Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride: Difference between revisions

==Plot==

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''Dragon Quest V'' begins with a brief scene of The Hero's birth in which the player gives The Hero a name. After that scene, The Hero finds himself in a room on board a ship with his father, [[Pankraz]]. After the ship stops at [[Vista Port|Littlehaven]] (ビスタ ''Bisuta''), they leave the ship for Whealbrook, where Pankraz's friend Sancho lives. Upon arrival, The Hero meets Bianca. After exploring the cave behind Whealbrook, he and Pankraz accompany Bianca to her town Roundbeck. Upon arrival at that town, Bianca and The Hero explore the haunted castle [[Uptaten Towers]] (レヌール ''Renūru''), where they obtain a mysterious [[Gold orb]]. Afterwards Pankraz and The Hero return to Whealbrook, along with a pet tiger named [[Saber]] (ボロンゴ ''Borongo''), a monster that was saved from bullying by The Hero and Bianca.

After beating the game, players can gain access to the [[Bonus Dungeons|Bonus Dungeon]]: [[Estark's Labyrinth]], where the party can test their skills against an [[Estark|ancient demon]] sealed away by Nimzo out of fear. ''Dragon Quest V'' was the first main series ''Dragon Quest'' game to have a bonus dungeon (although the later remakes of ''Dragon Quest III'' and ''IV'' added bonus dungeons similar to later titles).

==Characters==

*More advanced party AI than the previous game. An AI controlled character has been programmed to "learn" a foe's resistances and vulnerabilities much faster than before, avoiding infamous snafus such as a character wasting turns casting [[Whack]] on a boss monster. It is also possible, unlike in the previous game's original version, to set characters to manual command and allow them to be controlled individually as in the first three games.  

*There is now a separation of spell resistances for monsters. In previous games, all spell resistance was based around ''accuracy'', whereas in V an offensive spell's resistance is now calculated as ''damage reduction'', thus preventing a caster from completely wasting their MP unless the foe is immune. This would set the precedent for resistances in all future titles and side games.

*Armour and shield resistance is now based on static number subtraction instead of a percentage. For example, the [[Magic shield]] will always reduce damage dealt from [[Sizz]] by 7 points.

*{{Boomerang}}s and {{Whip}}s can now attack groups of enemies. This feature leads to some weapons being replaced in remakes of older titles to avoid inconsistency.

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