 Welcome back everyone to another episode of Let's Play, Dragon Quest XI S on Nintendo Switch. Last episode, we helped out Prince Ferris with his little problem and we restored peace to Gandola, not Gandola, to Galopolis. Gandola is the next area we're going to be going off to. And we have a new friend, Silvando, who has decided to join us. He's a jester with a mysterious background. We don't know much about him yet. He seems nice enough, so I think we can trust him. Anyway, we're going to be starting off here in Galopolis. Last episode we did entirely in 2D mode and it was more than difficult. It was very stressful and I'm surprised we managed to do it so quickly to beat the monster. So we're going to head off. Okay, so people here still kind of forgive Prince Ferris. Let's see what his fangirls are saying. Okay, let's head off into the wilderness to go to Gandola now. And here are my friends. Where's Silvando? Oh, he doesn't... You only have 3 people following you around at a time. So Silvando is over there. See what my little friend here has to say. That outfit is so great. I do wonder what his story is. What's the deal? How does he have his own ship? Well, it looks like everyone is taking kindly to Silvando. What is it? Let's head to Gandola. Okay, so Eric is in his black edgy outfit with fur on it. Let's summon the horse. I trust he's steed, fitting for a knight. So yeah, 2D mode is great and all, but I think we're going to stick with 3D mode from now on for the most part. We might go back to 2D mode a few times, but we're going to do mostly 3D from here on out. It's just, you know, I don't know, I like it a little more. It's a little more fun. Look, you can't run around like a huge field, like all this detail in the 2D mode. And also the random encounters I'm a little sick of. And I know I'm supposed to be like this old school Dragon Quest fan, but random encounters are not a great thing. They're there because of technical issues. Dragon Quest has been in random encounters for years, for over 10 years at least, almost 10 years. All right, let's see what this guy has to say. All right, I understood this must be a Hakim. Yeah, we already talked to him in the 2D mode. He has a sister named Hakia. She works at the bakery. We're going to take his quest. All right, nice. The lovely letter request. Let's head on through deathness. I can't wait for this next part. Oh wow, the Laguna de Gandolia. Look at all that water. There's some monsters here too. We'll try to avoid them. Oh crap. Is he trying to follow me? Now I heard, if you run into them, don't they get knocked over or something, the small enemies? Oh, neat. A campsite. Yeah, I don't think we need a camp for now. I think we're good. Let's go up here. I'm not sure if we're in the right place. Looks like the horse can't follow us. At least my friends are here. Oh right, the lineup. You can change the lineup now, right? So my standby team is Silvando, but he's a pretty tough guy though. I think maybe we'll swap out Serena for him. Because he does have... Let's try it out. What do you have to say? Hey listen. Go boots. Okay, okay buddy. Let's keep going. Now this is a very long winding part. Oh crap. Stay away from me. Oh no, muddy hand. You do not want to run into those muddy hands. They will not give up. Oh, there's a treasure chest there. Now, we need one of these guys. So we're going to attack him. Got him. Now let's see how good Silv is in action. See, this is why I don't like muddy hands. They always call for backup. Let's... Just bang... Alright, here we go. There's these two. Got him. See, I do not like this one bit. Alright, we're going to do bang one more time. Oh, I'm not controlling Silvando right now. Alright, we got to kill this guy in one hit. Before he calls his buddies. Alright, we got him. The group of enemies are defeated. His level increases level 13. Three skill points. Yeah, actually I do want to use my skill points to character builder. It's acting like I never saw this before. Alright, we want this dragon slash. And that is miracle slash. But what we really want is this. That will make us way more powerful. Alright, so now we can really run around fast and grab some stuff. Royal soil. Here we go, chest. Eat a skill. Nice. Kind of want those buzzberries, but not with a flag on there. Ink pine. Flurry feather and a wing. Oh crap, I did not see that. Alright, we'll try... Well, actually it's not