Dragon Quest V

I was planning on playing through VII first, but I figured I might as well ask about this one in advance. Which is the definitive version of DQV? The original Super Famicom, the PS2, or the DS version? If it's the latter, is the translation at least tolerable?

Just play the DS if you can bear the 8-4 translation and you're not picky about it

Play the Super Famicom version with a fantranslation for better translation, but you will miss on extra content from the DS version like the extra wife choice and other extra content.

In short, if you can stomach 8-4 and doesn't bother you that characters have silly accents, go for DS. If you care about story alot, play snes version, but you'll have less game content

I played the DS version and honestly Holla Forums always exaggerates.

So wait, did 8-4 actually fuck around with the story then? I thought all they did was add those stupid accents.

They added one more wife choice, the story didn't change too drastically, but I preferred the SNES version.

Android/iOS version

For some reason they made Bianca speak like a retard in the DS version. And changing Flora to Nera is fucking dumb,

8-4 took the updated DS script that the Japanese version used, in it they made it so one wife wasn't the obvious worst as it no longer ruins the other choices ;ofe, one more wife in general, some post game content, and some characters have expanded roles. Its a nice game but yeah the accents suck but not unbearable.

You're right, sometimes Holla Forums does exaggerate but if I'm allowed to bring in DQ7 a large numer of areas were indee ruined by their bullshit fucking accents so thick it rendered some areas nearly incomprehensible, and the only reasonable reaction is to rush through dialogue as quickly as you can to avoid having to actually stop and try and filter out what they mean, the French town where you got your 2nd mode of transportation is the most memorable in how bad it was but there were certainly others.

In DQ VII the accents are even more grating if you understand the language they are based on. The NPC repeats the same thing twice, it's fucking stupid no one talks like that.

Wasn't Binari Sonori the ones responsible for the modern DQ localization ?

That's for DQ4, because it includes the party chat that was left out of the DS version. DQ5 mobile doesn't have any additions to my knowledge that weren't on the DS version.

Play the snes fantrans version for best music, pixel art and all that. DS is garbage.