 Welcome back folks to another Let's Play series. Today we're starting off Dragon Quest 1 on a Nintendo Switch. It just came out. It came out alongside Dragon Quest 2 and 3 and 11s. And here it is, Dragon Quest on a Switch. This is the first time we're getting the PS4 port, you know, the remaster of the original game. So this should be exactly the same as the 1986 version, but with more quality of life improvements. It has updated graphics, better gameplay, quicker gameplay, but otherwise it's the same game. This is a game I've wanted to see on the Switch for a really long time, this and the other two. I've wanted to see the trilogy on the Switch so that people can experience Dragon Quest the way it was meant to be played. The first three games then 11. That's my recommended playing order. So this, this is exciting, Dragon Quest, the original adventure. So yeah, let's jump right in. I've already beaten this game multiple times in the past. I know exactly what to do. I can give you some good commentary. So it's nice. Then the music sounds great too. Obviously we're gonna go with this. And also the way this, the word box looks also, I love the font. The way it has the black with the white border. And we'll get fast message speed. Some good loud music. Here we go. The beginning. Scion of the bloodline of Urgeric. Hero of legend. Long have I awaited thy coming. So this is a brand new script. A brand new script is different than the NES version and it has, it retains the old English style dialogue. In the days of Yor, thy revered ancestor did receive of the Almighty Goddess a sphere of light. And then the Dragon Lord came one day, of course, and with his cunning, he stole away the sphere of light, plunging the land into darkness once more. So the main character is of the bloodline of heroes, vanquished the accursed Dragon Lord and reclaimed the sphere of light. So these chests contain items that can help and the people in this throne room will help if you talk to them. May the Goddess guide thee to victory and return thee unto us, our long brave chief. So here we go. And that's Dragon Quest one. The beginning of Dragon Quest one. So the Dragon Lord. There's no cutscene at the beginning of the game like the Game Boy version. The Dragon Lord stole the ball of light and kidnapped Princess Gwailin and the kingdom is basically in ruin now. So it's up to us to defeat him. This game is really a classic. It came out in 1986, same year as Legend of Zelda. It was more ambitious, I think, because of the way it sort of looks like a mystery game that requires you to investigate and find clues. The stout no of the poor Princess Gwailin. The key opens doors. In this game, doors need to be opened by keys. So you have to get a key to open the damn door. And if you notice, the sprites also are very... they're kind of like HD looking. Don't you see that? The tentacle was once a fairground. It was a very peaceful place. And now there's lots of enemies and monsters everywhere. So it's kind of like post-apocalyptic a little bit, the way everything is. This is Tentacle Castle, you know, where it all began. No keys, you can't get into there. So this guy's telling me that I should hone my skills by battling beasts and increase my level. The way this game is designed is that the characters in this game talk and they tell you where to go and you have to listen to clues and kind of piece things together. It's like an adventure mystery kind of game, but also it's an RPG. Like, did you hear the rumors? Oh, I did not hear the rumors. There's a town laid to ruin by Marauding Monsters. So there's some sort of town out there that has a story about monsters. We already know about that because of this. Interesting. So he's a traveling merchant and he lost a lot of friends who died. Oh, this guy's really sad. Oh no, he's so upset that the princess was kidnapped. So you need a torch. According to this guy, you need a torch to light up caves. And he's right because if you don't, if you don't have a torch, you're going to be stuck in a cave and it's going to be impossible to navigate them. So when dark spread across the land, light shall return by Erdrick's hand. Almighty goddess, we pray that the ancient teachings hold true, may thy light shine upon the brave chief's quest. So that, as he just healed me, it looks like. And nothing there. Okay. Looks like everyone is really worried about the princess. So here's the menu system. It looks just like the original. Looks like it's like more updated. I have a bamboo spear. Okay, that's my weapon. In this game, you have one party member. You're going off on your own, essentially, and you're trying to defeat the dragon lord by yourself. So we've already gotten some good