going to be good. Don't call backup. Don't you dare call backup. Alright, Sizz these guys. And we're going to bang... Did she just say Sizz? Wait, they actually say the spell now? That's weird. You can jump over the water with this. I'm looking at this. Gondolia's over there. The 2D version was a little bit... I can't continue this way while mounted. Final dismount. Or whatever, we'll head on over. Nice there. Oh, what is this? Time waits for no man, but we have a plan. It may require a caravan. Tickety talk. If it isn't Illuminary, I would just indulge in this spot of singing. Helps lift the spirits. Oh cool, password. Observatory via the Altar to Starry Skies. That must be Dragon Quest 9. You're going back to Tickington? That was a yellow taco. Hello. Okay. I like how I don't have to pick it up anymore. In the original game you had to go pick it up, but now it automatically picks up. Oh, hey cow. Hello cow. At night, the skies will clear. Alright, so we need to go up here. There's more atmosphere in the 3D version, you know. That's why I like it a little more. Plus, you can kind of pick and choose. The only thing I don't like is the fact that the enemies aren't quite aggressive enough for me. I think they should run after you a little more. Our buddy is hanging out with me. Oh, check that out, it's a lighthouse. Off in the distance, oh wow. Crap, muddy hand, muddy hand. Okay, I see no one needs to be done now. I need to go down here, through here, and the chest should be right there. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness, look at that. He's like running at me. Crap. Whatever we can take him. Let's see, Frizz. Oh, cool. Crack. Cool it. Oh, he's really tough. A weretiger. A splatty punk. Okay, so... Is the fast battle... The ultra fast is on. Crap, I was trying to do a handy heal all. Still losing sight of where I need to go. Okay, so I need to go up here. Then gone, the only issue here is there. That was quick, actually. That wasn't too long. I think the 2D version took longer, because you're not able to avoid the enemies. Alright, gondolia, here we are. Coal. Alright, here we are. Gondolia. The entrance tunnel. It's a long entrance. Where's my buddies at? Oh, they're not here. Alright, so that's gondolia. It's kind of like Italy, isn't it? It looks like Venice, kind of. It's like a muscle bodybuilding. Yeah, it does. Suffer you to steal, huh? Rani and Lumi just standing back. Look, what the heck? Who's that kid? Looks staring at me. Alright, so there's sure to be lots of good stuff to buy. Are my parties still here? Let's see, the rainbow has already left with gondolia. Damn. Why is she all sad? She must be really rich. This place couldn't be more different from Arboria. Oh, she wants to go shopping. Alright, cool. So, this guy has a quest for us. Buy the famous product from Oldertown. Oh, it's not a quest. He's just got a hint. Look at that guy. That's me when I'm trying to sell people to Dragon Quest XI. Like gondola. You can board under stairs when you're in the boat. Oh, I can ride a boat around the town. This town is big, actually. Well, that's really big. I should go save at the church. Oh, a cat suit. 10,000 gold? I don't know, 10,000 gold? The cat suit. You want the cat suit for your little girl you have with you. Because you like dressing up like a cat for some reason. I don't think I ever got the cat suit in the original, actually. Alright, we'll head on out. There's so much to explore around here. Alright, what are you doing to him? Oh, he's just... He's just pushing his work. His worker. Man, this guy's so weak. Can you pick that up? Oh, he's sending the money to his mom. Oh, that reminds me. Not really a mom, but I gotta go see that girl at the bakery. Let's go find the bakery and see where she is. His friend is the best merchant in Gondolia. What's the point of telling me about him if you don't know where he is? Oh, where is he? I have no idea. I don't know much about him. I thought he was your friend. Okay, whatever. Let's move onwards. Where's that bakery? Hello? The rope between the roofs. Oh, so you can walk across from the rooftop. Interesting. Is there a way to get to the roof? I wanna walk across that rope on the roof. Oh, there's a chest down there. And the entrance to the chest is locked by a gate most likely. Oh, maybe this is the sister. Oh, that's Akia. So that's Hakim's sister. Here you go. He gave her a few gold coins. I