III is still the incredible game it always was. I is an interesting relic of its era but is still playable due to how short it is. II is rough and difficult but isn't unmanageable.
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Dragon Quest I-III Switch announced for NA/Europe Sept. 27 for $4.99, $6.49, and $12.49
- Thread starter KtotheRoc
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They look so ugly. Especially on the same console you have DQ11S which looks gorgeous in 2D. Wasn't these the games you got for beating DQ11 in Japan?
The dragon looks like clipart.look at this shit. honestly it's mind boggling how disrespectful SE can be to their own legacy and history.
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It's a shame that these don't look great visually but I'll still probably pick up 1 and 3 at the very least so that I can finally play them.
They won't even talk about V, they sure as hell aren't gonna talk about I and II.
What's the soundtrack on these? Original NES, the SNES ones, some kind of weird midi "remix" or orchestrated (lol)?
Yeah, that'd be really nice, especially now that they're unavailable... Of course Atlus would have to localize SMT2 still, but I imagine they would on Switch?
They definitely look far from ideal but I'm getting them. I want to play these games finally and I just can't get into RPGs on my phone. I wish SE would put some actual effort into their ports. Even just the untouched SNES version would be worth the price imo.
The SNES versions were never translated, so they'd have to update them to support other languages and that might be tricky.
Considering Atlus didn't even bother to release a 64bit update for SMT iOS, which makes it impossible to play these days... I wouldn't hold my breath.
It really sucks I can't play SMT anymore from the app store because it's 32-bit. I'm surprised that even happened to begin with.
i'd pay 60 bucks for that, no joke
include if... as well, that one has a mobile port too.
Yeah, it does. That was our only official localization of SMT1 and it's practically gone now...
There really should be a rule on App Store that all apps must be updated to continue work or the publisher has to refund you.
It's so weird how DQ:XI has amazing sprites and then these things exist...
Same. This is why I'm mad at Atlus for their Switch support. Games take time I don't have a problem with that. They could easily fill in the gap with some ports but no... buy Persona 5 again on the same console you bought it originally.
They did this same fucking shit to FFVI and Chrono Trigger as well, two of the prettiest games of the 16-bit era.
yeah, a sane company would have ported 1-2-3 to switch in the mean time (even if digital only) while people wait for 5. that way you get a lot of new fans too who will look forward to the new game.
XI S is made by the main DQ team who i assume respect the past games and are proud of the work put into them. these are made by... who even knows.
It's too bad we're stuck with this off brand version of Dragon Quest III and not the SNES version, which is arguably one of the best looking and sounding Dragon Quest games in the series.
They had to approve I'm sure, but I imagine these were not developed internally.
It doesn't really matter who makes it of it has a budget. DQXI got that pixel art because it is a full price release that was going to sell millions of copies. These are cheap re-releases that will sell like 2% of the what XI did.
The more I look at the higher detailed sprites overlayed over chunky backdrops makes me think of when I used to plop stock RPG Maker characters into Pokémon maps. If anything the scaling was probably better there, too.
I'm curious what the opinion in Japan is in regards to changes like these, I imagine outcry from those fans would matter way more than the western opinion.
It's a good thing XI S is happening because these + Your Story doing what it did wouldn't make for a good year for DQ.
I'm curious what the opinion in Japan is in regards to changes like these, I imagine outcry from those fans would matter way more than the western opinion.
It's a good thing XI S is happening because these + Your Story doing what it did wouldn't make for a good year for DQ.
Looking at the iOS version of IV, it's just the DS version, so hopefully it's safe
Hot take: I don't think Horii was part of that approval board. He wouldn't have approved this. ^^
3 is an instant buy, the iOS version is good, but I have longed for a version with buttons and a better aspect ratio...
Hoping for monster animations, but not expecting them.
Hoping for monster animations, but not expecting them.
These are genuinely the most hideous ports of 2D games I've ever seen. And I'm including the FF mobile ports in that equation.
The character sprites seem to be more detailed and higher resolution while the SNES-era overworld tiles have seemingly been stretched by a non integer scale with the barest amount of smearing to make up for it.
The battle screens seem the least terrible but they still look remarkably cheap.
While this is obviously a downgrade from DQ3's SNES remake, this is a million times less ugly than FF6's port.
You hope they butcher the zenithian Trilogy or you hope they port them to the Switch? Haha
I don't think the DQIII port would look that bad if the character sprites were the original SNES ones. I don't really mind the HD menus or the Toriyama art for the monsters, but the characters clash so badly with the backgrounds, it makes it look like a shoddy fan game.
Y'all need to put some respect on the mobile versions. Which, touch controls aside, are well done, and don't look anywhere near as rough these ports visually (chintzy looking enemy battle art, weirdly inconsistent character sprites, etc).