exposition from the king. It's time to go off into the world and try to, you know, finish the quest, I guess. The dragon quest. The first game where you actually kill the dragon. So that town to the right, that would be, well, I wonder what town that is. Oh, hello there. The castle town of Tentagill bids thee welcome. So this is Tentagill, the castle town. Welcome to the friend frithy, make thy way into the premises and state thy business or counter. The old English dialogue, it gets so, uh, does it get old? Hmm. A lot of people have perished on their journey. So a little bit of exposition behind this game. Basically, the main character is the scion of Urdruk. He is basically, he is a descendant of a legendary hero who lived long ago, who was no longer around, and he is trusted with his power. He's basically the only guy who can do anything. Oh, hello there. Oh, she's not princess Galen. Oh, silver tongue indeed. She's following me around. I wonder what happens if we check in at the end with her. Yeah, sure, three gold. That's worth it. Okay, um, let's see what the old man here has to say. Where are the poisonous marshes? Oh no. He must have gotten hurt in the poison marshes. And what does this guy have to say right here? I still have this girl following me around. So there are the bloodline of the mighty Urdruk, thou say? Does it though proof? Uh, no. Oh, he needs proof. He's been a jerk about it. All right, so where the heck do we need to go? I wonder where we need to go. Hey, I got a lot of money from the king. I should probably get some, uh, a weapon with the money. Hey, if I had enough money, I would buy that. But for now, I think that this will have to do. Uh, I'll equip this leather shield. It'll help me out probably. There's gotta be some sort of hint to where to go next. Oh, who's this? It's a soldier. He must have gotten hurt. The force tasked with rescuing princess Gwelyn got destroyed. No. It's really, that's not good at all. Geez. What about the soldier right here? Has thou heard of the great bard, uh, Gallon? They say he took his beloved liar and unto his very, that's a harp out to have here to herd and play. So, Gallon, huh? This guy, what do you have to say? No. There's a town far distant from this place. Magic keys are sold as a little green road trees. There's a town far away where they sell keys, huh? Interesting. He says something about Gallon home. He, you know, I think we should go north. I think that's a good, a good idea. Let's head north and we'll try to find this town that he talked about where Gallon rested. That's the only hint we've got after all. Oh, what's that? That cave over there looks pretty suspicious. Let's check that out after we defeat this Dracula, our first enemy. All right, come on. Let's see if we can beat him. Oh, he's tough. He's really tough. Oh, I'm gonna die. Oh, I survived actually. Wow. Oh, if you press X, there's a world map. Oh, this is much easier now. A lot of the challenge of the original game is the fact that there's no world map. Let's see this map. Accordingly, it even tells you where all the cities are actually. Wow, that's actually really easy. Wait, wait. Y brings up the menu. A brings up the menu. X brings up the map. And that little feather icon is where we are. Which means there is a city in the top left corner. We can go there. Okay, so there's only a couple of places around here to even explore. Let's move on into... Wait, I keep pressing X because I'm still used to X being the... All right, we can grab more medicinal herbs with the money we have. I'm gonna go grab some more medicinal herbs because we're gonna be needing those for the long journey ahead. I need to go to that cave. I want to see what's in that cave. There might be something interesting there. Maybe this guy has the medicinal herbs I forget. He doesn't. He only has the weapons. The item shop should be around here. So wait, if I press X here, there's no town map, but there is a... Oh, here we go. It's supposed to be an item shop. All right, medicinal herb. All right, you just gotta keep in medicinal herb and keep the item until you get your full... All right, cool. Now we can head off north and want to check out that cave. All right, we're heading north. Onwards to adventure... Oh, a she-slime. Hopefully we're strong enough to beat it. Come on. Yes, we beat a she-slime. It seems really impressive now, but it's like... Those are the weakest enemies. All right, we're gonna check out this cave. So how well does this game run so far? It runs all right. Oh, the torch. Of course. The guy in the castle told us to use the torch to light up the cave. Well, that helps, I'd say. Damn, I don't remember how to get at the end. This is really maze-like. These