didn't look at him when she was talking. Oh, I gotta go all the way back to her to get this to Hakim. Oh, she doesn't work at the bakery anymore? Oh, well, where does she work now? At this place? Well, that's unfortunate. He was so excited that she worked at the bakery and now she doesn't work here anymore. Yeah, where was I supposed to go? I was going to climb that rope, right? Yeah, if I go into that building and go to the roof, I could probably climb the rope. Oh, you can't even go in there. What am I supposed to do here then? Maybe I can go in here. Here we go. That door unlocks. And this old man just stand there like, what the hell? This guy just barged into my freaking house. He's got a lot of expensive wine and stuff here. Acido, dogerotondo. All right, let's climb upwards. Wow, this guy's probably rich. Oh, there's a book here. Dogerotondo, the best in the business. Dandelion was a sleepy port town, but in the course of the last decade, it has been transformed to the greatest trade capital of Andrea, the mayor of Doge or Doge or whatever. It's a dog. The meme dog. Pitch Pearl. Very good, very nice. Oh, wow, it's bright out. Okay, a lot of exploring to do. What's going on over here? There's got to be some clues around here. Competition. Hmm. All right, let's see what's going on down here. This looks like some sort of bizarre. Some sort. Uh-oh. He was too shy. There you go, signore, please. That must be your mom. She has nice glasses. Here we have her own ship. And again, his speed is in everything. She's always on the move on account of her husband's job. They're going to take things a little slowly. She can come with us, I guess. Problem. Oh, he has a cat suit. What's with all these guys with cats with 12,000? One guy was selling over 10,000. Oh, 9,800, nah. 200 off, that's bull. That was his brother. Oh, she makes the shoes. Wow, these people think Gondolia is the best place in the world. All right, I have a feeling we should go down here. The enormous ship in the dock is probably Silvando. The wandering wonder. There's no many people who can buy this kind of ship. So Silvando is freaking rich as hell. Where's that giant ship they're talking about? I don't see it. All right, well, I feel like we should go here. I'm not. The competition. I guess we just have to sit tight till this contest thing is over. He looks so pretentious wearing that outfit. Like, honestly, he should just wear like something normal. That's Mr. Universe competition. That's what it is, right? Okay. He wants to go eat. And of course, he wants boots over there. So they're going to be going shopping. Look at Veronica skipping over. Doge. Molto gentile. A doge guy. All right, so we're going to go find the doge now. And it's just me and Eric right now. Yeah. Yep, just the two of us now. Like old times. Oh, look, cakes. She just wants to eat the cake. Oh, hi, chief. It's so frustrating she wants to buy new shoes, but we're all too big for her. And children's ones are ridiculous. She's got little boots on. Yeah, I must suck having the adult tits, but she doesn't have the right size for them. Oh, no. Well, I feel bad for him because his parents got killed, but I'm not the dark spawn. It's not my fault, okay? He's kind of giving me the eyes. And the purple spot should be where we need to go. Oh, what does she need to say? I don't know. So the doge must be live here. Yeah, that's his house. This must be the place. Let's see if he's home. Oh, he's there. We need to ask him a favor. I'm happy to help. Oh, he knows. He knows. He knows on the luminary crap. He must have seen my picture or something. What the malto gentile? I've met kinder judges. He took one look at you and freaked out, huh? King Carnelian must have warned him how Veronica is in trouble again. I guess we won't be sailing out of here anytime soon. Might as well go see what's up. No steel. Okay, he's like, he's still Irwind. Eric's Steve abilities are going to come in handy now. Steals it. Swipe so easily next time. What is it, kid? Spit it out. Okay, Placido. I explain the situacion. My name is Benigno. He is my friend, Placido. He's the only son of the Doge Rotor. That's the Doge's son. Every day we are playing together. Molto felice. Happy, happy. But then Placido, he loses his voice. I don't understand what happened. I ask, but he cannot answer. Oh, so he lost his voice. So I think, if I have the magic, maybe I can fix Placido's