 Welcome back everyone to the start of another series. Today we're playing Dragon Quest 2. Last time we played Dragon Quest 1 and we're playing all three games in the trilogy that release on Nintendo Switch. So this is Dragon Quest 2 on Nintendo Switch. Obviously everyone's favorite game in the whole series. It's not a joke. Dragon Quest 2 and it has a subtitle. Illuminaries of the legendary line. Got that alliteration. So this game originally came out in 1987 in Japan. It came out exactly a year after Dragon Quest. It had a bit of a rush development cycle and a lot of people consider this to be the worst Dragon Quest game ever. I don't really see it like that. I think it's very brilliant in a lot of ways and I think it's a great game. And this version is sure to surprise a lot of people. It's really different than the first game. It's a lot more ambitious if you ask me. I've played it a few times before but this is the first time we're playing the new version on Switch with a new script. So let's jump right into Dragon Quest 2. Illuminaries of the legendary line. Create a new venture log. And hear that music? Listen. You hear that, right? That music is the only... This is some trivia. It's called Only Lonely Boy. That's the name of the song. This is the only piece of music in Dragon Quest history that was not made by Sugiyama. This was made by a Japanese pop artist actually and it was only ever used in Dragon Quest 2's Create a New Venture Log menu music. Every other song was the same one that Sugiyama made. So we're gonna jump right in. It's cool that they kept that little detail, you know? They kept the music from before. Right? Fast message speed obviously. Now this game has an intro section. It has an intro section with like a cutscene so we're gonna be watching kind of long cutscene first. At least it should. Well, we'll check this out now. Once upon a time a young hero descended from the legendary warrior Erdrick. Defeated the dreaded dragonlord and restored peace and light to the world. Having done so, he set off on a journey with a beautiful young maiden and together they founded new kingdoms across the world. Each of these kingdoms came to be ruled by the children of the hero and his beautiful bride and by their children after them. 100 years passed. So this is 100 years after Dragon Quest. 100 years later. So this is Moonbrook Castle. It's south of Middenhall Castle. And these are ruled by the descendants of Erdrick. So there's a king of Moonbrook and the princess of Moonbrook. Oh no, what's going on? What's going on? Grave tidings? The minions of the foul Hargon? Oh no, the castle's being attacked. Hargon is laying siege to his castle. Oh no, there's some monsters. Okay, so the king's telling the princess to hide herself. He's gonna send Ward 2 to Middenhall. The other kingdom on foul fiend. Oh no, he's surrounded. Oh, he got ambushed from behind. They're killing all the guards. At least some of them are gonna escape. The only one left. He needs to go to Middenhall to spread the word. Oh no, look what happened to Moonbrook. It got destroyed. Oh wow, his sprite is all bloody and damaged. That wasn't any original. That's interesting. He collapsed. They're helping the guard of Moonbrook and they have different outfits. You see that? The Moonbrook guard has a black and yellow outfit and the Middenhall ones have blue and yellow. Majesty, Moonbrook has no more. The castle lieth in ruins raised by the minions of the self-styled high priest Hargon. An air long should its plan succeed, will he summon forth a dark god of great power and lay waste to our entire world? Oh no, he collapsed. Well, chief my son, thou hast heard this brave soldier's report. Through thy veins, Chorus Sith, the blood of Erdrick, legendary hero of this land, he's the descendant of Erdrick. Bury him deep within the Earth's embrace that he might find in an ex-world peace that did elude in this. The words in this game are so old-school, poetic. The soldier suddenly breathes last. They really try to make it sound unique. Let's go follow the king. Oh no. Alright, we'll head out. They're open the chest before the inclaim that which I've made ready for thou. In Canak and Moonbrook, we find the other descendants of Erdrick. That shall know them by their names Prince Thomas and Princess Linda. So, interesting thing. They don't have set names, the prince of Canak and the princess of Moonbrook. Depending on what your name is, their name will actually be different. So, there's several different names you can possibly have from the prince and princess. Oh, what if I say no? You can name the prince of Canak in this game. Could you do that before? I don't remember if you could do that. What should I name him? Uh, I gotta come up with a cool name. Alright, I'll uh, yeah, I'll just name him after one of my