Dragon Quest Treasures Has A Great Demo
A demo is either a chance to try a game I’m already planning to buy, or a helpful tool to confirm that I’m not missing out by skipping something. That game demo dichotomy is typical for most players if you look at the few conversion statistics that have dripped out of the secretive gaming industry, which means they’re not always worth the production spend for game companies.
Dragon Quest Treasures is one of those rare games where I had dismissed it out of hand after a trailer, but then the downloadable demo fully sold me on it.
I love the core Dragon Quest franchise, but the spin-off games have never connected with me the same way that the main entries do. I know that the long-running Dragon Quest Monsters side franchise has a bunch of fans out there, and that some of them were hoping that Treasures would be a spiritual return to that series since it shares the same development team. Legendary “ghost studio” Tose worked on many of those older games and this new Treasures side game as well.
Monsters had turn based combat and monster collecting that you could charitably say was heavily inspired by Pokemon. The main trailer for Treasures that managed to break through into my awareness shows the returning collecting aspect…
