Reminder: Nintendo's Mobile RPG Dragalia Lost Is Now Available, In Some Countries At Least

The trailer above just only showing Characters Introduction, NOT the Actual gameplay.
Not helping for whoever have Never played before.

I'd play it on Switch or 3DS. On smartphone? Not so much.

Over 2GB to download?!
Can't go down with a sinking ship if I never get on it, I suppose.

Should have been on Switch. Maybe it'll come over later - who knows. Either way, Arena of Valor has my attention right now so I'm not really missing out at all.

The artwork looks pretty good, I'd be keen to give a try. If it turns out any good maybe it will become a new IP for Nintendo and we'll see it on Switch.

Spent way too much time on this yesterday, helped by the fact I was waiting for my car at the mechanic.

Best part so far is the music. After 50 hours of DQXI repetition this was really nice. Reminds me of Splatoon but come hither. Typical J-pop I suppose but I don't listen to that so it was a nice change of pace for me. Though my son who only listens to video game music did say it was too anime. Which it is.

The 2GB download - and continuously having to stop and download 1mb every single time you want to do something - is a bit put offish. Edit - More>Options>System>Batch Download for another 685ish mb, grand total 2.3GB.

My tablet, Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 7", Android 4.4.2, no SD card 8GB, only barely runs this, with black where the characters should be. My phone, Samsung Galaxy J3 Luna Pro, Android 5.0, 16GB w/ 32GB SD card which i moved the full game to, does a much better job.

Game play is Pokémon Rumble. Enter an area, move around killing enemies, boss fight in the last area. But they do space out those sections with cut scene ones. Typical JR tropes but I like the voice acting and the personalities, it kept me going. Battery drain is real, but I expected as much for a game like this, there's a lot going on.

Game also reminded me a bit of Puzzles & Dragons with its team building but there is several steps beyond that, so forget I said anything.

Also it has 8 comic strips explaining the back story of the characters. I haven't read any of them yet but it's more than the FFXV crew got in game. Also books for each one as well. Dragon book was unlocked by feeding him stuff.

Considering I am 50 hours in to DQXI, which is a great throwback to the JRPG of yesteryear, I was expecting to yawn st this, but between the voice acted characters, story, and constant new stuff, it sucked me in. Nothing groundbreaking, but it's free.

I do hate touchscreen controls. This would be so awesome on Switch. Or a Bluetooth controller even. If they made it 4 player couch co-op I'd play it with my kids.

So far it looks like they're skipping My Nintendo rewards, so anybody feeling like they are missing out on some worthless platinum coins, no worries. Though considering all the different currency in the game:

Stamina to play
Coins to build your area - think Mario Run lameness
Dragonmite to whatever
Mana to upgrade your character abilities - skills points in DQXI
Diamamite(sp) to buy with real money, not sure why
Materials to upgrade weapons and prints

there is a lot they could be giving away in rewards.

A lot there for free, if you like j-pop sickeningly sweet yet sexy singing and voice acting, the paint by numbers jrpg characters and story, but you do have to put up with the touch controls, which mostly work, but the guard break sucks, it's backwards.

Music vid which I believe is music in the game for anyone interested.

I'm guessing - generic anime characters, forced into portrait mode no matter how much it mangles the visuals and gameplay, in-app purchase begging every 2 minutes, and repetitive and simplistic gameplay which wouldn't challenge a small child.

I think I'll stick to Octopath.

Had a go and actually enjoyed it. Waiting for a European release so I can link my main Nintendo account to it now, have they even given a small clue as to when that will be?

Can't get past the generic art direction. Pass

@Equinox Oh, sorry. My doppelgangers like to mess around sometimes. And thank you.

Not out in Canada yet...

@rjejr you can download the rest of the data on more -> options -> system -> batch download.

That way you won't be plagued by constant download as you play

It's fine, the story is acceptable and the music is pretty good. But I'd rather play with twin sticks than give myself RSI with the constant tapping. It's better than most phone ARPGs I'll give it that ¯(ツ)/¯

I'm liking it quite a bit, it's a fun time killer.

Ah, no european release date yet. Reminds me of the good old times... when we had to wait months for new Nintendo consoles and games to come out.

@darkfenrir Thanks. I saw someone else mention that earlier and I was planning on searching for it after breakfast so I really appreciate the step by step instructions, I'm gong to do it now while I have it in front of me. But of course I have to download something else first just booting up the game.

Exclude voices? Not gonna happen.

ot cha nah singing with a boya, un socky what nah for yee

Man, another 600mb, gotta go delete some stuff or move it to the SD card, thanks again for your help.

