SandLand - This Game SHOCKED Me |Review| 

Dragon quest 13 in end ps6 maybe 😅 hope they release more DQ games

You may have a point but I guess it depends on when dq12 releases.

​@lc3212 And how well DQ12 would turned out.

@@jaretco6423 that’s a fair point too. From what I remember the only real con (although I don’t think it is but can understand others thinking with the franchises history) is the easier difficulty compared to previous dragon quest games (even I though dq11 is on the easy side compared to others I’ve beaten in the franchise) dq 12 has a lot to live up too but hopefully this long gap is because they are aware of that.

@lc3212 It's not the easier difficulty I'm worried about. It's the fact they wanted to " change " the series up in the story tones & the gameplay. I'm just worried it might suffered the same fate as Final Fantasy did.

Though im still holding off on getting the game itself to focus on other htings, its definitely shows alot was skipped out on in the demo: -Exp system to actually unlock MORE then just one skill basically for every unit. -Effectively nothing to actually find in the demo besides mostly pointless parts you cant even buy/sell for other useful stuff to atleast show what the merchant loop and whatever crafting/progression system would be present in the full game. -No Hub town so you cant even get a starting taste which normally some demos would just lock you out of everything past maybe the first or even second threshold of goodies. -That mostly bare-bones UI design due to all of it being mostly redundant because the demo basically have the stuff present but nothing to really do with it. -And i really hope the actual game itself if it has to be that typical open world game design, if its gonna have things like food ingredients and parts, you actually have a VERY extensive crafting system selection such as more then simple buff consume`ables (which thankfully they seem to have what i assume is throwable stun grenades and what not), such as consumeable traps, food buff items and preferably the skill tree eventually unlocks VERY CRITICALLY useful Single player QoLs like slowing down time when you are aiming to allow precise tank shots at weak points, mobility even in vehicles to clean up the jank and especially cost and/or detriment reductions to make using the same vehicle at the start feel WAAAAY differen then using the same exact vehicle at the end of the game. Doesnt help either that a certain MECHANIC, in the gameplay itself you get immediately at the start of the game, unlike the Anime which actually doesnt have her show up till the 2nd half when Forestland gets involved, meaning the `excuse` you dont have X character with Y skill set, mostly redundant, especially when you can customize your vehicles at any time and not at campsites or `garages` where some other games would normally demand you to go to those places then do it any time in the menu, which can either be a good restriction to prevent chees`ery or an annoying problem if poorly done. Also i feel like some of the things he might of say was incorrect, such as `Water depleting` since i dont think there was an actual THIRST gauge to push the idea of keeping a healthy stock, since unless its some detriment thrown in later on the game (which most people HATE those kinds of systems), the demo didnt really have that, despite the characters in both the lets plays i have seen and the demo are excessively gabbing a little too much and often repeating the same dialogue which is sometimes good for flavor text... But the true problem with having them gab so often especially the same dialogues show how they poorly optimized and annoying it can come off. Even if the game was more designed to newer players, theres still a point where i think some people would prefer buttons they can push and hold to pull up the tutorial stuff or just have stop and pop up window tutorials instead of having very aggravating lines of text. All of those are annoying, but they are definitely most annoying when done in excess and have no text variety to split it up. Such as maybe have the Protagonist THINK about it instead of having other characters constantly blab it and usually have 3 or 5 potential dialogues for those cases, instead of having the same 1~2 or even 3 lines repeated and sometimes back to back instead of rotated usually with a VERYsizable delay between them. So before i get sandland i would definitely look into if theres options to SQUELCH npc dialogue repetition, since just like how annoying freaking PAIMON was in genshite impact, i am never a fan of what is basically background noise that is said too often. Which atleast God of War and Ragnarok despite its own problems, atleast did very fun background dialogue, especially timing them in creative moments like while you are sledding in the desert or on a boat, where moments like those would be BORING slogs to go thru, so they fill it in with dialogue during it.

The "demo" gave like 2 features out of like 10 vehicles and the open world nothing else no exp, skills, item drops. It gave nothing more a tech demo then game demo

@@sinned6us Even compared to other tech demos i seen, it was even more sparse then that. Also thought i need to watch some more lets plays, it does not seem like you get a 2nd vehicle or even the ability to `store` them till much later in the game, so the tech demo is definitely taking a step likely more in the middle game, outside of the demon village based on the layout. Meaning its basically an early game area, after you go thru all the required story elements, but have the mechanic not present at all either. Where she literally present when you first start getting parts in the actual game. Though i have not played the tech demo in a while i dont believe they had a mini map before, so thats atleast one improvement present, which i always consider a critical part of any open world game: The less you have todo a bunch of menuing, the better. Which is kind of why i feel LoZ Tears of the kingdom fell off hard, especially todo things like building and fusing arrows, dropping stuff to fuse stuff to weapons and even menuing if you wanna constantly access certain abilities instead of simply a toggle slider or quick pop in menu using a combination of 1 button to expand 3 or even 2 or even 4 buttons into having an additional 2 or 4 buttons for a whooping 4 for those that want you to still have access to jumping and maybe basic attacking/rolling or 8 to have a much more chonky spread of both action and special action buttons. which if i recall right on the demo rather just use a pop up menu of the analog stick to pick and choose the thing, since i dont recall them having anything on a open a hot-bar and quickly press your stuff while in combat, and instead stuck with that eternal game breaking annoyance of pausing the game every time when you wanna access things like consumables or skills or just let you do a LoZ breath of the wild and eat a bunch of apples and instantly be back to full health if you get tapped just once by some enemy or get caught in a fire due to some grass being set on fire.

The demo was pretty bad. I think people should skip the demo.

I'm so glad I seen this comment because I was going to by no matter what since I'm a fan of the creator but the demo was bad so I was so scared

Same. I honestly don’t think I’d get the game if I hated the demo that much.

The game also has an anime that was made before it.

@@tetsugiux1917 Well, that means using easily identifiable characters.

You’ll love it!

I hope so. I trust his proteges to keep his style alive though.

@@reyntime1950 Given how distinctive his style is, they pretty much have to do either that or redo everything from scratch. And art tends to be a bottleneck.

My biggest worried is how experimental it'll be. Rumors say they might change the tone and gameplay; which is what I'm worried about the most.

Thanks so much!

I’m glad I can help you out in my small way, and I hope you recover soon!

Mentally passed that's where I am I played the demo and that's all I can think about is it worth it?

Full game is amazing

I'm 10 hours in I like the story I'm glad i got it it really is its own thing 🤣

Welcome aboard!

Steam says this game and its demo is restricted in my region. You can’t even access the demo for some absurd reason.

It’s all DQ music as an homage to Toriyama

Disliking a bad demo was a mistake? Look, I'm glad the game is good too, but there are so many games out in the world, no one will ever play them all. If I played a crappy demo, I'd probably skip the game too, and maybe that could be seen as close minded, but the fact is that most people have a backlog of games they are pretty sure they'll like (or know they'll like). Not everyone has the time or money to play every single game that looks mildly interesting. And then, sometimes, when one does take a chance, and genuinely dislike a game and pointing out reasons why, fanboys and white knights defend the game like it's a fragile hopeless human being. It's pretty frustrating. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment but if David had stopped after the demo, that's still giving the game a fair chance. It's not the player's fault that a game demo is a poor representation of the final product.

@@Gorlokk666 Passive aggressively replying to something you don't know the context of and inserting your own assumptions to replace the lack of that knowledge is incredibly stupid. Take your anger elsewhere, kid.

Thanks so much my friend!

@@davidvinc You're welcome.😁