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Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation
Box art of the original North American NES release, titled Dragon Warrior III
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Koichi Nakamura
Producer(s)Yukinobu Chida
Artist(s)Akira Toriyama
Writer(s)Yuji Horii
Composer(s)Koichi Sugiyama
SeriesDragon Quest
Platform(s)
Release
February 10, 1988
  • Famicom / NES
    Super Famicom
    Game Boy Color
    Mobile phones
    Wii
    Android & iOS
Genre(s)Role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation, known in Japan as Dragon Quest III: Soshite Densetsu e... (ドラゴンクエストIII そして伝説へ…, Doragon Kuesuto Surī - Soshite Densetsu e..., Dragon Quest III: And thus into Legend...) and previously released as Dragon Warrior III in North America, is a role-playing video game developed by Chunsoft and published by Enix (now Square Enix). It is the third installment in the Dragon Quest series (known as Dragon Warrior in North America at the time of its original release) and the first released for the Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan and later for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in North America. The game saw an enhanced remake for the Super Famicom (the Japanese version of the Super NES) in 1996 and the Game Boy Color in 2001, and a port to mobile phones and the Wii in 2009 and 2011. A version of the game for Android and iOS was released in Japan on September 25, 2014,[3] and worldwide on December 4, 2014 as Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation. It was the first time the game was given an official English subtitle.

The first three Dragon Quest games are part of the same story, and Dragon Warrior III is the first game chronologically, as well as the third game that features the hero Erdrick (Loto in some remakes). The story follows "the Hero" who is tasked with saving the world from the archfiend Baramos. Gathering a group of companions into a party, the Hero must travel the world, stopping at various towns and locations, and find his way to the Demon Lord Baramos's lair.

Gameplay

Dragon Quest III is noted for greatly expanding upon the gameplay of the original Dragon Quest and Dragon Quest II. The game uses basic role-playing video game conventions such as leveling up by gaining experience points and equipping items.[4][5] Battle is turn-based like the other games in the series, though the remakes incorporate various interface changes from later titles. These include simpler door opening, a bag to store items instead of keeping them at a bank, quick item sorting with "Tidy Item" and "Tidy Bag" command, and a "Full HP" command to automate the process of casting healing and status restoring spells. And while earlier Dragon Quest games were non-linear in structure, Dragon Quest III featured an even more open-world experience. It also allowed the player to freely swap characters in and out of their party, and introduced the day/night cycle in which certain items, characters, and quests are only accessible at specific times of day.[6][7]

Classes

In picture, player is reselecting one class for a character in Dhama Temple. The class system became a staple feature of all future Dragon Quest games

Dragon Quest III features a class system, in which each character has a certain class. At the start of the game, the player begins as a single male or female hero, but is able to recruit members at the local tavern.[8] While the Hero always keeps the Hero class, the other characters can choose to be any of the following of either gender: Soldier (Warrior in the GBC version), Fighter, Pilgrim (Cleric), Wizard (Mage), Merchant (Dealer), Goof-Off (Jester), Sage, and Thief which was available only in the later versions. The choice of class greatly affects the character's stats and spells he or she can learn.[4][5][9] Furthermore, upon reaching experience Level 20, a character has the option of changing classes at the temple of Dhama, found halfway through the game.[10] A character who changes classes has their stats halved and restarts at experience Level 1, retaining their spells and, in the remakes, their personality. This allows a player to create a character that knows Wizard spells, but has the defense of a Soldier.[8] Unlike most Dragon Quest parties, aside from the Hero, the party is not made up of characters involved in the story. Although only four characters can be in the party at a time, extra members of the party can be kept at the tavern, allowing room for new recruits.[11] Another innovation is an arena where the player can place bets on the outcome of monster battles in order to win more gold.[12]

In the remakes, after selecting a character, the player can change the character's starting abilities with five magical seeds, given at the tavern.[13] Also, each character has a personality trait which affects the growth rate of their abilities. The Hero's personality is determined by the player's choices and actions during a dream sequence at the start of the game, while other characters' personalities are determined by their status at the end of the character generation process. Most personalities are available to both male and female characters, while a few are exclusive to male or female characters. A character's personality can be temporarily changed by equipping certain accessories, or permanently changed by using certain consumable books.

Story

Setting

The game starts in the castle town of Aliahan. Like the rest of the Dragon Quest worlds, this castle is set in a medieval time period, complete with knights and magicians. The party explores several caves, ruins, and castles during the adventure. The geography of Dragon Quest III largely corresponds to the actual geography of Earth,[8] and many towns correspond to their real-world cultures, including "Romaly" for Rome, "Portoga" for Portugal, "Assaram" near present-day Iraq (derived from "as-salamu alaykum"), "Jipang" for Japan and even a "New Town" in eastern North America that experiences a revolution against an overbearing ruler.

