5 DUMB THINGS About Dragon Quest XI - sackchief 

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I've always thought that when the luminary travels back in time at the beginning and meets his Grandparent, It's not the power of the luminary allowing this, but the power of the Yggdrasil root on the tree in the middle of the village. Because if you touch the tree after that scene, it says that the root used all of it's power. I think that was made possible only because Yggdrasil did that.

"Marriage options are becoming more popular in RPGs since people enjoy fantasies they can't experience in real life" Roast of the century

As someone who is not particularly attractive and has been lonely for too long for my liking, I wish I had the option of traveling to another realm and fighting a superboss within a certain amount of turns to ask a favour from a glowing buff dude. I'm not saying that would be my first preference but I'd appreciate having the option available.

if they wanted to introduce romance into the game they should have had gemma travel with the hero and talking to him like medea in 8. the marriage is forced in the game, in 8 and 5 it was a part of the story.

For me, the most dumb thing is how Michelle is still alive in Act 3. She died during Act 1, and when we go back in time we go back to a point after she's already dead.

It's funny how the Luminary grows into a silent protagonist.

One thing that bothered the crap outta me was Cetaeca was built up and when you first meet her shes this gigantic golden whale, youre supposed to be able to roam the ENTIRE world freely as you please flying everywhere except.... you can only land in a few VERY specific spots, which are mostly just small hallways with a treasure chest at the end. Like what a buzzkill

My philosophy when loving stuff is “you’re only really a fan of something if you’re not afraid to point out its flaws”. I think you should do this kind of video for every mainline Dragon Quest, just to show how much you really love the franchise.

Would definitely enjoy more videos like this. Not just on dqxi either. The only thing dumb thing that comes to my mind is the start of act 3 and how the hero handles things with the king...

Maybe the luminary still wanted to go to prison so he can help Erik get out

I think the "Yes/No" thing really isn't bad at all. Its actually entertaining and funny seeing how everyone respond to your "No" response. They're all written in ways that understand just how antiquated that design is, makes fun of it, and shows off just how charming the cast is (such as Veronica forcing you to say Yes when a "damsel" demands it, or when Jade is just "stretching her legs"). While yes, you technically do get more dialogue options in something like Persona 5, your choices don't change the story there either. Other games with marriage/dating options typically are designed around them (Fire Emblem, Rune Factory etc...) and not just relagated to post-game as an option. Personally I'd rather DQ not go down the visual novel/dating sim route at all, but that's just me.

You have good points about it. Albeit... In the case of the "time travel", it actually foreshadows an important plot point in the third act, which the Luminary goes back in time to prevent the fall of Yggdrasil. As for the forgiveness in the game, Vince is not the only victim of this. Krystalinda turned all the citizens in ice statues and she's pardoned by Queen Frysabel. There's implications that Doge Rotondo ratted out the Luminary and his companions to Jasper. And then... the Kingdom of Heliodor. Man, the Kingdom of Heliodor. In Act 1, once King Carnelian discovers the truth about the Luminary, orders him arrested, persecution and his adoptive hometown burned. The reveal that Carnelian was possessed by Mordegon make this worse as this event wasn't foreshadowed at all. (Except in Dundrasil and that Phenomenon city, but it's still vague). Even worse, Hendrik never pulled a Beatrix/Celes and defected after discovering the king's true nature, instead only joining the party under orders of the king. Twice. Perhaps the message of DQXI is that "All humans are sympathetic and deserves forgiveness and all monsters, as cute as they are, deserve to die". The only exceptions are the aforementioned Krystalinda (And she looks like a humanoid than a monster.), Jasper and Mia, and even then, the latter two are still humans who are monsters by choice. Dragon Quest XI S is a nice game, but even the most beautiful rose has thorns. At least it's not as bleak and cruel as... The Last of Us Part II.

