Stronger enemies is a good idea at the start of the game but there's a point towards the end when bosses stop being fun, where you can get party wiped in an instant and you spend the fight hoping the boss AI goes easy on you.
Honestly, I never felt that way, I always found the game challenging yet doable, the only obstacle that required grinding for me was the real final boss and that's undeniably hard, but the rest? Not really imho. That being said, even if it is actually hard for most people, they can always turn down the option, that's why I always recommend it.
The thing that bugs me is the turn order thing. It's possible for a boss to go last one round, and first the next. That, coupled with the way later bosses tend to attack two or three times per round can wipe you out in a flash. It happened to me several times.
One way to sorta fix this is to massively reduce the amount of random enemies you fight. Simple ignore them or only fight enemies you've not seen before. The idea is to keep you underleveled.
That has been my plan so far just sprinting through the areas with auto battling and ultra fast speed for the enemies I do run into. But I can see myself getting bored of that as well in the long run. It's certainly better than having to stop every ten seconds to do a mindless battle though.
At first I had the same problem; I played a ton of DQ games and this is the first one when you choose the action turn by turn and not at the start of the round. This basically changed a lot of the well known strategy I had with the series, but when you start to understand the important of the agility stat, it can come in handy (for example, Erik sometimes can attack twice in a "turn" exactly like the boss you encountered). I think you can grow accustomed to this system after a while, but I can relate. Maybe they should've added some form of turn bar to make that more clear.
I hate when random encounters become a trivial matter of just pressing A, especially when there is no auto battle feature; that's basically the main criticism I usually move to FF and DQ never was like that to me, most of the times. That being said, avoiding battles like you're doing can keep boss battles challenging and thus make the game less boring; an approach that I wouldn't follow in the slightest, but if it's your thing, go for it.
There is cross-save between Xbox and Win10.
Most every model has lower polygon counts, losing a good amount of detail.
Environmental shadows are downgraded too. The original version looks significantly better although the new one still looks fine.
Its supposed to be weaker monster but what they consider weak and what they don't is strange. In one area a monster that could buff it's defence and call backup every turn was kicking my ass and making fights take minutes but they didn't give me any xp for being "weak" while another I could easily two shot was still fair game. So I could still grind but if the "weak" one appeared I would just lose time since no xp
I definitely regret purchasing this game on Switch. Definitely wish I got it on Gamepass instead. The game is a very solid 7 too me and I tend to lose interest in it alot. The fact I paid full price for it is weirdly effecting my enjoyment of it, if I was just playing it on Gamepass I think I might enjoy it a bit more.
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Every mainline Dragon Quest is a good first-timer's JRPG, this one included. It's pretty easy on the default difficulty level.
You can switch any time at a Church or Statue in camps. But you need to start at the beginning of a chapter on switching, so if you switch when you're a bit into a chapter you might lose a bit of progresse.