Plot

Dragon Quest III is set many years before the original Dragon Warrior in a world separate from the first two games.[14] A wicked fiend named Baramos threatens to destroy the world.[15] The story revolves around the Hero,[4] son or daughter (the player can choose to be either male or female, with few gameplay changes) of the legendary warrior Ortega.[16] On his or her sixteenth birthday, the Hero (from here on referred to as "he" for the sake of convenience) is summoned to the castle and is given by the King of Aliahan the challenge to rid the world of the evil archfiend Baramos, which Ortega attempted in the past but seemingly perished in a volcano.[17] The Hero then is able to recruit up to three traveling companions to help fight Baramos.

The Hero leaves his home country of Aliahan to travel the world and complete his father's quest to defeat Baramos. A major portion of the adventure is the quest to acquire the last two of the three keys needed to open doors throughout the game. After saving two people of the town of Baharata from the rogue Kandar and stealing back the King of Romanly's crown, the Hero receives Black Pepper, which he then trades for a sailing ship at Portoga.[18][19] With the ship, the Hero acquires the Final Key and the six mystical orbs which are used to revive the legendary bird Ramia.[20] Ramia allows the Hero and his party to travel to Baramos' castle, which is surrounded by mountains.[21]

After defeating Baramos in a ferocious battle and returning to Aliahan, the Hero's celebration is cut off as Zoma, Baramos's master and the true villain, reveals his existence. He attacks and opens a pit to the Dark World, which the Hero jumps into.[22] The Dark World is in fact Alefgard (of the previous installments of the series), where the Hero must acquire several of the artifacts that were collected in the original Dragon Quest, including the Sun Stone and the Rain Staff.[19] Rubiss, a legendary sage has been turned to stone and is rescued by the Hero, and the Hero receives the Sacred Amulet in return.[23] These items, as in the original game, create the Rainbow Bridge, which leads the Hero to Zoma's castle for the final confrontation. Along the way, the Hero briefly reunites with Ortega as he is slain by Zoma's monsters, then continues on to defeat the revived Baramos, now turned into the powerful Baramos Bomus and later into the skeletal Baramos Gonus. With the Ball of Light, given by the Dragon Queen, the Hero defeats Zoma and frees Alefgard, but Zoma boasts that evil will eventually return to the land and the Hero will not live long enough to stop it.[24] For his or her bravery, the Hero receives the title of Erdrick (Loto). The Hero later vanishes from Alefgard, leaving his sword and armor to be passed down throughout the ages so that his descendants can continue to protect the world from evil.

Development

File:Famicom Dragon Quest III packaging (front).jpg
Packaging for the Famicom version, titled Dragon Quest III. The artwork by Akira Toriyama depicts the hero in front, alongside all the possible character classes that can assists him in both, male and female variants.

As with the other main games in the Dragon Quest series, Dragon Quest III's scenario was designed by Yuji Horii,[25] whereas the artwork was done by Akira Toriyama, of Dragon Ball fame.[26] Koichi Sugiyama composed all the music for Dragon Quest III.[27] Chunsoft president Koichi Nakamura, co-creator of Dragon Quest, stated he contributed about "10%" of the games programming.[28] The game was released a year after the original, a longer period of development than its predecessor, and reflected the ever lengthening game development process of the series.[29] Yuji Horii, in a 1989 interview, said that developers had perfected the series' game structure in Dragon Quest III, and this was reflected by the transition from one character's quest to a party of heroes.[30] The password system used on the first two Dragon Quest titles was dropped in favor of a save slot due in part to Horii's dislike of the long codes that players needed to memorize or record .[30] Horii had a policy of removing any features from his games that had been used elsewhere, which turned out to be unworkable during Dragon Quest IIIs development when the games world map concept was used first by another game maker in Mirai Shinwa Jarvas, but Horii's team was too far into development to change anything.[31] Horii also preferred a silent protagonist to make the player feel like they have become the main character, but at one point in the story, Horii was forced to make the hero shout, "Leave him to us! Run! Quick!"[31]

Remakes

Comparison of graphics from Famicom, Super Famicom, and Game Boy Color Version. Hero outside of Aliahan

The Super Famicom version, released in late 1996, during the last days of the Super NES in North America, was never brought to North America, due to Enix America Corporation's closure in 1995. By the time Enix of America returned, the SNES had been discontinued in North America. In 2009, it was unofficially translated into English. However, the next remake, for the Game Boy Color, was released in both Japan and the US.

