#Dragon Quest Quest XI S

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『Dragon Quest XI∶ Echoes of an Elusive Age』 2D Mode

When Dragon Quest XI was released in 2017, it could be experienced with three distinct graphical styles across two different consoles. The PlayStation 4 version features beautiful HD visuals developed in Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4. As always, character designs were handled by Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama.

While neither is as technologically impressive as the PS4 version, the Nintendo 3DS version features two different ways to visually experience the JRPG. The first version features low-resolution 3D graphics featuring chibi character models.

Additionally, nostalgic Dragon Quest fans can also experience the eleventh entry with SNES style 2D graphics. This mode was handled by a separate developer, ArtePiazza.

The 3DS version of XI was released exclusively in Japan and while the 2D mode would eventually become globally accessible via other consoles, the low resolution polygonal graphics remain a feature that's exclusive to the 3DS version.

Two years later, Dragon Quest XI would receive an updated release titled∶ Dragon Quest XI S∶ Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition for PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch and Stadia.

This new revision features updated versions of the HD graphics from the original PS4 release and the 3DS' 16-bit version.

Now being available for HD consoles, the 2D version allows players to see the sprite work in crystal clear detail. Additionally, the aspect ratio has been widened compared to the 3DS version.

In my opinion, the only real downgrade would be the font used. The new on-screen text ditches the 3DS' pixelated font in favor of a more traditional typeface.

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Dragon Quest XI S∶ Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition (NS) screenshots uploaded by Nintendoer (The ZNG Wiki) Dragon Quest XI∶ Echoes of an Elusive Age (3DS) sprites uploaded by Komodo & playinful (The Spriter's Resource)

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Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition (2019)

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And now the Switch counterpart for the previous post, this time with all the Switch games I've started playing in the past five years but haven't finished but also am at least pretending I'll get back to eventually.

Hades is one I did technically finish, but only the main story the one time. I do want to play more and get some more of more people's stories and unlock some more stuff, but I just keep having other stuff to do. Great game though, and I'm looking forward to the sequel.

Final Fantasy 12 is one I keep going back to every once in a while. I do genuinely like a lot of stuff about it, but I inevitably run into something really annoying about it too every several hours and then take a break for a few months or a year. I do plan to finish it eventually though, and I'm slowly getting closer.

Bayonetta 2 is a lot better than the first game, which had some great ideas but just felt to me like it wasn't quite done figuring out what to do with them. I stopped like halfway through because reasons and haven't picked it up again yet at least partly because I feel like it would benefit from being on the TV instead of handheld, but I can't see the TV well enough.

Theatrhythm Final Bar Line is another one with the TV problem. I could play it just fine handheld, but the music in it deserves better than the built-in speakers, and the headphone jack is just awful quality. Unfortunately I can't see the TV and don't have my little audio box I run the Switch through so I can use my headphones with it while it's docked.

Tears of the Kingdom is also another TV victim. It's pretty low priority for me to get back to because I really don't love the direction they've gone with BotW and TotK, but it at least partially solves a lot of the problems I had with BotW so I've enjoyed it more. It's completely unplayable handheld for me though because the control setup is bad with a pro controller and literally unusable on the joycons, so it's on hold indefinitely until I can do something about that.

Dragon Quest 11 is so painfully slow replaying the first dozen hours that I already did in the demo on my computer a few years ago, and it makes it hard to work up the motivation to push through it. A lot of stuff about it is great though, and I really enjoyed this stuff the first time through, so I'll deal with it eventually. Probably.

GrimGrimoire OnceMore (or GRiMgRiMoiRe OnCeMoRe if the logo is anything to go by) is something I wanted to finish before Unicorn Overlord comes out, but that's almost definitely not happening. I got sidetracked and stopped playing it for a few months and totally forgot how everything works, and it's really not very forgiving of that. We'll see if I can remember how to video games one of these days.

Disco Elysium does so many things so well even though it's really not my usual kind of thing. I just haven't felt like my brain is in the right place for it lately.

