Despite advertising itself as BIG OL FUCK QUEST: THIS ISN'T YOUR GRANDPA'S VIDEO GAME it's actually a fairly serious story and full-length rpg of surprisingly high quality. You begin entirely unable to fight and end as the mayor of a town you slowly built up and the commander of a small army of heroes. A lot of the gameplay is exploring the world and making trade deals for products and food via sidequests to bring back to your town which will slowly expand as a result and give you access to more money and better equipment.
Like Dragon Quest 5 you can also recruit monsters sometimes after battles, so if you want you can ignore the legendary heroes and run around with a bunch of robotic owls or whatever. Even if you don't the recruited monsters will put on shows and help bring more people to your town.
The game does expect some level of familiarity with Dragon Quest in terms of figuring out what your huge roster can do. This isn't an issue in Japan where it's a cultural touchstone but might be trickier here. But it's not exactly complex or anything. The skill tree does tend to lock you out of options without letting you see what's coming up but both sides usually have something to offer. Make sure the DQV hero goes the boomerang route though.
The smut is mostly a failure state and is mostly rape, and if you're into that there is a deep trove of riches here,. if you're not all but 2 scenes are entirely optional(there's 2 more optional scenes linked to the main story that are entirely consensual). I'm not and think the RPG portion is good enough to carry it, but if you're not a DQ fan it might not be enough on it's own.
The translation is pretty good(though has some technical jank). Some of the more elaborate effects will sometimes crash the game but I've never had it happen twice in a row and the game loads very quickly so keep your saves up and it'll be fine.
Overall a great experience as a DQ fan, even as someone who avoided pretty much all the porn.
Like Dragon Quest 5 you can also recruit monsters sometimes after battles, so if you want you can ignore the legendary heroes and run around with a bunch of robotic owls or whatever. Even if you don't the recruited monsters will put on shows and help bring more people to your town.
The game does expect some level of familiarity with Dragon Quest in terms of figuring out what your huge roster can do. This isn't an issue in Japan where it's a cultural touchstone but might be trickier here. But it's not exactly complex or anything. The skill tree does tend to lock you out of options without letting you see what's coming up but both sides usually have something to offer. Make sure the DQV hero goes the boomerang route though.
The smut is mostly a failure state and is mostly rape, and if you're into that there is a deep trove of riches here,. if you're not all but 2 scenes are entirely optional(there's 2 more optional scenes linked to the main story that are entirely consensual). I'm not and think the RPG portion is good enough to carry it, but if you're not a DQ fan it might not be enough on it's own.
The translation is pretty good(though has some technical jank). Some of the more elaborate effects will sometimes crash the game but I've never had it happen twice in a row and the game loads very quickly so keep your saves up and it'll be fine.
Overall a great experience as a DQ fan, even as someone who avoided pretty much all the porn.