There is 1 instance where there is a Yes/No, that gets one of the funniest reactions. It's in DQ VIII, after being rescued from being buried in an avalanche. When the hero wakes up, you have to talk to all your team members, when speaking to Angelo, he makes a comment about the dog that rescued you is more useful and smells better than King Trode. If you agree with Angelo, King Trode has a hissy fit. To make it even better, it doesn't force you to go back and give the "right" answer

Great Video Sackchief, if there's ones thing that really bugged me about DQXI it's how emotionless The Hero can be. I feel like 95% of the game he just doesn't react to any of things happening to him or the party. Anyways can't wait for the next video keep up the good work.

I have minor nitpicks 1. Hero isn’t that expressive compared to the 3DS version and to an extent Smash 2.A lot of sheaths and scabbards aren’t modeled when you equip weapons (especially on costumes) 3. Party members don’t follow you in towns and their weapons aren’t modeled outside of battle 4. I wish Tickington got the same treatment as the 3DS version where a lot of places are actually modeled 5. I wish Jade’s voice actress could speak up in cutscenes 6. When you hover over any equipment it doesn’t render before you pick it Edited: 7. The hero doesn't speak outside of being a child when he should at certain scenes 8. Party members don't have a running animation when following you on the overworld 9. Veronica doesn't really have a unique death animation (when she gets crit or dies to a powerful move if under leveled) 10. - - - - - I’ve been watching a 3DS play through so that’s why I’m saying some of these I might comeback to this comment to add more things once the thought comes across my head.

1. The yes/no choice does have relevance in one part of the story; the Lonalulu part with Michelle. You can either tell her true love is coming or tell her the truth. 2. Yeah, I can agree with that. There’s no build-up to the marriage and it doesn’t feel earned. 3. That is a pretty big plot hole. Not sure why they added that if they weren’t going to do it again. 4. I agree. That was way too forgiving. It should’ve made you retry until you got at least second place. 5. Yeah that’s fair but thankfully he’s still got a fun personality.

Unfortunately all of the third act/losing the second act timeline qualifies for me. I adored all of the second act. Also the sage not being Serenica.

The marriage system was definitely undercooked, it wasn’t even all there in the original version, you could only marry Gemma (That’s why she’s the only one that gets a nice illustration). This is disappointing since DQ was one of the first jrpgs with marriage options in V and they were really well done. Time travel didn’t make sense but that just fictional time travel for you. If the hero had never gotten himself jailed then the whole chain of events that caused him to time travel and warn his grandpa would’ve never happened so he would’ve gotten himself jailed and then… You get the idea. that whole section was pretty hearth warming so I tend to give it a pass. Imo the dumbest thing was when the hero went back in time, everything is back exactly as it was at the point he returns… Except Michele who is back to being alive for some reason even if you saw her die way before the point you time travel back to.

Dragon Quest XII from what’s known is that the decisions you make will impact the story and how things play out in those events. I’m looking forward to seeing how they handle this. I find DQ XI’s decisions pretty funny. It’s kinda funny seeing Veronica calling you a heartless monster, Faris banging his head endlessly, and Veronica asking you what sort of hero you are. It’s stupid in Rab’s Sidestory though. Imagine being the king and not being able to say no. Rab you’re a king *GODDAMNIT.*

Dragonquest 5 also had a time travel segment where the protagonist meets himself as a child and the other version of himself talks, at the beginning of the game child protagonist talks to an adult version of himself who talks while child protagonist is mute, later on he travels back in time and talks to child protagonist who talks while adult protagonist is mute.

The yes and no questions are literally in most other DQ games and they aren’t meant to change the games story but are there for comedic relief lol

There are three things that kind of bug me: 1. After training the player to say yes to most choices, the player might not realize they can say no to Michele. 2. The tockles strewn throughout the world giving you pastwords almost give away the post game twist that you get to time travel in the game's plot. 3. I don't think the vignettes after act 1 add enough to the story for what the take away in narrative tension and proper pacing.

The Yes/No is part of the tradition of the series,, at least it's hilarious that they made the No answers funny.