Baten Kaitos is still fun 20 years later. I've been taking a break though because my ADHD brain decided it was time to do something else after like the first dozen hours or so. I'm in no rush with it because I've already played it before forever ago, so it'll get there when it gets there.

Kirby and the Forgotten Land has kind of made me like it less as it goes on. Like it's still plenty of fun, I just kept finding more little annoyances toward the end and lost my momentum. I've finished the main story and rolled the credits and everything, but I only made it partway through the postgame stuff before needing a break.

Jack Jeanne I'm actually actively working on, or was as of a day or two ago. I may or may not need a break because it takes forever to go through all the different routes, and after doing the neutral route first I don't like the individual character ones quite as much. That first time through that first route was my favorite thing so far this year though.

Egglia Rebirth is one of those things I go back to for a few hours a couple times a year. I still really like a lot of things about it, but it gets a little grindy and repetitive trying to do too much at once, and my brain is not suited to coming back to games for like half an hour or an hour once a day for days or weeks in a row. I need to do like 12 hours straight in a single sitting and then not touch it again for six months, which is really not the ideal way to play this.

Fire Emblem Warriors is also another few hours every few months game. I have an overly complex spreadsheet that I built off one of the existing ones online but added a bunch of stuff to it and enhanced it, and slowly checking stuff off is satisfying. I'm a good chunk of the way through history mode, but it'll take approximately forever to finish everything if I ever do.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is also a few hours every few months between other games. I already finished it a while ago and am just going through the story again on NG+. I still really like the characters and story, but this experience is quickly making the combat system become possibly my least favorite in the entire series, when before I felt like every game got better than the previous one.

The House in Fata Morgana I guess can be included too. I finished the actual main story last year and it was great, but I'm still pretending I'll try to get through the extra side stories and stuff one of these days. We'll see, I guess.

Between these lists in these two posts I'm at least theoretically in the middle of playing like 30 games. Why yes, I do have ADHD and a variety of other weird things going on in my brain. How did you guess?

[hellman55]

Dragon Quest XI S [Switch] | FULL GAME (2/2) | Gameplay Walkthrough | No Commentary

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Instead of asking you to check out a game, can we get some recommendations? Sorry if this gets asked alot but it wasnt in the faq

play these games NOW:

- Dragon Quest XI S

- Titanfall 2

- Resident Evil 4 (doesn’t matter which one)

- Any Pikmin Game

- Papa��s Freezeria Deluxe

- Ratchet & Clank 1-3

- Sackboy: A Big Adventure

- Persona 5 Royal

- Final Fantasy XIV

- Yakuza: Like a Dragon

- The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

- Metroid Prime

ask me for more later if you want. i’ll come up with more.

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Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition (2019)

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1C

Sanji (One Piece) VS Turnip Head/Prince Justin (Howl's Moving Castle)

Prince Edward (Enchanted) VS Shrek (Shrek)

Prince Friedrich (Bridgerton) VS Lone Starr (Spaceballs)

The Nutcracker (Barbie in the Nutcracker) VS Merlin (Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs)

Sky (Winx Club) VS Prince Eadric (Tales of the Frog Princess)

Shining Armor (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic) VS Prince Phobos Escanor (W.I.T.C.H.)

Dexterous "Dexter" Charming (Ever After High) VS Prince Bo (Hamtaro Rainbow Rescue)

Shade (Fushigiboshi no Futagohime) VS Prince Sorara (Onegai My Melody: Kirara)

2C

Royce (Love Nikki) VS Rhys (Phantasy Star III)

Pierre (THE iDOLM@STER: SideM) VS Damien LaVey (Monster Prom)

Joshua (Fire Emblem Sacred Stones) VS Luminary (Dragon Quest XI)

Zenos yae Galvus (Final Fantasy XIV) VS Freyjadour Falenas (Suikoden V)

Dimitri (Anastasia) VS Chrom (Fire Emblem Awakening)

