Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation: Difference between revisions

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| designer = [[Yūji Horii]]

| artist = [[Akira Toriyama]]

==Plot==

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''Dragon Quest VI'' opens as the {{Hero 6}}, [[Milly]], and [[Carver]] approach the castle of Murdaw, the demon king. After Milly summons a dragon, the party enters the castle and comes face to face with Murdaw. Overpowering the trio, Murdaw appears to destroy each member of the party. The Hero wakes up in [[Weaver's Peak]], and cannot remember anything before the fight with Murdaw. Tania, a small girl from Weaver's Peak, insists that he is her brother.

Once Cloud Castle is back to normal, the party speaks to [[Zenithia|King Zenith]] who informs them of Mortamor's doings and how to reach the Dark World. Mortamor plans on merging both worlds. The party’s horse fuses with Pegasus, allowing the party to fly to the Dark World. With the help of two brothers, Isaac and Benjamin, the party enters Mortamor's Castle. After solving many puzzles, they come face to face with Mortamor and defeat him. Isaac reveals that the Dark World is falling apart and Pegasus helps them escape.

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====Initial Vocations====

*[[Priest]]: Many attributes decrease, but the priest is less frail than the mage. Restorative, support, and woosh spells are learned.

*[[Dancer]]:  All attributes save for style and agility drop significantly, and a variety of status inducing dances are learned

*[[Thief]]: Agility goes up, but most other stats go down, and skills that help outside battle, such as Eye for Distance, are learned. The thief may also steal an item from an enemy at the end of a battle.

*[[Merchant]]: Wisdom goes up, but most stats go down, and a random assortment of skills are learned. At the end of battle, a small portion of extra money is added to the party's income.

*[[Gadabout]]: Style slightly goes up, but most stats dramatically drop. Sometimes, instead of doing nothing, the gadabout will perform a beneficial trick, such as singing a lullaby to put enemies to sleep.

====Advanced Vocations====

*[[Armamentalist]] (Warrior+Mage): Stats mostly go down and strong magic skills/spells are learned, along with elemental slashes that exploit enemy vulnerabilities.

*[[Paladin]] (Martial Artist+Priest): Strength, agility, and wisdom go up and a mixture of defensive and offensive skills are learned such as [[Forbearance]] and [[Pearly Gates]].

*[[Sage]] (Mage+Priest): Wisdom and MP go up and top tier attack and healing spells are learned. At higher ranks, the Sage will be able to cast spells for fewer MP.

*[[Ranger]] (Merchant+Thief+Monster Master): Agility and wisdom go up and an assortment of exploration and defensive skills are learned.

====Hidden Vocations====

In addition to those accessed through the abbey, there are two hidden classes that require the use of ancient scrolls to be unlocked.

===Style and the Best Dressed Contest===

The Best Dressed Contest has eight ranks, which the player enters in order. Depending on rank, the contest may be limited to men, women, or monsters. While the contest is one of the mini-games in ''Dragon Quest VI'', the party must win the third rank of the contest to gain an important item that will advance the plot.

===Player conveniences===

:*This feature was removed in the remake, but the [[Party Chat]] feature serves a similar purpose.

*Walking pace is quickened in towns, castles, and dungeons. The screen no longer scrolls off the edge of a town map; instead the party will begin to move towards the edge of the screen, moving the message window if necessary.

*Wells can now be explored, with some leading to simple dead-ends, others small alcoves with treasure, and many leading to ambushes by [[Scarewell]]s and their relatives.

*Once acquired, the world map can be accessed via the R button for viewing at any time in the field, with the grayed-out sections filling in as the player explores.

*The Open command has been deleted, with doors automatically swinging wide when the player walks towards them. Locked doors will notify the player that they do not have the right key.

*The [[Zoom]] spell's MP cost has been dropped from 8 to 1, allowing for less expensive flights.

[[Monster recruitment|Monster companions]] are treated more like human party members in this game; they stay at [[Patty's Party Planning Place]] and can change vocations, but they will not join the party unless one of the active PCs belongs to the Monster Master vocation. Monster Companions are less valuable in this game, because there are a large number of human characters, who can learn through vocations most of the same skills and powers monsters obtain via leveling up .  However, each bestial buddy boasts resistances that humans do not. There are 18 types of monster that can join the party, but Patty has only 15 seats for monsters in her bar, considerably less than the fifth game.

*[[Goowain]]

*[[Healie]]

In order to balance the heavy plots and characterizations that ''IV'' and ''V'' enjoyed with the player's ability to explore at their leisure, the vocation system from ''III'' was re-implemented and given a substantial overhaul. Instead of defining a character in a fixed role, ''VI's'' vocations gave players the ability to completely customize their party as they saw fit.  

*A prequel, {{DQM}} (''Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland'' in Japan), was released in 1998. This game featured Terry and Milly years before the events of ''Dragon Quest VI''. It was released in North America the next year, even though ''Dragon Quest VI'' was never released in North America. Along with Terry and Milly, several of the main enemies, including Mortamor, reappear. However, their previous roles have been eliminated, making them appear as just normal enemies. Mortamor and Murdaw (Mudou in the game) do appear as very challenging, very late in-game bosses, though.

*Re-equipping armour during battle no longer resets the effects of [[Sap]]/[[Buff]] spells.

*The layout of some towns and dungeons have been slightly altered.

*[[Terry]]'s starting level was raised from 23 to 28.

*[[Amos]] now has a unique sprite model, where as he shared the {{NPC}} warrior sprite before.

====Smartphone alterations====

In volume 81 of ''[[Nintendo Power]]'', the staff wrote an article on ''Dragon Quest VI'', hoping the game would find a U.S. release. They also suggested why the series might not appeal to the American audience: there is too much fighting and not enough adventuring.  

In terms of contributions to the series as a whole, ''VI'' is considered by several fans as being very significant: the addition of skills allowed further refinement to combat and added significantly more layers of depth to battles, the bag reduced the amount of frustration players could face by putting an end to shuffling items between characters, and the Hero's ability to memorize and recall lines of dialogue directly lead to the creation of Party Chat in ''VII''. Furthermore, the raising of stat limits from 255 to 500 allowed for more dynamic character growth and battle potential, complimented by a significant increase in stat-enhancing accessories. Smaller touches also enhanced the quality of the series from then on, such as the four tone vocal range for men, women, children, and monsters, as well as the mini medal exchange program becoming one where awards are dispensed based on the total collected rather than being used as an alternate type of currency.

===<small>Box art</small>===

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