A good rpg, very enjoyable !!! Story: 8 Gameplay: 8 Music: 10 Visuals:8 Personal Score: 8

Completion: Finished main game, did not engage in postgame content. Pros: - Infectious charm that permeates every aspect of the game. - Weaves together multiple narratives to create a story that is enjoyable now and unbelievably impressive for what was originally a NES game - Game is located with secrets and fun side quests - Very inventive gameplay sections that surprised me even as a modern player. In particular, Torneko's chapter was incredible Cons: - Mobile controls are still sloppy despite the developers' best efforts - Clunky menus that take far too long to do what you want - No autobattle/2x battle. This feature should be just about necessary for any JRPG with heavy grinding, especially a remake decades after the fact - Battle system gets repetitive. However, this is a complaint you can raise for just about every early JRPG Likely the best NES JRPG Final Score: 7.7

The OST is reinstrumentations (*not* remasters) of the sequenced OST found in the 2008 DS release, instead of the superior fullrange live-orchestra OST heard in the 2001 PS1 release. For some reason, all audio has more compression than the heavily-compressed DS version, which further degrades the sound quality. The image has a slight vert stretch and a slight horizontal squish. There's a bilinear filter applied to the font, which unnecessarily blurs it. Touchstick is slippery for movement. The game is still playable, and if you've never played DQIV and have no interest in the NES version (which is superior to this in ways) this is still worth picking up, just know you're getting the worst version that's ever been on the market.