So Dragon Quest Heros is pretty great

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vivster said:
I am a pretty big DQ fan but I feel the game is seriously lacking compared to HyWa. I'm missing the variety quite a bit. I always dread when looking into the skill trees of the characters which couldn't be more bland. It's sucking out my motivation as nothing will ever change much with the characters. As much as I like skill trees, they should've just used the DQ progression, meaning fixed upgrades at each level up.

The skill sets are laughably small and the monster summon mechanic isn't doing anything for me other than annoy me that there are so many unused coins hanging around the battlefield. The missing ability to speed up your running doesn't help either. I appreciate all the little details and the faithfulness to the franchise but they should've put more effort into making the gameplay more fun.

 

I will give you that the skill trees are kind of small, but this game is not meant to be played through as a single character as you can change between 4 different characters in the midst of battle. The fact that each character plays differently is where the variety comes into play. For example my main party consist of the main character, Bianca, Yangus, and Jessica. 1 offers a long-range type play style, the next offers hi defense and incredible strength with charge attacks, Jessica is mainly there for support with her hustle dance, and of course the main character is just rounded being average at most things. Change out any of those characters with the others offered and you get a completely different style that plays completely different.  With that in mind, while they could certainly be bigger, this skill trees do adequately get the job done for what the game is trying to do.

 

As for the monster minions, they are crucial for defense missions. Fail to use them properly and you will have a hard time completing them. Also the reason you find yourself with extra minions is so that you can either easily replace them when they fall, send 1 minion away to replace him with a stronger one, or send some away so you can place new ones in a different spot as needed. Furthermore there ar save your minions as well that perform one special upon summoning them and leave, so what use properly you will usually have adequate space and your minion bag.

 

And I have to ask, how many hours do you have in the game at what map have you gotten to?  While you do not get a  running skill, there a skill called zoom that allows you to teleport to different parts of bigger maps introduced rather early on.  Also are you using slick controls or the default streamlined version. If you are using the later, that could be why you feel a lack of variety. I switched straight to slick controls from the start so I cannot speak for the other setting.