would be like with quests, villagers who don't all look the same, a dash of good humour, and more vivid colours than a clown's wardrobe,

Solid and definitely has an audience. There could be some hard-to-ignore faults, but the experience is fun.

I've never been able to get into Minecraft . Maybe I lack the imagination, but I need some sort of motivation behind smashing thousands of squares. I found that in Dragon Quest Builders 2 .

Progress carries over between islands now; NPCs can do something besides kind of fight sometimes; Plot is a good mixture of lighthearted comedy and more poignant scenes dealing with friendship; Multiplayer is a welcome addition to the series

Those damn messages that stay on the screen way too long; Tags

At first glance, you'd be forgiven if you labelled Dragon Quest Builders 2 as a rather shameless Minecraft clone. Its world consists of endless cubes making up sprawling deserts and dense forests, filled with iconic monsters from decades past that the series has come to call its own.

A huge; expansive world to explore filled with surprises; Building mechanics are both easy to learn and fun to experiment with; Many of the characters you meet are wonderfully written; Plenty of nods to the series' history makes this great for fans

Tutorials can often feel overlong and intrusive; Camera options are limited and oftentimes frustrating

Though the Minecraft formula has been iterated on to hell and back, Square Enix managed to offer up an interesting take on the sandbox classic with Dragon Quest Builders . All the blocky aesthetics and open-ended crafting were present and accounted for, but these things were all couched within a...

Released in Japan late last year, Dragon Quest Builders 2 is the long-awaited follow-up to Square Enix's beloved sandbox building game, Dragon Quest Builders. That original entry seemed to come out of nowhere, surprising everyone with its smart play on then-popular crafting and survival mechanics...

Let the building begin in the second Dragon Quest Builders. Welcome back builders to Alefgard. In the second instalment of the building block RPG, you're tasked with not only saving the people of the world, from the evil children of Hargon.

Soaring across the skies on your glider; Underwater exploration; Diverse cast of characters; Light rpg elements mixed in with the sandbox wonder of building anything; anywhere; Building on the go...provided that you're playing on the Switch; Local co-op

In some ways; feels like an expansion rather than a full fledged successor/sequel in the series

The Dragon Quest series has been a mainstay on Nintendo consoles for decades now, and the Nintendo Switch is no exception. Dragon Quest XI , which originally released last year for PlayStation 4, is set to receive an enhanced edition later this year on Nintendo Switch.

Dragon Quest Builders 2 is simply everything that its predecessor was and then some, with some improved mechanics, more block types to choose from and a new and more interesting story.

Alan equips his sword and pickaxe for a jam-packed adventure filled with wonderful RPG antics and a heavy dose of building!

Bigger; better; more - like Minecraft; but actually good

Some technical niggles; Controls are many and varied