Naveen (The Princess and the Frog) VS Prince Achmed (Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizir)

Prince Wilhelm (Young Royals) VS Prince Li Che (Fake Princess)

Lee Chang (Kingdom) VS Sho (Ultraman Ginga S)

1D

Aladdin (Aladdin) VS Prince Proteus (Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas)

Prince Stefan (Barbie as Rapunzel) VS Ling Yao (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Prince James (Sofia the First) VS Ezran (The Dragon Prince)

Prince Charming/David Nolan (Once Upon A Time) VS Claude von Riegan (Fire Emblem Three Houses)

Simba (The Lion King) VS Winter (Wings of Fire)

Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd (Fire Emblem Three Houses) VS The Prince of All Cosmos (Katamari Damacy)

Alucard/Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes (Castlevania) VS Noctis Lucis Caelum (Final Fantasy XV)

Fukaboshi (One Piece) VS Alan Stuart (My Next Life as a Villainess)

2D

Karma/Klaude Aidric Renaldi Mattheus Almonte (Cinderella Phenomenon) VS Victor (Romancing SaGa 2)

Amiti (Golden Sun Dark Dawn) VS Garr Kelvin (Tales of Destiny)

Jamie (Cursed Princess Club) VS Kai von Granzreich (Oushitsu Kyoushi Heine)

Karurusu de Yutari Honyalala (Cute High Earth Defense Club Happy Kiss!) VS Hikari Ku (Octopath Traveler II)

August (High Class Homos) VS Sebastian (The Prince and the Dressmaker)

Rei (Kilala Princess) VS Prince Arrow (Petite Princess Yucie)

Frederick (Cursed Princess Club) VS Eolio Ezrest (Witch Hat Atelier)

Leif Faris Claus (Fire Emblem Thracia 776) VS Lune (The Cat Returns)

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WELCOME TO THE BADASS TRANS SWAG BRACKET AD 2023, a tournament for canonically trans characters (that we haven't seen in many other polls) to duke it out, presented in a ridiculous and esoteric manner (convoluted as fuck bracket).

VOTING FOR THE FINALS BEGINS 2/27 AT 7 PM EST. MATCHUPS BELOW THE CUT.

ROUND 1:

TESTAMENT (they/them) from GUILTY GEAR vs. SAM NIGHTINGALE (she/her) from DIMENSION 20 (winner will go against CATALYST (she/her) from APEX LEGENDS)

ALEX FIERRO (s/he) from MAGNUS CHASE & THE GODS OF ASGARD vs. ARCEE (she/her) from TRANSFORMERS (winner will go against POISON (she/her) from STREET FIGHTER)

CREMISIUS ACLASSI (he/him) from DRAGON AGE vs. MADELINE (she/her) from CELESTE (winner will go against DORORO (he/him) from DORORO)

ORYX, THE TAKEN KING (he/him) from DESTINY vs. CAGLIOSTRO (she/her) from GRANBLUE FANTASY (winner will go against ROSEMASTER (she/her) from CUCUMBER QUEST)

ROUND 2:

ELEKTRA ABUNDANCE-EVANGELISTA (she/her) from POSE FX vs. ICHIKA SAKURAI (she/her) from HIGH SCHOOL HEROES

PRINCESS SAPPHIRE (she/her) from RIBBON NO KISHI vs. SUN WUKONG (he/him) from JOURNEY TO THE WEST (art by @antidotefortheawkward-art from this post, used with permission)

TAYLOR LEE (they/them) from THERAPY WITH DR. ALBERT KRUEGER vs. ELENDIRA THE CRIMSONNAIL (she/her) from TRIGUN

KAINÉ (she/her) from NIER REPLICANT/GESTALT vs. SYLVIA (she/her) from DRAGON QUEST XI

ROUND 3:

TESTAMENT (they/them) from GUILTY GEAR vs. ELEKTRA ABUNDANCE-EVANGELISTA (she/her) from POSE FX

ARCEE (she/her) from TRANSFORMERS vs. SUN WUKONG (he/him) from JOURNEY TO THE WEST

