 Welcome back folks to another episode of Let's Play, Dragon Quest XI-S on the Nintendo Switch. Last episode we tried fighting those two griffins over in the King's Barrow, it didn't really go over too well, but we did get a lot stronger, we grinded some levels and we managed to go back to Cobblestone and discover some secrets of the past. So now the most important thing to do is to go into the King's Barrow and get the red orb for Eric. So to get the keystone we need to open the door and departure. Okay so we have this keystone that allows us to leave the country essentially, that's the deal. So he needs to get his orb because Dirk frigging sold it. Let's see what level am I. If we check the statue we can see how long it'll take to level up and get to the next level. We should be able to beat those guys soon if the Shy Pox doesn't slow us down. Nation 719, 3...and I'm assuming we used our seeds already. We'll use the font size forge. So I'm going to show you guys how to use it outside of the campsite. Oh I level up. Alright so I think I can forge armor. Templar's uniform. That'll actually make us a lot stronger. Cotton top, buzzberries. So let's make a Templar's uniform. So we're going to bash each side so I think we should bash this side first and that one once more just because it's so close and one of more of these. See it's perfect. Now we do this side, this side and I think that should be it. Alright we'll finish that up. Alright nice Templar's uniform plus two. Let's see. Divine Dagger's not going to do too much, too well for Eric. So let's change into some better clothes. 37 defense? That's not bad. I need a better shield though. Let's make up a camp and then wait for the merchant dude to show up. I got to really prepare for this. Now the merchant guy has a random amount of items that he brings. He has a lot of stuff. He has a globe and a scale and some bottles. I wish I could go into first version mode but it looks like they removed first version mode for the switch version which is really unfortunate. Let's see now. Holy crap. Oddsword, Divine Dagger, Boomerang. I think I have a Boomerang already. Scale shield. I need one of those. So we're going to grab this scale shield for the luminary. Arriot and I should sell my old shield. Archwood Boomerang. I get a regular Boomerang for Eric. Use Boxer Shorts for $50. Alright there we go. I've got a lot of money now. And that should be good so let's run off. I have enough medicinal herbs. Probably should have bought more actually. Alright we'll call that guy back again. So we'll buy about 9 of these. Hold them. We'll buy... I don't need that. I have the zoom spell I think. Maracle hold those. Alright now let's go kick some ass. Crabby guy. Alright let's try hitting the crabbid. I didn't do much. Okay so my defense is looking really well actually just right now. All I gotta do is heal my guy. Alright we're gonna kill a heal slime first. Yeah of course. Of course he's gonna heal. Oh no. Alright I got a good feel of how I'm my fair against these guys. Alright time to go back in two. Well actually if I go further ahead won't. The door departure is over there. There's probably stronger monsters there too. I could probably do some better grinding. All I need is just one more level I think. And then that'll be enough to get Aaron and Eric tough enough to defeat those griffins I think. I look here. He won't leave without the orb. I thought he would leave without the orb but he's... Alright fine we'll give him one more shell. We'll kill some monsters in that dungeon. The king's barrow. Time to go back into there. And hopefully not get destroyed again. Now my equipment... I'm wearing that strength ring right? Yeah I am. I don't have anything better I could wear right? He takes the strength ring couldn't he? There's bats everywhere. Okay so... I'm sure I know where to go this time. Yeah I definitely know where to go. Owl looking dudes. I'll grab that. I'm stuck by them really well. By that guy. Oh the chest we still haven't gotten yet. Alright we'll get those chests then. Alright we're gonna knock out the heal sign first. As he's annoying. They're not so tough. See a defense. Feather caps. Oh and that must be the magic water. You know what the feather caps will actually help I think. Oh he can use the font size 4 right here I forgot. Alright let's see... Armor... Hats... Oh I have enough to make two feather hats. That'll be good. Alright let's do this. Yeah I had just the right material for it. Alright gotta be very careful. We're gonna do the big ones first. One by one. We'll finish that. Hopefully it's good. Plus one. Plus two would have been good I think. Alright we'll forge another feather hat again. This time I think we'll do one of that. One of that. That. Oh that was really lucky. Alright let's finish this. Hopefully that's a two. That one's a plus two. Try reworking the first one. Actually it really doesn't make a difference. Alright so we're gonna flip the feather hat. Actually he should get this one. Alright we'll give this one more try. Actually I gotta use those seeds also. I need more defense for myself. Alright let's