voice. Capice. So he's got a curse. He's able to get water from a sacred fountain to make it. And, well... We needed a special, very, very holy water to help Placido. See? I heard people talking about something like this. The river, west of Gondolia. If you follow it up, there is a cave. The Grotta della Fonte. Everybody say it's water is molto special. There's a holy water fountain up north. I know I steal the wand. And I know this is very bad. But, per favore, you must help Placido. We are friends since we are the small children. Bambini piccoli. All children. And now you are his only hope. You will help him, see? See? Yeah, sure. We'll help him. What if I said no? He's really pissed off at me. Okay, fine. And make the special nectar. And I will stay to take care of Placido. Alright, so that's fine. We'll look at Placido's face. Alright, so let's see what we need to do. Scoosa is bad. Placido is my brother. Alright, that's nice. At least he has some camaraderie with Placido. Mmm. He can't say anything because he's cursed. Let's see what the gang thinks. When Benigo... Oh, she's always a dirty street thief. Alright, that's good. Let's head off. Heading off into the wilderness. Oh, so we gotta go back out again. Alright, so Placido, we need to help his voice. Maybe the doge will... Maybe he'll reward us with something. With letting us through to get our darn boat. So we can get the rainbow. This is just one diversion after another after another. The rainbow was originally there and now it's here and then it went past here. Alright, so... Let me think. Where do we need to go? The Grotto del Fonte. That's over there. Oh, no. I think Tiger people cannot follow me. Oh, we gotta hear. A handful of glass frit. If you got a handful of that, wouldn't that cut your hand up a little bit? Okay. This is a difficult section, I remember. There's a lot of stuff here to get. Grotto del Fonte. Um... Yeah. Well, there's a lighthouse. You can see the beams going across. There's a lot of stuff to collect here in this area. There's a shell slime. Oh, I can't jump down there. Oh, these frogs. I hate those guys. There's a lot of nasty monsters around here. Oh, I can't get that until I have a special mount. That'll let me get it. Nope. Oh, no, no. I'm trying to escape. Oh, there's a toggle over there. Alright, so we're heading on through here and through here. Oh, there's a chest here. Would you look at that. Slender sword of solid silver. Oh, silver swords now I can make. That's cool. Let's go team. If we put the curse on the poor boy, it deserves to be beaten to a pulp. Alright, she does like beating people to a pulp. Oh, there's something hidden behind the waterfall. Now wait. Yeah, that's where the cave is. It's behind the waterfall. Like in Dragon Quest 8. Hmm, they're still following me around. But where'd they go? Our hero's adoptive mother and Chucky's adoring daughter. There's some lore there, but I went too fast to read it. I remember this dungeon was actually kind of difficult. You get ambushed a lot. Like that. Small scale. Oh crap. Wait, wait, wait. I'll look at that little friendly guys. Oh wait, they're not friendly at all. Trying to attack me. There's a lot of baddies here. Alright, here we go. Oh crap. See, I told you that people ambush you in this dungeon. Alright, alright. We want to hit the shell of slime while the shell is still up. And we'll seize these two. Oh wait, I got to save my energy. I know there's a boss coming up. In fact, I should have stayed at the... Well, I mean, it's kind of cheating because I already played this game before I know what's coming up. There's going to be a campsite coming up soon, so... We don't really need to worry about that too much. Game slash this guy. I'll just do bang. Oh, he's dead. And he's dead. Good job team. Was this worth it? A handful of glass frit. Yeah, that was worth getting attacked over. I wonder what happens if you do this. They're supposed to... If you do heal all, even though everyone's healed, then you apparently win something. There's no achievements in this game, so I didn't get anything. Man to sea. Oh crap. Alright, we're just going to dash on through. And here's another resting spot. Okay, not bad. And here's a spot to save also. Let's continue the adventure. Oh crap. Alright, let's keep venturing into the... There's some fungules here. I wonder if this area is worth exploring at all. Oh, there's a fungal following me around. There we go. That's the next boss. I forget what it's called. Oh, but what is this? A magic rope? It is glowing after all. Will I be ambushed if I go into there? Okay, okay. Was it worth it? A seed of magic. Yeah, that was worth it. Oh crap. Let's flee. Nope. Oh, he did a little... Oh, wow! Alright, we might as well... Might as well attack. Oh, I did not mean to do that. Kill him, kill him. Nice. Easy peasy. Easy peasy. Indeed. