 Welcome back folks to another episode of Let's Play, Dragon Quest XI S on the Switch. Last episode we met this strange little creature, Veronica, and apparently her sister has gone missing, looking for her to try to save her, so we've agreed to help Veronica find Serena, her sister. So they went to the bath house, and a bunch of monsters attacked Veronica. Kidnapped her, took her back to the lair, oh wow, an underground lab runs out west, so you know, let's head out. Let's see what Eric has to say. Alright, you're a totalless, Veronica may be a pain in the, you know what, we still gotta help her out. Her sister's just a little girl, oh is she? Alright, let's head over, what do these guys have to say? We intend to go west, be prepared to fight. Praying on the weak, okay. Oh hello. People all talking weird, like poems, it's kind of strange. Let's head out westward, the Hado step. Okay there's the enemies, there's the she slimes, we could fight them, but I kind of want to rush over and save Serena as soon as possible. Mount Fuji, like Mount Fuji but not quite, what is this? Yeah, well that might be another story for another time. If you haven't noticed, there's areas in this area where you do have to come back later on for other story related stuff. This game is not linear, you have to go back and forth and kind of look at everything. So how about we grab a horse and leave these two behind. Veronica kid talks a good game, but could she really handle herself a theme scott airy? I guess she didn't say she was a mighty sage from Arboria, he doesn't know what that means. Look at her all smug like with her hands on her hips, she's great, anyway I'm gonna hop on this horse and run off without them. Oh there's a campsite here, not that I need to camp, oh there's something here, a wake robin. You don't have to get off your horse this time to collect the iron ore. Now around this corner, these guys are so slow they won't be able to catch me. There's a door here but I can't get through it, there's something good in there I can tell. But we'll look at that later, anyway onwards, there's another whatever that is, I believe she was around here, oh no the cryptic crypt, okay so it should be at the cryptic cave, right around here, it's past this campsite right here, I'm not gonna bother saving because who cares about saving right, we have autosave on our side, let's look at those guys rolling around and here we go, into the cave, gonna have to leave my horse out here, auto mode part 2, wait, I can get all three of them in there, you can't give Veronica to do anything though, alright so we'll head through here, there's some drakis or whatever the green ones are called, whatever this is, a chunk of iron ore, I can build some good stuff with this, hopefully, this is a trap, I can already tell it's a trap, because I mean I played the game before, I know what's going on, okay so there are trap floors around here that most people don't realize, I believe this is a good floor right here, this is not a trap and that must be the staircase to get back up, so I'm just trying to remember what happened that first time, so I think that might be a trap, I'm gonna go the long way around, oh damn it, I thought that was the good floor, okay getting back up is a pain, it's like a huge pain, that's all I remember, but here we go, good ladder right there to help us up, hopefully we don't fall through, this is a good area right here and through here should be good, now here is another flashback, oh look at that light, it's pretty nice, that's actually the Eggdrasil route, so you heard that right, we gotta go the long way around, this route tells you a lot of secrets, I wonder what they're to think, she's angry, Keeper what's about you, this place is full of tricks and traps, what do you think buddy, okay so the long way around is what you want to take, not the short way around, so damn I can't remember where was, I can't quite remember which was the way I needed to go again, I think it's this place, I swear if I fall down again, if I fall, this is so frustrating, this is like really great and I gotta, so you see that guard there, the glowing dude, what I need to do is actually beat him, a gold aura, maybe this might be worth it to be honest, we'll see how powerful Veronica is now, our first fight with her, so flame slash this dude, skull rider, well why is she, oh yeah she doesn't have magic I forgot, yeah that's, it's kind of part of the story, you'll find out in a few minutes, she lost all her magic so she's basically useless, oh she's hitting them pretty hard though, she's actually doing alright, casting Kasap, oh I should save my energy actually, what am I doing, I should not have been using that energy yet, we'll be using, we'll use some of these medicinal herbs, now what you want to do, no no no no no, these guys can crawl up the wall like that, that's cool isn't it, and they can even run, so let me think, where do I need to go, he said the long way around right, which would go to say, it would go to mean either this way or this way is the right way, oh I think he went through here, in the flashback right, yeah that's where he went, alright and this is the right way, this