original Dragon Quest dungeons are expertly crafted because of how... It's like you can really get lost. All right, there's a dragon logo here. That might mean we're on a good path so far. It has a dead end. Are there no enemies in here? I guess this cave has no enemies or monsters or anything. All right, found something. It looks like a grave of some sort. Right, the stone tablet. The following message is etch into the stone tablet service. I'm Erdrick. Hear me well, bearer of my blood, heir to my destiny. If you would reach the evil island visible from Tentagill's shore, you'll require the three sacred artifacts. Gather them and you may yet cross to that accursed isle and destroy the source of all evil, as I too did so long ago. Before my passing, I trusted the three objects of three great sages. If the fates have still been kind, their descendants guard them still. So the three stages have descendants also. When evil rules the ill-starred isle once more, gather the hallow triad and strike a blow for the cause of light. No doubt, those aligned with the sages await you somewhere in this world. Blood of my blood, child of my children, go forth and fulfill your destiny. Wow, that's pretty epic. So Erdrick left a message here. This is Erdrick's tomb. This must be his burial spot or some sort. He even left a message for us. So you heard how he mentioned that the Dragon Lord's Castle is located across the water from... It was located right across. That's what he said. Let me show you what he's talking about. We're gonna head down again. A little bit of grinding. All right, so you see that castle right there? That right there is the Dragon Lord's Castle. It's right across the river from Tentagill Castle. The way I look at it is it represents the goal at the beginning in mind. As soon as you leave the castle, you'll immediately see the endgame place. But you can't get there yet because you can't go across the water. With this in mind, you know what needs to be done. You know where you need to go. You're looking for ways to get there. The way the game is designed is so brilliant. So it's so well done. Oh, here we go in our slimy boy. That was easy. But yeah, it's really great how this game guides the player naturally. Anyway, we'll keep moving onwards. I don't know how I feel about this character portrait. It's not amazing. It's a little weird how it's higher res than the rest of the world. All right, an R.C. Slime. This is a lot easier in the Game Boy version, I gotta say. All right, new level leveled up. Strength increased by two, maximum HP, and four coins. It's a lot easier in the Game Boy version. Wow, this is like, want to hear a song? Sure. Oh, he's really awful at music, I guess. All right, so this is Gallon Home, according to that woman. This must be Gallon's resting place. This building right here, yeah. Oh, he has good weapons and iron axe. That'll make me so... That'll make me really powerful, actually. Wow. What about this guy? Oh, crap. It said it was built to honor the name. So that was Erdrick's tomb. This is the item shop. So this town sprung up around a dwelling, came to be known as Gallon Home. So this is the town that Gallon, the companion of Erdrick, founded. Eastward. So Eastward is where they went. They went east? Of course, that's where they went. Is there no one as well with courage enough to go to rescue? Yeah, there is. Me. Oh my goodness. Okay, so she was taken to the east. That's what we know. We should fight some dudes and get stronger because right now I don't have much money. This is oddly easy, I gotta say. It took me a long time to get the Gallon Home before. Right now it's been like, not even... It's been less than 20 minutes and I've already gotten there. All right, let's fight some dudes. Let's fight some monsters. All right, there we go. Ghost. He's tough. He's a tough one, isn't he? Oh, I killed him. This is really easy. What the heck? Why is it so easy? There's gotta be a difficulty setting or something. No, there isn't. I think they really didn't make the game a little bit easier because this is... I did a Game Boy... Let's play the Game Boy version. It was a lot harder. It was a pain in the ass, I would say. All right, well, maybe I'm just really tough. Let's do a little more guys fighting guys. Keep hitting X. Okay, 31 gold. Yeah, it's not too bad. The music actually sounds really great also. Oh my, this ghost is a little bit tougher. Nice. Level up again. Level three. Well done. Okay, that was quick. That was relatively quick. Oh, I forgot to mention this. There's only one safe point in the entire world, actually. You have to keep going back to Tentacle Castle in order to save. You know how in modern Dragon Quest games, there's churches