>>12108670
>Why is Dragon Quest so grindy?
because the same reason dragon quest had casino games.
the grinding in dragon quest is exciting in a gambling sense.
dq games used to make mp recovery very rare and you had to make educated guesses on number of encounters and when you can make it to town.
bad encounters and crits can change everything.

you CAN stay in 1 area and grind forever, but the real fun is gambling moving forward.
the feel when you make it out of a long dungeon reach a new town was amazing.
current dq is no longer like this, sadly.