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The prologue has some truly great moments in tutorials. It is therefore a little bit baffling that it falters on other parts. A bit of a spoiler, but there is going to be a couple of episodes where I am more critical of the beginning of the game, and especially the OG demo. In that sense the first Builders did it better. When I first played this game and I saw that my companion was Malroth, I was already dreading the end of the story. I was fully expecting the game to make him likable, so you get attached. Then all of a sudden they pull the rug from under you and I would have to go up against him in a one on one. I don't think I would have that dread if his name was an anagram. Mainly because I'm really bad with anagrams. I am so used to Builders 2 cooking now, that going back to Builders 1, feels really strange.

Welcome Didi, I hope you will enjoy the journey. It took a while. Especially this first episode I recorded a half dozen times before I was somewhat satisfied with it. The Gloves are one of the best building tools they added to this game. Even if they added these gloves alone to the gameplay of the first game, I would have loved it already. But that the gloves are only the start of the quality of life improvements is just a hint at how much better this game is to it's predecessor. Yes, the characters are very expressive. It is unfortunate that the camera angle doesn't always allow you to see it that well. And I get a bit too claustrophobic for playing in first person view all the time.

If you are only interested in getting the chapter challenge, then the Cantlin Garden doesn't have to be inside the base. It can be anywhere there is a body of water and a fully grown Plumberry Tree. The reasons why I made the Cantlin Garden inside my base are: 1) Trees can only grow inside the border of your town. Thus outside the border you will have to decorate around the tree. 2) Inside the town you get to see the name of the room and how many points it contributes to the base level. 3) The NPCs use and visit the garden.

Thanks, for the clarification on the sprites. I could mostly guess the details on them, because I only played Dragon Quest III on the Switch and only glanced a Sprite Sheet for the NES game. I live in Europe and Dragon Quest wasn't released in Europe until Dragon Quest VIII for the PS2, or Dragon Quest IV remake for the Nintendo DS. Thus it was much guess work on my part. The Terra Gladiatoria episodes were also a last minute addition to the series. I had nothing planned for it, besides the original episode I did in the beginning. It was just to show of it existed. With Terra Incognita I am also glad that I kinda modeled it after Dragon Quest Builders 2. In that game you had those intermissions between chapters, where you could freely build up the Isle of Awakening. I also used Terra Incognita as an intermission in between chapters to build a town here. If I had to do all of it as a fifth chapter after the entire series, I don't know if I could have pulled that off. As I will make clear in the next episode the building is a lot of fun, but the grinding for materials is a real slog to go through. This is something they improved upon in Dragon Quest Builders 2, with the infinite materials.

Thank you, I hope you will enjoy it.

Yes, I have used the wrecking balls before and it was as simple as going in put one down before or during enemies spawning and then run away. I thought that was easy peasy, but this video shows something else. I have been thinking of scrapping the recording and do it over. Load up an all save and make it go my way,with me blowing everything up. But then this video shows the raw frustration many have with this mission. What went wrong is that I ran up to close to the burrow and then wanted to place the wrecking ball on a wrong position. Which meant I had to move and this gave the burrows sufficient time to spawn enemies and have them attack me.

Great. When I was playing on the PS4 I only saw Myrlund in the Diviner's Den. Maybe because in those playthroughs I always did that quest first and I didn't take my time as much between quests, as I do now in this LP.

I know. It was something I wanted to talk about from the first episode. Only giving slight hints each chapter as not to give away spoilers for each chapter. But I cannot say if the developers intended this theme or not. I have tried to read as many interviews as possible about the game and it didn't come up. Also every LP, review or other materials didn't mention this theme as well. I was about to wonder whether I was crazy or not. I was still a bit sad, that we didn't got to rebuild Galenholm. For Tantagel Town I was wondering whether we would get to build it attached to the castle or not. In DQ2 the castle and the town were connected and the town was at the west side, instead of the east.

Yeah, I don't know why they made it only three wide. In the original DQ game the gate was 2 tiles wide. I think they never intended that you put in a door and that the castle would have a gaping hole. Or maybe they expected you to level the castle and build one from the ground up. That is to much work. I left that for the Terra Incognita part. The ghosts were the least of my worries. The monsters I was more worried about were the Rockbombs. They tend to leave a big hole in my castle when they decide to use Kamikaze :'(. I don't know what triggers the glitch that the Dark Skeletons do not show up. If I have to hazard a guess, I would say that I had the game running for to long already. By that time I had recorded several episodes and been building up the castle. Maybe a memory overload happened. It is really weird though. I can't say it is because of the Switch, because this is my first playthrough on the switch and I had it happen on the PS4 as well. Good one, I can imagine that the Boss Troll is a terrible boss. What surprised me the most though, was that in both DQB1 and DQB2 on the Switch the enemies seem to be quicker to agro the player than on the PS4. I am always panicking when I get swarmed by a bunch of enemies. Even when I fought one of the Legerdemon, the other one did not react. I guess I didn't get within the circle of detection. I should remember this because it makes that fight a lot easier, when you don't get combo'ed by their assaults.

