When comparing Tiny Text Adventure vs DRAGON QUEST VIII, the Slant community recommends DRAGON QUEST VIII for most people. In the question“What are the best non-arcade portrait mode story driven Android games?” DRAGON QUEST VIII is ranked 1st while Tiny Text Adventure is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose DRAGON QUEST VIII is:
Instead of a class system that is found in all of the previous Dragon Quest titles where players upgrade their player through beating monsters a certain amount of time, Dragon Quest VIII uses a skill system to level up the characters and learn new skills by placing skill points earned through battle into the available skill tree, this allows for a more fine grained approach of leveling a character up.
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Pros
Pro Easy to use UI
This is a text adventure game that has been target for mobile, meaning that there is no forced typing of instructions, but dialog boxes the player can click on. This makes it easy to select what you want to do in the game without having to spend a large amount of time using a mobile keyboard. The game also saves on the fly, so there is no need to remember to go into a menu to manually save. Over all the UI lends itself quite well to mobile, which makes the game a pleasure to play.
Pro Fine grained controls over leveling each character
Instead of a class system that is found in all of the previous Dragon Quest titles where players upgrade their player through beating monsters a certain amount of time, Dragon Quest VIII uses a skill system to level up the characters and learn new skills by placing skill points earned through battle into the available skill tree, this allows for a more fine grained approach of leveling a character up.
Pro One handed gameplay design
The game plays in portrait mode to cater to the hardcore Japanese gaming audience that enjoy being able to play with one hand while commuting.
Pro Really long game
Including side quest the game can easily last over 100 hours.
Pro Classic JRPG battle system
As one would expect of a JRPG there are random battles on the map that are strictly turn based.
Cons
Con Poor ending
The story starts out strong but by the middle of the game it wains and by the end it gets pretty uninteresting. The detracts from the users time spent in the game as the poor ending makes for an overall bad experience.
Con Removed content from North American PS2 release
Things like the original orchestrated music and voice acting that were in the original North American Playstation 2 release have been removed from the mobile version of the game. Most likely to save room.