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Square Enix Asia: Dragon Quest 1, 2 and 3 will be released in English on Nintendo Switch this year
- Thread starter Atheerios
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From Gematsu
Square Enix will release the Switch versions of Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line, and Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation via the Nintendo eShop in the west day-and-date with their Japanese release on September 27 for $4.99, $6.49, and $12.49, respectively, the company announced.
Square Enix will release the Switch versions of Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line, and Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation via the Nintendo eShop in the west day-and-date with their Japanese release on September 27 for $4.99, $6.49, and $12.49, respectively, the company announced.
This thread is just saying that there will be English text in the Asian releases. The other thread was about actual Western releases. Not a duplicate.
Yeah that wasn't really a duplicate thread seeing as this one wasn't made with the pretense of them being released in NA/Europe and would have almost forced you to make a different region eshop account or import a cart from Play Asia (which I understand some do not want to give them business)
Oh well great news we did it fam
Oh well great news we did it fam
oh my godGood grief, though, it's pretty damn ugly..
Why do Square always "remake" sprites in these things?
I guess they decided to smoothen/redraw the sprites because they figured they'd otherwise look bad on a big screen. I wish they'd have just offered a good CRT filter instead... It's a shame because the mobile versions the new ports are based on still had the original sprites.
Those characters look like they're out of some random flash game.Good grief, though, it's pretty damn ugly..
Why do Square always "remake" sprites in these things?
I may still try and track down the physical copy, but poor porting decisions aside, better than it not existing at all..
Something like the Mana Collection would have been much better.
Didn't you hear, pixels are evil.Good grief, though, it's pretty damn ugly..
Why do Square always "remake" sprites in these things?
Something like the Mana Collection would have been much better.
Good grief, though, it's pretty damn ugly..
Why do Square always "remake" sprites in these things?
Because they very probably have the sales data to back up that these outsell raw OG pixel art. Most people that don't post on gaming forums (most people) tend to have neutral or negative opinions about low-res pixel art.
Good grief, though, it's pretty damn ugly..
Why do Square always "remake" sprites in these things?
Well that's horrible.
The translations are super extravagant and really the preferred way to play if you're used to modern DQ games. But with mobile you're stuck portrait mode and touch controls. Plus the graphics for 1 and 2 have that awful stretched tile enhancement thing going on kinda like the mobile FF releases. 3 is fine for the most part (IMO) except they actually remove a good chunk of content: Monster animations, title screen intro, and Treasure and Trapdoor/pachiisi minigames
A real shame we couldn't get a remake looking like this.
So pretty...
If newcomers on this thread need a refresher on what to expect
lmao yeah please don't play these versions I beg youGood grief, though, it's pretty damn ugly..
Why do Square always "remake" sprites in these things?
Good grief, though, it's pretty damn ugly..
Why do Square always "remake" sprites in these things?
....I'll stick to the mobile versions (all of which are already kind of shitty for other reasons)
yeah these versions aren't pretty. they're based on the shitty mobile versions. i'm still buying them cuz i wanted to play them but can't be bothered to do it on my phone, but they're definitely not the best versions of the games, at least visually. the SNES versions are infinitely better looking.Good grief, though, it's pretty damn ugly..
Why do Square always "remake" sprites in these things?
Good grief, though, it's pretty damn ugly..
Why do Square always "remake" sprites in these things?
Oh God no
Why not just straight up port the mobile versions? They don't look GREAT but it's a lot better than that. Hopefully there's a toggle or something.
the iOS versions had the regular sprites...
They somehow managed to go above and beyond to make these worse...
They somehow managed to go above and beyond to make these worse...
bruh this doesn't look good eitherOh God no
Why not just straight up port the mobile versions? They don't look GREAT but it's a lot better than that. Hopefully there's a toggle or something.
Are they separate releases? That's super weird.
I may hold off on DQXI till I've played 1-3 now. It'll be good for my September wallet issues XD
Woooooo!!!!!!
I may hold off on DQXI till I've played 1-3 now. It'll be good for my September wallet issues XD
Woooooo!!!!!!
Yeah, 3 was the only one of the trilogy on mobile that didn't have people loudly complaining, and even that ain't great.
isn't that weird? after not publishing builders 1 and 2 and DQ 11 on switch, 7 and 8 on 3DS, and a bunch of games on the DS, they're now publishing this one themselves.
Is there a company worse at exploiting their back catalog of legendary games than Square-Enix?
They're either buggy, have "improvements" nobody asked for, or (usually) both.
They're either buggy, have "improvements" nobody asked for, or (usually) both.
People saying not to play this version... but the OP here (A Guide for Getting Into Dragon Quest) says mobile version for 1-3 is actually what they recommend.
Dragon Quest I said:
Dragon Quest II said:
Dragon Quest III said:
Is the OP wrong?
I'll take these versions tbh. The SNES remakes were fairly low budget for the time. Amusingly despite its popularity Dragon Quest games only started to look really good with VIII on PS2. They always paled in comparison to other stuff on the system they released.
We're talking retro ports from SE here, there was never any hope it would be good, just less bad.
Yea, they were always woefully behind in visuals even for their time of release.
The SNES remakes were low budget, but at least they looked okay.
This? I ain't paying S-E $12.49 to jam a pair of scissors into my eyes.
Maybe because it's a digital only release?
Stuff like Oninaki is, at least going by the game's listing in the Nintendo web store, published by them. So is iirc the Mana Collection. The latter one does have a retail release, though it's said to be a limited one.
Other DQ games on Switch so far were all retail + digital.
Reminder that on the same day we can play this gorgeous 2D Dragon Quest.
With also no animations in fights. :P
No physical release of 1-3 in the west? Well, Asia import it still is then.
It's up to you, my dude. They look fine to me but I do wish they gave us options. It's just this is my only option to play these games officially. Don't like playing on mobile.
The remake of DQ3 wasn't low budget at all, it was a gorgeous game made in the same style of DQ6
I understand the OP trying to recommend the most convenient and easier-to-buy versions of these games but yeah he also recommends the great GBC ports and literally states that if you don't mind ugly-ass games you can still go for the mobile versions. But I don't believe SE deserves any kind of money for this botched job. If you want to support DQ, just buy DQXI.
No reason we should lower our standards because SE is too incompetent to pump something decent
Depends on what matters to you. For me, the DQ1 sprite scaling on mobile looked so bad I stopped playing it. And the screenshots of the Switch version look 10x worse. If you look at those images and are fine with it you will probably have a good time.
Well they are evil for me. They look bigger on Switch's big screen and gives me headache after an hour of gameplay. Smaller and smoother they are, easier to my eyes.
Not really. I and II have poor scaling, but they still looked decent on the actual device.
I'd recommend the SNES remakes over the mobile ports, but the mobile are a good way to play those games regardless.