The Rock, Paper, Shotgun "review" of the game...

[Casual Hero]

This review is absolute trash, and this is one of the reasons that I hate talking with Western "fans" of Dragon Quest.

Let's see if they check all of the boxes...
A comment about hating random encounters, yep.
Calling the combat old-fashioned, yep.
Calling the story simple and basic, yep.

Okay, here is the best part, are you ready?

"White, smiling sprites speaking in a broad dialect of whatever caricatured city you find yourself in. This is racist, ugly stuff and isn’t the only instance where the game’s thoughtlessness bubbled up, sour and imposing. When I encountered an enemy type called “Heedoo Voodoo”, a racist-children’s-book cartoon of an African tribesman, I turned the game off for the rest of the night. It wasn’t the last time I did that. Things like this would have stood out in 1988 and it’s remarkable that they weren’t altered or addressed with a remake that is already clearly so invested in altering the game’s visuals and presentation."

Wow.

I PRAY that Yuji Horii never listens to people like this.

I don't really have any point to this post other than to rant my frustration.
The A/B, troll lips, and female warrior changes didn't bother me that much, but I do think this is just an unreasonable and ignorant take on it.

I can only hope that DQ 12 is able to withstand the pressure from these people.

The review, in case you want to read it. Please don't; it's terrible, and it's the same surface-level analysis I'd expect from someone who hates RPGs that we've heard time and time again.

I'm sorry if this is not the kind of post that some of you expect from me, but this just really annoyed me.

[Casual Hero]

It's like whoever wrote this review was afraid that he might offend his friends on Tumblr if he didn't make the entire thing about himself and talk about how much he hates racism.

Not a single mention of gameplay mechanics, new features, or the post-game.

[Cookie]

These are not journalists, they are activists in disguise.

[Casual Hero]

This is the first time that I've seen anyone call the accents in DQ "racist".
So DQ 4-11 were also racist?

[Call Sign: Raven]

Gotta call things out that you believe in. If they aren’t happy with what they see, they paid the $60 to have the voice to speak about it.

[Casual Hero]

Ollie Bardner on Forbes wrote a review that I was able to take much more away from:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/games/2024/11/13/dragon-quest-iii-hd-2d-remake-review-one-of-the-best-rpgs-ever-made/

Also, the superboss has been confirmed to be in this remake.

[Gallery]

As soon as they start calling something or someone racist, that's when you stop taking them seriously.

[Hofstadter]

Clearly not real journalists. Just ignore them.

[Gamerdude535]

Far left game "journalists" lmao

[theclaw135]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Gallery:

As soon as they start calling something or someone racist, that's when you stop taking them seriously.

For one thing, it's not informative enough.

Cliches and caricatures need to be better understood, for future designers to improve upon ways of incorporating societies unfamiliar to the audience.

[ComRed]

Yeah don't click on that RPS link. Let them rot.

[gryphonv]

Everyone hates IGN right? Well guess what IGN owns RPS now, so they are now only a mouthpiece for bad IGN articles.

[Sturm]

The worst part of gaming journalism is gaming journalists. What do you expect from activists who don't play games and couldn't get a job working for the Huffington Post?

[MisterSmellies]

Now you understand

[Caz]

Opprinnelig skrevet av Hofstadter:

Clearly not real journalists. Just ignore them.

The problem is that decision-making executives DON’T ignore them. That’s how we end up with Concord and Veilguard

[Caz]

Opprinnelig skrevet av gryphonv:

Everyone hates IGN right? Well guess what IGN owns RPS now, so they are now only a mouthpiece for bad IGN articles.

To be fair, RPS has been activist trash for close to a decade now