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Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line (GBC)

I started playing the Dragon Quest games last year as one of the RPG series I've not played in the past which I wanted to check out for contrived reasons, I played 1-4 at that time but only finished 1 mainly owing to how grindy the first 3 were and 4 surprising me with its length. Having come back to an ostensibly more streamlined version of it, it still feels pretty grindy but also somewhat better paced than what I was expecting, at least until the endgame where you're expected to grind 10+ levels between when you get to the final area and when you storm the main bad guy's castle. Still, I'd say it feels like a more polished experience overall which is probably a good thing for the followup to the game that's sometimes considered "the" granddaddy of JRPGs (which from what I remember is itself more than 90% grinding despite its short length), and since I put it on my 3DS which I jailbroke recently I was able to fit the more lengthy grinding sessions into some downtime I had during work and other times.