DRAGON QUEST VIII Reviews

Play your own audio

BpWally

Unless you have AirPods in, you can’t play your own audio.

Great game that would be more popular if updated

Adamsbrew

I never got around to playing the DQ series on NES or PS2, though the iOS version has definitely shown me what I’ve missed out on. Every bit as good as Zelda IMHO. The one major drawback, and something that could be so easy to fix — it’s a very clunky control system to play on iPads (especially iPad Pro) — at the very least, of you could make it where the directional pad is off to the left or right , it would turn this into a hand cramp magnet , into something that’s quite a pleasure to use. It would be just a minor update, taking less than an hour I imagine, yet could improve the experience drastically for gamers. I don’t mind that the orientation is stuck in vertical as much as some, but if you could fix that one gripe, I would be much more willing to invest in the other DQ games. DQ deserves every bit as much attention as the final fantasy series, and would benefit even more if you could eventually add MFI controller support, but at the very least, please adjust the position of directional controls .. maybe even add a dual joystick that appears where player puts thumbs, one for direction, the other, for camera. Thanks!

Woooo

Shidokan57

Thanks for the iphone x update. Gonna play it again. More dragon quest games please. Maybe dq builders?

Good but no cloud save.

CaptainMorgansRum

Looks really good on my iPhone X! I wish cloud save was working so I could continue to play on my iPad ? the only other thing is I really wish there was an option to download the voice acting. I do really miss that from the old PS days. Other than that the graphics and the smoothness really make for a wonderful game!

Frame Rate - Read This

MorningWoodward

I was very concerned with frame rate before purchasing as I couldn't find anything reliable. I have an iPhone 7 and the game runs perfectly. Looks like 30 fps.

Where is the voiceovers?

Renodil

How come we have to read everything they say in this instead of being able to hear them speak? I’m knocking off a star because there’s no voiceover work.

Great Port One Big Bug

Bradynt

Seems to be great so far. The graphics are beautiful and the game play is smooth. Loading times are fast so overall great so far. One thing, the game crashes every time I try to check attributes. Nothing can be selected then my character can’t move and nothing works again until I close the game. If I just ignore that it’s overall solid but it would be great to get that fixed. 5 stars once that is fixed.

PLEASE FIX CLOUD SAVE!

Mardek I.D.2072608673

I am so worried about breaking/losing my device and having to start all over because the cloud save doesn’t work. This game would have been 5 star if it wasn’t for this. I did end up losing my save and having to start over. I wish i never bought this Update: THANK YOU!

New Update

KJ5252

I don’t know what all they did on this update (the first in two years) besides update the game to correspond with the iPhone X screen size, but they changed other stuff. The game runs so incredibly smoothly on my X now, it’s at least 30 FPS if not 60 constantly. If you have an iPhone X or newer I would greatly recommend this game. It’s always been a fantastic game, but with this newest update, they made it a fantastic port.

Overrated and repetitive

Slender am is the best

I purchased this game because it was highly recommended, but I was very disappointed. I am 19 hours in, at the town of Baccarat, and all I’ve managed to gather about the story is: the characters are chasing this guy, and once they catch him, he runs, and they have to track him down again. In between these dull events, is a million meaningless enemy encounters. It takes forever to do anything, and the soundtrack is also mediocre. There is nothing to like about this game. I tried to make myself like it, but it really is one repetitive, overrated game. Being that nearly all the Dragon Quest players agree that DQVIII is the best one, I do not see myself playing another Dragon Quest game ever again.

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