

The building controls designed to make construction as smooth of a process as possible for even the most architecturally impaired player: just select the building material and place it in the desired location.

The game controls pretty much the same as one would expect from a 3D action game with the only significant deviation is the use of the directional pad to select weapons and building materials. There is a tutorial at the beginning to help players who might be unfamiliar with the open world construction gaming genre, though the building controls end up becoming rather intuitive pretty quickly. That is until the Builder was awakened who is the legendary hero who has the power of creation and can reconstruct Alefgard to its former glory. When the failed hero was out of the picture, the Dragonlord pretty much destroyed Alefgard, and with the destruction of all the cities and towns and plunging the world into darkness everyone forgot how to build anything. The Dragonlord offered Erdrick’s descendant half of the world in a proposition that would have the two rule side by side, which was accepted in a most unheroic action that defeated the purpose of the whole quest up to that point.

Dragon Quest Builders does entail a lot of material collecting and construction, but still manages to feel like an actual Dragon Quest game.ĭragon Quest Heroes is an alternate sequel to the original Dragon Quest. The combination worked surprisingly well, so this year the spinner was produced once again and landed on Minecraft, thus creating Dragon Quest Builders, which like the previous mash up is not a Minecraft clone set in the Dragon Quest universe but it is its own unique game that is a blend of the two styles. 2015 brought us Dragon Quest Heroes which was the unlikely mash up with Dynasty Warriors. Somewhere in the basement of the Square Enix headquarters I imagine that there is a spinner with various popular game titles written on it and wherever the spinner lands is the title that gets to be crossbred with Dragon Quest.
