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>I'm also just wanting to talk about the game too with others.
Alright, well here's some tips.

>Buy the Club and Clothes as starting equipment. The slightly better DEF from Leather Armor isn't worth how much longer it takes to kill things with the Bamboo Pole.
>Grind red/blue slimes in the first area until you can afford all the good equipment in the first town. (Copper Sword, Leather Armor, Small Shield, Dragon Scale) Make sure you use/equip the Dragon Scale for the extra DEF.
>Talk to townspeople. This isn't a Final Fantasy linear corridor JRPG. The game will freely let you walk into high level areas if you don't know where to do and doesn't hand out quest items by "story progression". You need to know where to go to get stuff done.
>Past the first town, you can just buy the best weapon you can afford when getting to a new town. Then buy the best armor in the next town. Alternate and repeat the process. The extra few points in attack/defense don't mean that much and it saves a lot of time in grinding.
>Once you find the knight in the ruined town, you can keep fighting it for EXP and gold. It's a lot more efficient than trying to hunt down metal slimes and hope you get a crit. You'll probably need to wait a few levels after first meeting it before you can take it down easily.
>Yes, you do want to save the princess. She gives you a locket which tells you how many steps away from the starting castle you are. There's some relevant item you need to find with that information.
>Go ahead and fully explore the Dragonlord's castle before fighting him. There's powerful equipment hidden inside.

Oh, and as others have said, DQ2 is much worse than DQ1 in this regard. I swear, some of those runes I didn't find from hints as much as just doing everything in the world, and even then, I still looked up a guide because at least one seems like it's random.

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I'm playing Dragon Quest 1 for the first time on Gameboy Color and tried to avoided using a guide, but failed like 20 minutes in. After doing so,…