Dragon Quest Heroes II
"DRAGON QUEST HEROES II is a hack-and-slash, field-roaming Action RPG that sends players on a new adventure to restore order in a once peaceful world filled with hordes of monsters and battles of epic…
Dragon Quest Heroes II is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Armor Project, released 27 May 2016 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 25 hrs to finish.
What Dragon Quest Heroes II is
Dragon Quest Heroes II is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Armor Project and released in 2016. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dragon Quest Heroes II is a hack and slash game developed by Omega Force and published by Square Enix for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch, and Windows. It was released in Japan in May 2016, and worldwide in April 2017. The game is a sequel to Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 43 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Dragon Quest series
Dragon Quest Heroes II is the 71st of 122 entries we hold in the Dragon Quest series. The next entry was Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 Professional in 2017. Its critic score of 82 is 9 points above the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Dragon Quest VII Reimagined at 92.
How it was received
Dragon Quest Heroes II holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 80% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 14 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 25 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 50 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core i7 870 2.8GHz or better, 4 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 or AMD Radeon HD 5770. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 30GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Dragon Quest Heroes II launched on 27 May 2016, within three weeks of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch and Doom. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, Doom.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Dragon Quest Heroes II yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Dlc
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