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Okay, so we got a seed of magic. So we're going to be using that, of course, on my main girl Veronica. Where's that seed of magic? There we go. Alright, now Serena has a lot more of the Veronica. Veronica needs more. Ooh. Now, let me check out everybody's magic. So, Silvando doesn't have any. Silvando doesn't have his Reheal. Cock-a-doodle-doo. Ooh, I'm sorry. I'm going to need Serena next round. Alright, so let's do lineup. Let's try making... Let's swap Serena with Silvando. I kind of want to keep... I got to keep somebody, so who's going to leave? I could get rid of myself, but I'm going to get rid of Eric, I think. Actually, Eric has a good move also. They're both really good. Sorry, Veronica. We're fans of you, but we got to bring her sister in. She's got the skills needed. So... Alright, this looks good. I think we can take him on. Let's go. Maybe we could work something out. We don't have to fight the Coralossuses. Alright, so Flame Slash. I'm going to use the Rubber-Rozor ability on each of these guys. Why is she doing that? Alright, so Rubber-Rozor on him too. And we can siz both of them. Thank you for the heal. Oh, he's tough. Don't hit the Luminary. I should heal myself, but I think Serena's going to do it anyways. There's no point. Herring. She healed herself. That's not good. Okay, I've got to have a medicinal herb for the main character. Don't die on me. That's a good thing to say. We're doing alright so far. Forbearance he's using. I'm going to use Rubber-Rozor on him now. And we'll use siz on both of these guys, these goons. Oh, he's attacking Eric. They do not like him. Reheal is a really good move because it heals every... every move that it heals. That's rock. Okay, I know what Pep Power does. I'm not new. I'm going to heal Eric and hopefully Serena heals me. Thank you. Oh, he missed. Nice. Oh, nice. You know, this means Pep Power time. Scorched Earth. Really, Scorched Earth is what you want. Yeah, it's going to work on both of them. Oh, we might actually win this one. Thank you. Scorched Earth is doing really good, actually. Ah, he deflected it. Nice. Alright, cool. Scorched Earth is in motion right now, so we're going to do a Flame Slash on this guy. That didn't do anything. This is on these guys. Scorched Earth was a really good move. I killed him. I always use it on the bosses. Alright. No, not Rubble Rouser. I'm going to go Flame Slash him. Scorched Earth will probably kill him in the next round. Nice. That was almost like cheating. It was so good. The core losses are defeated. Wow, we all survived. In Veronica, she leveled up. The Dazzle. Now we'll use that later. In order for joining forces with your friends, perform 10 pet powers. Nice. Let's see what the team has to say. Well, I don't need to do that anymore. I can just walk up to them and talk to them now. Not good for his hair. It's kind of climbing here, huh? This doesn't go for my hair, you know. Ah, this must be the water they were talking about. Nice. Here we go. So she even has a little bottle with a bird on it. I'll take that bird song nectar. Cool. By the way, bird song nectar is a reference to Dragon Goose 4. There was a similar quest where the king lost his voice and you needed to find bird song nectar for him. It was Elena's quest. Oh, what's this? This is very curious. So there must have been some people down here before. Alright, so we could probably zoom from here. To Gandolia. And in this game, you don't hit your head on the ceiling when you try zooming. I always thought it was funny that you could do that, that you hit your head on the ceiling, but they got rid of it. Alright, so we're back at Gandolia. Let's go get this to that kid and have the doge being indebted to us for the rest of his life. Oh wow, the contest must be starting. So let's get organized. You two go and muscle your way to the front of the crowd and save us a space. Oh, he wants us to muscle our way. Back into Little