Dragon Warrior VII (PlayStation, 2001)

This is a classic RPG. If you love the old style games, this is a perfect. It is the longest RPG I have ever played. There is no way you won't get your money's worth out of it.

This series was the reason that I Got into Game Playing!! And this is the the reason that I Keep Watching for Games that I may have missed.(Great Story,Great characters,Greatgame play) Roleplayer

I just recently finished playing Dragon Warrior VIII and decided to catch up in the series of Dragon Warrior/Quest games. I felt that the the 8th installment was probably one of the best games I'd ever played, so I was excited to get my hands on the 7th. I expected the graphics to be downgraded and they were...significantly but the good news is this: It doesn't matter!
Anyone who enjoys a good RPG will love this game. As I said before, the graphics are horrible (Even for PS1 standards)but the gameplay and depth of the game more than make up for this inadequacy. The story is interesting. You find shards of land along your quest and use them to form specific pieces of land around your home island. As you find more shards, the more land that will appear thus the further you can advance in the game. The battle system is easy to pick up and the options of what your characters learn in the ways of skills and magic is endless. The job system is in place and you can advance your characters in certain classes to unlock higher and more beneficial classes. There is a sim-town near the beginning of the game that you recruit people for and try to build throughout your quest. The tiny medals are here as well as most everything you've come to know and love from this series. I would approximate that you will spend a good 80+ hours on this game. There's that much to do. Overall I would highly recommend this classic game and would easily plunk down forty dollars to play it.

Remember now this game is a ps1 game so the graphics are sub-par compared to modern games. its even below the standards of final fantasy games, but it makes up for it with truly better RPG play then the FF series. The Dragon Warrior series is the purest version of RPG that rely's more on great story lines and gameplay rather than special effects. this is also one of those 50+ hour RPG's. overall 5 out of 5 easily!

I would highly recommend this game to any old school RPG fan. I don’t consider it to be the best Dragon Quest game in the franchise but it has enough charm, originality, and challenge to stand on its own. I have to mention that this is one of the harder Dragon Quest games, mostly because some of the bosses can be quite difficult. Beating them doesn’t require a ridiculous amount of grinding but it does require some ingenious strategizing and even a little bit of luck. You also need to invest a lot of time in this game. If you wish to experience everything in the game, including the two post-game bonus dungeons on your first playthrough, then you are looking at approximately 80 hours of gameplay. Yes, this is the longest Dragon Quest game in the franchise. There is grinding in this game, but you only really need to do in three places. Firstly, a bit at the beginning then once you have access to the jobs, you will need to do a lot of grinding to build up your skills for a tough boss fight, and then you will have to do some grinding near the end of the game. A few characters come and go from your party, but you have access to them all eventually, so none of your job experience for your characters go to waste. However, if someone new does join your team and his or her skills aren’t up to snuff, then you may need to grind a bit in order to give them a better skill set. Finding the shards is very important in the game because without the new shards you cannot continue your quest. There is some little in-game help but the hints the NPC gives you can be vague at times. For a first playthrough, I would highly recommend a walkthrough or a strategy guide. Based on Dragon Warrior 7’s merits and flaws, I would give it an 8/10. Although the graphics can be quite irksome at times and eventhough the game has some annoying and tedious parts, the overall quality of the story and the customizable job system compensate for its flaws.

The item was in perfect condition. And it shipped really fast. My purchase was flawless and couldnt of asked for it to be in any better condition

This game will take you a long time to beat and you will have to invest between 100-250 hours to beat it depending if you play the sidequests. Minimum it will take over 100 hours and that is really pushing it, I can not stress it enough. There are many sidequests such as casinos, a monster park where you can keep monsters you defeat, finding tiny medals for great weapons, etc. This game is extremely difficult if you do not have a Prima strategy guide. I am not saying it cannot be beat but would prove very difficult.

As for the game itself, it starts out pretty annoying and boring. You have to explore your home land and open a time gate before you can even fight any monsters. It took me around 4 hours to beat just this part which may make you think the game stays like this and give up. I thought it was pretty cool fighting all the monsters and constantly upgrading weapons and levels. Towards the middle to end it will get very repetive and annoying fighting all the same monters to just get up a level in experience points. There are some tricks to getting them done much quicker especially near the end of the game.

This is an older style RPG with older nintendo style graphics which some people do not like, especially some younger users. They did not bother me much at all. I think you would not have as long of game if they stuffed all the graphic info into one disc. There are tons of places to discover and many different monsters to fight.

The game brought me back to when I was younger when I played the original Nintendo version, just bigger and better. I also cannot stress enough how much a strategy guide will be needed. Some things are not even in the strategy guide which will prove to be the most challenging such as; where to get all the tiny medals or how to get to the bonus dungeons. Look up Dragons Den on the web to get more detailed help.

My brother is a hard-core gamer who thinks this game was not great but extremely challenging. He would not put it in the same league with the Final Fantasy games. I thought it was challenging, pretty fun, will give you something to do for a very long time, and worth every penny you spend on it for the time involved.

i'm a big fan of the series. the game itself is ok, but it has a slow beginning. as far as other games in the series go, this one pales in comparison to the others.