friends. Alright, Prince Ben. Alright. Who's the princess of Moonbrook? What's your her name be? Alright, that's one of my friends. I'll name her princess Ira. Okay, go unto them, join forces and together deliver our realm from the great evil which looms over it. Oh, I gotta open the chest. Opera sword and 50 gold coins. Alright, I got my stuff. Fruit of my loins. That's like the weirdest thing to call somebody. Like it says thing, go achieve my son. He says go achieve fruit of my loins. This one's so weird. Okay, so we're gonna... Oh, thank you, guardsman. So the world is in danger and who do you send the prince? You send the prince to go fight evil. Like, isn't that kind of badass? How instead of sending like some guardsman, you're actually sending the prince himself because he's got the the hero's blood. That's like seriously badass. Okay, let's talk to this dude. Left wine. So West of here is a town called Leftwing. Stopping place visited by wanderers on their way to Canuck. Interesting. I don't have a key for that. So the layout of this game is exactly like the original Dragon Quest on NES. Oh, there's a portal. There's a little man has to say. A teleportal may transport a man to place it. And many hundreds of leagues this and then blink of an eye. Teleportal leads to an island in the middle of faraway ocean. Let's check it out. The Dragon Quest 2 makes a lot, a huge amount of use of these teleporters because the world is way bigger than the original Dragon Quest. It's a huge compared to the original Dragon Quest. Oh, there's nothing, there's nothing for me here. Yeah, it's enormous, this world. All right, we are back. We are back. Okay. Your Highness, I shall soon venture forth upon a perilous quest. Whoa. Whoa. She just said, she said how lonely she will be without me. She did not meant to utter such thoughts aloud. For what do I know that one such great will only look twice as one so lonely as me? She likes me. Nice. Well, that tends to happen, you know, being a prince and all and having lots of power and money. Okay. No, then great danger. So they're putting, they're putting the prince in danger. That's, that's, that's the difference between Dragon Quest. You got these princes in like the kings and stuff. We're actually going around being badass and kicking, kicking ass. Look at this dog. Hi. Wait. Okay. All right. Wanderer. I'm not a wanderer. This is my, this item shop is outside of my castle. Okay, so what can I buy? I don't have enough money for that. All right, so this game is all about teamwork. You have to find your cousins in order to be tough and be able to fight. So right now, I don't have anybody with me, but look at that. It's the Switch version. So you got a map, the NES version. You did not have a map. So they said that the town to the West was left-wing, right? So that town right up there by those mountain ranges, I think that would be where I need to go. So let's head over there. Anyway, it's really going to be tough because this game also, unlike the first Dragon Quest, there are multiple monsters who can attack you at once and they can ambush you. Oh, there we go. See three monsters. All right. The mollusk looks tough, so I should kill him first. What? Oh my gosh. I didn't, I didn't equip the sword. I did not equip the sword. Crap. No, no, no. Okay, I better not die. Okay, this is no good. This is not good. Flea flea flea. I think. Thank you. Okay. So let's check out the menu system. You got same, same exact menu as the original Dragon Quest. There we go. The sword was not even equipped. All right, now we're gonna ready to kick some ass. All right, these mollusks are dead. These mollusks. Wow, that was a one-hit kill. That was really easy. What the heck? Did they make this game easier? I know I mentioned that the original Dragon Quest was easier. Oh, crap. Poison Bog. Okay, army ant. No, no. All right, I'll kill this army ant. Okay, he's dead. Okay, I should be able to kill this guy on one hit. Okay, I missed. He missed. Okay, nice. A medicinal orb. Nice. Okay, hopefully I can make it there without dying. Oh, no, no. Okay, I'm gonna, I'm gonna have to use this. Re-experience points. All right, we made it to the next challenge. This is left line or left wing. Talk to this guy. The humble sediment is a villager left wing. Traveler's resting place. Oh, there's a bank in this game too. Oh, there's a bank in the original too. Um, oh, hello there. The Prince of Middenhaal is the journey forth. That's me. Oh, she doesn't believe me that I'm the prince. Okay, hello. Oh, he wanted to go to Kanak, but he's too old to go there. That's unfortunate. Hey, what the heck? His father's a guard. He's got a fool. Can't you see this, a lover? She tries. Did she just call me a fool, this little girl? Okay, there's no way to save because I think, um, for the most part, in Dragon Quest 