Placido's throat to see his happy little face. Ciao for now. Alright, Eric's always doing that. So we get us to see what's what. Yeah, sure thing. Oh hello there, you. Haven't you got a spot for us in the contest yet? The big staging mill is the city square. She's being a smart ass with me. Alright, we'll head on over. Alright. So many people everywhere. It's a big surprise. All these shopkeepers everywhere. There's a lot going on. Wait, what did she have to say? The champion last year, Hercules or Luciano with a beautiful voice. Alright, let's head on over. Oh shit. He's desperate. Oh, thank you. He's complimenting my hairstyle. Oh, I can enter, I guess. We're easy on the eye. Oh, not good. That's Jasper. This is not good. We have the destruction of Dundrasil. This is not good. Let's get out of here. Alright, time to run. Oh, it's the Heliodoring Knights. Oh, we're surrounded. Oh wow, we have to fight a bunch of guys now. Oh my, we have to fight five knights. I'm pretty sure you have to lose this match, actually. I'm pretty sure that's what was going on. Oh, just two of us this time. Alright, parrying attacks. Oh, see that? This is in these three guys. Oh man, I got your back. Or he's got my back. Yikes, okay. And that guard keeps assessing the situation. Oh, nice. Corsairth. Alright, now they don't stand a chance against us. Corsairth. Yikes, okay. Oh, okay, not good. Well, he's deflecting it, though. Maybe Eric can beat them. Oh, he's actually doing really good against them. He's dead. See how good Rubber Rosser is? That's Corsairth is. Eric beat all these guys by himself. Man, Eric's badass. They just keep coming. Not gonna make a difference. Your pathetic resistance will get you nowhere. Yield and spare us the... Think so, honey. Oh. My friend's alone, or I'm going to have to teach you a lesson. Honey. I'm gonna kick some ass against Jasper. Run up his fireballs. Oh, there's Serena. Well, I guess we should escape. While he's not looking, we can sneak out the side. You know, Jasper, you idiot. You lost us. For a long ponytail. Oh no, Eric! He got hit. He's hurt. I can't leave him behind. What? Serena just grabbed... We left Eric behind. That's not good. They got Eric. How am I going to do Corsairth without him? And destroy all the bosses. So... Gondoli is completely overrun by the Heliodorian guards. That was his bad. Hope we're hiding somewhere. Oh, there we are. You barely know him. Hey, Silvando. We should have explained all this to you earlier, but, well, so much has been going on. Oh, please. There's no need to apologize, darling. Darkspawn indeed. Has he found a lovely little thing like you would go around with someone like that? Are we gonna stand around here all night, or are we gonna take action, huh? Badass music. Intensifies. Let's sneak out it as mice now. The streets are crawling with soldiers. In fact, let's see if we can get up onto the rooftops through the inn. That might be the best route to the bridge. Okay, we need to sneak over to save Eric now. Now, this is like Metal Gear section, but am I... Oh, I'm all healed up anyway. I should probably save, but there's no church around, is there? There's only guards around here. Crap, there's two guards over there. There's a guard there and there's a guard down there. We can sneak around here. Guard over there. Okay, we gotta hide here. Go down here. Oh crap, there's guards down there. This is not good. I don't know where to go. I'm really not sure where to go. Oh crap, he's looking here. This is really hard to do. Well, I can caught. Maybe we can sneak around here. Or not. This is gonna take a lot of thought. Actually, I can sneak into here, can I? Ah, it's locked. I thought I would be able to sneak in there. Ah, here we go. I can sneak down here. They're afraid of me. I'm not the dark spawn, I'm just a guy. Stop there. Okay, let's see. Let's look around the corner there. And there. Looks like we're in the clear. Two of them right there. They're watching. Okay. And there's one right there. He passed him and into here. You may be the dark spawn, but we are all equal in the eyes of the heavens. If you wish to pray, pray go. Alright, I'm gonna save here. Yeah, I'll save there. Alright, so you know what? This seems like a good spot to stop. And, end this episode. We'll continue next time to save Eric. Right now, everyone's terrified of us. So, yeah, thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.