is not the right way, that's a trap obviously, alright I can't believe I'm still riding this stupid thing, alright so right around the corner hopefully, come on, nice, that treasure chest right there, that's a trap, obvious one and we made it, not bad, yeah that's her little sister here's a big revelation right here the Veronica is actually an adult who has turned into like a little thing like that, so she's actually older than Serena, yep that's what happened the Serena and Veronica are twins and they're both sages actually, you might think oh she's she's like a priestess and Veronica might be a battle mage but that's actually not the case, there are actually two parts of one sage, so Veronica got all the offensive abilities and Serena got all the healing abilities, alright so you can save here, yeah why not, alright we're gonna save right here, they're convenient, I just have to remember how to get through this cave, through this dungeon, the first time I played this it was really difficult because I didn't know where I was supposed to go, oh there's only one direction to go, alright let's hopefully we can beat this boss, I wonder what would happen if we just walk up to the door and try opening it, do you know it, okay so you need a secret word and of course this will tell us a secret word, they're just standing there watching me, umbra condombra, so that music I was playing right, it's called urge to dream I believe, it's the music from the beginning of Dragon Quest 3's remake on the Gameboy and SNES, so what are these guys got to say, pretty nervous about me Serena, I mean the last thing we needed was another Veronica, turns out the Serena is mature, sensible, calm, everything her sister isn't basically, uh what do you think, and that's funny that she's shorter, taking it very awfully well being tiny now, alright so let's you know restore Veronica back to normal, umbra condombra, hopefully we can be strong enough to defeat these guys because they are tough, they are rather tough, I didn't do any grinding since then, oh actually we got a whole team of four now, look at all these puns, these jar puns, his name is Jarvis, he wanted to earn the lord or shout out his respect and all his plans were shattered, right, this is gonna be tough, he gave them away, it's smashing, like smashing jars, hot, stop, alright let's go, going one way this fight's gonna end, let me get my magic back, okay okay Serena does not have, okay that's pretty, that's good actually Serena and Veronica or not did not have any sort of health bar, which means I only need to protect um, I need to protect and I'll have Serena, she'll heal basically, Serena's a healer, so we're gonna attack Jarvis's shadow first, no, no, maybe we go to sleep, please heal me, please heal me, thank you, thank you, and of course he, he's acting stupid, okay now we defend, you know why, because he, we defend because Jarvis is doing the deep sigh, I know what that means, the cool, the cool breath is what you want to do, to avoid, so every time Jarvis does a deep breath you, I've got it, my nice job, please heal him next, actually I could probably let, and that's too risky, oh see that's why, okay you got, you got to be careful, oh come on, alright let's do one more flame slash on his shadow, a wake robin, oh she can do that, she can buff people right now, alright that's nice, uh yeah, I didn't think he was gonna do that, I'll just heal myself, she can heal Eric next, heal Eric here, alright I'll use one of these, okay he does not have enough MP, please heal me, please heal me, yes, nice, nice, and we'll use this on Jarvis's shadow, and he's dead, okay and they're running on MP actually, yeah keep attacking the person who does not have a health bar, keep doing that, how much are you not doing too bad, nice, all right we're gonna be doing one more flame slash on the shadow, nice, nice, oh crap, please don't, okay that was useless, but okay, nice, nice there's only two left now, why'd you do it really well, what the heck, this is much easier than it was on the PS4, the PC version when I was playing that, okay we're, we're gonna be defending now this time, no, no, no, no, no, no, dammit, no, okay I think we can, we can maybe still do it, oh my gosh, does she have, is there an item that brings me back, I know there's the HR's relief, but is stupid, oh no, no, no, doesn't have any MP, all right we're defending this time, if I had not had the stupid shypox I would have beat him, thank you heal, if I had been, okay good, good, thank you, now what we're gonna be doing right is we're gonna be doing rubble rouser, actually, yeah he has a spell, that's rock, actually let's arena around, I could probably keep, I could probably beat this guy easily, all right I'm gonna do rubble rouser again, nice thank you, oh she's using gimme files which means I'll be able to keep doing this, okay, okay no, here to myself, thank you, all right we'll do one more rubble rouser on him, I'm gonna defend this time, hopefully, okay please, heal me, heal me, heal me, thank you, hopefully we can do this at the luminary, no, no, no, no, thank you, all right nice, serena's being really helpful and so's Veronica actually, I'm getting