 Welcome back folks, today we're going to be reviewing the bring arts luminary figure from Dragon Quest XI. I got this figure a little while back, but we're going to finally take a quick look at it. I haven't had a chance to open it yet. This figure is from Square Enix themselves. It's a scale action figure of the luminary, the main character of Dragon Quest XI, and it has a lot of accessories. You can get this on Amazon, a lot of different websites like Play Asia I think, as well as the Square Enix store, so we'll dive right into this. So first of all, looking at the box, you can see right in the front, bring arts, it has a very nice open window display, so you can see everything. Looks pretty good actually up front. So there's the luminary, his shield and swords, he has a sword sheath as well. And there is a bring arts action figure, and this is the luminary up top. So here's the side, this is the luminary, and this is a coat of arms as well, and there's a few photos of the figure in action on the back of the box, and on the side, looks the same. So let's get this thing open. Alright, just pulling this out now, and the box has his coat of arms in the back like a brick wall sort of design. It's a pretty nice looking box to be honest. So let's set that to the side, and take a quick look at the figure itself. Let's just get this open. Alright, and here we have the luminary figure from Bring Arts. It's a little smaller than I thought it would be, it's like a six inch scale figure it looks like. It has a lot of nice details you can tell immediately, there's like wrinkles in the clothing and his arm bends at the elbow as well, we'll take a closer look at that. So the figure has articulation at the wrists, the arms as well. You can see the feet, the shoes are very well sculpted and he has a toe joint. And let's see if he stands on his own very well, and it looks like he does. So here's the sort of light that comes with the luminary figure, and as you can see it looks very good, actually looks exactly like the one from the game and it looks really detailed, very shiny kind of looking. So let's see what else it comes with, it comes with the luminary fish from Dragon Quest 11 when the luminary turned into a fish, it's very cute looking, put that aside. There is a spirit of lost time that has a messenger's bag I guess across it. And the bag is pretty much the way down it looks like. The bag is well sculpted, it looks nice, the messenger, and next there is a slime figure. And this slime is very hollow and it's kind of light, it's lighter than it looks, you'd be surprised. The material is kind of light sort of, but it's a nice little slime figure as well and it's in scale with the luminary very well. Here we have a little rack of different hands, there's gripping hands and one for the right and left, also like an attacking sort of hand, and it has his luminary, the mark of the luminary on the left hand just like in the game, and it's glowing on the sword-wielding hand. So he has fists, an open hand, and a sword-wielding hand. So here is Erdogan's shield from Dragon Quest 11, the luminary shield. It says Roto right on top in the Nordic runes and has a Erdriks emblem. This is how we connect the sword to his back. This focus signal, it's like a buckle for his sword. And here is the iron sword as well for the luminary and if I can get this to focus. Okay so let's take a look at the sword sheath. This is the sheath that goes on his back because the luminary carries his first sword on his back. We have the sword and it fits very well in the handle pops off so he can fit into his hand so putting that back on the sword itself slides right out and it's a pretty good fit and I'll just show you how it fits into his hand. So the elbow does pop off, it's a little bit fragile as figure, you'll notice it being a bit fragile and popping out very easily. So this is his sword-wielding hand and it's kind of a trick to getting the sword to fit in because it's not going to fit in just like that, you can't just put it in like that through because the end is too large. So what you actually do is you remove the handle of the sword by popping it out like that and you actually stick the handle itself into the hand of the luminary sword and it's a really tight fit. It's very hard to kind of squeeze it in there, like it's really hard. This is really difficult to get him to hold the sword honestly. I feel like I'm going to break the toy doing this. I almost don't want to do it with this sword, the regular iron sword. So squeezing that in. You know what? It's really just too tight. I think I'll show you how he holds the sword of light instead because that iron sword honestly does not fit in his hand very well at all. I feel like you'd have to use like a hair dryer or something. So putting the iron sword back in, it's still a good-looking accessory, it looks very detailed, it looks well-shaded and everything and it looks good on his back to be honest more than anything. I think I'd rather keep the iron sword on his back and have him hold the sword of light. I think that would be cooler. So he looks pretty cool with the sword on his back. It works. And he can stand up just fine with the sword on his back. He balances just well and it just pops right off. So you can also use this little buckle right here that's included to just slide the sword in. It's an alternative. Now the sword of light has a very thick kind of shape to it and it definitely will not fit on his back. Look if you try, it just won't. See, there's no way you can get that to fit on his back at all. However, the sword of light does fit in his hand very well. So let's take a look at some articulation. He has his head rotates and it goes up slightly and it down just a little bit. There's not a lot of neck movement to be honest. His arms have, they go up about that much and they bend about that much to be honest. And they also have a bicep swivel. His wrists also have a sort of joint at them and his joint. There's more mobility than you would think and he also has an ab crunch so he can span his torso around at the abdominals and he can bend inwards as well. He can bend back about that much. So you can really pose him to spin around a lot and look around. His tunic has a soft plastic and it's very pliable and it's also detailed with a lot of wrinkles so this looks very clothy to be honest. It looks good. And there's a lot of sort of dark paint shading to make it look dynamic. So his leg pops out about that much because of the tunic. You can't expect it to pop up more. But the knee has a surprising amount of mobility. Look at the hinge on the knee. It's a double-jointed knee hinge. So it could bend all the way back. He could be touching