I agree some more of these dungeons would have been cool. We do have the pyramid in chapter one, Thalamus's vault in chapter 2 and the Lire of Slime Immemorial cave in chapter 3, but nothing as elaborate as the dungeons in this chapter. It's kinda sad. I hope that if there ever comes a Dragon Quest Builders 3, they will have an option where people can build dungeons for others to clear. The actual chapter challenge is to defeat the Dragonlord naked. You need to put the Hero's Shield and the Auroral armor into the Colossal Coffer before his second form. I don't know if the Cursed Equipment will survive going into the second phase. I do know that the sword of Kings is required. The cursed sword can eventually break when durability has run out. I thought only the Legendary Equipment can survive the transition to the second phase. Maybe I should test that one day.

Your imagination is more wholesome then mine was. I imagined that the hero had to carry her all the way, because otherwise her shoes and dress would get dirty. He would also need to fight all the monsters with her still in his arms. You can probably guess I am not much of a romantic. Your first time was better then mine then. I went with plain clothes and a cypress stick to the monsters to get the banner, because I wanted to build the castle with rooms. You can imagine that did not work out to well. Later when I got back there with better weapons and armor, I found all the stuff I dropped.

From a gameplay perspective the tutorial missions are totally unnecessary, because you are aware of them. However in the PS4 there is a chapter challenge that you have to complete the chapter in 20 days. If you collect a lot of mushrooms, grassy leaves, broken branches, plumberries, white petals, chimaera feathers, blue goo and earth. Make some changes to your base and prepare spots for specific rooms, than that tutorial mission that teaches you about time passing is a godsend. The day counter doesn't start until you have done that one mission. From a story perspective the tutorial mission are such a good foreshadowing of an exposition dump that you get near the end of the 4th chapter. The exposition Rubiss gives you about when she found you at the start of the game. And you finally learn what the Legendary Builder, and by extension you, really are. Why you have the power to create and are unaffected by the curse outside the banner's light.

Thnx, I have to admit I had to learn that you don't have to build up that high from someone else as well. Because otherwise I would also still be building towers of 12 blocks high. About the roof part there is actually a note in the vicinity of the ballista on the final island that tells you about it. In general I think every boss becomes trivial to fight as soon as you figure out their tricks. The problem most often is to figure out their tricks. Except for the third chapter boss, his tricks are easy to figure out. But taking him down is still hard if you cannot control the Bashmobile very well. Luckily for me I have become rather proficient in controlling the Bashmobile that I now find it one of the funnest and most overpowered weapons to use in combat.

I am the last one you need to ask this, because when I enjoy a game I will not notice any framedrops. However I do think that there are some areas where the framerate drops. This happens in the Switch and PS4 versions. But the Switch version does run on 30fps I think, while the PS4 runs on 60fps.

You just have to wait and regularly check the chest in your Stonemason/Blacksmiths Studio. The villagers eventually will build you one. The villagers know recipes you do not know.

@@zaeranos Uh no the thing is, I have already waited for like 20 game days for the NPCs to craft me some bathtub out of the treasury or the blacksmith studio. But all I have is stone window, wooden door, item display stand, equipment display stand, chimera feathers and ladders. There is no bathtub available. However I just discovered that it is able to obtain a bathtub from a minor golem, but that's very time consuming since the drop rate is extremely low.

I know about the little golems as well, however I have never managed to get it from them. I never had been so lucky. I do know that I got the bathtub relatively late in the chapter. I do not know exactly what triggers it, it may have to do with a challenge that you have to do like the Cantlin Garden. Or you have to build a specific room in town, such as the Pot Chamber, Master Bedroom or the Hammerton Hothouse. I always thought it had to do with story progression. But if you say it doesn't, than that debunks my theory. The only other thing is to build certain rooms, do some challenges or place some furniture. But because the trigger is not instant, it makes it very hard to figure it out. I cannot say with a definitive answer what does it now. Searching online hasn't helped me either. I have looked and the only answer I got was the monster drop. But I have never managed to get that drop. I do know that Terra Ingonita Stonemason workstation has a lot more recipes and you can build a bathtub there. I am sorry I couldn't be of more help.

