Dragon Quest Builders

 PlayStation Vita
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8.8

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  2. Mixed: 4 out of 50
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  1. kuehnau
    Nov 7, 2016
    7
    I love games like Harvest Moon, Minecraft and Terraria. So when I saw the trailer for Dragon Quest Builders, I picked it up as soon as I could.

    DQB is kind of a combination of the Dragon Quest franchise and Minecraft. You play as a hero who must help re-build cities in the world. And you are the last human who knows how to bascially do anything yourself. Each chapter brings you to    I love games like Harvest Moon, Minecraft and Terraria. So when I saw the trailer for Dragon Quest Builders, I picked it up as soon as I could.

    DQB is kind of a combination of the Dragon Quest franchise and Minecraft. You play as a hero who must help re-build cities in the world. And you are the last human who knows how to bascially do anything yourself.

    Each chapter brings you to a new city, where you will have to deal with a new threat (kind of). Each chapter has it's own boss with it's own unique mechanics.

    As I started playing the game, I was really enjoying it, that is until the next of the first chapter. You see, any progress you made, resources you gathered, equipment you have on, it's all reset for every new chapter. It feels like maybe the developers for the game didn't want to work as hard on adding meaningful content to the game, so they basically make you reset every chapter and do everything all over again. It feels like the game is wasting your time, in a bad way. I don't like having my progress thrown in the garbage.

    The entire game revolves around nonstop constant fetch quests that have you running from one side of the map to the other. Further, there's no meaningful leveling system. Instead, in order to increase your max health, you have to find special nutts. In order to deal more damage or have better defense, you have to rely on new equipment. Why couldn't they have included actual leveling mechanics? Just like in classic Dragon Quest fashion, as you progress in the game, you'll encounter a ton of monsters that are simply re-colored versions of previous monsters. Very lazy.

    Unlike games like Minecraft, there is no large, vast world. Instead it's all broken up into islands and those islands are accessed via teleporters. The game makes an attempt at fooling you into believeing the world is much larger than it actually is, but it doesn't make a very good attempt. If games like Minecraft with giant world designs can work on the Vita, or even Android platforms, what were theythinking limited world sizes so much?

    It's an alright game, but it feels like there wasn't enough effort actually put into the game. The characters are completely forgettable, the quests are all terribly tedious and the game takes any progress you make and flushes it down the toilet. It's a $20.00 game at best.    … Expand
  2. DinoBeam
    Aug 10, 2020
    5
    At first this game is amazing and addicting, them comes chapter 2, one of the most annoying and frustrating things i've ever done in a video game, and god that end boss is just made to piss you off. All the cracks in the game will become more apparent. You have a very small distance window for attacking enemies, too far away and you don't hit, get to close and you get damaged ANDAt first this game is amazing and addicting, them comes chapter 2, one of the most annoying and frustrating things i've ever done in a video game, and god that end boss is just made to piss you off. All the cracks in the game will become more apparent. You have a very small distance window for attacking enemies, too far away and you don't hit, get to close and you get damaged AND STAGGERED. Luckily they changed that in 2, and i'm hoping it fixes all the problems in this poorly designed game… Expand

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  1. Gaming Age
    Apr 28, 2017
    100
    Dragon Quest Builders will undoubtedly scratch the itch of any Minecraft/Terraria fans looking for their next favourite game, but it's accessible enough that RPG fans should enjoy it, too.
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  2. The Vita Lounge
    Oct 26, 2016
    96
    Dragon Quest Builders is part RPG, part construction game and loads of fun. It's full of charm, personality and adventure! There's plenty to explore, recipes to learn, quests to complete and bosses to fight. This game will have you addicted to it for a very long time.
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