Dragon Quest X
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Main series games | |
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Awakening of the Five Tribes The Sleeping Hero and the Guided Allies Lore of the Ancient Dragon | |
Developer(s) | Square Enix |
Publisher(s) | Square Enix |
Designer(s) | Yūji Horii |
Artist(s) | Akira Toriyama |
Composer(s) | Kōichi Sugiyama |
Series | Dragon Quest |
Platform(s) | Wii, Wii U, 3DS, Microsoft Windows, Android |
Release date(s) | Wii JPAugust 2, 2012
Wii U JP March 2013 Microsoft Windows JP September 26, 2013 CHN May 20, 2016 Android JP December 16, 2013 |
Genre(s) | Console role-playing game |
Rating(s) | OERO: A |
Dragon Quest X: Online (ドラゴンクエストX オンライン Doragon Kuesuto Ten: Onrain) is the tenth game in the Dragon Quest series. It was announced at a press conference in January 2009, on September 5 2011, it was announced to be a online multiplayer game for the Wii, and was dated to come out on 2012. Dragon Quest X can also be playable without the online feature.
Gameplay
Dragon Quest X is the first game inside the numbered titles that breaks the Dragon Quest tradition of turn-based combat; the combat becomes more action-based by breaking the order of the attacks.
The game includes a quest system like in Dragon Quest X, but with some changes. Quests serve as side-stories helping non-player characters around the game's world. Multiple quests can be performed simultaneously with some even interlocking and unlocking various stages in fellow quests. Early quests include gathering magical spring water, slaying monsters and stealing for a fellow thief. Like the previous Dragon Quest installment, Dragon Quest X contains many open ended mini-quests. Upon completion of the quests, a "Quest List log," serving as an in-game achievement list. There are also brand new "Job quests" that can only be received when you have the job that is requested.
This game also includes two new features as a reference to other RPG game: the Fire Colosseum and the Magic Laberynth. The Fire Colosseum allows the player challenge again some storyline bosses that are modified to be stronger and the Magic Laberynth acts like the grottos of Dragon Quest IX. Although the first one is located at the top of a snowy mountain, several laberynths can be encountered during the gameplay, and in the most strange possible places, like a mirror in the Royal Palace of Gran Zedoura in Rendaashia.
Like the rest of Dragon Quest games, excpet for Dragon Quest IX, the game allows the player to save their progress in 3 different save slots.
Game features
- Highly customizable characters, with many different faces, skin colors, weapons and armours. This game also included different races like the human, ogre, weddie, puklipo, elf and dwarf.
- Rental partners that can be recruited for a limited time up to 72 hours.
- Co-operative play with up to four players online.
- 3D graphics similar to those found in Dragon Quest VIII.
- Real time map like Dragon Quest VIII.
- Time-limited events where you can receive very powerful armor pieces, weapons, etc
- A fully customizable house for your character.
- A beach resort were you can relax with your friends, similar to The Sims.
- Blacksmith and dressmaker minigames where you can improve your weapons, armor pieces and clothes without alchemy.
- A parallel storyline where you control a pair of treasure hunter humans.
- A japanese highschool simulation mode.
- A brand new fishing minigame, similar to Animal Crossing's fishing mode for example.
- A minigame that make you investigate a series of crimes commited in an old mansion, similar to Cluedo.
Offline Storyline
Offline tutorial and Prologue
The story begins on the village of Eteene, the home of the hero and his/her sibling, when the hero is looking at the sky at the centre of the village, the sibling calls him, and he/she is showed to be riding the turtle Kame-sama along with lady Abba, the eldest woman of Eteene. When Kame-sama reaches the point where the hero is, his sibling offers him to ride with them, however lady Abba refuses and starts talking with the Hero.
A strange noise awakens the hero from this dream, only to learn that his/her sibling accidentally destroyed the village's supply of Perky Beans, lady Abba's favorite food, in an attempt to multiply them via alchemy. At Eteene's church the hero meets lady Abba's grandson, Singh, who instructs the hero to gather various items from the local villagers, so that he can fashion a pillow to serve as a compensation for the lost of the perky beans. Lady Abba then asks the hero to look for his/her sibling, and despite being upset at Singh for disturbing her, she still uses the pillow he made, falling into a deep sleep. After locating his/her sibling in a clu-de-sac trying to do more alchemy at the Eteene region, the hero returns to the village, where Lady Abba announces that village will surely be destroyed, with no survivors. However, hope remains in the form of a plant known as the flower of Tensu, which blooms in a cave to the north. The hero, his/her sibling, and Singh are chosen to retrieve it. Arriving at the cave, the party interrumpts a demon called Bedora, who attempts to destroy the Flowers of Tensu to prevent their use. Bedora fights the trio, but when he lost, and in a last attempt to fulfil his mission attacks one last time the flowers destroying them; however, one of them survives his rampage.
The party is seemingly too late however, as the village is under attack by the time they return. In an attempt to protect his/her sibling from an oncoming fireball, the hero unknowingly casts a spell long thought to have been lost to history; the ability to surpass time. The hero's sibling is safe, though is teletransported elsewhere; a monster witnessed the event and quickly to notifies his master, Lord Nergel, who was supervising the attack. Nergel with a fire spell apparently kills both the Hero and Singh and to assure that the hero won't rise again he places a dark seal covering the central continent of Astortia, Rendaashia; trapping all its inhabitants in the deepest darkness.
Kame-sama, which survived the siege of Eteene thanks to its magic powers, uses a spell that splits the soul of the hero of his corpse and transports it to the Heavenly Shrine where he is given the option of been born again but as a member of one of the citizens of the Five Tribes.
Extended campaign
Version 1: Awakening of the Five Tribes
Information
Plot
Version 2: The Sleeping Hero and the Guided Allies
Plot
Version 3: Lore of the Ancient Dragon
Plot
Development
Release
Japan
China
Reception
Gallery
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