DRAGON QUEST IV Negative Reviews

DRAGON QUEST IV App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

DRAGON QUEST IV app received 22 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using DRAGON QUEST IV? Can you share your negative thoughts about dragon quest iv?

DRAGON QUEST IV for Negative User Reviews

✓ Poor localisation hinders game.I haven't play the original DQ4 game, but this game is fairly solid and enjoyable. The biggest problem is the language conversion. There are significant grammatical errors and spelling errors which makes understanding the game challenging. This made an impact to me as I cared less about the characters and story and just focussed on playing the game to finish it..AlterknitaVersion: 1.0.1

✓ Great game! Need option to mute *all* soundGreat game, but the grinding is made almost unbearable since you can’t mute the sound (without turning your volume all the way down), which also means you can’t use your own music (Pandora/Spotify in the background). Super annoying. Many times I sit down to play but give up cause I just want some music playing at the same time. Fix that super frustrating option and I’d give at least a 4 star..PippentookVersion: 1.1.1

✓ Not The Reboot You WantThere was so much potential in this iOS release as Dragon Quest IV is probably one of the finest in the series. When it originally came out, it was part of Enix's A-list RPGs. This release however, does not do justice to the franchise or the game. I've seen other review praise the new translations, particularly the "ethnic" anglicizations of the different regions. This detracts so much from the story however, as it causes you to stop and dissect each sentence like a poor-man's woolseyism. It's poor translation on the scale of "All your base are belong to us now". Weird word usage that doesn't belong, such as "Your extinct mother..." Instead of saying "Your dead mother." It's truly atrocious. The name changes are also unusual. It detracts less than the ethnic translations but it seems pointless. Why change names? These are established characters. It would be one thing if the hardware limited the original game's naming system, but often that wasn't the case. Changing Taloon (6 letters) to his first name Torneko (7 letters) perhaps might have made sense. But Nara and Mara COULD have been named their reworked names, Maya and Meena, but they weren't. So why change back? I don't buy the argument that Mara and Nara are confusing, because Maya and Meena don't make it clearer. I think the worst offender is renaming Cristo, to Kiryl or something dumb like that. The item and monster name changes are seemingly pointless as well. Some of them are genuinely worse than the original names. Happily, some of these weren't changed. The game's one improvement is the graphics. It does look better than its 8-bit source material. And I think they stayed fairly true to most of the character designs. I will give the artists a star for that. They've also cut some of the grinding out which is good as well. But the UI for spells is atrocious to navigate on mobile and the control pad is so loose and wonky. The number of times I've walked around something instead of over it because the control pad is so loose was disappointing. I fee this has to do with the 8-direction pad replacing the 4-direction control. The "3D" aspect also seems pointless in all but two or three spots through the whole game. Makes me think they could have just changed the view in these specific areas and saved the hassle of having the 3D "camera" at all. It's playable to someone who has played the original and remembers the story and character and spells and can easily refresh their memory. It's not preferable to the original though and for people new to the game, it can be confusing. I wouldn't recommend this as a first time play-through. Just play the NES if you can..Antzen85Version: 1.0.4

✓ Translation terribleI’m a huge fan of the dragon warrior dragon quest series. Played the originals when I was a wee lad. Loved them, I was excited to replay on the iOS. 1 2 and 3 were amazing. But this translation is so terrible. Some of the words are not even words. If this is your first dragon quest game I’d skip this and play dragon quest three instead..KevinripVersion: 1.0.4

✓ Cloud Save Doesn’t WorkBROKEN! DON’T BUY! CLOUD SAVE BROKEN! I’m unable to synchronize cloud saves on my iPhone 12. I shouldn’t have to start the game over because I got a new phone. I just want to redownload my old save. I’ve tried multiple networks, multiple times of the day, and tried reinstalling. Nothing works!.IrateCustomer96Version: 1.1.1

✓ Amazing Game; Broken Cloud Save SystemI absolutely adore this game, and I would love nothing more than to give this game a 5 star rating. However, the current cloud saving system is largely broken. My iPhone 12 Pro is able to upload my current save data to the cloud no problem, however the server fails to retrieve and synchronize that data when I try to download it to my 10.5” iPad Pro. This was present on both iOS (and iPad OS) 14 & 15. Will update my review once this has been fixed..TheGoodPearceVersion: 1.1.1

✓ ICloud save doesn’t workFun game but it is not full functional. iCloud saves does not work in ios 15.2.Mike ˊ_>ˋVersion: 1.1.1

✓ I don’t care about your music or SFXStop forcing me to listen to your stupid in game music and sfx. There is zero purpose for you to force my other audio apps to shutdown when I open this app. I played DQ1-3 for hundreds of hours listening to audible and loved it. But now I CHOOSE to not to open DQ4 simply because my audiobook stops the moment I open DQ4. Please fix this..58DGuyVersion: 1.1.1

