Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake: Difference between revisions

* New scenarios and characters supervised by [[Yuji Horii]].

* New story segments that features [[Ortega]], the heroes's father.

* The [[Monster Arena|monster arena]] has been totally revamped to allow players to enter their own recruited monsters instead of relying on the arena's stable.

* [[T'n'T board]]s added in the Super Famicom remake have not been reimplemented after their removal in the 2014 android/ios port.

===Presentation===

* Re-imagined locations and HD-quality sprites.

* Certain areas have been slightly modified to account for the perspective changing from the classic top-down view to the pop up book style found in other HD2D titles.

* 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 with sound effects.

* Faster battle settings, as seen in recent ''Dragon Quest'' titles like in the [[Nintendo 3DS]] release of [[Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King|''DQVIII'']] or in the international releases of [[Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age|''DQXI'']].

* Characters now speak in battle: shouting while attacking, yelling the names of spells while casting, grunting while being attacked, etc.

* The camera pulls back to reveal the party while the player is selecting actions for a turn.

:* Equipped weapons are visible during this period.

* Defeated monsters and collected items can now be viewed in the misc. menu.

* New vocation: [[Monster Wrangler]].

* Certain stats have been modified to modern standards:

:*{{Agility}} is no longer divided by two to calculate base defense, now determining base evasion instead (while still impacting turn-order)

:*{{Resilience}} now determines base defense power instead of HP growth

:*{{Stamina}} has been added to determine HP growth, using the same formula as Resilience in previous versions

:*{{Wisdom}} now determines the growth of spell power instead of each spell being fixed to a static range, in addition to MP growth, and now influences the learning of certain combat skills in addition to spells

* Certain out-of-combat facets have been modified in a similar manner:

:* You now save your game at [[church]]es, instead of with monarchs

:* Upon being defeated, you now have the menu option to revert to your previous autosave (without [[experience points]] earned since then), if you don't wish to return to your last save point and lose half your [[gold]]

:* [[Zoom]] now functions as it does in ''[[Dragon Quest XI]]'', being usable indoors but no longer usable in fights, and now lets you travel to many more places on the map

* Upon being defeated, you can now choose to redo the fight you lost without penalty.

* [[Church|Churches]] now offer a pity discount on Resurrections, based on how many of your party members are dead.

* New spells, such as [[Moreheal]], [[Zapple]], and [[Zin]].

* The inclusion of selectable combat skills for melee vocations, such as [[Double-Edged Slash]], [[Mercurial Thrust]], [[Pressure Pointer]], and [[Cop Out]] <ref>Weekly Shonen Jump issue 32, 2024</ref>. The battle menu lists lists Spells and Abilities separately.

*{{Boomerangs}}s and [[Whip Weapon Family|whips]] can now land [[Critical Hit]]s, though less frequently than single-target weapons.

* The inclusion of additional monsters, such as [[Dying fire|a new variant]] of the [[Dancing flame]] monster line, and the [[Garboyle]], who originally was an unfightable monster in the game's SNES and Game Boy Color intro.

* Additional boss monsters for certain areas of the game.

* 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).

* Monsters either have skills and/or spells added to their repertoire. (For example, [[Seaslime]]s use [[Soothing Song]] and [[Handsome crab]]s use [[Assassin's Stab]], while [[Cumaulus]]es cast [[Dazzle]] in addition to [[Frizz]])

* Monster damage resistances now function as they do in modern Dragon Quest games, reducing damage by the listed percentage instead of providing a chance to negate. Some monsters now have ''negative'' resistances as well.

:*Since elemental attacks are no longer negated, damage resistances are now indicated by the color of the damage number

:*On a similar note, the [[Bang]] line of spells now goes against a separate resistance from the [[Frizz]] and [[Sizz]] lines