After playing the Dragon Quest 3 HD2D remake, I enjoyed it so much that I decided to jump right into Dragon Quest 11. Instead of doing a review for a single game, I am going to review them together and compare (and potentially even contrast) them. Warning, there will be major spoilers for both games. Something mundane and stodgy about Dragon Quest is that a lot of features, items, fan service, characters, references, and locations are recycled across games. There are needless and constant callbacks, at least in my experience for these two games. Dragon Quest 11 is a prequel to Dragon Quest 3, which is a prequel to Dragon Quest 1 and 2, so these associations made sense and were direct references when they were first created. I find it drab and insipid, and since I played Dragon Quest 3 HD2D before Dragon Quest 11, I was entirely sick of it by the end of the game. That ends up being the general motif of Dragon Quest 11, the fun doesn't last until the end. If I never...