MADELINE (she/her) from CELESTE vs. ELENDIRA THE CRIMSONNAIL (she/her) from TRIGUN

ORYX, THE TAKEN KING (he/him) from DESTINY vs. KAINÉ (she/her) from NIER REPLICANT/GESTALT

SEMIFINALS:

ELEKTRA ABUNDANCE-EVANGELISTA (she/her) from POSE FX vs. SUN WUKONG (he/him) from JOURNEY TO THE WEST

MADELINE (she/her) from CELESTE vs. ORYX, THE TAKEN KING (he/him) from DESTINY

FINALS:

SUN WUKONG (he/him) from JOURNEY TO THE WEST vs. ORYX, THE TAKEN KING (he/him) from DESTINY

[karotte2188]

Here comes the witch!

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I guess I haven't done much Dragon Quest propaganda here but I genuinely don't know how. or even if I care to. but when I play over 100 games a year and I say Dragon Quest XI S Echoes of an Elusive Age Definitive Edition is my favorite game ever like. that's SOMETHING, right

[ponett]

while you're rpg-posting, can I get a rundown on what you didn't like about octopath?

so i played about ten hours of octopath - everyone's first chapters and one character's second chapter - and it drives me crazy because it felt like a no brainer for them to work on the obvious flaws and make a great sequel. and then they apparently went and made almost the exact same game a second time

first and foremost was the writing, which is maybe the most boring writing i've ever experienced in a jrpg. there are other, older games with dry writing, sure, but octopath just has so much of it. despite all those words the characters have no soul, the world has no intrigue, and the conflicts feel stock. it's completely paint by numbers. it's almost impressive how completely and utterly dry and charmless it is. i'd say it feels like the contents of a stock tabletop game adventure book but that would be doing those a disservice

the thing that could have potentially helped, which EVERYONE (even the game's fans) pointed out as its main flaw, would have been to let the characters interact with each other outside of the rare and easily missable skits. characters in a game like dragon quest xi are mostly building off of familiar fantasy archetypes too, but the fun comes in how those archetypes play off of each other. how does the gruff knight get along with the dashing rogue? instead there's zero interplay between the stories, because the structure of the game means that they can't assume you have any party members other than the one whose story you're currently doing... even though, like, the level requirements for the second chapters implicitly force the average player to either do all eight chapter 1's first, or grind a ton? it's baffling

the stories not intersecting is just one aspect of the larger structural problems, though. live a live (which i need to play soon) embraces the variety its separate stories enable - not just aesthetically, but structurally as well. it'll throw in a stealth chapter, or a chapter with minimal combat. octopath, on the other hand, makes every chapter feel like every other chapter with a different coat of paint. reach a new town, get some cutscenes for a party member's story, get sent off to another area to fight a boss, rinse and repeat. at the time i even made a diagram to complain about how every single area i encountered in octopath was designed the same

RPGs NEED variety in their pacing and structure! it can't just be the same thing at the same rate over and over for 40-60 hours. i got through the mindnumbingly boring eight opening chapters hoping that it would improve after that - and no, it can't be understated how stupid it is that this is a game where you're basically forced to play through eight slow and boring JRPG opening towns in a row for the first ten hours - and when i finally got to the second chapters my heart sank upon realizing that no, this really is the whole game

even the combat, which i found really fresh and interesting at first, got stale and repetitive to me. at first the break system was really cool. wow, there's a reason for my healers to attack even though they do low damage! how smart! but in what i played it just kind of made every boss feel the same. figure out their weakness, hit them with that until their defenses break, and then spam your strongest attacks

but, again, like with bravely default, its soundtrack is its main saving grace. i adore the octopath OST. i have it my itunes library and everything. yasunori nishiki is one to keep an eye on at square, and i'm glad he's a part of the ff7 remake team. that, and the ensuing "HD-2D" remakes of better games like live a live and dragon quest iii, are the silver lining with octopath