Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age - Definitive Edition Review (Raden)
This is probably the best Dragon Quest game since Dragon Quest V.
If you never played any Dragon Quest game before, I highly recommend you to play this one first.
With that out of the way, I'd like to discuss about the Square Enix dumb idea to upgrade the game without respecting the original buyer of Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age PC Edition by not giving them any Discount or Free Update whatsoever, you have to get both games at full price back then. Thankfully, it's now on sale, so I don't really want to brag about it again, the good thing is the original version become this rare and somewhat removed game catalogue in your library, so it increases some sort of value to your steam account at some point if you already bought the game.
Changes :
there isn't alot of changes if you have played the original version, but its all depends on your perspective, so let's get to it :
1. Japanese Voice
2. 2D Mode
3. Slight changes in third person point of view
4. The Performance is better than the original, but the texture feels a bit downgraded (maybe because it was developed for switch) depends on your PC, I recommend this version if you have an old computer or an M series NVIDIA Laptop. If you have a high end PC, you can use ultra wide settings by changing the unreal engine config, and you can set the game above 60FPS, in my cases I set it 144FPS and it rarely drops under 130.
5. You can take pictures with your party without having NVIDIA Ansel. The absent of NVIDIA Ansel kinda disappoint me though, since I can't use F12 to take a screenshot, now if I want to take a screenshot I have to manually put that screenshot to my steam image folder, and then upload it to steam manually. (EDIT : Ansel is still supported)
6. You can't access the first person camera, I don't know why they removed this one, they should just put both camera options when taking photos.
7. The party can now follow you in the overworld. This one is my favorite because it doesn't make sense when you travel alone and suddenly when the monster attack you, you fight with your party XD, it kinda make the game more fun actually.
8. You can use the fun size forge everywhere.
9. Easier game than the original version, altho the original game wasn't really that hard.
10. Orchestral Soundtrack without using mod.
11. You can choose your marriage option.
Overall, there aren't many Big Changes outside of Japanese voice and 2D mode, but this game is really fun to play again and again, I have 300hrs on the original version. And I highly recommend this one to be your first Dragon Quest game or your first version of Dragon Quest XI.