I'm glad I waited 25 years to play the longest Dragon Quest game

I didn't play Dragon Quest 7 when it first appeared on Sony's PlayStation back in 2000. It was an expensive import RPG (even in its translated US form) in my part of the world, and as I already had plenty of those clogging up my shelves I was happy to leave it alone. By the time the 3DS remake came around the one and only thing I knew for sure about the game was that, whatever I happened to play it on, it was long. Really long. Somewhere around "You've got to be kidding me" long.

At the time of writing...