@@zaeranos Hey thanks man no worries ;) Basically, I found that the dropping rate of Round Tables is much higher than bathtubs (from minor golems). I have farmed for around 2 hours and I've got 6 round tables and 1 bathtub. This looks to me like it will be impossible for me to get 3 bathtubs to make a bath room. However, an en-suite bedroom is possible. About the idea of completing all the challenges, yes, before I rebuild my city I already finished all the challenge quests in this chapter. However, I haven't made a Master Bedroom, a Pot Chamber, or a Hammerton Hothouse yet. All I have is after I took everything down with my mallet, I built a 2 story house containing a chill-out room and an inexpensive inn, a barbecue bistro, a treasury, a Cantlin Garden, a blacksmith's studio, and a museum (newly made). It is also probable that there are only times in the stages of the game will they build bathtubs. In my Tantegel after I got rainbow drop the NPCs refuses to build bathtubs lol, I guess there is probably some link between the residents' building choice and story progression. For Terra Incognita, yes. I have already made like 989 bathtubs or something similar XD. Free build mode is another story. There will be no scavenger-hunting.

A bathroom is impossible to do in the first chapter to begin with. At least I have never found any washtubs in the first chapter. You need a carpenter's workstation to build washtubs and you get that in the second chapter. I have only found 1 bathtub in the second chapter, which is not enough for a bathroom. As far as I know the Bathroom room-recipe is exclusive to Terra Incognita.

Definitely play this game and I hope you will enjoy this as much as I have.

Thanks for the comment. I know you cannot see it, but I'm blushing at the moment. It is good to know you like the video.

Yes I know. But this is what you get with me when there is no tutorial to go through or a manual to read. This is how I figure out games.

I'm sorry. It has been years since I last played this game. Just wait until I get to Zack and Kimberly, I'll die more often, with the potential of a game over. I'm the best with Jason, however I want to show of all the rangers. And yes, Thuy Trang was a very beautiful woman. I hope you still enjoyed the video.

I thought it was that. Personally as unmorphed characters I think billy is the worst and trini the second best, only beat by Jason. Trini has some speed and reach unmorphed and her hitboxes aren't weird. However as a ranger, her daggers are somewhat short reaching. Then stage 3 I think is the hardest stage of them all, due to that really obnoxious level hazard. So using Trini on stage 3 is not the best choice. Although my choice of using Zack isn't that much better. Stage 3 is just a big hurdle.

@@zaeranos Lol I just realized I downloaded the Japanese version of the rom. Everything is still in english but the title screen is slightly different and you actually take more damage. Was wondering why it felt so hard lol You might be right about stage 3. I kept dying with unmorphed Trini so I thought she sucked but that level is like a death trap with the floating debris, spiders and flying drills. I think every character sucks on that level. Good luck. I'll give Trini a try on another level

The Japanese version? Shouldn't that be Kyuryuu Sentai ZyuRanger then. Didn't know they also had a Power Rangers version. But if you take more damage, it probably isn't for me. I like games that are a bit more relaxed. Or they have a "second player anytime" option, like MMPR the Movie for the SNES has.

Yeah, I know. It is one of the reasons I got this version as well, even though I already got it from the eShop on the WiiU and Switch. One store here still has the USA import version of the Risky Beats edition for the Playstation Vita. However my wallet has its limits and the coming moths are expensive as hell with good games.

I managed to get a copy of Shantae and the Pirate's Curse for free on the Nintendo Wii U by posting quickly in a giveaway thread on a forum where someone was generously donating spares from a Humble Bundle.

Oh man, you were lucky then.

Yeah, the art book is really wonderful. It has shown me aspects of the game that I didn't notice before. I was probably too busy actually playing instead of stopping to appreciate the view. Have you played the game before or is this going to be a fresh experience?

I played a bootleg cart of the gameboy game as a kid! so its not my first time with the franchise. Though ive never played any of the newer games! I cant wait :D I could get it on pc for WAY cheaper but its not the same as playing on a Nintendo console :^)

AMAZON DELAYED MY ORDER INDEFINITELY I CRI

Ah, that sucks. Do you have other venues you might be able to get it? Personally, I don't use Amazon. They aren't really situated in the Netherlands so delivery takes way to long. However we have a pletora of webshops and a number that specialize in videogames. I usually get my games from there. Or just take my bike to an actual store and get it there. It's interesting. Before this game I also only played the first game. However my first experience was with the 3DS eShop version. I can say one thing though, don't get your expectations to high. There are some substantial differences. The first 3 games had a Metroidvania style of world. Half-Genie Hero ditched that for a more episodic level based structure.

ehhh not quite. i'll be waiting about a week or two before i can go and buy it again anyway. And really interesting! i usually order online since im too busy to go to a store to buy games D:

Hé thanks for the reply. I really appreciate it. I don't know what is worse. That Hyperkin never included propper eject instructions in the first place or that the video needs to exist in the first place.