✓ Want to like it, but...It just crashed and I lost an hour of progress, that made me sad. Some of characters are extremely weak to begin with so grinding required to get anywhere. Game has a certain charm so i want to forgive these issues but, on reflection, i have better things to do with my time..Spiker49nrVersion: 1.0.1

✓ Sub Par. Voice acting? Bad graphics poor sound qualitySo far only just started. Had problems figuring out the dialogue it's the middle button. The graphics on ipad really are outdated and don't serve the game well at all not these days. I'll give the game more points if its really good but at the moment for graphics and sound both poor quality I can only give it at most a one & not really recommend it yet. Battle is played out in a small window on the ipad. You've got to be kidding. ZERO points for this. Do not buy for ipad. You will be very disappointed. Controls not that good either. Keep entering and exiting wrong doors because of bad controls. Also no voice acting slices a lot of goodness out of this game..Agent86therealoneVersion: 1.0.0

✓ Great game. Terrible dialogThis is my favorite dragon warrior game of all time only updated. Overall the changes are great and make the game more playable without losing any of the charm. But the dialog completely ruins the experience. In an attempt to ethnicize the kingdoms, the dialog was rendered near unreadable with phonic spellings of various cliche accents. It is so heavy handed as to be offensive, especially the broken Asian English that another reviewer mistook for an unintentional bad translation from the original. Imagine watching a foreign film but to covey that it is foreign the subtitles are purposefully in broken English and spelled with accents.... Not necessary. Not fun. Fix it square.AvalonTearsVersion: 1.0.1

✓ Awful translationI originally played this on the NES. This is much worse. To add dialect and accent, they translated the Japanese to a language (such as Russian) and then translated THAT to English. So there are several idiosyncrasies that just fail, to the point of distracting from the charm of the game. I essentially bought this for Taloon’s chapter, but it just didn’t scratch that nostalgia itch due to the awful translation..Charles is Doing Fine TYVersion: 1.1.1

✓ Cloud sync does not workThe game is fine, but the cloud saves do not work, so you’re stuck playing on one device if you own multiple apple products..SMTawneyVersion: 1.1.1

✓ Auto save needs to be fixedI only get a few minutes on my phone at a time and it's really annoying how bad the auto save is. If I beat a boss, the game should auto save. If the stay at an inn the game should auto save..Zen6oxVersion: 1.0.1

✓ Drag anywhere on screen to moveNeed to add the feature of drag anywhere on screen to move..Steve CamVersion: 1.1.2

✓ Marred by technical problems and interface issues.My understanding is that the game itself is quite good. Sadly, it is hidden behind an imprecise and uncomfortable interface (seriously, iPad players prepare for thumb discomfort) with no controller support, and a cloud sync feature that never actually works. No escape to the iPhone version for these poor despairing thumbs..SelviusVersion: 1.1.1

✓ An odd, mediocre port of a solid RPGThis is a port of the Nintendo DS port of DQ4, so you get the new 3D backgrounds from that version. On the tiny, low res DS screen, they looked fine, but on a retina iPad screen, be prepared for giant pixels. The worst offender are the sprites, which are so low resolution as to be rather abstract. Crude visuals aside, we have an additional problem, and it's huge. The game runs in portrait mode and there is no way to run in landscape mode. This feels wrong from the outset, and never gets better. It's a stupid, idiotic decision designed exclusively for Japanese commuters on busy trains. It's a game breaker. The game itself is a fine old school RPG, albeit one with a poor localisation filled with attempts at strong regional accents, which makes some of the dialogue impossible to decipher. I just wish his port wasn't so poorly done. It's also only 30fps on A7 devices, which makes no sense..Kotatsu NekoVersion: 1.0.1

✓ Game is good but does not sync to iCloudGame is a direct port of the DS version but if you want to use it across devices with an iPhone and iPad good luck. Does not download saves from the cloud unlike other games I’ve played so..WBGokuVersion: 1.1.1

✓ Oh dear godThe iOS versions of 1-3 were improvements in my opinion, particularly 2 and 3. Not so on 4. The gameplay and graphics are wonky and the translation is HORRIBLE. Really, really bad. To the point where I take screenshots of the dialogue because it’s so terrible that it is hilarious. Still enjoyable, but holy god you can tell they put far less effort into this port than they did for the incredibly simple DW1..Vengeful MallardVersion: 1.0.4

✓ Controller supportPlease add controller support..@bralansVersion: 1.1.1

✓ Unable installationI purchased it but couldn't install this game. :( I can't play it please fix it.Red.delVersion: 1.0.4

✓ Great Game, Cloud Saves Don’t WorkSquare Enix wants to charge a premium price yet will only provide trash mobile support. The game’s cloud save function no longer works, so you’re stuck playing the game on the device you started on. Apple has expanded controller support, yet Square Enix Dragon Quest games do not support them. Not only that, but these games can only be played in portrait view. Making it awkward playing these games on larger phones or tablets, or even with your device connected to a tv. So Squeenix, either stop the premium price grab, or start providing a game experience that justifies the price. Because right now it’s almost just another mobile trash game..Mr SalVersion: 1.1.1

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