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Is Dragon Quest VII Too Easy? Is Nioh 3 Too Hard?

2/6/202656 min

Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined makes one of the longest, most ambitious RPGs into something more manageable: a swashbuckling sprint through a book of fractured fairy tales. Whether or not you like that change of temp likely depends on your history with the series. Meanwhile, Nioh 3’s first boss is the skill check from hell. Why would game designers build a wall between the player and the fun?

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Clips

Are JRPGs Broken?
Comfort Food Or Hollowed Out?
Nioh 3 Devs Called Out
Dragon Quest Sucks?!
Orbs, Bridges & God Swords

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First 90 seconds

  1. Russ Frushtick· Host0:00

    This is the one with the crystals and the dragons?

  2. Christopher Thomas Plant· Host0:02

    No.

  3. Russ Frushtick· Host0:03

    It's not?

  4. Christopher Thomas Plant· Host0:04

    So sometimes there's orbs.

  5. Russ Frushtick· Host0:07

    Okay.

  6. Christopher Thomas Plant· Host0:08

    Uh, 11's got- Does- 11's got orbs ...

  7. Russ Frushtick· Host0:09

    Do, do any of the orbs have points? 'Cause if they have points, that's basically a crystal.

  8. Christopher Thomas Plant· Host0:13

    [blows raspberry] No, they're usually pretty smooth.

  9. Russ Frushtick· Host0:14

    Okay.

  10. Christopher Thomas Plant· Host0:15

    Final Fantasy, the crystals are quite jagged.

  11. Russ Frushtick· Host0:17

    Yeah, yeah, yeah.

  12. Christopher Thomas Plant· Host0:18

    I will, I will grant you that. Sometimes they're like, Materia, I guess is a perfect, beautiful little sphere that you just wanna pop right in your mouth.

  13. Russ Frushtick· Host0:24

    [mouth pop] Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

  14. Christopher Thomas Plant· Host0:25

    And sometimes they're, like, neat little geometric shapes, like, a, you know, like, an elongated eight-sided die or something like that. But in, in Dragon Quest, it's- we're almost always talking about an orb- Yeah ... and the orb is, you know, prismatic, different colors of the rainbow. And you do need to get all of them, usually to build a bridge- Yeah ... to heaven, so you can, like, get the sword from God.

  15. Russ Frushtick· Host0:46

    Yeah.

  16. Christopher Thomas Plant· Host0:46

    So that's my mnemonic device.

  17. Griffin McElroy· Host0:48

    I like Dragon Warrior. That game's sick.

  18. Christopher Thomas Plant· Host0:51

    [laughs] Okay, so- Dragon Quest sucks. [laughing] That's interesting.

  19. Griffin McElroy· Host0:54

    Dragon Warrior rules.

  20. Christopher Thomas Plant· Host0:55

    That's really- It's really old school- Uh-huh.

  21. Russ Frushtick· Host0:56

    Yeah ...

  22. Griffin McElroy· Host0:56

    so I only like Dragon Warrior, and I actually, the kids that liked Dragon Quest growing up- Yeah ... I thought they were kinda idiots and wimps.

  23. Christopher Thomas Plant· Host1:03

    [laughing] Choose the, um, the blonde flower, uh, seller from Final Fantasy VII. What's her name?

  24. Griffin McElroy· Host1:09

    Aerith.

  25. Russ Frushtick· Host1:10

    Oh.

  26. Christopher Thomas Plant· Host1:12

    [laughs] Not what I- Interesting. [laughing] Not what I expected. [laughing] [laughing] Ah, subs and dubs!

  27. Griffin McElroy· Host1:18

    I think there was a promotion to get a copy of Dragon Warrior for free when I was a kid. [laughs] That's the only reason I play.

  28. Christopher Thomas Plant· Host1:24

    Of course it was! It- the Nintendo Power gave it away, and the second thing- Yes, yes, yes, yes,

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