Dumb thing #6: The Luminary could have prevented the beginning of ACT3 by just speaking What i mean? In Act3(or post-credit of ACT2) the Group goes to a tower where Ghost-Serenica lives, and they find a way to go back in time and the Luminary goes back to the end of ACT1 (right before arriving to Alboria, city of Serena and Veronica, and right under Yggdrasil). Now Luminary remembers the events of ACT2, he knows that King Carnelian(possessed by Mordregon), Jasper and Hendrick are following them really close. Luminary knows that the moment they start to fight Jasper, Veronica will die just to save the rest of the group but Luminary doesn't speak(which is dumb as hell bc we saw Kid-Luminary speaking in several flashbacks); He could warn his friends and prepare accordingly, he doesn't even need to tell the truth(or he can but usually people are sceptical about time-travelling) but that doesn't happen...they still manage to prevent what actually happens in Act2...but it's really dumb how Luminary could solve half of that situation if only he told about it to the team.

One of the things I would've liked to see added was the world reacting to the defeat of the final boss in act 3. Imagine how fun it would be to travel around the world and see all the cheers and bright smiles of the denizens of the world you just saved. It would be the similar to the end of Act 2 before the transition to 3, except the world isn't demolished. And the Death Star floating over Gallipolis wasn't what people were raving about all the time like at the end of act 3. This could've been an opportunity to allow the player to reexplore the world for a final time and celebrate the long journey. Maybe even certain kingdoms could've been hinted starting a rebuilding effort. I understand that this is to allow the player to refight the final boss using the JRPG trope that makes time revert before the final boss is defeated, but they could've worked that in other ways (Looking at you tockle time machine tower). Regardless this is still my favorite game of all time. My suggestion would've made for better closure imo, because I'm not gonna lie, I felt very empty when I finished my first playthrough (amazing games will do that to you).

Honestly after the ending of Octagonia and Sniflheim I'm imagining the game ends with everyone forgiving whoever the final boss is before a battle even starts. Some of these smaller storylines in the beginning of the game have the most unsatisfying Disney payoffs.

I’ve always hated Faris so much, however I didn’t noticed that horse race. So, that makes me more hate him more again.

Just beat this game and its one of my favorites, really enjoy the plot but yeah...the writing is not its strongest suit by any means.

You want to talk about dumb forgiveness, Darth Vader kills Palpatine and gets to be a Force Ghost even though he was Hitler on a Galactic Scale. I'm sorry, but everything else seems small compared to that bullshit.

Oh, you should definitely keep doing this. Make it a series. Do all the games. Talk about how stupid the story is in DQ4's extra chapter in the remakes.

Akira Toriyama characters getting forgiven no matter what they do example 973.

The yes/no thing, and also selecting the "wrong" answer and being forced to choose again until you select the "right" answer has been a thing since the beginning of the series. Seems like an odd inclusion.

On my first playthough I assumed Sylvando was unbeatable, but then I realised you can easily just hold boost and never come within a second of running out of stamina as long as you hit every replenishment spot.

Michelle the mermaid is supposed to be nothing but sea foam after the quest for the Green Orb. But in act 3, she's magically alive again and together with Kai. Its sweet how it turned out but HOW IS SHE ALIVE AGAIN!?

Honestly, JRPGs nowadays are very forgiving and they hold your hand almost every step of the way. It’d be nice to see a change of pace for DQXII.

the first one is a common trope in dragon quest games that dates back to the original, where saying no to the princess with have her repeating "but you must!" until you say yes. It would be an insult to the series not to have the gag in any of its mainline entries

The only thing that made me scratch my head on first playthrough was the heroes breaking out of Jasper's chains before the final fight....what power was that? No matter how enjoyable the scene is it's sheer plot convenience that they were able to will themselves out of his chains to accompany you to the final fight. I only care so much because they could've easily NOT had a Jasper fakeout so this scene could take place but they didn't then opted to take the cheapest way out of what they wrote themselves into

But I love "But thou must" questions. It's classic dragon quest.

I feel the biggest issue of this game is the entire structure of the plot. It's more like an Final Fantasy epic, grand scale plot. Dragon Quest has always been about small scale subplots you just stumble upon. Here, it all has to serve the main story, save for the mermaid thingy. This wouldn't have been much of an issue if the plot actually worked. It doesn't, because DQXI still lacks the elements needed to make such a story work. Good characters, exposition, an interesting villain.

