You know, I never see anybody talking about how Dragon Quest Builders is a sequel to the Bad Ending of Dragon Quest 1. All I ever saw anyone saying about the game was that its Minecraft but Dragon Quest. Nobody EVER talked about the STORY of the game is that the Hero of DQ1 accepted the Dragon Lord's offer to rule Half the World, and thus the Dragon Lord has uncontested control of Alefgard. And also he cast a spell to remove humanities ability to build things, turning all of mankind into regressed cave dwelling animals permanently stuck on the bottom rung of the hierarchy of needs. And your main character is basically Jesus because he has been imbued with the divine power to actually build things.
If anybody had fucking told me all of that, I would have bought this game day 1. But nobody EVER talked about this games story. They only ever talk about it being Dragon Quest Minecraft.
Every single day I realize there is a serious disconnect between how I engage with video games as a medium, and the way everyone else making youtube videos and writing reviews of video games engages with them.