go. Let's go for it. You already watched this last time. Let's skip it. Alright here we go. Attack Griffin A. That's the only ability I have. Flash U. And not the medicinal herb myself up a little bit. Gotta be careful. See. We're gonna use a real decoy now. Hopefully this works. Alright nice nice. Alright we're not doing too bad actually. Alright I'll use it. Gotta heal yourself. You might be able to beat them. Alright nice nice. You're done for. Yes! We beat one of them. Okay he's done for basically. No! No! Do not do that Eric. Do not do that you idiot okay. Alright I can last against this guy. All I gotta do is have Eric use the medicinal herb on me. We almost have this. No! Okay we can still beat him. We can still beat him. Okay nice nice. Alright let's use. Oh 50! Alright. Had powers let's go. The real decoy. Alright rush. That was actually enough to beat him. This is gonna probably kill him. Nice. We did it. We beat the Grimm griffons. Finally. After getting our asses kicked by them multiple times. See that's called progress right there. Leveled up. Eric is gonna get a lot tougher now. Rubble Rouser that's an awesome spell. It's a really awesome spell. Forced Earth is really good too. Yeah let's use the skill points. Okay later then. Alright mission accomplished. Now I do believe I have a... Yeah there we go. Check this out. Evac. I don't have to walk all the way through that stupid uh... What? Oh yeah you disappear out of the monster. Alright nice job. Now we're gonna run over rest up. And then we'll go to the door to departure. Where's Eric? There he is. Let's do victory celebration dance first though. If you press down on the d-pad you can eventually get him to dance. Oh there he is he is dancing. Yeah. That's funny. Okay let's just keep going. Heading on to the door to departure there will be a... We'll be moving on to the next area then. It's really exciting. Gotta heal up. Rest up at this next spot. Rest until night. I haven't seen that scene in nighttime. Now let's move onwards. We'll move at night. So yeah we've got the keystone. We've got the red orb. This is looking really well. Right now I could... I think I can beat any enemy in this area right now because of all the grinding. This forest looks so nice right? Hiding and everything. Could you believe this is on a switch? Well let's see. I've got some eagle guys there. It's Heliodor's army. Ah that poor horse got shot. I can't believe he shot the horse. Well that was dramatic. And here we are through the door to departure. Alright not bad. You shall not escape me. A word for evading capture from the Dauntless Sir Hendrick. Oh we escaped Hendrick. The harbinger of calamity. Well I don't know about that part. Good work team. The Hado step. So there's a... Priest guy here. I'm sure I'll save. Why not? Dung stuff. Alright copper sword. Nope that sucks. That sucks. Love's any good. I already have that. Anything useful? I'll just leave. They look like the shee slime. There's some birds there. Gotta watch out for their shadows. I'm just gonna rush through. We just need to get to the end. Oh look at that. That's the volcano. There's a little secret about this volcano. You'll find out soon enough. Going onwards. Hato should be up ahead. There's a drummer guy. He's like a genie. I think sparkling over here though. Alright a warm align. So... This is the next town right here. Of course there's another gate over there. But we're gonna go through here first. Because there's nothing over there. Oh this deer is not even... It's not even scared. Wow. There's hanging around. Very uh... Looks like a very Japanese kind of traditional Japanese area. That's neat. I'm finally at a place where there's people. I don't think I can see my hands. But from now on... Please let me in. Oh let me in. Oh yeah. It looks like the people on the journey have been watching you. Oh yeah. I'm glad you're here. I just turned around in the back of the village in front of my house. That's a hippo shee. If it's now, I'll be free to enter without permission. If you don't use this machine, you'll be in trouble. Hey, we don't have time for you to enter. If you're hungry, I'll give you a treat. I'm busy to be sweating. You can't enter, customer. Well, it does smell a little. I don't know if there's a place where I can take a bath. I'll let you in as soon as I can. Hey, it's a good chance. I'll let you in as soon as I can. Hey, Ichime-sama, don't be afraid. Well, this is it. Please be careful with your feet. We're gonna go use a bathhouse now. Let's take a look around this place first. Oh no, not again. That's actually the most annoying thing ever. Her son was slain, my priestess. What? No. This really breaks the flow of the conversation. Her son, our finest swordsman, as strong as a bear. He slew the mighty dragon, but he was also slain. Great red dragon of fire, craving human flesh. That's Sonaga. See, they talk about the dragon, that's like foreshadowing. Of course, you're gonna have to fight the dragon later. I mean, it's like not only a spoiler, come on. Everybody in this town talks weird. They talk like in high coups or whatever. They talk like, they