When comparing Anomaly Defenders vs DRAGON QUEST VIII, the Slant community recommends DRAGON QUEST VIII for most people. In the question“What are the best Android tablet games?” DRAGON QUEST VIII is ranked 34th while Anomaly Defenders is ranked 84th. 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.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Can be played offline
Anomaly Defenders allows for offline play, making for a good game to play when there is no available internet connection.
Pro Fantastic graphics
Hands down the best looking tower defense game on Android as of 2014.
Pro Deep progression and upgrade systems
Anomaly Defenders has a lot of upgrade options that give the game a lot of replayability and also just a huge amount of player choice that allows the game to cater to any kind of playstyle.
Pro Complex, varied level design
The level design in Anomaly Defenders is more varied and complex than most tower defense games on the Android platform.
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 Extremely slowly paced
The gameplay takes a very long time to get moving and even then it still feels slow.
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.