I enjoyed the first Dragon Quest Builders game so I was excited to play Dragon Quest Builders 2. The story for Dragon Quest Builders 2 is set after the events of Dragon Quest 2. It focuses on a group known as The Children Of Hargon who are seeking revenge on the children of Erdrick for the defeat of Hargon and Malroth. The way they do this is by forbidding building or creating anything and by eliminating builders completely. You can play as a male or female builder and are captured by The Children of Hargon on a ship. This is where the game introduces some of the tutorial basics for the game. It's a fun way to introduce you to how building works in the game. The item menu and controls are easy to navigate as you cycle through which items you need. You can break things down to gather building materials the way you would in games like Minecraft and use them to build. Eventually your builder escapes and ends up on the Isle Of Awakening where they meet a person named Malroth who has no memories of his past or who he was. He joins your builder and helps them to build, battle monsters, and improve their building powers.
This is where Dragon Quest Builders 2 really shines. It showed how much they improved upon the issues with the first game. The first area you arrive at introduces you to a group of farmers and starts you on your building journey. Here you learn about growing crops, creating even better buildings, and do several quests for the people. It feels less lonely because your builder has actual help. If your base is destroyed by monsters, the villagers will actually rebuild it for you. They will plow the fields and water the crops you plant. If you add building materials to a chest, the villagers will use those materials to build. You will also get requests for specific room builds such as a kitchen or a private bedroom. This gives you a lot of creative freedom in your building deciding what type of materials you want to use to build the walls as well as crafting the items needed to place in the rooms. It's easy to lose track of time as you run around gathering materials, build rooms, craft items, and complete quests as part of the story.
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| Taking the time to appreciate building a great field of crops. |
The combat is no longer frustrating and tedious. Instead, it's a lot of fun and you notice how much it's improved from the first game. Having Malroth with you definitely helps because he helps your builder unlock better skills for getting materials for your builds. You also unlock combo attacks that you can do with Malroth while fighting enemies. Battles are a lot of fun and you can craft weapons for yourself, Malroth, and some of the villagers. They will fight monsters alongside you and I was having such a good time with it, I didn't even notice the level grind. The art design and music for the game is great and I found myself stopping just to look at the surrounding area and see all the types of monsters there are in the game.
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| Battling monsters is fun! |
One of the big things I appreciated in the game is fast travel. In certain spots you touch an item called a naviglobe and from then you can warp to that area. You can always warp back to your home base which is convenient because it means you don't have to run all those long distances. This is easily done via your map menu. It's easy to open and you can just scroll to where you need to go and click on the footprints icon on the map. I enjoyed exploring the open world and finding different things I could use to add to my builds. As you gather new materials, this unlocks new recipes. Another thing that unlocks new recipes is leveling up your base of course. As it levels up, it draws more people to the town and you have even more people helping you build which is great.
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| Ah, the great convenience of fast travel. |
The story in Dragon Quest Builders 2 is great. I found myself invested in the story and wanting to see what happened next. The characters are charming and there are a lot of moments with them that are endearing. Every time I told myself I would only play for a couple of hours, four hours would go by because that's how much fun I was having with the game. With things like being able to change my character's appearance and add accessories as well as unlocking new recipes to build, it's not surprising that I had a blast playing the game and that I'm still having a fantastic time playing it. Being able to build things on my own island is amazing. Having that freedom to explore and build to my heart's content is absolutely one of my favorite things about the game. There is a great co-op feature as well. You can play with up to three people so that you can fight monsters, gather materials, and build together. It adds to the fun of the game even more and it keeps me coming back to play. Even after the main story is done, there are still areas to explore and more building to be done. Dragon Quest Builders 2 is bigger, better building fun than the first and it is a delight to play.
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| Having fun living my best builder life! |
*Dragon Quest Builders 2 is available to play on the following platforms: Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch
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