talk like they're doing poetry. It's kind of strange. Oh, hello there. Gamer with her boyfriend. Where the heck is he? He just ran off without you. Alright, so, I'm gonna explore the hotel a little bit. Oh, uh, sorry for barging in, I guess. Oh my goodness. There are tourists, too, around my girl. Oh, that's the boyfriend. So she's out for a walk while the guy sits inside. You see, Dragon Quest pays a lot of attention to detail. If somebody says they have a family member in the world, right, their family member exists. Their family member, you can actually find. Like somebody says, oh, I have a friend in this city. You will find their friend in that city. They don't just, you know, make NPCs have like no, like, you know, inconsistent stories and everything. Their stories are consistent with what they're saying. Alright, can I jump over this? No. Yeah, I always thought that was a cool, that was a cool aspect of the series. Alright, let's, let's go check out the high priestess's temple. Let's go meet her. Oh, a quest, huh? He's iron ore. Actually, if I get iron ore, I can, I can build an iron sword, couldn't I? What does this guy want? He knows I'm a fugitive? Yeah, I'm a fugitive. Hot springs and cold steel. Okay. This is a forge. Okay, I heard you guys are open 24-7. Oh, she's kind of cute. Let's see, what would you like to buy? 400. Okay, forget that. I'm not buying that crap. Tatsu Naga, the dragon. So, her son died fighting the dragon. So sad. Okay, um, yeah, the mistress is here. I'll go, I'll go visit her right now. What's this guy, old guy doing here? Bow Dragon. So, there's a dragon around here, terrorizing the town. Alright, this is Miko's area. What's funny is this part of the game that you don't really like, this whole thing with the dragon and stuff, you don't deal with that for a long time, for a really long time. Like, we're not gonna worry about the dragon right now. I'm not gonna fight no dragon in this demo, probably. I'll just go, let's just go take a bath with Eric. A good um, Platonic steamy bath with two friends on a long journey. That's Veronica's Japanese voice. I don't know how to feel about this, but we'll keep listening. She knows. She wants the luminary, she knows who he is. No, I'm not gonna tell you who I am. Playing hard to get. I definitely prefer her English voice. Let's uh, can we change it actually? I'm gonna send it back to English because I like Veronica's English voice a little more. This one's too squeaky. Here we go. This is what I came here for. The good stuff. They must be like a couple, or actually they have like similar hair colors, so I'm guessing they're like siblings or something. Can I find out behind the scenes? Hey. Respawn are swords. Forged from Flame. Yeah, they're definitely related. They even have the same eye color. Here we go. Divine Dagger. That's a two-handed sword. They don't make me weaker though. Yo, Shield got that already. Micah might want that. Chainmail. I want that. Eric needs that. That won't do much. It'll do quite a bit for me, but I have my bath with Eric. I forgot about that. What's that on over? Don't turn it on. Welcome. She's not a child. She's actually... Well, I'm not going to spoil it, but you'll find out what the deal of Veronica is in a second. Here we go. My favorite guy. Wedding beckons. My son is tie the knot. He needs a ring. On-size forge. I hope I start to take those lies with me. Okay, so he gave me the ability to make a ring. Archival ring. If you should fail, you should protect it. Do not equip it yourself if my son needs it. Here's a funny thing. Put a ring on it. That's the name of the quest. Put a ring on it. Okay, that's funny. Anyway, this is my gold now. I'm going to use it to make a ring for Eric, not for your stupid son, because I don't care about your son. So we're going to be making Eric a ring, because he needs one more. This guy's son needs to get married. I mean, this is the world. The world is at stake, and this guy cares more about his son getting married. So we're going to be using this gold to make a ring for us, not for him. Or it could sell it. That ought to be pretty good. Alright, so hopefully I know how to do this. Nice. Oh, come on. It's perfect. I'm not going to give this to that guy. I'm going to keep it for myself. Why would I give it to him? Perfection. A perfect gold ring. Alright, that's mine. It's not yours. Alright, thank you for the free gold. See, this is why you don't just trust strangers with your valuables in life, because you know what's going to happen? They're just going to take it for themselves. Oh, wow. Look at that. 57 defense. Yeah, I'm keeping this for myself. That's mine. Okay, bye. Bye, buddy. You can have Jemez charm. I don't care about it. Actually, I'm going to keep this for myself. Yeah. What? I'm the 10,000th person to speak to her and her life. Have the one million gold coins is my reward. It's a bad time. She lied. Okay, that's really funny, because it's like when you go into a website and it says, congratulations, you're the one millionth person to visit this website. You get like a PS4 or something. That's really funny. Alright. I'm