Dragon quest VII may not have the flashiest graphics or the best music of its era (as compared to, say, Final Fantasy or Zenogears), but it makes up for its somewhat homely appearance in its playability and length. Where many current RPGs will commonly finish out at roughly forty hours, Dragon Quest VII is well over a hundred, and that's not including sidequests and hidden dungeons.
It isn't all power-leveling either...the premise of slowly restoring the continents of the world generally follows the pattern of going to the past, stopping whatever caused the island or continent to disappear, and returning the continent or island in the present and stopping whatever chaos is occuring. It's neat to see characters from one island pop up again on another island, or recurring problems as the evil sweeps across the planet.
The class system is back from Dragon Quest VI (Which will hopefully end up on the Wii virtual console, translated of course), letting you customize your team with hundreds of unique abilities and spells. The characters (With the exception of the silent protagonist) are well laid out, and pretty much everything you'd want in a dragon quest sequel is here, right down to the slimes and drakees.
It isn't as pretty as newer games; limited rendering and sprite-based characters seem more than a little out-of-date after games like Final Fantasy XII or Zenosaga, but for a lengthy adventure that will entertain you and give you a definite challenge, Dragon Quest VII will definitely satisfy your RPG cravings.

I am not good at these things but here it goes. I love pretty much everything in the game except for the graphics at times. It takes me a little bit to get used to the graphics but after that everything is great.

For the quaint graphics, the thin characters, the so-so plot, and the time-intensive job system, I still spent most of the journey enjoying myself. The graphics are a huge leap over previous Dragon Warrior incarnations, and a huge leap behind other contemporaneous RPGs. Characters are flat, meander through a three-dimensional world, colorful, but somewhat bland--certainly nothing close to the meticulously detailed cityscapes of the Final Fantasy series. Easier on the eyes than your old-school NES games to be sure, but nothing of any independent attraction. Battles are quick, too, but still text based: the enemies, in a strange mix between action and screen, begin moving only when attacking--at other times they appear like pictures in a book. The plot is gargantuan - a systematic search through myriad islands, enlarging the original over-world in the process. Each island has its own little conflict to solve, some of which are fun; on the way one picks up pieces of the overarching problem, which I won't give away here. To make new islands appear one must collect shards; discovering one gives one a glimmer of satisfaction that proves addictive. That ultimate plot, when it emerges, doesn't cohere particularly well, and it's hard to care about the vacuous primary characters, much less the interchangeable secondary characters. Still, I'll be damned if there isn't an intensely enjoyable aspect to the constant cycle of discovery and exploration of the rising islands, of gaining new abilities through the job system, of trying to fulfill one of the side quests. The Dragon Warriors have always been marked by an extremely strange gameplay--if you want something, you have to earn it. Hours must be spent in the field gaining experience before you're set to venture to a new continent, or have the necessary funds for subsequent levels of armor and weaponry. That is their, and this installation's, charm, which makes it--for all its shortcomings and anachronisms--worth recommending. I do so.

What I liked was that I had lost this game a year ago and now I found it again. Now I can actually finsh it now.

Let me get the main point out of the way first. This game is not for the impatient. There's a great deal of reading and exploring, it may be hours before even encountering your first monster.

The visual style is fairly basic. 2D characters on top of a 3D world that can (with exceptions) be rotated. The overworld however remains static as in the series' earlier games. This will look familiar to players of the recent Dragon Quest IV and V remakes for DS.

Its sound and overall interface are as expected. Doesn't stray too far from established conventions. Except for a 'quick action' key of sorts making things like talking to NPCs easier than the NES games.

Nice work on the speedy delivery. Good packaging also. Did you like this game a lot? Did you master every class? Probably not, right? That would take a lot of time.

I wanted to buy this game because I'm a collector of rare games. Three years ago, I got into Dragon Quest by means of the 8th installment. I wanted to find out what the other games were like so I looked into this one. I kind of wish I bought it earlier, but oh well. Great game and worth buying.

I am a huge Dragon Quest/Warrior fan. So when I found this game on Ebay, I jumped on it. As for the game, it is a very old school rpg that may not cater to those weaned on Final Fantasy flashiness for example. It is very long and can get boring in some parts. But for those who love Dragon Quest like myself, or just those who like old school rpgs in general, this is a good game to pick up. I don't think that it is the best in the series, but it is a very worthy addition.

I enjoy this game so far i have yet to beat it but have had hours of fun playing it so far i have beat all the Dragon Warrior games and plan on beating this one too

I bought this game becaues my dad had and now his disc one isn't working so we both wanted it again so I came here knowing I'd find it. I absoultely love this game.

Basically I brought this because I'm a dragon warrior fan. I brought dragon quest 8 for PS2 and played it to death. I also played parts 1&2 so when I noticed that all my life I never played part 7 well I hopped on ebay and knew I would get it sure it's old but it's a straightup classic hands down.

This a another classic animation story. Dragon warrior or dragon quest has many story lines. it's all about heros and fighting with monsters. every story line is very fun and cool. same goes with them game form. you should try it out.

Great Role Playing Game. Over 100 hours to complete. Maybe too many puzzles. Easier to miss parts then with previous DW games. Still worth your while if you've played the other DW games.

I bought Dragon Warrior VII (Playstation) for my husband for his birthday. He has played most, if not all, of the other Dragon Warrior games and has spent many pleasurable hours with this game. The only complaint he would have is that it is almost impossible to get the booklet that goes with it. I think I can speak for him in saying that he wold highly recommend this game.