Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:13:45.000Z
[dq5] my main beef with this game so far is that it has the worst case of "What do I need to do to trigger the plot flag to advance" I've ever witnessed in a game
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Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:14:04.000Z
this is the first like, 'linear' dragon quest game as I understand it
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:14:21.000Z
and it is not as good at that as its contemporaries in Final Fantasy were
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:14:42.000Z
I've had to open a guide to figure out what to do to advance the plot like 150 times and I'm well under halfway through
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Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:15:46.000Z
at one point, you need to cross a bridge to the east
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:15:53.000Z
but if you try, the guard won't let you
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:15:59.000Z
what you have to do instead is
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:16:09.000Z
you go west, across several screens of wilderness, to a different town
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:16:11.000Z
and use the inn there
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:16:17.000Z
triggering a conversation with Henry during the night
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:16:22.000Z
then go back east to the bridge
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:16:31.000Z
and this time the guard recognizes Henry and lets you cross
Niamh Vibes
2024-12-20T18:17:01.000Z
good god
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:17:14.000Z
and that's just how plot advancement works in this game constantly
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:17:23.000Z
I just have a guide open at all times
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:17:41.000Z
and like it's not like I had no reason to go east! that was already my objective in the story!
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:17:57.000Z
but to do it I had to go to a different unmarked town because there was a conversation I hadn't had yet
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:18:21.000Z
it's not a lack of railroading but an active presence of antirailroading
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:18:42.000Z
you have not faffed about enough. go faff about or we won't let the plot happen
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:23:24.000Z
https://images.plurk.com/67dY1aiXy0ExTC2NIeg7QN.png I'm not so sure about the new administration
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:39:14.000Z
wow the queen of Reinhardt is a wild character
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:39:41.000Z
so the country has two princes, Harry and Dale
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:39:57.000Z
Prince Harry was kidnapped and sent to his doom
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:40:08.000Z
and it's later revealed that the queen did it
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:40:21.000Z
because Harry is I think from the king's previous marriage
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:40:43.000Z
so she admits to attemping to murder the prince in part of a conspiracy to put Dale on the throne
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:40:46.000Z
and just says this about it
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:40:53.000Z
https://images.plurk.com/3LLAoeiqCXg6pX4qOJ6iZf.png
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:40:57.000Z
"That's just parenting!"
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T18:42:36.000Z
god forbid women do anything
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T22:15:19.000Z
here's the added layer of weirdness
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T22:15:30.000Z
in a classic DQ move, the queen was replaced by an evil monster clone
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T22:15:35.000Z
who is using the throne to do evil
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T22:15:40.000Z
but that happened
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T22:15:50.000Z
after the original had her stepson kidnapped and sold into slavery
Quinn Angstrom
2024-12-20T22:16:09.000Z
so revealing the true evil queen doesn't undo the old queen's murder conspiracy charges
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