jul 29, 2017
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. https://youtu.be/IbKIIgd5Xy0

    My video review of dragon quest heros 2 part of a new series im trying out check it out it would be really appreciated. Thanks in advance .    … Expand
  8. Kai82
    Jul 4, 2020
    8
    It is a more of the same with improvements style sequel. This is a spin off of Dragon Quest that can be best described as Dynasty Warriors or Kingdom Hearts in Dragon Quest style. It is an Action Adventure with RPG elements. It plays in a different world and is not connected to the prequel. Story: Thousand years ago a war devastated the world. After it ended the people never wanted again aIt is a more of the same with improvements style sequel. This is a spin off of Dragon Quest that can be best described as Dynasty Warriors or Kingdom Hearts in Dragon Quest style. It is an Action Adventure with RPG elements. It plays in a different world and is not connected to the prequel. Story: Thousand years ago a war devastated the world. After it ended the people never wanted again a war ruining the live and an era of peace was archived. Suddenly events start that slowly drive the kingdoms of the world into wars. The game-play is the same as before close to Dynasty Warriors or Kingdom Hearts. You have standard attacks and special moves at your disposal. The dodge ability is pretty useful and you should get used to it and blocking attacks as soon as possible. You can of cause grind levels to overpower your enemies but it takes more effort than in other games later on. The nice feature is that during the game heroes from old Dragon Quest games join your party. I again like the variety of characters and abilities. There are a lot of different play-styles as you can always change the character you directly control from a 4 active member rooster. There are some new additions: As before you can summon monsters. When you defeat enemies there is a chance to get monster medals. With them you can summon helpers, get one time effects and as new feature transform into the monster. I enjoyed the new feature latter one as it became really useful. For the main character there is a job system. You can unlock later new jobs and different abilities with new play-styles. Tip: Get all to level 20. Maybe you discover something. What I hate is that you always start at level 1. If you don't experiment early one and find a more suited role you are falling behind in level. Again I like Akira Toriyamas drawings who is most famous for Dragonball. He is responsible for the art style and character design including the enemies. The graphics and art style is really good but they go for an less realistic more anime style. It is for you to decide. There are of cause side quests and a crafting system that works with obtained loot. Overall while I like the main games better I enjoyed the Heroes spin off and would recommend them for anyone who likes Action Adventures.… Expand
  9. The_BlueRose
    Mar 11, 2020
    8
    Dragon Quest Heroes II ofrece una mezcla de musou y mundo sandbox, dando mayor libertad a los elementos RPG y equilibrando los poderes de cada personaje para que se sientan realmente destructivos.

    La historia sigue siendo la clásica de DQ, ahi poco cambia. Lo que si cambia son las grandes batallas, que realmente logran impresionar con su gran numero de enemigos y extenso terreno.    Dragon Quest Heroes II ofrece una mezcla de musou y mundo sandbox, dando mayor libertad a los elementos RPG y equilibrando los poderes de cada personaje para que se sientan realmente destructivos.

    La historia sigue siendo la clásica de DQ, ahi poco cambia.
    Lo que si cambia son las grandes batallas, que realmente logran impresionar con su gran numero de enemigos y extenso terreno.

    Ademas, en estas batallas nos encontraremos con los combates contra jefes, que cuentan con fases para darle más dinamismo al combate, en vez del clásico machaca.

    En general es una buena experiencia, que sorprende viniendo de una estructura más clásica de su primera entrega y no da esa sensación de musou generico.    … Expand
  10. tomvs123
    Apr 14, 2020
    5
    Not as good as the first game, but decent.

    The story and character interactions are relatively bare in this second installment. Most of the character interactions now take place during battles, so it's hard to pay attention to them while you're busy killing things. So unlike the first game, I knew very little about these new characters. A benefit to that is that unlike the first game,    Not as good as the first game, but decent.

    The story and character interactions are relatively bare in this second installment. Most of the character interactions now take place during battles, so it's hard to pay attention to them while you're busy killing things. So unlike the first game, I knew very little about these new characters. A benefit to that is that unlike the first game, there's no "power of friendship" nonsense going on here. It would have seemed especially weird here since only a few of the characters seem like friends (due to the overall lack of interaction).

    And if you thought the story was generic in the first game, be prepared for an even more generic story here. It starts off good enough, but quickly looses steam due to a dwindling amount of story exposition. And like in all Dragon Quest games, the story is believable and competent (meaning not full of plot holes), even though it's aimed at kids. Not much to say about the plot other than you're saving the world because you're the chosen ones, of course.

    Combat is mostly the same, but the open world makes it much less interesting. In the first game, you regularly fought 20+ monsters at once in small areas, which was great fun. In the sequel, you're in large open areas and you mostly encounter groups of 2-4 monsters scattered about randomly. Big groups of 20+ monsters are still there, they're just rare this time around. Also, there's more of a focus on fighting single strong special monsters. Given the large number of AOE attacks your characters have, these drawn-out single-monster battles are just not as fun.

    Compared to the first game's segmented world, the open world in this game seems smaller overall, and is definitely less interesting. The location variety isn't as good as the first game, but is decent enough. As for things to do, there's really only chests to find, most of which don't contain anything interesting. So you'll primarily use this big open world to get to the next instanced battle, fight the occasional monsters (primarily for the game's quests), and get nearly-useless items out of chests. There's nothing else to do in it. Oh and the big kicker is when you get to a particular phase in the story, they make you walk all the way through that open world all over again with no teleporting. And somehow I ended up with less playtime in this game than the first game. They were really trying to pad it out to get the standard 40-hour JRPG playtime.

    And then we come to the final battle. It seemed like it was supposed to be the battle before the final battle, because it wasn't very interesting, and not grand at all (like in the first game).

    This isn't a bad game, but every aspect of it is just less good than the first game.    … Expand
  11. kempo24
    Mar 20, 2021
    5
    Annoying music, bland empty world map, boring characters, unbearable dialogue, meaningless story. Gameplay and visuals are not bad but thats it.
  12. ngeduardo
    Jun 27, 2020
    8
    Supongo que esta muy enfocado a los seguidores de la franquicia, al final del juego terminas con tantos personajes que se dificulta escoger un equipo

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 68 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 53 out of 68
  2. Mixed: 15 out of 68
  3. Negative: 0 out of 68
  1. Riot Pixels
    Aug 25, 2017
    70
    For a sequel made pretty much on the fly (in just a year!), DQH 2 is a surprisingly decent game. Plus, the English localization is top-notch.
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  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jul 24, 2017
    60
    Action RPG in a very colorful design where you will fight the large armies. It's nice, but it can quickly turn tiresome. [Issue#274]
  3. GameGrin
    Jul 19, 2017
    75
    Dragon Quest Heroes 2 is undoubtedly a step in the right direction, but it doesn’t feel like a big enough leap. There are minor gameplay improvements that result in a more unique and refined experience, but at it’s core the game is still struggling to pull itself away from the Dynasty Warriors series.
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