2, you don't save in churches like in third one. You save when you talk to a king or an old man. So there's gotta be an old man around here who can help me save. Oh, hello there. Her brother serves in Castle Guard in Moonbrook. Oh, no. Well, her brother's dead, sadly to say. And I don't have enough money for any of this stuff, so we're just gonna leave. Uh, I should probably stay at the end. All right, we're heading on, heading onwards. All right, according to the map, that area up top should be Kanak. That's where the Prince of Kanak should be. So let's go meet him, our cousin, the Prince of Kanak. Oh, you guys are pretty tough. Dead. How critical, nice. All right, good, good work. I'm close to, I'm close to there. With the map, it's a lot easier. A fat rat. No, it's a rat skull. Was it, was he always called a rat skull? I think that he was called a fat rat before. Yeah, there's so many name changes. Nice. What? Okay, I thought he hit the wrong ant for a second. Okay, nice, nice. Level up. Level two. Or a little three, I was already level two. So, interesting thing about the main character in this game. This is the only main character in the Dragon Quest series that cannot use magic. He doesn't use magic at all. He's completely a brute force character. The reason why I think is because it's like symbolic. Basically, him and his cousins are supposed to represent the bloodline of Erdrick splitting into three, so that each have some different aspect about them that makes them unique and have strengths and weaknesses. It's an item shop, what he's got, what he's got. He's got a lot of good stuff, but unfortunately, I need to sleep. That's fine. Five gold, that's pretty cheap. All right, old man. The crown prince of this land has as command an arcane magic of wondrous potency. See, the prince of Kanak is a magician. He has lots of magic. Although strong of mine, he has a slight of body and quite unable to make use of weighty weapon and armor. Each of these cousins have a different strengths and weaknesses, so the prince of Kanak cannot use any good armor or weapons, and the prince of the moon works pretty helpless, but the boy, he's a lot worse. Okay, what does he got, tell me? The silver key. So, what does the silver key do? You can open a silver lock and key. Interesting. Language. When signs of ergic rise as one, then shall fall the false priest's blight be driven from the land of good. So, signs of ergic come together and defeat evil. Because apparently, this world, they entrust the royal family to fight evil for them. They made. Her brother is a atlapated daughter of Sumeran. What does that mean? I don't even know what that means. What the hell does this mean? Like, I don't know what any of those words mean at all of Sumeran. Oh, he's like scatterbrained. He has ADD. Okay, let's see how that is. There's the king in our first save point. Oh, is this prince chief I see before me? Well, if you seek my son, he already set out on his quest. By now, he'll have reached this well spring of the year. Why is he, why is he not here? I might as well save all here. So, the freaking prince of Midian Hall, or not, no, no, that's me, Prince of Canok, he left already to go find me and I came here to find him. So, you know, this is like, this is what happened, what happened before you know phones were invented. You just, oh, why do I end up in front? Okay, so the spring of the hero, it's got to be to the left because that's the only place where it could be, right? Yeah, let's go to the west. I should get that shield first. All right, attacking you. All right, we should buy the shield before we set off on our adventure. All right, that's 95 gold, that's enough. That's good enough for me. That's enough to buy the shield. Wait, not from this guy. There's a weapon shop around here, isn't there? Oh, is it not here? There's no weapon shop in this town. That was over on left one. I got to go down there. All right, let's head down there. Hopefully I survive. Stay out of the foresty areas because then there's more enemies. I think I could beat him. Okay, good, good. Running away is not ever a good option because you are not going to run away from these guys. These guys are going to kill you. All right, we can beat them. All right, so the armor shop guy should be here. Out of the way, I'm trying to talk to this guy. Okay, the leather shield is what I need. All right, we'll head off with this. That should be good. Actually, I should probably stay at the end. Probably be a good idea. Okay, we're heading downwards now. Okay, okay. It's a long journey ahead, but we'll make it. It's really hard. The first part of the game is hard because you're alone. You're alone and you're getting ganged up on by these guys. Okay, nice, he missed. Oh, and that's a level up right there. Let's head on downwards to the spring