![]() ![]() At the beginning of the game, your options as to what items and objects you can create are quite limited. Unlike a lot of its contemporaries, Dragon Quest Builders uses its roots in the RPG genre to guide the player along with things like quests and a leveling system to introduce new creation possibilities. A sense of progression is important to me, and I think the developers of Dragon Quest builders feel much the same way. It is not that I don’t appreciate a blank canvas, but I tend to favor games where there is a carrot on a stick that gives me an incentive to keep playing. Or at the very least, this has been my mentality when it comes to games where creation is the core appeal. If you were to give me a blank canvas to paint a picture, I would struggle to draw a stick figure unless you promised to give me a dollar afterwards. Creating homes for the people of Alefgard makes the player’s role in the world feel that much more important. ![]() It is great to see the various NPC’s you meet along the way take up their own roles in the cities you created and begin building trinkets of their own to help with the upkeep.Īgain this is not a particularly deep story or even one that you are likely to give much attention to, but the narrative is a perfect tool to help encourage the player to build. There’s something irrevocably charming about inspiring the people of this world to create.Īs you progress through the game and build homes for people, they will follow your example and begin to build as well. It is a very flowery story, but one quite appropriate given what kind of game this is. You assume control of The Legendary Builder, a special individual chosen by the gods to inspire humanity to built once again. The game is set in Alefgard, a land ruled over by an evil Dragonlord that has plunged the world into darkness and robbed humans of the ability to build. Probably the most distinguishing feature of Dragon Quest Builders is how it leverages its narrative as a means to encourage the player to build. I may not be the prime candidate to review Dragon Quest Builders because of all this, but despite my inexperience I found myself quite enamored with the game ever since it fell into my lap. Furthermore, I have very limited experience in games of the Minecraft ilk. ![]() Before I get going with this review proper, I should probably note that I have never played a Dragon Quest game prior to Builders. ![]()
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