Is Dragon Quest VII Too Easy? Is Nioh 3 Too Hard?

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined makes one of the longest, most ambitious RPGs into something more manageable: a swashbuckling sprint through a book of fractured fairy tales. Whether or not you like that change of temp likely depends on your history with the series. Meanwhile, Nioh 3’s first boss is the skill check from hell. Why would game designers build a wall between the player and the fun?

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0:00.0	This is the one with the crystals and the dragons.
0:03.1	No.
0:03.6	It's not.
0:04.9	So sometimes there's orbs.
0:08.4	Okay. Do any of the orbs have points? Because if they have points, that's basically a crystal. No, they're usually pretty smooth. Okay. Final Fantasy, the crystals are quite jacking. I will grant you that. Sometimes they're like, materia, I guess, is a perfect, beautiful little sphere that you just want to pop right in
0:24.1	your mouth. And sometimes they're like neat little geometric shapes, like, you know,
0:29.1	like an elongated, eight-sided dye or something like that. But in Dragon Quest,
0:34.1	we're almost always talking about an orb. And the orb is, you know, prismatic, different colors of the rainbow.
0:40.2	And you do need to get all of them, usually to build a bridge to heaven so you can, like,
0:44.9	get the sword from God.
0:46.7	So that's my mnemonic device.
0:48.8	I like Dragon Warrior.
0:50.1	That game's sick.
0:51.4	Dragon Quest sucks.
0:53.4	That's interesting.
0:55.1	I'm old school, so I only like Dragon Warrior, and actually the kids that like Dragon Quest grown up, I thought they were kind of idiots and whims.
1:03.3	Choose the blonde flower seller from Final Fantasy 7.
1:08.2	What's her name?
1:09.4	Aerith.
1:10.9	Oh.
1:12.5	Interesting.
1:14.2	Not what I expected.
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