lots of good stuff, nice, no, thank you, she's smart, she heals me even when I am like not expecting it, hopefully she heals me again, thank you, her AI is a lot better actually this time, I'm thinking, defend me, buff me, buff me, yes, she knows what to do, okay, rubble, rubble rouser, let's go, I'm defending, no, no, heal me, yes, can't take any risks, oh he hit me, I think she's cool, okay I'm doing all right, no, no, oh she's healing me at least, all right, finally I'm back, all right now I'm pepped up and twice in a row, okay thank you, thank you Veronica, yes, yes, we won, I beat him on my first try, Jarvis and friends are defeated, 670, the luminary didn't get anything because he died, I did it without him, that sucks for him, all right, I heard Jarpawn, I know who he is, so of you it seems, shall we, Yggdrasil's chosen, long have we waited to greet you, we of Arboria swear to protect you, while we live none shall defeat you, there are those who would accuse you of bringing disaster on our world, please you must rest assured that they are wrong, you are a hero, the light in your eyes, the light told her in the legends of Arboria, it proves that beyond a doubt, so Serena and Veronica are from a land called Arboria which is like, it's like, it's like a holy place and they pretty much, you know, they basically are sworn to protect the luminary, they're the descendants of another legendary hero who traveled with the luminary, so they're here to help him, Magical twins, swearing to serve and protect you, I guess you really are the luminary, huh, not that I ever doubted it, of course, Plenty more we need to talk about, we have to take care of something first, I wasn't the only one they were keeping prisoner, you know, now, if I remember rightly, there should be a door around here somewhere, nice, Yggdrasil's chosen, awarded for being recognized as a luminary by the two twins from Arboria, entrusted with ensuring your safety, it's pretty epic how you have like this stuff going on, so do I have all four of them following, yeah, my new friend Serena, all right, so there's someone else who needs to be helped, I wonder who that is, oh, chunk of iron ore, nice, there's some good stuff here, a lot of, a lot of jars, notice that, there's a lot of jars and he's Jarvis, I think they did it on purpose, so through here there should be the next victim, what the hell's that head in his cronies, so that's, that's the little girl's dad basically, yeah, if there's anything I can do to repay you, just say the word, Noah, where have I heard that name before? Eric knows who Noah is, looking at me like, oh crap, why should I get back and see how Corny's doing, thanks a million, he's runs off, he's certainly left in rather a hurry, you can say that again, very fishy, well never mind, we should head back too, we deserve a rest, yes we do, so we're gonna head back, oh so we headed straight to Hato automatically, all right not bad, finally you wake, your comrades rose long ago, okay whatever, people talk so weird, I can't believe we beat Jarvis on our first try, that took me forever during the original version, like it was so hard for me originally and we beat him in our first try this time, see it's because I got better at the game, let's see what these guys have to say now, yep, hard to believe, I mean look at you, but it's true, you're the reincarnation of the luminary, the man who defeated the dark one long ago, a lot of foreshadowing going on here, the dark one, so yeah you're gonna have to put the dark one later on, we'll see who the dark one is, once we fulfill our sacred duty and get you to Yggdrasil, I'm sure all will be revealed, Yggdrasil huh, well I for one want to know what the heck's going on, let's mosey on over there, have you ever tried thinking before opening your big map, in case you hadn't noticed, Yggdrasil is floating in the sky, most of you said it's most safe, yeah Veronica's voice is really good, I revisited the world tree before his battle with the dark one, but alas the legends do not tell us how, what not even you special protectors of the magical ancient wonder treats, no, bummer, Yggdrasil, Yggdrasil, Yggdrasil, wait I think I might have an idea, really, what is it, you know that guy we bust out of jail yesterday, I remembered where I know him from, he sells information to people in my position, wonderful, well what are we waiting for, to the bar, that's the name of the guy nosy noah I'm very sure that was his name, all right so they follow me around, what are these people saying, I don't need to drop the money off, I have 500 gold, I'm gonna head on over to see that dude, where the heck was the bar again, oh yeah I was around here, could be in here doing something, daddy, let mine it keeps bringing me drinks, must be getting tired, just one hole for the, wow, sweet, you never know, he might have some heart gossip that I need to hear, fishing for rumors huh, some things never change, you're noah right, in the circles I used to move in you were pretty famous, you were the guy who knew things, for the right price, no nugget of knowledge too big or too small, no other noah at all, knows them all, that's what they used to say huh, what