The first point about the two dialogue options I really noticed with Pokémon sword/shield too, but in that game both options are the same thing just rephrased!

i always saw the Yes/No question as a joke. At least for me was funny always picking no to see the reaction of your party xd

Lol the Yes or No thing is just an old running DQ Trope & is how the series has always been. I guess they think it's charming. I have to admit, some of the No responses are pretty hilarious, like Jade trying to side kick you in the head & saying that she's just stretching her legs 😁

Can't believe you didn't mention how dumb it is that you had to make a wish to marry Gema! As if she wouldn't have married you anyway! She should have been the literal Canon storyline wife, but you can wish to have a different wife if you want. Seriously, it would have made all the sense if the Luminary married her naturally in the story. Why would he have to wish for that?

Maybe they will change this that in DQ XII. When it was teased, the DQ game developer stated that "your every action will matter".

The fighting tournament is a hot mess in general. Like you're supposed to be paired with jade and then rab says something and you're not, which is never explained.

I have loved dragon quest since I was a little kid but it's always good to acknowledge the flaws of a series no matter how much you love it.

The first one with the dialogue is for comedic purposes only. Obviously, you have to help or do the thing they ask you to. Imagine not rescuing the Prawle kidnapped by that one dragon, so it's just for fun, nothing more.

Yeah, I had issues with Vince's outcome myself. Dude was partnering up with Pennywise's cousin and nothing happens to him.

One of the dumb stuff that made me stop playing the game for a while was when we get separated and have to get all partymembers backs…and jade is said to be brainwashed and basically used as a puff puff slave in the casino and somehow everyone is like « okay lets never speak about it » after she kicks her jailors’ass…as a woman it truly shocked me.

The one thing that bums me out of this game is the music. Sure, the soundtrack is amazing, but having the same track out in the field and in the towns, with absolutely no variations, over and over again… just blends the game in such a way that makes it monotonous. And I really want to love it.

I married Gemma and I did not regret it and I think that's the canon marriage because it's the only one where the Luminary and the marriage companion changed clothes for a wedding theme (in the case of Gemma)

I dare you to make a video about: Dumb Stuff in DQ6, just don't do a drinking game to it, you won't make it through

I love the But thou must trope it's a franchise staple along with Puns and Puff Puff.

While I agree with just about everything, I think the whole "Yes/No" thing is basically an inside joke and the developers being self aware, considering how the old school games in the series invented the "But thou must!" trope

The luminary is very capable when plot don't matter. However, He become the most pathetic damsel in distress whenever plot calls for. How many time must he blindsided? Not to mention the time traveling bullshit in act 3 made all the character development thus far utterly pointless.

I've read somewhere long ago that those Yes/No questions aren't really supposed to be actual choices, but a way to make the player stop for a second and notice that this is a point of no return or an important moment in the overall story. If there were no pause in these moments, some players would go right through it without even noticing that a new character is in the party or that the status quo has changed. Dragon Quest at least make these weird questions a bit funny by adding stupid dialogue when you choose the wrong answer.

Serenica and Erdwin never married in the original timeline. So Durstan made his spirit immortal in order to make sure the next Luminary will have a spouse.

I never thought I’d hear you use the term, “Glowing Muscular Man” but I love it lmao

It's my first DQ game so I pretty much just went along with a lot of things early on. The first one that really confused me was Krystalinda. If I understood it correctly, she was imprisoned in the book and her powers were sealed to that creature, and yet, she managed to freeze the entire city of Sniflheim after Jasper let her out, and proceeded to order Hendrik and his knights to kill the creature that was holding her power. Seems like they got confused with the supposed chain of events there.

the yes or no thing is just them sticking to the tradition. Goes back to Dragon warrior/dragon quest 1 which forced a yes answer too. its a nostalgia thing I guess

Lol if you think ppl forgiving Vince Vanquish was dumb, don't play Dragon Quest 5. The Queen who is the literal cause of your fathers death and the reason you are imprisoned as a slave for your ENTIRE CHILDHOOD, you actually rescue her & there is no repercussion for her whatsoever! After you escape your slavery you effing free her & forgive her, just like that! There is literally no repercussions for this traiterous pos Queen whatsoever! It is by FAR the most bizzare, nonsensical thing I have ever seen in any RPG, hands down. She should have been immediately tried and hung, period. But she literally gets to rule beside her son after she plotted to kill his half brother so that her own son could acede the effing throne! How does this make ANY sense?? But yeah, I guess this means that this is yet another DQ trope at this point. Ppl get to do really, REALLY effed up things & can just apologize for it & no big deal, all is forgiven.

