Dragon Quest I - Retrospective Review 

Everybody and their mother has already done a FF restrospective, so I find quite refreshing someone who gives dragon quest some love!

"Akira Toriyama, the legendary mangaka behind the legendary comic series..." *Image of Goku.* *Slowly pans away from Goku.* *Pans to Dr. Slump.* "... Dr. Slump." GOLD.

Dragon Quest is just that slice of nostalgia that I keep coming back to. Great video!

10:10 BUT if you do this you will probably never find Erdrick's token on a blind run unless you actually end up counting all the paces from the castle and how tedious is that Today I beat DQ1 on an SNES fan translation of DQ1+2 and it was fun. This is a good video

The original Dragon Quest is the only one in the series that I've come back and finished more than once. I've done the SNES, mobile, and NES versions in that order. This video makes me want to play it again, but this time the game boy version. Those Sprites are looking nice. But I bet they would look terrible blown up on my TV. ( I'm new-ish to the DQ series tho, I fully intended to revisit the full erdrick trilogy but I lost my patience with NES DQII. so I decided to finally skip it and dive into the Zenithian Trilogy, which I hadn't played yet. I'm starting on VI bit I already feel like I wanna revisit IV. )

Hey man just got into your channel great stuff love your voice and story telling. As someone who’s starting to get into the series I’d love to see you review each of the main games.

Currently playing through this game blindly as I am new to the series and wanna play this first. Had no idea to pay attention to NPCs to know where to go and gets clues. All I had been doing was grinding and getting my butt kicked by the stronger enemies. Had no idea where to go really.

While I know you made a list of the best Dragon Quest games but I would love to see you review the rest of the series like this!

I love Dragon Quest and how simple the combat and leveling up is. Just fight. That’s all you have to do. Press the one button. I like real time action but turn based simplicity is very good.

The original adventure, it was great to beat this game back in that day when i did it. Also: how everything changed if we go back to this video, dude, DQ is bigger and better now to us. It's amazing to having you in our community, thanks for this Sack 😄

I love the GBC version nostalgic because I grew up with top down games like it

So I started watching DQ 1 reviews.... After I finished it. Haven't stopped since

Been seeing you on my RU-vid feed I’m pretty sure I’ve watched some of your videos before just listened to you on puff puff hour good stuff man

Thank for the vid. I beat Dragon Lord at level 20 in the Android version. Yes, is posible prior to 23, like you recommend - 11:45 (with 2 lucky critical hits, in my case).

Great video as always.

This was very enjoyable to watch. I have had DQ1 on the backlog for so long and I finally started it yesterday. Currently level 17 and I already knew most of the objective from the NPCs but find it hard to remember/follow up the names of each village without trying to look at a guide. Levelling up and getting better armor feels so rewarding since the party consists of one member and the SNES version is awesome! I'll continue at night and probably finish it since most monsters aren't giving me trouble anymore. Hoping you do a DQ2 retrospective in the near future!

Thank you for not mentioning Akira Toriyamas other work! Always so funny when people purposely avoid it 😂

As always, amazing video

I have Dragon Quest 1-6 on my android phone and I can say that these old turn based RPGs are very much playable on a touch screen. Unlike games like sonic which totally suck without a controller. It might take like 2 mins to adjust to it but it works out rather well and they look very good but are still SNES type graphics instead of the modern 3D stuff. So if you ever want a totally portable version of any of these first 6 games just know that the android versions are very well done and a great, cheap and easily accessible way to play them these days. Thanks for the video!

Just bought DQ 1, 2, and 3 on switch. In 1990 , I remember my Uncle Michael let me borrow Dragon Warrior 4 NES and it changed my life forever. I played the heck out of that game. Now I think of games like Skyrim. Dragon Warrior is a special memory. The new version on Switch is awesome.

Sorry, dude. I know this is almost 3 years late, but Tantegal is the name of the castle town where you start. The nearby town you are told to go to, to get weapons and armor is Brecanary.

Hi sackchief, me and my sister love dragon quest and have a blast watching ur videos!!!! This was one of the best videos on RU-vid on one of the best RU-vid channels, so we were wondering if u could do one of these for dq2 and dq3? If u do it thanks!

I mean but you get an Item late game that makes saving way more accessible. Well I played the original idk if they removed that from the GBC version

Just finished playing the Switch version (which I think is the same as the mobile release). While I did get some online help (I get easily frustrated when lost) the game was a lot of fun and became great for me when I was strong enough to explore most of the world with no issues. I do wish some parts of it made more sense, like how turn order is decided (so often I'd be fighting a monster or boss only for them to randomly go before me when I select a heal spell and then I die). Can't wait to start DQ2.

Just discovered your channel-great work! Should you go to an inn with the Princess after you save her or is it only worth it in the/a Japanese version?

also you forgot to mention that you could just use Zoom or a chimera wing to warp back to the save point from anywhere. you can also talk to the ghost of the bard in the destroyed village after defeating the dragonlord.

im gonna play this for when Hero gets dropped

7:47 and 13:26 contradicting statements :)

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Romaji Yuusha looks like Gohan from dragon ball

To this day I still have the explorer's handbook.

The best version is the fan translated snes version imo

Can you make a tutorial for the recruitable monsters in DQ V?

It's still good on the NES and Famicom.

Does the gbc fix the issues of the original, such as the atrocious leveling and money grinding curve?

Is this going to be able to get me back into those turn based battles I'd always hated since my 1st ever rpg and that was pokemon cuz I never had the ps1 to play the ff series which I got into later only after ff3&4 on the Nintendo ds and now I'm like well idk I'd always heard this's a great game/ series but idk if I can stand the old graphics and turn based battles and grind getting them pokemon and ff3&4 vibes all over again lol. But I guess I may as well try it for the 2$on sale right now or should I just skip to 3or4? I heard it's a prequel idk. Is it so good that I wont care about turn based battles random and the graphics and old lack of map n other quality of life that are new and missing from these old games. This sounds really brutal like if ya dont have any nostalgia for it then also these issues idk its it's a hard sell for me so far &it sounds brutally hard wth wow.

First you say Gallen… dudes name is Garin… He made a town called… what you seemed to say “galin halm” … it’s garinham…

Bro. Do the next one.

I just recently started playing DQ1 and was hating it, then I watched your video and started loving and enjoying the game... Explain yourself!

so thats why the illustrations looked like dragon ball coz it was Akira Toriyamas', now i know

Switch versions of 1, 2, and 3 are the best looking. Though they weren’t released when you made this video.

"Password system"? What password system? There was no password system in the Japanese version. I believe you meant to say the "spell of resurrection".

7:16 lol

11:09 Ménage à trois? 😉

Do you get companions in this one ?.

Tempt not the fates

The first game in the series was actually Dragon Warrior.

It's 3 dollars on mobile, why not?

Are you Canadian? I noticed that your GBC has the word "color" spelled as "colour."

IDK why but anytime I watch this video my Internet lags.

Wait? You don't have a party in one?

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Why’s that gameboy color of yours fake just look at the bezel

This has to be the most lack luster review of one of the most iconic game series ever to grace the world of RPGs. No, wait it just about started the whole concept and structure of the videogame RPG success. Get the SNES Rom of Dragon Quest 1 & 2 if you are not going to use the original game. It looks alot better and not like you have your face smashed against the screen. This is NOT the best example of this title.

I don't really like the Game Boy version. I feel the graphics are ugly, and I absolutely HATE the English localization.