Dragon Quest published as
Dragon Warrior in North America,
is a series of internationally best-selling console (RPG) titles created by Yoji Horii and his studio, Armor Project. The series is published by Square Enix (formerly Enix). The first title was published in 1986 and there are currently nine main-series titles, numerous spin-off games, and nearly every game in the main series has either an anime or manga adaptation, or both. The series has had a significant impact on the development of console RPGs, and introduced a number of features to the genre. Installments of the series have appeared on MSX computers, NES, SNES, GBC, GBA, NDS, PS, PS2 and Wii, and several models of mobile phones. Each
Dragon Quest video game soundtrack is arranged into an orchestral piece; the video game series was the first to have live-action ballet adaptations. Early in the series the
Dragon Quest games were released under the title
Dragon Warrior in North America to avoid trademark conflict. Square Enix did not register the
Dragon Quest trademark for use in the United States until 2002.
The basic premise of most Dragon Quest titles is to play a hero who is out to save the land from peril at the hands of a powerful evil enemy, with the hero usually accompanied by a group of party members. Common elements persist throughout the series and its spinoff titles: turned based combat; recurring monsters, including the Slime, which became the series’ mascot. The series is one of the few long-running video game series to have a stable key development team; Yuji Horii (creator), Akira Toriyama(artist) and Koichi Sogiyama (composer).
This is a remake of two classic NES RPGs – an exclusively Japanese release of the two first Dragon Quest titles on one cartridge.
In
Dragon Quest (known as
Dragon Warrior in the US), you play as the descendant of the legendary warrior Erdrick, and your goal is to recover the magical Ball of Light from Erdrick’s and the humanity’s arch-enemy, the Dragon Lord. In
Dragon Quest II, you assume the role of the descendant of the hero of the first game, and must join forces with two other characters in order to defeat a demon lord who destroyed a nearby city and killed its inhabitants.
Both RPGs feature random battles and turn-based combat viewed from first-person perspective. In Dragon Quest you fight alone, while in the sequel two other characters can join your party, and you also fight against multiple enemies at once.
The remake includes updated graphics (although they still retain the original NES look), sound of SNES quality, and some changes in the gameplay and in the game world. Certain locations are larger, some menu commands (such as “Stairs”) are omitted, and there is a larger variety of items.
This is the final game in the Loto trilogy and is the first chronologically.
The story follows the traditional
Dragon Quest Hero, who is on an adventure to save the world from evil. Putting together a party of assorted classes, the Hero must travel the world, stopping at various towns and other locations, eventually making his or her way to the Demon Lord Baramos’s lair.
Dragon Quest III is set many years before the original
Dragon Quest in a world separate from the first two games.
A wicked fiend,
Baramos, threatens to destroy the world.
The story revolves around the Hero,
son or daughter (the player can choose to be either male or female, with few gameplay changes) of the legendary and recently deceased Ortega.
On his or her sixteenth birthday, the Hero (from here on referred to as “he” for the sake of convenience) is summoned to the castle and is given by the King of Aliahan the challenge to follow in his father’s footsteps to try to rid the world of the evil archfiend Baramos.
The Hero then is able to recruit up to three traveling companions to fight Baramos with.
NO DRAGONQUEST IV WAS RELEASED FOR THE SNES …..
The hero of this game is the son of a brave warrior named Papas. It appears that his mother died just after giving birth to him, and his father took him on a long journey when he was a little baby, searching for something. Now the boy is six years old, and Papas brings him to his hometown. After some time, they learn that Henry, the prince of Reinhart, was kidnapped by bandits. Papas and his son attempt to rescue him, but this only leads to a tragic event and the boy’s imprisonment. Only many years later will the hero discover who or what his father was searching for, and come to realize his own role in the events that dictate the fate of the world.
You and two of your friends decide to attack the Archenemy – the evil Mudo – in his castle. But as you reach his throne, he attacks you and send the three friends into three different places…
Was this just a dream? You have just fallen out of your bed dreaming! It’s time to go to the village elder, to get a seemingly simple assignment – to sell some goods at a bazaar in the nearest town. But soon the hero will discover his dream was not so far away from reality…
Dragon Quest VI is the last Super Famicom/SNES game of the Dragon Quest series. It is a party RPG with turn-based combat and battles viewed from first person perspective. Gameplay style, setting, and even menu layout are very similar to those of the previous games in the series. The game utilizes an enhanced “class system” from the third game. Characters can choose different classes to belong to, and switch between them. The more a character fights while belonging to a certain class, the more proficient he/she becomes in it. Once two or three starting classes have been mastered, the character gains access to powerful hybrid classes, which grant the characters new abilities and various upgrades.
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