Dragon Warrior(Dragon Quest in Japan) was the beginning of a franchise and while it's not the best one by far, it is a decent RPG by NES standards. I feel that it doesn't get the love Final Fantasy franchise does, mainly because the earlier ones didn't have very good storylines, but that was corrected in later titles. Anyway, down to the review, the graphics are ok for NES, but then again, graphics are not why I purchase and/or play RPGs. The music is done very well, but then Koichi Sugiyama is a very good composer, to me, almost as good as Nobuo Uematsu. As for addictivness, I loved this game from the Dragon Warrior commercial spot and asked my mother if I could buy this and she said as long as I had the money, yes I could. As soon as I started playing, I was inexorably drawn to this game and the medieval speech was a big seller to me. I wanted to play this title over and over after I beat the game. The storyline is not that great, but then this game concentrates more on level grinding and combat over story, which I think is one reason the Japanese fell in love with it. It's very simplicity calls for it. The depth of this game is not that great, either, but depth wasn't what was focused on in its programming, I believe. And being simple in its gameplay, it's not all that difficult to play through. All that said, I believe this is a title that is more suited to a casual RPG gamer than a hard core one.
Dragon Warrior(Dragon Quest in Japan) was the beginning of a franchise and while it's not the best one by far, it is a decent RPG by NES standards. I feel that it doesn't get the love Final Fantasy franchise does, mainly because the earlier ones didn't have very good storylines, but that was corrected in later titles. Anyway, down to the review, the graphics are ok for NES, but then again, graphics are not why I purchase and/or play RPGs. The music is done very well, but then Koichi Sugiyama is a very good composer, to me, almost as good as Nobuo Uematsu. As for addictivness, I loved this game from the Dragon Warrior commercial spot and asked my mother if I could buy this and she said as long as I had the money, yes I could. As soon as I started playing, I was inexorably drawn to this game and the medieval speech was a big seller to me. I wanted to play this title over and over after I beat the game. The storyline is not that great, but then this game concentrates more on level grinding and combat over story, which I think is one reason the Japanese fell in love with it. It's very simplicity calls for it. The depth of this game is not that great, either, but depth wasn't what was focused on in its programming, I believe. And being simple in its gameplay, it's not all that difficult to play through. All that said, I believe this is a title that is more suited to a casual RPG gamer than a hard core one. 
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