It's worth noting that the franchise was always punny in Japanese, it's just that puns don't translate well and prior to VIII the English versions mostly just discarded them entirely rather than trying to come up with equivalent English puns. The localizers also love to use puns, something that's a bit of a bother to some fans, and another selling point to others. Similarly, the US releases of Dragon Quest IV, V, VI and IX on the DS and VII on the 3DS are using regional dialects - there's a Russian town, a Scottish town, etc etc. The English localization of Dragon Quest VIII was notable for its solution to the regional accent issue: many of the characters speak in British dialects rather than American ones.
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Mostly due to the historical prevalence of console gaming over PC gaming in Japan, most parodies of RPGs that show up in Anime that aren't MMORPGs, will reference Dragon Quest in some way.
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The actual developers of the series are Yuji Horii, who has been a director or producer in every series entry to date and Horii's studio Armor Project, which signed an exclusive publishing deal with Enix during the Famicom days (that carried over into the merger).ĭragon Quest is said to be inspired by earlier RPGs such as Ultima and Wizardry, as well as Yuji Horii's earlier Visual Novel Adventure Game The Portopia Serial Murder Case. Interestingly, Dragon Quest was never an in-house project every game has been developed externally, before and after the Square Enix merger. Most of its tropes, especially the battle screen, have been kept intact over the years.
While never as popular outside of Japan as Final Fantasy, it's notable for its character art by Dragon Ball artist Akira Toriyama, and maintains a sizable cult following.
Absurdly popular in Japan, fairly obscure overseas - at least compared to its more popular counterpart.ĭragon Quest was to Enix what Final Fantasy was to Square, before the two companies merged. Often credited as the first Turn-Based Combat console RPG in history. A long-running fantasy Eastern RPG franchise, with eleven main installments note A twelveth installment is currently being developed and dozens of spin-offs and gaiden games plus an anime TV series.
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