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However, as things stand, PS4 operates at 1080p, as does Switch in docked mode (dropping down to the handheld screen's native 720p when decoupled from your HDTV).

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Alas, no PS3 demo is available, which may have given us further insight into how Switch's presentation and performance sit between the PlayStation console generations.

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In addition to its appearance on Switch, the Square-Enix title is also available on PS4, PS3 and PS Vita, with a PC version scheduled for release somewhere down the line.ДЇor this analysis, we grabbed the Switch demo from the Japanese eShop and were delighted to find that demos with very similar content are also available for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita, opening the door to some head-to-head comparisons. It's especially fascinating as the game is designed to support a wide range of hardware across multiple console generations. A somewhat clunky camera and targeting system doesnвЂ™t help when things get really messy, either, though most of the time youвЂ™re so busy slashing up a storm of hundreds of annoying little enemy boogers that it doesnвЂ™t matter what youвЂ™re looking at.Released alongside the Nintendo Switch in Japan last week, Dragon Quest Heroes 2 provides an interesting window into multi-platform development for Nintendo's new console. Cluttered battlefields also pose a bit of a problem, as it can be a rather difficult to discern at a glance whatвЂ™s an enemy and whatвЂ™s a friendly helper вЂ“ itвЂ™s embarrassing to go in swinging at a monster only to realize itвЂ™s one you actually summoned. Perhaps most annoying is that you'll be kicked out after every completed co-op story mission, requiring your host to re-invite you and for you to manually rejoin every time.Ultimately, though, whether you're by yourself or with friends the fighting still gets a bit wearisome after a while, because it so frequently boils down to beating down hordes of boring weaklings before facing a much bigger threat that actually poses a challenge. If you want to join a friendвЂ™s story missions, you both have to set up a passcode ahead of time and enter it when you want to hop in. A lobby system that allows you to easily search for players and quests meeting your criteria is only available in the optional Interdimensional Labyrinth dungeons for story mission multiplayer, you are restricted to joining in only on missions that you have already completed, and have to wait to be matched up with a player who chooses to ask for help. There are some caveats, however, that make multiplayer messier than it should be. ItвЂ™s a lot of fun to crush monsters alongside a friend, and having other players in the mix is a huge boon in quests where covering a lot of ground and defending multiple areas is necessary. вЂњFinally, co-op multiplayer (which the first Dragon Quest Heroes notably lacked, especially relative to other Musou-style games) adds the ability to fight alongside up to three other players through either story battles or short dungeons to gather materials.

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Characters from other Dragon Quest games will also pop in throughout the course of the story, and as a longtime fan of the series seeing familiar favorite characters appear and join my merry adventuring band was quite a treat, even though the story focus remains squarely on the all-new Dragon Quest Heroes 2 cast. The characters it introduces are likable, the storyline вЂ“ though somewhat predictable вЂ“ kept me wanting to see what happens next, and the top-notch English localization added a lot of life and humor to both crucial story scenes and incidental dialogue. The storyвЂ™s a marked improvement over the weak, 'Oh no, the monsters are evil now' plot of the first Dragon Quest Heroes, and it develops in interesting ways. As they adventure forth, they meet new friends and unravel evil conspiracy to bring all of the worldвЂ™s kingdoms to war and fulfill an ancient prophecy. While it improves on the original in some ways, it stumbles a bit in the quest to transition Dragon Quest from its RPG roots into an action game.Dragon Quest Heroes 2 begins with the lead characters, a pair of cousins, suddenly thrust into a surprise conflict between two formerly peaceful kingdoms.

Now, Square Enix and Koei-Tecmo have teamed up again to deliver another monster-mashing, magic-slinging, army-crushing action-adventure in Dragon Quest Heroes 2.

When Dragon Quest Heroes hit the scene in 2015, it delivered a solid mashup of two very different genres: classic RPGs and hack-and-slash action.

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