that you can save? They didn't have this in the first game, so you can only save in one spot in the entire game world. So we're gonna have to go back there, actually. Wait, what if I start? Quick save. You can do quick save. That's a little something. I like going back to the King, though, to report to him. I feel kind of like a soldier. All right, we'll head on back down to Tentacle Castle and, all right, hopefully we can get enough. Moving onwards, then, and we're back at the castle once again. All right, so I'm gonna save here, actually. Now, yeah, that wasn't too bad. We'll head off now again and we'll try to move further. I think the game, being a little bit easier, is gonna give some opportunities. So let's rest at the end. Heading on. The controls are a little goofy. I'm using the Super Nintendo controller, by the way. All right, Leather Suit, already I'm knocking. Well, if I sell something, if I fight another couple of dudes, I'll probably have enough money for that Leather Suit. All right, I'm just gonna grind wool now. All right, here we go. Also, you notice how the enemies aren't sprites? They're like drawings now. It's gonna take a little while to get that EXP. Here's the Nershi Slime. Yeah, they're like drawing. The enemies are drawings now. They're like, they're more HD looking. Close. Only four more gold and I can afford that armor suit. I wish there would be more shading in the overworld. It would look a little bit nicer, I think. I know a lot of people on Twitter are complaining about this game the way it looks. I think Dragon Quest III looks fine. I think this one could have looked a little bit better. I personally prefer the NES version the way that one looks, because it looks more like an adventure, like you're going into some open, huge open world. All right, killing the slime. That should be enough. Let's head back. Equip this leather suit now. Okay, so status, the defense is high. All right, let's go rush that place now. I think I should be able to. It's not as tough as it was before. Now, if you go here, this is a little shortcut. People don't know about this one, especially since there's a map now. That makes the game way easier. I think a lot of the difficulty in the original game was the fact that there was no map. Like, we have a map now. Now, there should be a cave up here, but it's not, it's not charted. Pretty sure there was a cave. Okay, that's Galanom. Eat this Jackie up again. Oh, he dodged it. I'll keep getting stronger. All right, we'll keep heading downwards and until we get to Galanom, or not Galanom, then the next cave. Except that guy up there told me to go east, because he said that that's where, oh, level up. You have to listen to what the people in the town say. That guy said to go east. I think that's a good idea. Like, I don't know where, I don't know why I'm going downwards, but going east sounds like a, sounds like a good plan. Well, I want to see what's down here first, because who knows, there might be a cave of some sort. All right, we go ghost. Yeah, this is way easier. It was so hard for me to get here before. It took me like hours to get here before. And it's another victory. Not too bad. Not too shabby. And here's a scorpion. Oh, these guys are tough, I think. Oh yeah, he's tough. Oh, he's, okay, okay. I know when I'm beat. I know when I'm beat. Do I though? Okay, I do. I do. I'm out of here. That scorpion is gonna freaking kill, okay, okay. That scorpion is like actually gonna destroy me. Now, I think that's some good progress. Oh, the magician or their prestigious prestigious, whatever that is. We could beat him. Yeah, I beat him. He looks a little goofy in this game for some reason. All right, so yeah, things are getting things are a little too easy for some reason. Not quite as eventful as eventful as the original version. All right, we'll head on downwards now. There's another slime, another slimy boy. We're gonna go visit the king and we're gonna save one more time. I know not a lot of guys done, but this is kind of a good introduction for the series. All right, our 43 exp points to level up. And we're gonna save in the top thing. And we're gonna end this episode here, actually. I know it seems short because I usually do hour long episodes, but I think half an hour is appropriate for the original Dragon Quest. This game is so easy to beat. It's so quick to beat. It'll take me like less than five hours to beat it, honestly. So this will be a quick series, honestly. It's not gonna go over too long. Dragon Quest 2 and 3 on the other hand, those are gonna take forever. I'll be doing hour long episodes of those. So yeah, thanks for watching and I'll see you next time when we continue Dragon Quest 1 on Tendo Switch.