if they did, I can't help it, if juicy tidbits have an habit of falling in me lap now, yeah so he's the informant for all thieves and yeah so he was in the ladies bath when Veronica was kidnapped this is the space she's gonna make, she has this like cringe face you might be able to help us out, what do you know about Idrisil? Crikey, you don't don't do things by us do you, gotta be scoring my, seeing as how you saved me life, I'll tell you what I know, I'll go bring free information, across the desert, when we came down with a bad case of estro, we didn't have no grub left, no water, nothing, we just about giving up hope, but then these soldiers from Galopolis came along, let's, next thing I know, I'm waking up in a sultan's bleeding palace, talk about lucky, anyway when I come to, that's when I seen it, beautiful it was, this rainbow coloured branch thing, oh shimmery, beautiful, well I know top and gear when I see it, if that weren't a branch of the old world tree, I'm a monkey's uncle, did you hear that Veronica, a branch from Idrisil herself, sounds like we need to take a trip to Galopolis, so it turns out you are capable of having ideas that aren't completely stupid after, we should head for the desert right away, it's beyond the checkpoints out west of here, that marks the border with Galopolis, I do hope you won't mind us tagging along, we of Arboria swear to protect you, while we live, none shall defeat you, Veronica and Serena join the party, we have our two, two party members, we have a full party now, four people, well look at that, they're so happy to join us, all right the Galopolis pass, that point are awful sticklers for formalities, but if you show them that, they should let us move, there's those kids again, all right so I don't think we needed to buy anything else, we just need to get the heck out of here, oh wrong way, all right we'll head out, see if anybody is saying anything interesting, okay whatever, oh the steel quality, actually what was that quest that guy put me on, this dude right here, he had a quest for me, okay sure, oh he had enough ore, recipe book, I love iron arms, iron broadswords, iron claymores, nice he gave me a really cool recipe book, that was nice of him, very nice of him, all right let's head out, we'll grab that iron ore and we'll build something cool out of it, oh she remembers something important, zoom, she taught me zoom, she's a good magician that she can teach you spells and all that stuff, Veronica is actually the best wizard in the entire land, she's considered to be the most powerful archmage, buy hands-free over hill and dale with auto run, auto run, so if I click the left stick, oh yeah auto run, huh, imagine being this lazy that you auto run, like you don't even want to push this stick forward, it's not even that accurate, I'm just gonna run like normal, oh check out this green water, I can't go down there, it's probably nice and warm, all right so stay here in the water, uh the Galopolis region, it's gotta be up there though, let's see what these three have to say, I want to rest, so the branch of the world tree, the rain bow, that's what it's called the rain bow, anyway you go there, you get the branch of the world tree and hopefully that'll help us on our journey, it's interesting that we don't know what we're supposed to do yet, there's no like real set objective at the moment, all we know is that you're supposed to go out and just do stuff, isn't it kind of interesting how there's no like bad, there's no bad guy yet, there hasn't been a villain, a villain hasn't shown up yet right, there's no main villain except for, except for the king I guess, and the Galopolis region should be across this bridge right here, but yeah it's interesting how the pacing of this game works, the way there no actual enemies start showing up in in the beginning section, it's been hours and there's nothing, wow look at this canyon, we gotta watch after these rolling guys, they might bump into you, all right there's Galopolis and there's some rabbits, these are new new enemies from Dragon Quest XI, here we go, another save point, oh you have reached the end of the story and end of the story part demo, would you like to record your progress and venture along and end the game, wow well I guess that's it then, so this demo was supposed to be 10 hours long and it only took me like six hours, it took me how long, six hours and six hours and 30 minutes, that's how long it took me to finish this demo, thanks for playing the demo version of Dragon Quest XI S, it goes in Lose of Age Defensive Edition that's a mouthful, well it looks like we beat the demo so September 27th that's when the game comes out, I'll see you guys then when the actual game comes out and when we actually get the real game and continue because the save point will continue, in the comments I actually want you guys to let me know something, let me know if you want me to do the 16-bit version of the game or a 3D version because I'm gonna try to choose one over the other for the majority of the playthrough, I'm kind of leaning towards 16-bit but I want to hear you know the viewer's opinion as well, so thanks for watching and I'll see you next time