{"id":232754,"date":"2025-10-29T21:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/232754\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T21:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T21:17:12","slug":"dragon-quest-i-ii-hd-2d-remake-review-ps5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/232754\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake Review (PS5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dragon<\/a><\/p>\n

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake<\/a> bundles two classic JRPGs together that, somewhat confusingly, are linked to but set chronologically after Square Enix’s 2024 revival, Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake<\/a>. Together, they comprise the Erdrick trilogy and continue the series’ consistently high quality, offering traditional turn-based gameplay that is as tried-and-true as it is nostalgic.<\/p>\n

Both entries (released in 1986 and 1987, respectively) are straightforward games at their core, but have been given new life and look stunning in the HD-2D conversion. Cutscenes have been revamped across the board, and characters and monsters have been overhauled.<\/p>\n

New story content has been added, along with multiple difficulty options, allowing players to ease or increase the old-school challenge as desired. In addition to a new and updated soundtrack, there is some much-appreciated voice acting in both English and Japanese.<\/p>\n

Dragon Quest I is a bit of a strange beast, but quite interesting in its own right. Much shorter, it lacks the party mechanics most would associate with the genre. With just a single character, players must face the Dragonlord alone across a 15-hour adventure.<\/p>\n

However, this version introduces the ability to battle multiple enemies at once (for consistency with the rest of the series), rather than just one at a time. For balance, attacks capable of hitting multiple enemies have been added, too.<\/p>\n

Dragon Quest II, meanwhile, is the real meat-and-potatoes of this classical roleplaying feast. With a new playable character, additional events, areas, and items (not to mention secret locations), it’s an expansive adventure that offers close to 40 hours of gameplay, and longer for true completionists.<\/p>\n

DQII is a globe-spanning romp in which the various royal descendants of Erdrick band together to face an apocalyptic demonic threat, and is well worth the price of admission in its own right.<\/p>\n

That said, unlike say, Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age<\/a>, there is little here that would convert someone who was not already a fan of that venerable JRPG series. Its offerings are traditional perhaps to a fault, and while modern conveniences have smoothed away some of its rougher edges, Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake does require a certain old-school mindset to be properly appreciated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake bundles two classic JRPGs together that, somewhat confusingly, are linked to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[95311,59,131,127,112,129,945,1276,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-232754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-dragon-quest-i-ii-hd-2d-remake","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-mini-reviews","11":"tag-playstation-5","12":"tag-ps5","13":"tag-reviews","14":"tag-rpg","15":"tag-square-enix","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}