Great game. Terrible dialog – DRAGON QUEST IV Review

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
Review by AvalonTears on DRAGON QUEST IV.