Funny how you didn't talk about us getting 10000 casino coin to progress through the story and to save jade

Dude was legit feeding people to a spider and it never occurs to me how awful that is till I watch this video. The game’s lighthearted tone is that OP.

Ah yes, "But Thou Must" syndrome is alive and well in this series.

1) I Agree, but this Is Just an opinion 2) Again it's a matter of taste 3) This Is not a plothole, it's a narrative device called soft magic system.It's when an event Is caused by the use of a magic Power that Is not limited by specific rules of the story and this gives It a mysterious vibe. In this case the luminary didn't voluntarily go back to the past. This mysterious Power of the luminary Just activated in that moment. Usually this Is used to give info dump like this(in fact it's used Again in this game for a similar reason) You May not like It, but it's not bad writing. 4) I Agree, but this Is really Just a nitpick 5) I agree

The Luminary isn't a silent protagonist, have you HEARD him in his pep power animations? Lmfao

The luminary losing his powers could be tied to stress. A similar thing happened in Spider-Man 2 with Tobey Maguire.

I get your point about the horse race not needing to be won not making sense from a plot standpoint, but from a gameplay standpoint it would be ungodly awful. They could have skipped it and had it be a cutscene or a fade to black and skip it, but having it so if you lose the prince is unhappy? So you need to win? Fuck no! You're thrown into a brand new minigame using different controls and rules than you're used to. It's a common enough thing in JRPGs, and it's not a well liked trope. Forcing you to win it would be a terrible idea. Skipping it would probably have been the best option, but there being no consequence to losing is the next best choice the developers could have made.

There are some more dumb things I noticed as well, such as the leap you take with Erik at the start of the game, and the power of friendship stuff at the end of Act 2. When you escape Heliodor with Erik, you both take a leap off a cliff face and fall into a forest a hundred or so metres down. You both survive, thanks to believing in the power of the Luminary. What bothers me is how this power is never used again. Perhaps the power of friendship stuff I'll mention next is a repetition of this power, but it's not too clear. When the Spectral Sentinels return to sneak snare the party, they are freed from the snares with the very strong faith they have with the Luminary. If this is that power, all is forgiven. What bothers me far more is how the Sentinels returned to do this in the first place... You killed them all except for Mia, who was redeemed. They all vanished into purple dust. How did they return? This is never explained, and no hint is provided later. Maybe someone can help enlighten me on these things.

tbf the video comp of the luminary saying no was pretty hilarious. The lack of consequences in the game is probably just because they mostly wanted to follow a single story without it branching, so they pretend that you won the race in order to continue the sequence of events without needing another scenario to write around. I won't lie by saying they're brilliant design choices, but much like octopath traveler, dqxi very much feels designed to be modeled as an older game, which fits pretty well with the theme. They could've totally gone a different route if they wanted, but I think the devs may have wanted to do it because this game is a fully fledged remaster of its 3ds version. DQXII, on the other hand, is a game that should represent dragon quest's future, so I'm hoping it won't have any of these poor design choices whilst still giving an experience worth remembering. btw nice touch @ cc for saying thwacking lol

