Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

Main series games Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake Developer(s) ARTDINK & Square Enix (Team Asano) Publisher(s) Square Enix Designer(s) Yuji Horii Artist(s) Akira Toriyama Composer(s) Kōichi Sugiyama Series Dragon Quest Platform(s) Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Steam Release date(s) Nintendo Switch
^INT November 14, 2024
PlayStation 5
^INT November 14, 2024
Xbox Series X/S
^INT November 14, 2024
Steam
^INT November 14, 2024
Genre(s) Console role-playing Mode(s) Single-player Rating(s) ESRB: Everyone +10

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is a full remake of Dragon Quest III. It was originally announced as part of the 35th series anniversary celebration on May 27, 2021.

Unlike previous remakes of Dragon Quest III, the HD-2D remake offers a modernized vision of the original title with additional scenarios, voice acting, new vocations, and modern Dragon Quest series features such as battle tactics or faster battle settings. The graphics are completely redone in the "HD-2D" style popularized by previous Square Enix published games such as Octopath Traveler and Triangle Strategy.

New features

Scenario additions

• New scenarios and characters supervised by Yuji Horii.
• New story segments that features Ortega, the heroes's father.
• The monster arena has been totally revamped to allow players to enter their own recruited monsters instead of relying on the arena's stable.

Presentation

• Re-imagined locations and HD-quality sprites.
• Orchestral soundtrack.
• Increased language support: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, European Spanish, and Latin American Spanish.

• Dragon Quest III had not yet been translated into most of these languages prior to this remake.

• Voice acting support: English and Japanese.
• Fully animated monsters.
• Faster battle settings, as seen in recent Dragon Quest titles like in the Nintendo 3DS release of DQVIII or in the international releases of DQXI.
• The player can customize the party's appearance by eight options per vocation with four for each sex.

• The new character Healizah can modify a character's appearance between the four options, along with his or her hair colour and voice at any point in the game.

• Characters now speak in battle.
• Weapons are visible in battle.

Gameplay adjustments

• Stat modification: Resilience now determines base defence power instead of a quarter of the Agility stat, with the new Stamina stat controlling HP growth as Resilience did in the previous versions of the game; Agility only influences turn order and evasion. Wisdom now controls the growth of spell power instead of each spell being fixed to a static range.
• New vocation: Monster Wrangler.
• New spells, such as Moreheal and Zin.
• Attack spells now have four ranks instead of three, as in all mainline titles since DQIX
• The inclusion of skills for melee vocations, such as Double-Edged Slash, Mercurial Thrust, Pressure Pointer, and Cop Out . The battle menu lists lists Spells and Abilities separately.
• The inclusion of additional monsters, such as the frostburn, a new variant of it, and Garboyle, who originally was an unfightable monster in the game's SNES and Game Boy Color intro.
• Battle tactics, available for the first time in Dragon Quest III.
• Three modes of difficulty: Dracky Quest (Easy), Dragon Quest (Normal), and Draconian Quest (Hard).

Gallery

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  Artwork of the Erdrick Trilogy HD-2D Remakes by Naoki Ikushima.

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  Japanese logo.

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  The Erdrick Trilogy logo created for the game

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  US boxart.

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  Preorder bonuses.

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  Collector's Edition.

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  Preview spread in issue 32 of Weekly Shonen Jump, 2024

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  Preview spread in issue 36 of Weekly Shonen Jump, 2024

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  The Hero

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  The Heroine

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  Ortega

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  Healizah

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