going to avoid that guy for the rest of my life. I'll never see him again, hopefully. Where is that stupid? Where is that sauna at? Oh yeah, it's up here. Forgot. What does the old lady want? Okay, Shy Pox. Okay. Hello there. Dude's giving. Oh hey look, it's kitten. Oh, meow.me. That's nice. Okay, what does this guy want? There's a spirit around here. I don't believe that. Yeah, I'll change into better clothes now. Those are nice clothes, actually. I could probably... That's probably the men's and that's probably the women's side. That's not nice. She's not letting me in. Look, I really want to go. What? What? She used to be a slime, but she got reborn as a human? She's not a bad human, though? Oh, all these people always lying to me. I could believe she was a slime. Okay, fine, I'll go to the blue side. Fine. Wait, that was kind of weird. Just saw how the lighting changed drastically as soon as I walked in. Must be the switches, hard to break, because I don't remember that from before. Alright, where's my buddy? Where's my bro, Eric? I was wondering where you'd got to. Come join me. This turned out to be a pretty good idea. Oh, that English voice actor. I think that's Gunnar, or however you pronounce his name. Anyway... We've got the place to ourselves, so we may as well enjoy it. We've earned a little break, wouldn't you say? Can't take it easy for too long, though. Sooner or later those creeps are going to catch up with us. So, you've been scoping out the town, huh? See anything interesting? I saw a little blonde girl who's trying to get into fights with people. Don't give me that. I can see by your face there's something you want to tell me. Ah, her? Yeah, she was sniffing around here, too. She's way too young to be hanging around in bars, though. No wonder they kicked her out. I don't envy her having a kid sister to run around after. Poor shadowing. I wonder why he's saying that. Huh. Could be some poor shadowing. Did you just say something? I don't ever say anything. I don't even talk at all. Yeah, I said something. It was me. That must be the ghost they were talking about. The ghost! Is the ghost? Is that a... Why is she in the men's section? This is really, really not okay. Yeah, right. It's gonna be funny. You already know that that's not Veronica's sister, okay? It's gonna be so funny when Veronica's like, What the hell is wrong with you? That's not what a goddamn sister you really is. Oh, who's this guy? Old drinks and hot steam? Oh man, it's daytime already. He's been standing there all night just drinking his coffee or whatever. Here we go. Where's Connie at? Shouldn't she be following us around? She's right there. Just a quick pit stop real quick. Gonna get some services done. Whenever you go to a spa, you know, you have to get this done. Uh, the Sensual Puff Puff for a meal of 20 gold coins. That's a deal. Oh! No, I don't have... I don't have enough money. No, no, what jibber is this? I think it's now to buy the greatest pleasure in this world at a reduced price. Where's she from, sir? Oh crap, I don't have enough gold to do with Puff Puff. Imagine lying down on there and the water just hit you in the face. Okay, so I need money. I need money so I can get the Puff Puff. What if I go into the women's section? You can walk in, you can go into the women's section of the sauna. Are you out of place here? Ah, so you actually can go into the women's section. I didn't know you could do that. I missed that completely in the first part. You saw how she had like an exclamation point when... I could sit with her, hang out. That's pretty nice in here. I wonder how that lady's gonna react if she sees me coming out of the women's section. Are you gonna get mad? You're true to a man of all ugly characteristics. Does the sun enter the moon's serene kingdom? Wait, I got kicked out? A waterfall exploring the great unknown where no man has gone before. I didn't even know about that before. Oh, now she's all happy. Now she's like... She saw me walking out of the red section and that guy's just checking me out like, yeah, man. Nice job. He's giving me the thumbs up. We're gonna head out now. Oh, what are they doing? Oh, these kids look interesting. You notice how these kids are not generic looking, how they look unique. It's almost like they're gonna be important later on or something like that, right? Other sisters are always together. These are home, a fish needs water. Wait, hold on a second. I won't leave you, but I do need to do something really quick. All right. What? I didn't even read what you were saying. I as a shopkeeper telling me lies. What could I sell to get myself a puff puff? Fresh water? Good sell. Yeah, I might as well just sell it. I just sold up a bottle of water to get puff puff. All right, we're gonna go get some of that. All right, let's go in and get that good stuff. The most pleasurable whatever in the world. Okay, now let's move. Time to get my good stuff going on. Is Connie still following me? I remember in Dragon Quest XI on the PS4 when I did this, Connie was like standing there watching it. So she was standing there watching the luminary. Oh, wow. All