This game frustrates me. For one it's gorgeous to look at, it oozes charm, the voice acting is really solid (except for Michelle the mermaid who I wanted to strangle), good combat system, neat crafting system with the mini forge, and nice music. However as you pointed out, the silent protagonist just doesn't work in this day and age. they didn't even give him various facial expressions to go along with what was happening. He's the most important character in the game and yet he's just a shallow husk that walks around with the other characters, which is weird because when he goes back in time he meets his younger self who has a voice and talks. The story is interesting in some areas, and absolutely bored me to death in others

this gonna be interesting 1 "but thou must" think its more like an inside joke of the series, and not something that the player sould take seriously 2 i think the group chat and other npc say something special if you are married and in cobblestones, at least i know what they say if its gemma, its something more like how they are surprised that the hero sudenly burst out in lots of talkin, and how everyone was surprised that the hero sudenly talks, and then later say something like how the hero dont realy know of anything that happend after the marriage, and i think the reason for that is, is because trustan took the form of the hero, and dit all the talk for him, because the hero just is to shy to be able to talk much 3 well the thing is, the hero him self was not realy so sure what happend, after all, he is still at the beggining of his journey, maybe that time travel realy just was a thing that happend, because the hero just dit not want to see how cobble stone got destroyed, and he him self was not actualy sure if he actualy went back in time during that time, and maybe his adoptive dad just had no time left, to tell everyone that the hero came as an adult to him, and even if he dit, how big of a chance there is everyone would belive him? i mean his adoptive mother dit not reconize the hero, so theres that 4 well the thing is, prince faris realy cant ride a horse, as you can see how he moved on one of them at the end, and its better to lose by being able to ride one, then to completly make a fool out of yourself, trying to ride a horse, after all, everyone expects that prince faris is able to ride a horse, there never realy was any talk on winning, he has just simply needed to be there, alsol i do think sylvando does say something differend depending if you get first or not 5 as rab says, "there has been worse thing done for more self gaining" and sometimes power may just blind people into doin unspeakable things, even if feedin a giant spider is 1 thing, he was just thinkin about the poor childreen at the house, and wantin to get money for the house, so that way it dont has to close it, that the children dont have to end up on the streets, so he trys desperate things to help the kids he holds close to him i hope my explaining things helped makin at least some things a bit more clear about why something is, how it is, and why some things are like that

I just got to these points and thought the same thing. I'm like why did they allow this to go through it make absolutely no sense lol. Fun game, weird plot holes.

But thou must!

I totally agree with the answers Yes and No in some dialogues Very stupid !... Another "dumb" detail is when your team is dead you have 3 options : last visited place last time saved by yourself (church or statue) or automatic save If you choose automatic save its free but for the other options you must pay and it makes no sense because there is an automatic save almost everywhere Every time you enter a new zone the game saves so why should you lose the half of your money when you can do it for free ??? 😅

8 for me is honestly so much better..... I'm glad we're past the wanking hype train phase and people are actually talking about 11's flaws now...

I do wanna add two things. I am fairly well-versed in the game (both the original and S), and maybe it's not as much as some, I think I'm more in tune than most. That being said. First, Michelle. How is she alive in Act 3? I wracked my brains and I still don't understand it. I can't even find like a hint or throwaway line. She's just... alive, somehow. Two, during the MMA in Octagonia, it annoyed me how it's meant to be random team matchups but yet all the teams you face seem to have absolutely perfect synergy with one another. I know it would have been underwhelming if it actually was "random" teams, but the fact that all the teams you face seem accustomed to their partner and no one else, I think maybe it should have been that the Luminary was added to the lot and only he had to draw for a team.

God with point made 1, i don't understand the dev perspectives behind it besides maybe super weak "immersion"? Id prefer if they pretend to give you the illusion of choice, but immediately just force you (thru clever dialog) to do it anyway before or simply without actually choosing

The yes or no not mattering is tradition, you should know this, dragon quest practically created the "but thou must" trope, and no grandpa can't change history if he did it could have made things worse have you never seen back to the future 2?

The thing that annoyed me the most about point 3 was just that the child protagonist has a voice! Like why give the young Luminary a voice but not the actual playable protagonist!