of heroes. It's really far away. All right, we're going to do it. Ratskull, you're dead. Yes. I've gotten pretty tough. I can kill these guys in one hit, beer it. And he's working for Argon. You can tell because of the symbol on his head. The encounter rates really high. He dodged it. Have you journeyed onto the shrine, which lies south of Midnhal? Wait, my younger brother, his brother is in a shrine south of Midnhal? I need a friend to go beyond this point. I should go see that guy's younger brother. That sounds interesting. It sounds like a clue. Maybe we should go visit that guy at Cread, almost slime. I hope I don't get killed by these guys. Oh crap, these guys are tough. I'm poisoned and I don't have any antidote. I'm going to get killed probably. All right, I got killed, but I didn't have much money anyway. So it's not like I lost anything. Okay, so we go onwards. We should visit the guy's brother after we find the prince critical. But the encounter rate is really high. That's a really high encounter rate. All right, that's good stuff. So there should be a bridge up ahead according to the map. There it is. Oh, I should have hit the draki instead. What keeps missing anyway? Nice leveled up. Running through the forest is really hard. Cobra is really tough. Oh no, I meant to hit the cobra. Ah, that's good. Nice. All right, let's hurry through the forest. All right, nice. We made it out. Made it out alive. And there is... can I just flee? Okay, nice. That must be spring. This is not the spring of power or the spring of heroes. Spring of heroes are somewhere else. That was maybe the one to the east actually. I die. There's not much I can do about it. Are these the fat rats? All right, we'll try going to the east this time. I don't think that was the right place to need to go. And destroyed. 49. Yeah, let's just keep going onwards. A darn prince. He should be... yeah, he should be to the east actually. It's been a while since I played this. Oh, they suddenly attack. Okay. Wow, that was quick. Our rat skull, you're dead. Heading onwards. One draggy. You think he can beat me? You can't. You can't win. Okay, got some medicinal herb. Oh, I should have bought medicinal herbs. That's what I should have bought. I just realized now that I... all right, we'll buy medicinal herbs after we... after a group with our friend. Encounter rate's really high. You notice that? It's really... like I keep running into dudes. This must be the spring. Are these iron ants? They're getting weaker as I keep going. All right, keep going onwards. All right, he's done four. That's another level up for us. A little five. Oh, those six. I was already a little five. Wow, there are a lot of these freaking guys. There are a lot of... a lot of enemies. Those people popping up in the corner playing Dragon Quest XI. I'm here playing Dragon Quest II. Great. Okay, more of these stupid rats. All right, medicinal herb. Now, the thing about this game is that the cave was usually separated in multiple parts. I don't think I need to go down to the stairs though. It's really like mixed up and everything. Okay, here we go. There's a spring. Oh, there's somebody there. Let's check that out. Of course, there's these guys, these fat guys. Fat rat. Antidotal herb. Okay. Items. We'll use this now because... All right, 46. Nice. That was done well in reaching the wellspring of the hero child. Well, where the hell is this depressive canock? Yeah, where the heck is he? What? He was looking for me and he went to Midden Hall? Are you kidding me? It's like I came here to look for him and he went to Midden Hall to look for me. I don't have to flee. Oh, if you're stronger, you can usually flee easily. Okay, you're blocking the way so they just want to die. Okay, they're blocking the way. Blocking that way. I'll attack them. Like, it's funny that when you try to run, they don't want you to escape and you end up just killing them. So, whose fault is that? It's their fault. All right, getting close. All right, let's check the map now. Midden Hall Castle. I'm thinking of what a good route would be, but if I went south, there'd be a lot of monsters there, though. Let's go south. You know why? Because that guy said his brother was down there. I should go talk to his brother. Wait, can I just flee? No, they're blocking the way. I might as well just kill them now. I'm gonna get hurt. Eesh. And when you stand in the poison bogging into an enemy fight, there's a poison background. This is pretty tough when you're all alone, because you're just fighting them single-handedly. All right, not bad. Oh, here we go. There's Midden Hall. So, where's that king? Where's dad? Dadio? Up here. Ben, he was here a second ago and he left. He went to left line or whatever. He's home down. He made it. So, he went back to the freaking castle. He went back to