Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined?

I've only played the demo, so I don't feel I'm a position to judge yet... (although I know that lots of people vote in these polls without ever playing the game in question!)

I am waiting for the reviews. The demo itself didnt do it for me.

Although I'm playing it on PS5 i voted for 9/10 for both above polls. Excellent game and a beautiful remake, hopefully DQ9 is next.

@Skunkfish

Lol indeed. I am not in the position to vote, until i actually played the game.

25-ish hours in, I love it!

I never played the game before, ever, so this is my first exposure to it.

And I found it incredibly and stupidly boring. Everything was just moving so slow, who thought it was a good idea to lock the selling feature of the game - the vocation system - at 20+ hours of the game.

This is probably the first time ever that I got buyer's remorse from buying a JRPG remake, especially after coming from a masterpiece that was Sky 1st Chapter Remake.

It's simply outstanding! The love that's been poured into this is unfathomable. So many quality of life upgrades, the world and character design are top notch. The voice over is stellar. Finally a RPG that values the player's time, doing things fun instead of losing half of the whole game's playtime to menu-ing or trying to talk to every single NPC in order to trigger a story-driven event...

(For those you don't know, the [!] markers can be disabled in the settings)

If they pour that much love into a Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy IX remake, I'm buying either or both day one!

It doesn’t actually look that special for a new 2026 game. Until you compare it to the PlayStation 1 original and you can see how much of a makeover it recieved. Then it looks amazing.

I suppose a nitpick is that there isn’t that much exploring. I’m only on the Roamers island right now and it feels like I’m being shuffled from one story to the next without much in the way of wandering around and fighting, trying to get to the next story point. I’m playing on standard difficulty settings.

So the demo of this was my first time playing DQ for more than 10 minuttes, and I found it to be an absolute delight.
I since bought DQ XIs as it seemingly got a lot of praise, and I find it to be absolutely dull.
I am wondering how these two games are in the same series... But yeah. From my 10 hours of DQ VII reimagined so far, I would give it an solid 8.7/10.

Will get it eventually. Wasn't a huge fan of the 3ds remake, but I'm hoping Reimagined will change my view of VII. Didn't help that the 3ds version had input lag in battles.
If they make a Reimagined VIII I will be on it day one, Dragon Quest VIII remains my 2nd favorite game of all time.

Probably an 8. Playing around with the difficulty settings at the mo on the third island. Not quite got the sweetspot yet but I'm keeping exp at norm to avoid a grind.

@The-Chosen-one Waiting for what reviews? The reviews have already been out.

I'm really enjoying it. 9/10 for me.

I want to play it so bad but I’m holding off so it can be my jet lag buddy next week. Put about 5 hours in so far though and loving it.

Couldn't quite get into the demo.

The character design wasn't quite so horrifically charmless in general gameplay.

Bought it for Xbox/PC instead because it's an Xbox Play Anywhere title, but yeah, it's a decent enough game. So far it hasn't quite captured the excitement I had for the PS and (even more so) 3DS versions of the game, but hey, it's more DQ and that's good enough for me.

I don't have a ton of experience with Dragon Quest, but I've got to say I don't think I understand the point of the modern games. I played 11 a while back and quickly realized you can win pretty much every fight regardless of what attacks you pick, so you can just auto battle through everything and walk along whatever the most obvious path is with close to zero repercussions.

Then I played Dragon Quest 1 and had a pretty good time with it. You actually have to manage your HP/MP and explore a bit to make progress. And since this new one was a remake, I thought it might have some more of that retro difficulty, even bumping the demo up to hard mode for good measure. But it was right back to the same problems from 11. Are the new entries just dead set on being the most accessible rpg series to the point where any interesting gameplay has been streamlined out?