In practice, it works similarly to Dragon Quest Builders’ Terra Incognita (free build mode, essentially), but rather than being a completely separate mode like Terra Incognita was, the Isle of Awakening is a key part of the story that unfolds over the course of Dragon Quest Builders 2.
From there, story progression gradually opens up new islands to visit, each with new materials and learn new recipes, but you always come back to the Isle of Awakening with all your new stuff, and the freedom to really play around with it. Your journey begins with you waking up stranded on the aptly-named Isle of Awakening, and this island serves as a sort of hub for the rest of the game. In Dragon Quest Builders 2, rather than completely discrete chapters, the game and story is segmented across a variety of different islands. But it doesn’t just abandon the first game’s approach entirely rather, it cleverly combines the best of both worlds: a progression of ideas with deliberate limitations to draw attention to different things, alongside a persistent, ongoing sense of your character going from strength to strength. Rather, it’s designed around a progression of game concepts: the first chapter gives you a general overview of the block-building concept the second builds on that with farming and water use the third introduces metals and machinery and the fourth (and final) chapter challenges you to put all those lessons to work with limited resources.Ĭlearly, Square Enix heard those complaints, because Dragon Quest Builders 2’s story mode has a very different structure, one that puts literal character progression at the centre. I’d also argue that it has more progression than most give it credit for, just not in a literal character-stats sort of way. I actually quite liked this setup, personally it allowed each chapter to focus on different aspects of the game’s vast building system, without getting you overwhelmed with the sheer volume of recipes available. Read Harvard’s review to see what else has changed. Related reading: the revamped structure is just one of the many ways Dragon Quest Builders 2 improves on its predecessor. Once you completed one chapter, you’d go into the next one with your inventory all your learnt recipes left behind. In short, the story was divided into four completely separate chapters, each of which started you from scratch in terms of character progress. One of the most common complaints about the original Dragon Quest Builders-an otherwise excellent game-was the way its story mode impeded the sense of progress.
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