Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake
| Main series games | |
|---|---|
| III HD-2D Remake | |
| |
| Developer(s) | ARTDINK & Square Enix (Team Asano) |
| Publisher(s) | 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) | Game Boy Color ESRB: Everyone +10 |
Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, as its title implies, is a full remake of Dragon Quest III in Team Asano's famed HD-2D style which fuses high-quality pixel art with 3D models. It was originally announced as part of the 35th series anniversary celebration on May 27th of 2021, and later reintroduced alongside HD-2D remakes for the other titles in the Erdrick trilogy.
Unlike previous remakes of Dragon Quest III, the HD-2D remake offers a much modern vision of the original title with an expanded and much vibrant world, with additional scenarios, voice acting, new vocations, and modern Dragon Quest series features such as battle tactics or faster battle settings.
Changes
Among the most notable changes between this remake and the previous versions of the game we can find:
- New scenarios supervised by Yuji Horii.
- Reimagined locations and HD-quality sprites.
- Orchestral soundtrack.
- Fully animated monsters.
- New vocation: Monster Master.
- New spells, such as Moreheal.
- The power of spells now grows with characters instead of being fixed to a static range.
- The battle menu now lists Spells and Abilities.
- Weapon changes are visible in battle.
- Battle tactics, available for the first time in Dragon Quest III.
- Faster battle settings, as seen in recent Dragon Quest titles like the 3DS release of DQVIII or in the international releases of DQXI.
- Increased language support: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, (European) Spanish, and LATAM Spanish.
- Dragon Quest III had not yet been translated into most of these languages prior to this remake.
- Voice acting support: English and Japanese.
Gallery
Artwork of the Erdrick Trilogy HD-2D Remakes by Naoki Ikushima.
Japanese logo.
US boxart.
Preorder bonuses.
Collector's Edition.
