Thoughts on Dragon Quest 3 HD2D Remake?

I'm having a lot of fun with so far, 6 hours in playing on Dracian difficulty (hard) with the worst hero personality (mule).

I know chuds were having a fit over less skimpy outfits then the original and the whole preset a/b thing for gender (which after you select it still says it will call preset A Hero and preset B Heroine lmao) but it's just such a non-issue lol.

Gameplay is very fun with the job system, I have a tamer, merchant, and mage right now, and toyed with the cleric and warrior in the very early game. It's no FF5 or Bravely Default, but give you enough choices for multiple playthroughs with very different parties.

The quality of life choices are pretty fair for the most part and don't effect the difficulty too much. You can now hold unlimited items, but only in the field, you have to assign items to use them in battle, with a limited inventory per character, which is a great compromise. Wings now can take you to any town you visited instead of just your last one, which is a great change and make exploring older areas way more appealing. Only QoL I don't like is fully healing your hp and mp after leveling up, since it makes dungeons a lot easier, sucks but doesn't outweigh the good QoL stuff I listed early.

Graphics are pretty nice, Octopath, LiveALive and Triangle Strategy definitely do a better job at hd2d, but this game still looks polished, especially the effects and backdrops. The only major complaint is I wish the character sprite had more animations in the overworld.

""New"" JRPG soys (like the kind who think Person 5 is the greatest game ever) will hate the bare bones story and short cutscene, but the amount of freedom and snappy combat is so much fun, alongside the ever looming risk of walking into a later game area and getting your butt kicked.

TLRD, It's a visually pretty NES jrpg with all the fun but most of the bullshit cut out, would recommend if you enjoy those types of games!