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Tokyo Game Show 2024 - Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake Converted Me into a Dragon Quest Fan

If you're like me and don't enjoy random encounters, you can automate all those “tedious” battles. Like a very simplified gambit system from Final Fantasy XII, every player turn you have the option to automate or manually input commands during combat. Those automated options include choices like “fight aggressively”, “fight smart”, or “focus on healing”.

At the very least, I'm glad someone new is enjoying it. I'd love to recommend some of the other titles in the series, but in truth, full-voice isn't something that all of them have. The writing & accents of each character's regional dialect is always charming to the point that it's a travesty most DQ games are text-only.

And may whatever you believe in help you if you play the 3DS version of DQ7.I spent more time in some dialog boxes than some battles because I couldn't understand what they were saying because in one instance I believe it was European Spanish mixed with heavy what I assumed was Wlesh mixed with Scottish!

I will also never understand why official DQ localization went with the dialog it did. Yangus in 8 was nigh ununderstandable. Do people actually like them giving everyone thick, unpenetrable accents?

At this point, it's part of the presentation. The original Dragon Quest ("Dragon Warrior", in those days) gave everyone faux-Shakespearean Olde English dialogue, which is now canon to the Tantagel region. They've been doing the overdone accents in Dragon Quest ever since Dragon Quest VIII was released on PS2, and for the most part DQ fans (all 20 of us) love it. DQ8 also had the advantage of voice acting to help make the dialogue easier to understand. It's like the puns: DQ isn't DQ without it.

I find it amusing that this article was posted after the Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii and former Shonen Jump editor-in-chief Kazuhiko Torishima themselves expressed condemnation of USA and western sensibilities for forcing them to censor the remake, i.e. covering up the girls and changing male/female to body type A/B. The fact that this article is short and sweet means that this was put together to prevent people from knowing it.

Besides, what would be the point to ANN not wanting people to know about it? Please consider if your claims make any sense at all before casting accusations like this in the future.

no one in Japan cared about Sugiyama's political views or saw them as a big deal even to this day.

Key wrote:

Besides, what would be the point to ANN not wanting people to know about it? Please consider if your claims make any sense at all before casting accusations like this in the future.

I agree the interview likely happened after the reviewer played the demo at TGS and expecting it to be mentioned in a random game preview and not it's own article isn't fair but at the same time it seems naive to think personal bias don't come into play when it comes to covering this kind of stuff.

AiddonValentine wrote:

1) Take the conspiracy nonsense elsewhere 2) Torishima is not part of DQ, they just had him there to fill in for the late Toriyama 3) ratings boards like the ESRB are indeed garbage everywhere, but they're garbage because they're run by hypocritical weirdos who think talking about gay people is too much for kids. So miss me with the culture war BS.

Nothing Horii and Torishima talked about had to do with gay people or whatever other pet issue you have with American institutions. They were very clear and direct in what they were talking about and it was how the pressure being put on Japanese media to self-censor is coming from progressive practices being pushed by overseas companies offended by things like calling characters male or female.