@rjejr No problem, glad I could help! You can also download the voices to Japanese if you want over there iirc (or near there, somewhere)

Must admit that the thing that makes me stick to the game is the MUSIC, it's too good.

I didn't have space for it on my SS Galaxy S5, I want to play it. So therefore I'm finally biting the bullet to upgrade to Galaxy S7 which will have more space for the games I want to play on mobile.

@dougphisig Its fun so far, but not worth a new phone over.

Get Xenoblade if you haven't yet.

Oh not again NintendoMobile...

Clearly they don't recognise the existence of countries that aren't the US, Japan or a handful of others.

Sorry I wasn't born in the United States Nintendo. I really apologise for not being born there...

@darkfenrir As much as I usually prefer Japanese voice acting in games, trying to read the text on my 5" phone is difficult enough as it is listening in English. And I've also decided Japanese voice acting makes the most sense in games w/ Japanese looking characters, like Onimusha and Genji. Ghosts of Tukishima on PS4, or PS5, will almost certainly require Japanese. These western looking cahracters work fine with their western voices.They're pretty much spot on for the genre. Not great, but I've heard much worse. Arc Rise Fantasia was the worst.

@rjejr Aah, gotcha then. That make sense, I also find that this one's English VA is definitely not the worse I hear (heck, I think even XC2 while I can bear it, is still worse than this one).

@Yasaal I'm also not at US/any of those select countries, and if you are using Android, just using APK is pretty simple matter since there's a lot of places that offer it (Although I understand reasoning of not wanting to go over the hoop to use apk). This happens a lot anyway, iirc games like PuzzlexDragons or like Terra Battle never came out of US for english version...

Nintendo is definitely one of the worst though, the other being Gungho and Square Enix (only for gacha/f2p games, their premium stuff is released everywhere for SE) off the top of my head. But in the end I figure that if I really want to play them I'll just use apk since it's easy lol

Sounds like it controls like the NDS Zelda games which means it should actually play pretty well on my Note 8... Now I just need it to release in the UK because I'm too lazy for sideloading right now 😂

Errr... Did I miss something. No landscape option for iPad (tablets). And no Apple MFI Certified Controller support either. And, Delete 🙄

Art style is typical and generic, though was willing to look past that, since it doesn't really bother me. But, when it got to the actual gameplay, my eyes glazed over and I immediately became more interested in what I was going to eat, do, or play, later. It's the typical nonsense that keeps me from taking the medium seriously, just done the Japanese way.

It's a shame, because I don't mind the anime style music or art style. It's just that the gameplay isn't there for me.

Tried to download this yesterday, wasn't able to and I don't know why seeing that I have plenty of open memory on my phone...

I'm always interested in new RPGs, (j) or otherwise, but not on my phone. Bring it to Switch with no microtransactions and the like, and we'll see.

2GB+ download won't fit on my phone. Guess I'm passing here.

@Agramonte

@darkfenrir Wouldn't risk an APK tbh. Don't see what's the problem with Nintendo releasing it on all territories like they did with Mario Run, which was available almost everywhere...

@Yasaal well apk is only dangerous if you took them from weird sites... Or trying to find non-legit version hue. But I understand the apprehensiveness, even if it's safe it's still feel unsafe because it's not officially at store.

And it might be because mario run is one time purchase while this is... Gacha

Once you downloaded the app, you will have to download a lil over a gb to just play the tutorial, after you play the tutorial you have to download another 200 mb and then when you play a little longer you end up downloading another 600+ mb file to get to the rest of the game. It's ok of a game, subpar on the story, graphics are beautiful, the control scheme however kindof sucks (well it takes getting used to) hopefully that will change but its alright 3/5

@Kriven It's not on Switch because it's truly a mobile PHONE game. The emphasis is not on the mobility but the word "phone". Everything is designed to play on a touchscreen with one hand on the go.

Porting it to Switch is pointless because there's not value on a console with a proper controller.

That being said, it's a pretty well made mobile game.

@rjejr

I'm playing it right now and honestly I think the teams and units building are much more like granblue fantsay than PAD. I am yet to see a game reinventing their formula on mobile.

A 2gb download. What could they possibly be thinking? Mobile games need mass appeal to catch on, and unfortunately, the average mobile user needs to really think twice before trying any app over a hundred MB. This seems like a case of poor optimization.

I have found a why to get the game the UK and it's very easy just go and search for APKpure.com . First Install APKpure on your phone than once finshed go into the app and download it very easy but this method was only for android user plus credit to the guy you tube who found this method