Quote Originally Posted by Leigh View Post
I'm guessing they chose Dragon Quest as the franchise for cost-saving reasons, since you can pretty much exchange all the DQ characters with any generic anime face from the past 60 years. I imagine this might have been fun to play, if I was still 13 or 14 and had a group of actual real life friends to get together with for a couple of hours. But playing online with faceless, anonymous nobodies will be just as bland an experience as connecting to somebody on Dynasty Warriors.
Yep, this is one of the big problems for me. The entire point of doing a crossover is memorable and familiar characters. The game lends itself really well to expressing traits and such. But none of the DQ characters stand out to me enough for me to want to grab the game immediately. Admittedly, I'm not incredibly familiar with the series, but the characters just didn't seem as strong as some of their other choices.

That said, Hyrule Warriors is brilliant, and Koei Tecmo did a fantastic job translating those characters, so I think we may be prejudging them harshly, and they may portray the DQ characters just as well. I really hope they keep up with the crossovers. I really, really want to see Fire Emblem Warriors.