Hey @sackchief I got a question, on your video on Where is Dragon quest 12”, idk if it’s from you or some other RU-vidr that I forgot, did you mention that it was confirmed or rumored that DQ12 is gonna take place after DQ11, meaning that we’re gonna be the luminary again or be a new character and meet with him, bc if u didn’t and if no body said it, then idk why I think dq12 will take place after dq11, probably bc I’ve been playing DQ11 a lot and it is my first dragon quest game, anyways sorry for the long paragraph, thank you for reading and hopefully responding

Don't even get me started on the last act of the game

Anyone know if the rainbow drops stack. I have 2 so I am wondering if it makes 80% chance of free casting intead of the 40%?

And I disagree with the horse race, I don't play a jrpg to race, so demanding I complete a task that has nothing to do with the genre would have ruined the game for me, and I'm pretty sure they know that their are some gamers out their who don't wanna play a racing mini game, so yeah, and as for the forgiving thing, I've seen worse crimes get forgiven in jrpg not that I disagree, that one is a bit weird >_>

Another dumb thing is in beginning of Act II, when the Luminary seems resentful agains the King and Hendrick, is dumb because for that part of the game Eleven alreadey know that those two are a victims of Mordregon to

Lmao maybe all this dumb stuff happens because DQ11 is a book that the 3rd heroes mom read, in which he possibly read that influenced the story of DQ. You can't say no because that's how to book is made

Kinda makes me wonder what would have happened to slyando actually exited in a mid evil setting like this i feel like gay people would be more closeted I mean they did it in a tasteful way because then made him a performer which is an eccentric profession I kinda wish he wasn’t a main character and they had someone like the prince as this type of character

#4 The problem was Prince Farris can’t ride a horse at all. By riding a horse, whether he won or lost, the L saved face. But also all the rest of these are acc.

My #1 dumb thing: faux difficulty. For example, the second time you face Arachtagon. It's not difficult, it's broken and fucking annoying.

The "being forced to wear a mind controlling bunnysuit" situation with jade's sidestory... It just was tasteless rape mind control fetish someone during development should have put a stop to. Just let her be a prisoner after being overwhelmed by the monsters but not this...

Not related, well kinda, but I'm surprised Square Enix hasn't released the 3DS version of DQ11 as a mobile version here in the west, sounds like easy money to me (the 3DS version of DQ7 was released in mobiles in Japan)

The only thing I would say about the situation with Vince. is that while yes I agree that him getting off scott free is not good, there isn't anything that shows that the public knew what happened. What happened seemed to just be known to your party since they were the ones that discovered and beat the monster. So to the rest of the city, he was still the former champ, so them cheering for him is not surprising. The rest I can agree with completely.

He doesn't time travel. Is more like a mind-journey thing. His physical body goes nowhere and that's why Erik says the Hero was spacing out, like in a trance or something. I interpret it more like he contacted his adoptive grandfather in a dream or through a shared vision and that's how granpa knew he had to leave behind the letters and the keystone. We was using the World Tree root as a pshychic link to his grandfather in the past. The whole game explains over and over again how the Tree is the source of all souls, keeps the memories of everyone and the Hero is a chosen avatar to the powers of the World Tree. It may all sound over the top but it's fantasy, although the rules and laws of this world are explained plenty across the game. The marriage system I agree it's lazy and nonsensical but not the powers of the Luminary.

The dumbest thing is...the constant fcking BLINDING white transitions throughout your hundred hour playthrough that makes your eyes bleed if you play in a dark room (like 99 percent of gamers).

Man, I loved this game. Best traditional old school style rpg I’ve played in years. Only thing I’m not a fan of are silent protagonists, even tho some of my fav games of all time have them

I hadn’t played anything past 10 and was curious if the “yes/no” affected the outcome. Question answered. It’s dumb🤣.

There is only one single thing that I want. For the OG PS4 version to get Transmog!!!!! I HATE the lesser graphics in the new S version since it's a freaking Switch port which is just insulting, thus I actually prefer the original. & I HATE not being able to pick the look of my character that I want unless I want to wear some super weak, outdated armor on my character. I REALLY wish the original could have gotten some patches to at least add some of this basic stuff.

The whole "oh no, I'm forced to say yes" thing is.... A dumb thing to complain about.

Definietly do a anther top 5 dumb things video about dragon quest 11. Talk about If the second act of the game had any dumb things in it.