I try to beat every game I play, only giving up on the ones I’m truly not enjoying and see as a genuine waste of my time. I finished DQ Builders (barely), but just couldn’t do it on DQ Builders 2.
These games are an absolute chore to get through, and I mean that in the most literal sense. The gameplay is chore after chore after chore after chore. It’s monotonous. It’s repetitive. It makes the game feel like a task rather than fun.
Maybe I’m not the target demographic for the game, I’ll be the first to admit it. I mean Minecraft really is a kids game at the end of the day. Like any children’s media, though, that doesn’t mean an adult can’t enjoy it.
But I really struggle to imagine any adult with a full time job and responsibilities enjoying this. You’re busy with work, chores, etc etc and then in your down time you play a game that’s just assigning you more chores.
I think a kid could enjoy this, but also at the same time I wouldn’t really want to let a kid play this? Like it uses very light swear words (like damn) and also features slightly lewd content (at least in the second game with one of the main plot threads being getting one of the characters to dress in a bunny suit in order to get the miners to go and be more productive in the mine).
I’ll leave it up to you guys but I just don’t think I’d let a kid under 15 play this. But at the same time, I can’t imagine anyone 15 or up enjoying this, so who the hell are these games even for, man?
At first the gameplay loop seems like it might be kinda fun. You spend some time upgrading your village, the people get happier which attracts more people, you get to see your town come to life. But in practice, it doesn’t really play out that way.
The game is highly scripted. You build one house at the behest of an NPC, and great! They’re very happy. Then, they ask you to build another house. Great, awesome work!
This attracts another NPC, who then asks you to build a specific house. The NPC then asks for another house. This attracts new NPCs who then request new houses… And on and on.
Despite being a game that purports to be about building and about creativity, it adheres too strictly to the highly structured and story centric focus of RPGs. You don’t really build your own house in your own way unless you really feel like it, because it doesn’t advance you at all. There’s no reward for spending time doing extra upgrades to your village.
It also isn’t really fun doing any extra building because the controls kinda suck. I don’t know if this is necessarily the fault of the game though, I’ve always hated Minecraft with a controller, I just don’t think there’s a way to do it that matches the efficacy of using a mouse and keyboard. But still, it makes the game less enjoyable playing it on the Switch.
And speaking of, my GOD does the second game run like shit on the switch. It is truly pathetic. It takes 1000 years, millennia it feels like, for the game to even open which already dampens my mood to play any game. Then, once its finally opened up and I’ve plucked out the gray hairs that have sprouted, I head on in and what do I find? Lag lag lag, just terrible performance, frames dropping off the wazoo.
To summarize, the games run like shit, thanks to that they look like shit. They are not fun to control, and they are not fun to play. Is there a redeeming quality sprinkled in here at all?
2 that I can think of, actually.
For one, the story of the games are cool, especially the first one. The story takes place in an alternate world where the hero accepts the villain’s deal in the first Dragon Quest game rather than denying it and defeating the villain. Very fun idea, I really like that. I don’t think the premise of the second DQ Builders is as good, but I think the characters are much better in this one and the story itself is better.
My second compliment, the gameplay loop is genuinely fun at first. The first couple of loops are a good time. It just goes on wayyyyyyyyyyyy too long with way too much dialogue and wayyyy too many tasks, which very much ruins the fun.
I do not recommend these games at all, even if you’re a gigantic Dragon Quest fan.
0/5.
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