January 04, 2008

Dragon Quest IV: Completely Destroyed

I spent most of my free gaming time these past six weeks playing through the new DS remake of Dragon Quest IV, and late last night, I finally completed it. I mean, really completed it. As in:

- Finished the post-game bonus chapter and got the "happy ending"
- Found every monster in the game and completed the monster picture book
- Got all of the small medal prizes in the game (found 69 small medals in all)
- Got all of the casino prizes I actually cared about
- Brought the immigrant town to its final form and completed all related sub-quests
- Got the two bonus immigrant town citizens from Jump Festa 2008 (Hassan from DQ6 and Setia from DQ Swords)
- Got all of (new party member)'s best equipment in chapter 6
- Defeated the bonus dungeon bosses in under 10 turns to get the final immigrant town citizen

In short, I went nuts with this game. And I loved every minute of it. :)

My final stats (translations below the photos):

1. After completing the game once and getting the normal ending:

Clear time: 31:43
Total battles: 1,127
Defeated enemies: 3,010
Total gold: 140,636
Battles won: 1,096
Battles lost: 7
Battles fled: 22
Biggest hit: 332
Hero's level: 35
Rank: "Celestial Wielder"

2. After completing chapter 6 and getting the happy ending:

Clear time: 43:17
Total battles: 1,897
Defeated enemies: 4,814
Total gold: 334,485
Battles won: 1,861
Battles lost: 8
Battles fled: 26
Biggest hit: 395
Hero's level: 51
Rank: "Thanks for playing to the end!"

3. My final stats, just before powering off for good:

Total playtime: 43:54
Total battles: 1,901
Defeated enemies: 4,824
Total gold: 336,987
Battles won: 1,865
Battles lost: 8
Battles fled: 26
Biggest hit: 395
Undiscovered monsters: 0
Rank: "Grand Monster King"

It's been a while since I've really sunk my teeth into a game like this, but Dragon Quest gets me every time. It's by far my favorite RPG series -- I can only pray they never make an MMO version, or I'm going to be in real trouble...

BTW, Happy New Year everyone!

Posted by john tv at January 4, 2008 01:03 AM