DRAGON QUEST IV Reviews

Keeps me up at night!

VietBoi409

This game is addicting. I played DQ1 when I was a kid. Came free with a subscription to Nintendo Power. This game is a whole lot better. It's very long, took me awhile to beat. Very interesting story. I liked how there were different story lines for each characters, then merged them all together. Grinding was easy with the AI selection. I just control one character and the others just Attack. I was usually half asleep while grinding. Worth every penny. On to the next one.

One of my new favorites!!!!

Owens92

Hands down one of my new favorite dragon quest games so far! I so far boughten 1-4 and going to get 5 and hoping for 6 to come out!!! And also hoping for a dragon quest monsters!!!!!!!

GREAT but....

Llama56

I love the dragon quest games and this one, I remember playing as a kid. Overall great game except for the translation of the in game text from NPCs. I appreciate the subtle dialect and even the "accents" that are written down. But what's with all the poorly translated dialog for the Alena chapter?! It makes reading a pain and almost reflects poorly on Square Enix's prestigious reputation. It almost feels like they hired a bunch of middle school Japanese kids to translate the game by only using google translator. Please fix this issue, because paying 15$ for a remade game (that I feel had a better translation team for the original NES version) and getting poor quality translation feels almost insulting especially considering that I can't request a refund, which I would request because of this issue. Thank you.

Fantastic game!

Jrls57

Love that they are making the dragon quest games for the phone now. I grew up with these and they still hold up 20 years later. Looking forward to them them releasing the rest. I've went 1 thru 4 and about to head on to 5!

Amazing

dmatjay

Only 1 glitch (with DS version too)--- Kabuff increases all members DEF by 100%--- it's supposed to be 50 (25 DQ 5 and later) this makes the game too easy after you learn the ability.

One of the best in the series

Jesse_Dylan

This is the best version of the DQIV remakes. It looks beautiful and since it originally ran "full-screen" (i.e. using both screens) on the Nintendo DS, it is perfectly suited for portrait mode. It's like joining the two screens together and upgrading the speed and resolution. It is a little weird playing with a touchscreen, but you can play it one-handed on your phone, and it's beautiful on iPad. DQIV was a revolution at the time, adding characters with personalities and a chapter structure. This game is a real joy to play.

Thanks SQUARE ENIX you are the best!

music guy 85

Cant express my thanks enough to you square for putting this series out on ios! One of the best games ever made!

Audio

Firebert123

Could the game be tweaked to allow a different application to be playing audio?

You, Sir, are WRONG.

mpstella

Okay, so this is partially a rebuttal to Llama56's review, because it contained an inaccuracie, and my anally corrective self can't let ignorance stand, and I rest until I set the record straight. I don't really care that the review is from a long time ago. What part of "anally corrective" don't you get? Right, so he said that Alena's chapter was poorly translated, and that it seemed that it was, quote, "written by Japanese middle-school students using Google translate." Well, my good ungulate*, you are WRONG. See, the folks of Maestral** are supposed to be a Russian analogue, and they speak like a Russian whose first language isn't English. It's why their speech is often peppered with Russian words and such. Thus, that section of the game ISN'T poorly translated, because it's MEANT TO BE THAT WAY. Alena and her fellow countrymen don't speak English very well, hence the broken "translation." Because they're Russian. It's the same reason people from Bonnie Scotla- er, Burland say "Och" and pronounce "tower" tur. Just imagine that Alena and everyone in Maestral sounds like Yakov Smirnoff, and you'll be good. Anyway, 'bout the game itself: it's 'effen brilliant. This version is a port of the Nintendo DS version (which itself was a remake of the PS2 remake), but with the added (re)addition of party chat, which are fun little conversations the party members will have and really fleshes out there characters. It was, for only Goddess knows why, cut out from the NTSC version of the DS port. (What makes it even stranger is that the DS remakes of V and VI had party chat, making it's absence in IV especially odd.) I have the DS version, and I can say that the iOS version is MUCH BETTER, solely because of the party chat. Seriously, that sh** is awesome. Besides that, DQIV also has, in my opinion, some of the best characters and music in the entire series, and one of the better stories in the series. The battle music and Alena's theme are my favorites, and character-wise, Alena, Ragnar, and Psaro are my among my top personal favorite video game characters of all time. Anyway, if you're a Dragon Quest or JRPG fan, then you owe it to yourself to get this game. * That's a fancy word for hoofed mammals like horses and llamas and the like. I try to use it when ever possible. ** That's the name of Alena's homeland. Yes, I am that much of a nerd.

Great game. Terrible dialog

AvalonTears

This is my favorite dragon warrior game of all time only updated. Overall the changes are great and make the game more playable without losing any of the charm. But the dialog completely ruins the experience. In an attempt to ethnicize the kingdoms, the dialog was rendered near unreadable with phonic spellings of various cliche accents. It is so heavy handed as to be offensive, especially the broken Asian English that another reviewer mistook for an unintentional bad translation from the original. Imagine watching a foreign film but to covey that it is foreign the subtitles are purposefully in broken English and spelled with accents.... Not necessary. Not fun. Fix it square

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