Review: Dragon Quest XI S: Definitive Edition (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Harvard L.

I wish this game had the subtitle, “a Dragon Quest for fans and first timers”, because that’s precisely what Square Enix was going for in this iteration of the long-running JRPG franchise. The base game released on the PS4 two years ago, along with a Japan only 3DS port which contained entirely different graphical assets, and now the two have been combined together in the Switch’s Definitive Editing. This is one of those rare times where I can say the definitive release is for everyone: if you’ve never touched a Dragon Quest game in your life this is still a great point of entry, and if you’ve beaten XI on the PlayStation 4, there’s enough added to the Nintendo Switch edition that it’ll feel like a whole new adventure.

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