By Sam Coles:
I don’t know if this is a new thing at the moment
but the guys who make the Dynasty Warriors series seem to be making games with
their formula with different skins of other existing game franchises. First
they did The Legend of Zelda with Hyrule Warriors and now we have Dragon Quest
Heroes. Does it work? In short yes!
The story of Dragon Quest Heroes is set in the world
of Arba where monsters and humans both co-exist and get along with each other.
Until a mysterious spell suddenly turns them against humans and begin to attack
the humans for no reason. So you must journey through the land and fight your
way through hordes of monsters and destroying them in the most outrageous and
over the top way possible. It’s what you would expect from a Dynasty Warriors
style game. You can pick between two heroes that you’ll primarily control,
however you can assume direct control of the other characters during a battle
as it has the classic party system.
The gameplay if you haven’t guessed already is a
hack and slash game in the same vein as Dynasty Warriors as it is made by same
guys. Like Hyrule Warriors you’ll travel to locales that you know from the
Dragon Quest universe, as well as getting into big scale battles with waves and
waves of enemies from the games even those deceivingly adorable slimes.
How it generally works you enter an area where you
take down a wave of enemies until the game tells you to stop, but portals will appear
which keeps you on your toes and you have to kill the portal keepers. This
makes you think about how you tackle a battle especially when you’re defending
an object or person because the portals are generally at the back of the map
far away, so you have to leave objective vulnerable for a small amount of time.
You’re not always stuck in small spaces fighting these monsters you get to
explore large rolling green hills exploring and fighting monsters to gain XP
and unlock new weapons. Now and again you’ll fight large bosses which will require
different strategies such as using ballista’s etc. Each boss fight is fresh and
varied which will not leave you bored.
It’s not just a hack and slash game it acts like an
RPG like the other Dragon Quest games. What I mean by this is that you gain XP
which is standard fair in most action games these days, but you have to assign
points to each of your party members to keep them powered up. You also have to
check their items and weapons to make sure they’re up to par with you and the
enemies you’ll encounter next. After each mission you’ll be transported back to
camp which is a hub area where you can interact with other characters, learn
more about the world, buy new equipment and assign skill points to your party members
when it’s quiet.
The graphics are bright and colourful with a
beautiful cartoon style which will help it age better in the coming years. The
characters visual styles are all unique and different with their own funny
personality traits for each. The game runs at a buttery smooth frame rate of 60
frames per second during gameplay sections which is key for this sort of game
because you need that quick reaction time.
Dragon Quest Heroes is a wonderful spin off to an
already fantastic game series which has great action and doesn’t take itself
seriously which is nice to play a game that is not serious in a sea of games
that are gritty and violent. If you have a PS4 grab this game you won’t regret
it.
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