From what I've read up on, Thwack was added to his moveset for the port. I'm usually paranoid when it comes to insta-death moves so I had some equipment set up to resist it a little without realizing but since it didn't block completely the fight was still a challenge.
I've been DQVIII and have had a blast with it so far. Froze three times for some reason, but that's why the quick save's been improved to be a more permanent save I guess.
That's the strangest part, it was a random encounter fairly early on in the demo. My brother ran into one that gave out a ton of experience, but I was unfortunate enough to run into the one that had the lovely gift of pain.
I've been watching my brother play it and played a bit of the demo, yeah the battle system feels like something that'd take some time to get used to.
To me they're on the same level of annoyance. Just let people choose what they want to play, without having to either guilt or shame them for it.
While I do agree that they have every right to exist as much as other games do, the lengths some people go to in defending against even the slightest criticism of them is a little annoying.
The demo was pretty cool. Do wonder how the characters are so casual about sending people to the moon, but given the stuff that happened in the last game it's probably pretty mundane by comparison.
Despite dipping into the waters of internet whining a little, hope you have a lot of fun with the full game.
