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GAME: Dragon Quest VII Reimagined Game Review

The audio balance of the voice acting absolutely needs some work, however; a lot of inflected lines of dialogue are spoken so quietly that you can't hear them over the background music

Welp, guess that's a skip. Was worried given the timing of its announcement that they were gonna gut it and take some dev shortcuts. Was catching it as well as I was reading but it indeed does sound like the game is scared to death of even remotely inconveniencing the player.

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Welp, guess that's a skip. Was worried given the timing of its announcement that they were gonna gut it and take some dev shortcuts. Was catching it as well as I was reading but it indeed does sound like the game is scared to death of even remotely inconveniencing the player.

As someone whose played the 3DS version and remembers the tedium of getting to the Rasher & Stripes dual boss fight multiple times during the all trades Abbey questline I’m not crying over QoL changes that ensures newer players don’t have to go through that bullshit. Also hope they got rid of the hopeless boss fight.

The above aside not that I’d entertain the thought of getting this game as I came out of the 3DS remake hating it because of the writing. Does the remake improve the writing so we don’t have plot holes like the hero’s uncle having the exact item the party needs to stop the volcano on Burnmont from erupting or actually lets you resolve Carraway & Lavender’s storyline in a way that ensures they don’t make themselves look terrible, or do anything with Zev after he chooses to abandon the Abbey without his sisters knowledge?

That's the fun part--they didn't remove the hopeless boss fight. So not only are you mopping up enemies left and right on the way to Rasher and Stripes without even entering battles, you still have to go through the rigmarole of arbitrarily losing to them.

I didn't play the 3DS version, so I can't account for any changes in the writing. But if Zev did anything after leaving the Abbey, I didn't see it.

Does the remake improve the writing so we don’t have plot holes like the hero’s uncle having the exact item the party needs to stop the volcano on Burnmont from erupting or actually lets you resolve Carraway & Lavender’s storyline in a way that ensures they don’t make themselves look terrible, or do anything with Zev after he chooses to abandon the Abbey without his sisters knowledge?

I've been going back and playing more retro games as of late and the depth that we've lost over the years in the wake of risking inconveniencing the player is really insane, sitting something from the SNES or N64, or PS1 next to their latest incarnations.