You’ll rarely spend more than an hour in one town or dungeon before you’ve helped the locals and moved onto your next objective. What sets it apart, though, is the manic pace at which these rote storylines are started and completed. Whether you’re helping a prince through a ritual to become king or rescuing a mountaintop town from a curse that has frozen all of the villagers, virtually every scenario has been done in other games, whether they came before or after this title’s original Super Famicom release. Realms of Revelation may be the single most ambitious game ever to be stuck within this tried-and-true formula.ĭragon Quest VI doesn’t try anything I haven’t seen before. While some RPGs blow their budgets trying to craft a complex world with reams of backstory, the Dragon Quest games have always painted in much broader strokes, dealing unashamedly in the style of fetch quests that have become stereotypes in the genre.