his backside with his heel, his foot, which I was very surprised about considering that he wouldn't really be doing a pose like that with this messengers bag. The messengers bag actually obstructs him, the green one in the front of him. And his back leg can't really go back that far either so it's a little bit of a missed opportunity that they gave him these really flexible sort of leg joints but he can't really use them to be honest because of his tunic but that's just how the character's designed to be honest. You could still pose. There's a lot of options to pose this character though. So his foot. His foot has a hinge joint and it could also swivel left and right. So there's a lot of mobility there. And like I said earlier he has a toe joint, which is always nice. And you could see the shoes are very well sculpted as well. This is a little belt. It's all tied up and it looks kind of realistic, looks pretty good. His outfit is probably the highlight of this figure. It looks really like leathery kind of, it looks good. I'm very pleased with that. Now his head on the other hand leaves a bit to be desired. His hair is not super detailed and it's kind of one color. In his face it looks like the luminary you know. I'm not too disappointed with that but his hair is sculpted as a bit basic to be honest, especially considering how expensive the figure is. So now we get to the sword of light, the ultimate weapon of luminary. Now the end pops up off on this so you can slide it over. The end of the sword of light, that way you can slide it into his hand. And it fits much better than the other sword. The other sword barely, you have to squeeze out the sword in. This one just slides right on and it's a pretty good grip. And he just popped the end back on and the luminary has a very firm grip on his sword of light. So really you realistically only will be able to pose him with the sword of light. The other sword that is not going to bend his hand which is really disappointing to be honest. But he looks great with the sword of light and he balances really well. This figure has such good balance, I mean look at that. He's holding the sword outwards and he bounces perfectly. Now here's Erdrich's shield and what's interesting is this part pops off so you can put that right to his hand and then easily apply the shield as well. And of course his arms, you know these pegs aren't very stick, these pegs don't really stick to the arms that much. So that fits in very well and you can put the shield right back on and it looks pretty good. It looks pretty authentic. And you'll notice that the shield will pop off this thing very often but it's not too big of a deal. It has a good fit onto there. So holding the sword and the shield he still stands by himself. It's a really well balanced figure honestly. And everything's very detailed. The shield is detailed, his clothing, the sword of light looks amazing, it looks really good actually. I'm very pleased with how his accessories and his outfit looks. The only problem I have so far is just his hair sculpt but overall this really is a great figure. This is the first Dragon Quest bring arts figure that Square Enix has put out and they have a lot more coming up soon. So there's the luminary and all those accessories that he comes with. So here he is next to a Figma of Link from Skyward Sword as a comparison. This figure is a little less than 6 inches. It's a 6 inch scale figure. And as you can see the luminary is about the same size but not quite the same scale. He's a bit slimmer and taller. So the scale is a little bit weird and you know this sword slides into the she's a lot better. Another bring arts compared to Figma. Do I think it's as good quality? I probably would say no. These two figures compare to each other. I think Figma bring arts is off to a good start but Figma still has a little bit of a leg up on him. And the scale is a little bit, it fits well with 6 inch but if I get another figure this is Joker from Persona 5. This is another PS4 RPG. He's a lot taller. He's exactly 6 inches I measured him before. And I think these two scale pretty well together considering Joker's wearing these big heels. So the Figma wave along with the bring arts wave they scale well together at a 6 inch scale. And they look pretty good together as well. I just hope that the next few bring arts figures will improve some of the sculpting qualities a little more and keep the limbs together because this figure is fragile as well and I feel like playing with this figure a lot or opposing it very aggressively would not be a good idea. And his little friends the fish luminary to slime and the spare to lost time nail look great as well. The luminary also comes with this stand and the stand is pretty good. It clamps onto his waist like that and it has two joints, three joints actually if you include the top one. So you could keep him elevated doing a jumping pose with his double jointed knee sort of an action pose like that. There's the luminary jumping up in the air above a slime and overall this is a great figure honestly. But the main question arises is is this figure worth the money is this figure worth whatever they're asking for and I think the screening store I was asking for $80 to $90. I think honestly not really that much I wouldn't spend a lot of money on this it is a good figure if I'm being honest. They're asking for a lot and it's mostly priced up because of the accessories. The fact that this luminary figure does not have multiple face plates he has one face plate that leaves a lot to be desired. It's kind of boring that he only has one face and the joints are a little bit loose. The fact that one of his swords can't even fit into his hand is really disappointing. Overall if you could get this for maybe a little bit cheaper on Amazon or some other website I think it would be worth it for your Dragon Quest collection. In the future they have more bring arts Dragon Quest figures planned. Currently Eric and Erdrich are both available as well but they have one of Elena coming out they have one of Rob, Jade, Serena, and Veronica. So pretty much you could have the entire Dragon Quest 11 cast in figure form but they are asking for a lot and I wish they would improve the quality slightly more and add more interesting accessories. I don't see why we needed a spirit of lost time to come with the figure when we could have had more face plates. I would have preferred more face plates to be honest to give the character more expressions because he does have expressions in the games. He smiles, he frowns, he does have more personality than people let onto. So anyway I hope you guys enjoyed this figure review of the luminary and I'll see you guys next time.