Canada. That's so stupid. He can't just stay still. He doesn't realize that if you just stay still, I'll find him. Let's go see that guy's brother now. Oh, sure. Kill these guys. Slimes. Oh, boy. He's ran off. All right, so that guy's brother should be down here. All right, almost down there. Oh, there we go. This must be the brother. Well, my friend, as long as I have a way to your coming, parking out to me, I have something to tell me. In this world of ours, you'll find both gold and silver locks and gold and silver keys if it done. Seek first the silver key. It's in a cave west of Kenok. That cave that I went to, that's where the silver key is located. That's where I was supposed to... I thought that was a spring, but that's actually where... Okay, okay. You need a companion to enter that place. I figure that out the hard way. Yeah, I definitely went in there. I got killed. So that was some good information you gave me. So I need to go into that cave to get the silver key with the Prince of Kenok. So we'll do that. Great idea. Running through forces not fun. Okay, made it. I'll heal up before going to meet Kenok. We came here. Let's see, if we go to the far... okay, the castle of Kenok should be up ahead for a long journey. I'll have to flee. Yeah, I can flee from these guys. Okay, I've had enough of you... okay, they're blocking the way. Now you know what that means. It's killing time. Time to destroy my enemies. Okay, and they're blocking the way of course. They always do. The castle should be up ahead, right there. All right, where's that damn prince? Where the hell did he go? Where's the king? I need to talk to the king about his dumb son. Oh, the prince's chief. Okay. Oh, he didn't show up. That's weird. Where could he be? I hope he's not hurt or anything. He gone merchant. Okay, a little tedious trying to find this guy now. All right, that's just dumb. Maybe he's here somewhere? Oh, would you look at that? Would you look at that? Hello there. It is I've been the prince of Kenok, and if I'm not mistaken, our chief of Middenhall. Let us join forces and smite evil to play with our party joining music for the first time ever. This is the first party member Dragon Quest history epic moment. And now we have a friend who will join who will join our quest to defeat Hargon. Look at us. Two badass dudes walking around in sync. What are they doing here? Beyond fool. Can't tell if this is a lover. That is so weird that she says that. That's like the weirdest thing for a kid to say. Okay, um, we should rest up at the end before leaving. Did she make the price higher because of weird or two of us now? I feel like she did. Oh, oh, we have money now, actually. We can buy out of the way. Okay, wait, what's his deal? Raising a castle Moombrick, I heard about that. Oh, no. Okay, so let's see. And the cool thing about this compared to NES version is this tells you how strong the items are. In the NES version, it was so hard to tell what item we did what and who it worked for and how high made the stats. It was like really confusing. You had to have a notebook and you had to write this stuff down. Or this will make Ben stronger. This will make him stronger, too. That'll make him really strong, actually. Leather shield. I kind of need that, though. I should probably give him that before anything else. All right, here's what we'll do. The divine dagger I'll get him and the leather shield. I'll buy another one. We'll buy that divine dagger, right? All right, now we're heading off. Finally got our companion. And of course, I'll need a few of these or more of these. Oh, I should get an antidotal herb. All right, that silver key is ours now. We're going off to find that freaking silver key from that place. I mean, I guess we should actually visit the king first, but I don't really care about that. It's gonna be tough. But you know, I think we can do it. Because there's two of us now. It's two versus the world now. We're we're actually both like an unstoppable force now. Teamwork and all that. We could actually move down to the island down below right now, but I do want to get that key, the silver key. Oh, nice. We both leveled up. Or he leveled up, probably. Yeah. All right, you got tough. Wait, what happens if we go down here now? The south of here lies Castle Moonbrook. Go forth. I mean, it got a smile upon you. So they're allowing us to go to the Castle Moonbrook right now. But I think we want to get that key first, because you know what? We want that key. So the lake cave is where we need to go. Bubble slime. So we can beat these guys. Easy. Oh, wow. That was a one to kill. Looks like I'm carrying the weight here mostly. He's on. Oh, I'm poisoned. At least I have the antidote. All right, nice, nice. Good stuff. Oh, he leveled up too. Oh, he learned Sizz. And I got a copper sword. Okay, we're