right, the ritual is beginning. Better taste. Good dog power of the puff puff. That's the only time you actually get a puff puff in this entire game, like a natural one. Every other time you get trolled. She got mad. Yes, I'm just walking through. Listen, you should let me go into the women's side, okay? What's funny is she saw me do it once and she didn't catch on that I'm gonna do it again. She was like... I guess that's kind of weird that Connie only follows you when you're wearing these clothes. I guess they change it so that... I'm gonna look at this real quick. All right, let's head out. That's cool. What is this? Like a place where people sit down and kind of just eat their lunch, I guess. Oh, look at that. You can see a little thing in there. All right, let's go bring this girl to Veronica and get scolded by her British accent. What the heck is she doing over there fighting with that dude? Looks like she's picking fights with grownups again. Living a stupid town before I bothered coming here. Her English voice actor is way better than the Japanese one. The Japanese one sounds like a little like... It's like not cool at all. We found your sister. Why so sharp? Aren't you pleased to see your big sister? Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. Eric's feeling really dumb now. Jumping to idiotic conclusions. Listen, short stuff. I'm not gonna let a little brat like you speak to me like that. Wait to point this out. But you don't have time to be standing there getting your knickers in a twist. You've got a daddy to find. Listen, I want to talk to the owner of that bar. Here, I'll take a child with an immune to a bar. She's not actually... Well, you'll find out soon. No. Right. Let's get going, shall we? I'll look after this little one. Don't worry. You don't have to rely on these two dunderheads anymore. We'll find your daddy in no time. You'll see. Hits these days, huh? No respect for their elders. Well, looks like we don't have much choice. Let's hit the bar. Veronica's English voice actor, I think, fits the character a lot better. It sounds like... It sounds more like an adult. That kind of... I've been thinking. Well, if you can't work out how I thought her girl's dad was missing with her sister, I'm not stupid. She's calling me stupid. Now, watch this. When she runs, right? She runs like Arale from Dr. Slump. When Veronica runs, right? When she runs like her arms out on the side. You didn't notice that? Oh, hey. Did I fight the two kids with the red hair? Okay, okay, whatever. I don't care. I'm taking Veronica into a bar so she can get drunk. Hey, where is Connie? I'm shy from talking to Connie. I don't know that you can get shy if I was talking to your own friends. Okay, fine. Stop calling me stupid. Let's go. She's with us. Do you have a problem with that? Understanding? She has a chaperone. She is... Finally letting her in. He is some young pup. Perhaps... Sounds lovely. But I don't have time for tea, I'm afraid. I'm looking for someone. I'll get straight to the point. There's a girl called Serena. Blond hair looks a lot like me. Have you seen her? Serena. The young girl sought her sister. But left without joy. That'll be her. Did she say where she was going? Westwood she wandered. Sensing her sister, she said. Guided by voices. Huh! Westwood! Kidnapped, you see. I was in the bath house when some monsters attacked me. They took me off to their lair. Oh no. It's not good. To find Serena. But it looks like now she's going to try and rescue me. Right you lot. You're no ordinary travellers. Anyone with eyes can see that. I don't have time to explain all the ins and outs of it right now. But I need you to help me go and find my sister. Are you in? What if I say no? You say yes. So, will you help me or not? Of course I'll help her. I'm a big Veronica fan, I'll always help her. It's like she's talking to you in first person. It's kind of weird, isn't it? Oh Connie, you suck, okay? You can't fight. Oh, she's calling Riff Raff. A little smile of hers. She knows. How does she know just from looking at him? She didn't even like look at it that mark on his hand. She immediately knew who's Illuminary. Kind of weird. It's probably her intuition because they have like a shared soul and stuff. Yeah, Veronica's great. She's probably my favorite character in Dragon Quest XI actually. Like legit. There she is following me around. Doing her Dr. Slump running. Ninja run. We should probably go save at the church and we can call it a day and we can look for Serena next time. Did they already call her Serena? Yeah, it's Serena. I mean, I know a lot of people haven't played this game yet, but all right, we're going to save here. Oh, Eric's a higher level than me. So far I've played the game for, what, five hours? Almost six hours. Oh, continue the adventure. All right, thanks. If you look at her, she puts her like arms, her hands on her like hips. Anyway, yeah, I think that'll be it for today. We'll end today's episode here next time. We'll head over and try to save Serena from the monsters that kidnapped her. Anyway, thanks for watching and I'll see you guys next time.