Dragon Quest

Command Window of Dragon Quest.

Dragon Quest is a video game saga belonging to the RPG genre and directed by Yuji Horii. In North America the title of the saga was Dragon Warrior until the release in 2005 of Dragon Quest VIII. The first video games were produced by the Enix company, until in 2003 it merged with Squaresoft, giving rise to Square Enix, which has produced them ever since.

Creators

The main creators of the series are three:

• Yuji Horii: He joined Enix after winning a contest. Since then he has created several video games, one of the most important being the series Dragon Quest; in which he says he wanted to make a kind of sleeve where he could choose the actions that the protagonist would perform.

• Akira Toriyama: Famous manga drawer who worked in the same magazine as Horii. He asked him to design the monsters and characters of the video game, a task he has done since.

• Koichi Sugiyama: He is the composer of each of the themes Dragon Quest. In addition to working in video games he has also participated in movies like Godzilla.

Titles

Videogames from this saga have been released for the consoles MSX, Famicom (NES), Super Famicom (Super Nintendo), Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Nintendo Wii U, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows and Xbox One.

Main Saga.

• Dragon Quest (Famicom, 1986)

• Dragon Quest II: Pantheon of the Evil Spirits (Famicom, 1987)
• Dragon Quest III (Famicom, 1988)
• Dragon Quest IV: Elected Chapters (Famicom, 1990)
• Dragon Quest V: The Celestial Promise (Super Famicom, 1992)
• Dragon Quest VI: The Onyric Kingdoms (Super Famicom, 1995)
• Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of an Forgotten World (PlayStation, 2000)
• Dragon Quest VIII: The Periple of the Cursed King (PlayStation 2, 2004)
• Dragon Quest IX: Signature Sentinels (Nintendo DS, 2009)
• Dragon Quest X: The Awakening of the Five Online Races (Wii, 2012)
• Dragon Quest XI (Nintendo 3DS, 2017)
  (PS4, XBOX ONE and Steam)

Spin-offs.

• Torneko no Daibouken: Fushigi no Dungeon (Super Nintendo, 1990)
• Torneko no Daibouken: Fushigi no Dungeon 2PlayStation, 1998)
• Torneko no Daibouken: Fushigi no Dungeon 3 (PlayStation, 2002)
• Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road

• Boom StreetWii.
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Battle Road VictoryWii)
• Dragon Quest Swords: The masked Queen and the Mirror Tower (Wii)
• Dragon Quest Heroes - Rocket Slime (Slime Morimori - Dragon Quest 2) (Nintendo DS)
• Rocket Slime 3 (Slime Morimori 3 (Nintendo 3DS)
• Dragon Quest Monsters (GameBoy Color)
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland (Nintendo 3DS/Android/iOS)
• Dragon Quest Monster II (GBC/3DS)
• Dragon Quest Monsters 1 & 2 (PS1)
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (Nintendo DS)
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2Nintendo DS)
• Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 3 (Nintendo 3DS)
• Dragon Quest Heroes (PS4/Switch)
• Dragon Quest Heroes 2 (PS4/Switch)
• Dragon Quest Rivals (Android/IOS/Switch)
• Dragon Quest of the Stars (Android/iOS)
• Dragon Quest Walk (Android/iOS)
• Dragon Quest Tact (Android/iOS)
• Kenshin Dragon Quest (Sword-shaped Accessory that connects to tv)
• Itadaki Street DS (NDS)
• Itadaki Street Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy (PSP/PS2/PSVita)

Manga and Animated Series

It's quite common in Japan for successful video games to be turned into manga and anime. Dragon Quest is no exception and has a large number of products:

• Dragon Quest: Abel Yuusha — based on Dragon Quest III43 episodes. He went out in the United States with the title "Dragon Warrior". Only 13 of the 43 episodes were folded in English, after which it was censored and the bent continued.
• Dragon Quest: Fly's Adventures — originally known as Dai no Daibōkenbased on Dragon Quest II and Dragon Quest III, 37 volumes, 46 episodes, 3 movies. In Mexico they are licensed by Editorial Vid.
• Dragon Quest: Emblem of Roto — takes place 100 years after Dragon Quest I21 volumes, a movie.
• Dragon Quest: Maboroshi no Daichi - based on Dragon Quest VI.
• Dragon Quest: The Heaven Saga - based on Dragon Quest V.
• Dragon Quest: Warriors of Eden - based on Dragon Quest VII.
• DQM+ Dragon Quest: Monster + - based on Dragon Quest Monster is a sequel to GBC's first DQM.
• Captain N: In one of his chapters, Kevin travels to the world of Dragon Questwhere it is especially based on Dragon Quest I.
• Dragon Quest: Your Story is a Japanese 3DCG animation film based on the Dragon Quest video game series. Its history is adapted to that of Dragon Quest V of 1992. It was launched in Japan by Toho on August 2, 2019.

Culture and Promotional Items.

• Currently, Dragon Quest is part of Japanese culture, so much so that words that are already almost common among young people have come to include in the Japanese dictionary. For example, the name of the spell that is used in the games to recover health is used in the common language to say “to relieve” or “to cure”. The sale of figures, stuffed, table games, clothes, collection cards and many other items continue to give important revenue to the company Square Enix. Among the most novel articles Dragon Quest that have come out is a kit that includes a small sword and a console that connects to television. As the wireless sword moves, the monsters that appear on screen are hit by the console.

• There are a multitude of anecdotes related to Dragon Quest in Japan. The day of the announced departure Dragon Quest IIIcolleges and some companies reported an impressive amount of lack of assistance, because fans made long lines in the video games stores. The reason for this uncommon success is because Dragon Quest supposed the start of the Japanese role play.

• For the Nippon Announcement Dragon Quest VI they used actors who used Spanish dialogues whose incongruity became famous in popular culture, even reference is made to one of them in the Spanish dialogue Dragon Quest IX.

• In Tokyo, there is a theme bar Dragon Quest Luida's Bar.
• Dragon Quest Island, an attraction to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the saga, will be present at Japan's Nijigen no Mori amusement park.

Other Games.

Dragon Quest Heroes XI, III, IV and VIII (these last three are Skins of the first) appear as DLC playable characters in the famous Nintendo fighting game Super Smash Bros Ultimate, and are the second representative of Square Enix after Cloud from Final Fantasy.