This is best exemplified by a Golem that the player fights in the first game.

Often credited as the first turn-based battle in history (though its definitely not the first RPG to ever exist, as its been said to be inspired by others such as and ).

Absurdly popular in Japan, fairly obscure outside (at least compared to ).

While never as popular in the US as the Final Fantasy series (but even more popular than Final Fantasy in Japan; since the companies merged, needless to say, owns the Japanese RPG scene), its notable for its character art by, and maintains a sizable cult following.

Most of its tropes, especially the battle screen, have been kept intact over the years.

Mostly due to the historical prevalence of console gaming over PC gaming in Japan, nearly all parodies of that show up in anime that arent will reference Dragon Quest in some way.

The English localization of Dragon Quest VIII was noticeable for its solution to the: many of the characters speak in British dialects rather than American ones.

Similarly, the US releases of Dragon Quest IV, V, VI and IX on the DS and VII on the 3DS are using regional dialects theres a Russian town, a Scottish town, etc etc.

The localizers also love to use, something thats a bit of a bother to some fans, and to others.

Sequels to the franchise are always released locally on Saturdays, which according to the company is to prevent the predictably huge turnout of fans from skipping school or work during launch days to pick them up.

This fueled an urban legend inflating the real cause to be political pressure from local Japanese municipalities or that the release rule was an actual local law.

Although the Diet at the time did ask them to do something after a small boy was mugged and beaten during the launch however, the delayed launches were entirely Enixs decision.) Few people know it, but there was an unrelated called, whose trademark was the reason the Dragon Quest video game series was originally known as Dragon Warrior outside of Japan, until Square Enix finally acquired it for their series.

Nothing to do with this franchise; it was bought out and buried by the owners of so it would not be a threat to their empire.

For the manga and anime spinoff Dragon Quest: Dai no Daibouken ( Dais Great Adventure, translated into French and Spanish as Fly to ), see the page.

They portray it as an RPG even kids will love Pretty fucking baffling honestly.

You can vote for your favorite game The Dragon Quest series includes.

Dragon Quest, as a series, provides examples of:: While older Dragon Quest titles have universally resorted to, the jump to the Nintendo DS with Monsters Joker changed the trend to spawning overworld monsters.

Any game made or remade with 3D graphics instead of sprites uses this system where one monster on the overworld represents the group youll actually fight.: The English subtitles since VIII; its harder to notice with Journey of the Cursed King, but games since IX have been making it obvious.

II through VII retroactively gained such subtitles with their DS and mobile releases.: In a sense.

VII started out on the only land mass on the planet that was not destroyed by the demon lord.

Downplayed with Monsters: Caravan Heart, which takes place in the same world as Dragon Quest I - III long after everyone we know from those games has died.

Builders takes place in a version of Alefgard, the setting of the first game, that had been ravaged when the heroes accepted the Dragonlords offer to rule half of the world.: One of the givens of the series.: First appearing with, the Alchemy Pot has allowed players to create better items, weapons, and armors out of basic ingredients; in it first was given the persona of.

Later games also produce alchemized items instantly; Dragon Quest VIII required ).

Dragon Quest Builders has the entire construction system implied to be a form of this.

Note Admittedly, its a heavily modified version of the build system of, except without any need to know what goes where.: Happens in the series (especially in the remakes) when you talk to guys who are drunk in pubs.

There is also one time in IV when you talk to a drunken guy outside the bar in Endor at night, and he feels like hes not.: Almost every town in almost every game has a pub somewhere, so theres plenty of opportunity to find somebody under the table.

Special note goes to Kalderasha of DQVIII, who decided to go years before the events of the game.: All main installments except VIII (it was brought back in IX) and the games before Joker show all active party members on the screen when traveling by walking.: Notably by many monsters in the series.

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