near the objective. So let's have one of these. Good, good. Oh, there's the cave. This should be where the silver key is now. So now we need to figure out how to get through here. Oberkings. And that one's dead. All right, we're doing well. We're doing a good job here. Heal slime. These guys are tough. You know why? Because they heal. He heals his buddy up and there's nothing we can do about it. It's fine. It's fine. Okay, there's only one left. Oh, he's gonna heal himself? No, he's a heal slime. So of course he's gonna do that. All right, good job team. We beat him. That was a lot of exp. Wow, that was a lot. Okay, so what we're gonna do is use the herbs on ourselves. Maybe we could just leave it at that for now. You always want to kill these guys first. Oh, of course. Of course that freaking jerk. He's on. These guys are tough. These for me. And we'll leave. Leave it. Nice. You always got to give it a good go for fleeing. Hopefully. Wait, is this a dead end? Should have hit the other one. Okay. All right, good job, good job team. 24 exp. And there's the staircase. Good job. Copper King, of course. Has Ben learned any magic yet actually? I gotta check that. Oh, he got a wing. Oh, he learned heal. Now let's use that thing on himself. Look at this. Completely restored health. 40. Oh, a nice little treasure chest. Seed of life. All right, more of that place. And army ants. No match for us though. Wow, even he's getting pretty tough. Even he can kill them in one head. All right, let's go for this antidote herb. All right, this is pretty tough. But we can do it. I got antidote herb from them. All right, these army ants aren't that tough. We can do this. I'm just worried about making out of this cave alive afterwards. Getting this stuff, that's not the hard part. The hard part is leaving. Oh, crap. It's really tough. All right, nice. All right, the wing we got. 275. Oh, I cannot lose that. I'm not going to lose that. Okay, I'm telling you this right now. 457. Yeah, I need that money. All right, hopefully there's no bad tough guys down here. A cobra king. We're scissing. It'll take up a lot of magic, though. I won't have enough for healing. All right, we're going to kill these maguses. Oh no. Yes, he did a good job. Good work, team. All right, so heal me, please. There's a key. We got it. The silver key. All right, thank you, old man's younger brother for your help. Now let's get the heck out of here. Ape this stupid place. All right, all right. All right, traditions. All right, good job. 36 exp. Magic restored. Selfia. Any medicinal herbs? Now roll out of that. We'll have to just survive. No. Okay, okay, those guys are, those guys are wimps. I can beat them easily. I got the silver key. I'm feeling pretty good about this, actually. We managed to get it really quickly. So how the heck do we move out of here? Plug the walls. Pretty cool head. Well, not gonna make a difference. I would have killed him anyway. Nice. All right, let's move. Of course, of course. At least we got that wing. That's gonna allow us to get the heck out of it. Wait, wait, was that the right place? Oh, a chest. A tumbola ticket. I'm fleeing. I'm dealing with all these heal slimes. I know what's gonna happen. A heal slime is like actually death in this game. Just gotta get out of the cave. Oh my goodness. Die, die. We can make it, I think. I just need to escape the cave and then we can get the heck out of here. All right, 612. Rudd. And this should be the exit, yes. Nice. Now we're gonna toss one of these. These allow you to go back. Where you came from. Oh, we can choose whatever town we want actually. That's really convenient. You don't have to walk all the way there. So now what? We just go back to Middenhall? Or left one? Yeah. All right, we're gonna stay here. I think we'll head over to Canock and rest up there. All right, let's see what we'll kind of... Oh, we got a lot of strength now. Well, that was a good match. Oh wait, did not mean to do that. I want to go up to the castle so I can stay there. All right, you guys, you guys suck. And there's the castle. Are you kidding me? They're blocking the way. I'll suck the sister. Let's see what she says. Brother, I beg you to allow me to come in on that quest. That purely sisterling? I think not. I despise these, somewhat. Okay, I don't remember him being such a jerk in the original. All right, let's see what his dad thinks. Oh, welcome home, beloved son. Yeah, let's record our deeds. And we're not gonna continue. We're gonna end this episode here. So yeah, Dragon Quest 2. It's an underrated game. It's a really great game, actually. It's a great adventure game, great RPG. We're gonna be continuing this off some other time with a second episode. So this was episode one. I hope you enjoyed Dragon Quest 2. First look on the Nintendo Switch. And I'll see you next time.