The Game Boy Color version is based on the Super Famicom version. For the North American release of the Dragon Quest III Game Boy Color remake, Enix decided to give the packaging an anime feel, due to fan demand on Enix's message boards.[32] Both remake versions of Dragon Quest III offer many new features and changes. The game received a new translation, incorporating many adult elements that were cut from its original American release, and becoming the first Game Boy Color RPG with a "Teen" rating.[32] It was also the largest Game Boy Color game released in North America, with 32 Mb ROM and 256Kb of save-state SRAM on one cartridge.[33] A new class, the Thief, was added to the roster in each of the remakes. Many of the names of the classes were changed in the English localization of the Game Boy Color version, such as Soldier to Warrior. Also, in the new versions was the ability to change into the Jester class at Dhama, which was not allowed in the original.[4][5][9] New mini-games were added to the remakes, including Pachisi (called Suguroku in Japan / Treasures and Trapdoors as of the Dragon Quest V Remake), which is a giant board game style adventure from which the player can win items.[12] This game is based on Horii's series Itadaki Street.[34] The Mini Medal system, which lets players collect hidden medals to gain new items, seen in later Dragon Quest games (it originated in Dragon Quest VI), was added.[12] Another medal system, Monster Medals, lets players collect medals from fallen enemies, was added in Game Boy Color remake, and two players could trade Monster Medals via a Game Link Cable.[35] Two bonus dungeons become available after the main quest is over. The remakes feature updated graphics.[34] An overhauled introduction for the game was made, similar to the one in the original Dragon Quest III, which included Ortega's battle with the Dragon Queen. Monster and attack animation in battles were added,[14] a feature first introduced in Dragon Quest VI.[36] A personality system was added to the remakes of Dragon Quest III. A pre-game sequence in which the player answers moral dilemmas similar to that in Ultima IV determines the Hero's personality. The personality of the other members of the party is determined by the stat-raising seeds that the player gives them during the character generation process. Personalities determine which stats increase when a character levels up.[37] The personalities may be changed by use of special items and books.

It was announced in May 2011 that Square Enix will be releasing Dragon Quest III in Japan, as both the Famicom and Super Famicom ports as part of the September released of Dragon Quest 25th Anniversary Commemoration Famicom & Super Famicom Dragon Quest I & II & III for the Wii.[2] A quick save feature was added to this version of the game, allowing for pauses at any time, but the save file is deleted upon resuming.[38]

Music

Koichi Sugiyama composed and directed the music for the game. Dragon Quest III's music is featured on Dragon Quest Game Music Super Collection Vol. 1, Dragon Quest Game Music Super Collection Vol. 2, and Dragon Quest Game Music Super Collection Vol. 3, each album a compilation of music from the first six Dragon Quest games.[39][40][41] This game's music has also been featured on other Dragon Quest compilation albums, such as Dragon Quest on Piano Vol. II, which was released in 1990,[42] and Dragon Quest Best Songs Selection ~Loula~, released in 1993.[43] A compilation album of Dragon Quest III's music was put on Dragon Quest III ~And into the Legend…~ Remix Symphonic Suite and was published by Sony Records in 1996.[44] In 2011 Sugiyama played a concert focused on Dragon Quest III in his "Family Classic Concert" series he has done for many years, playing fifteen of the games songs.[45]

All tracks are written by Koichi Sugiyama

Dragon Quest III ~ And into the Legend...
No.TitleLength
1."Roto's Theme" (ロトのテーマ Roto no Teema) 
2."Rondo Royale" (王宮のロンド Ōkyuu no Rondo) 
3."Around the World (Around the World ~ Town ~ Jipang ~ Pyramid ~ Village)" (世界をまわる（街～ジパング～ピラミッド～村） Sekai o Mawaru (Machi ~ Jipangu ~ Piramiddo ~ Mura)) 
4."Adventure" (冒険の旅） Bōken no Tabi) 
5."Dungeon ~ Tower ~ The Phantom Ship" (ダンジョン～塔～幽霊船） Danjon ~ Tou ~ Yuureisen) 
6."Requiem ~ Small Shrine" (鎮魂歌～ほこら Chinkonka ~ Hokora) 
7."Sailing" (海を越えて Umi o Koete) 
8."Heavenly Flight" (おおぞらを　とぶ Oozora o Tobu) 
9."Fighting Spirits Battle Theme ~ In Alefgard ~ Hero's Challenge" (戦闘のテーマ～アレフガルドにて～勇者の挑戦 Sentō no Teema ~ Arefugarudo nite ~ Yūsha no Chōsen) 
10."And, into the Legend..." (そして、伝説へ… Soshite, Densetsu he...) 
11."Dragon Quest III's Original Audio Story" (ドラゴンクエストⅢ　ゲーム　オリジナル　サウンド　ストーリー Doragon Kuesuto ~ Geemu Orijinaru sutori) 

Reception

Sales

Dragon Quest III sold over one million copies on the first day with almost 300 arrests for truancy among students absent from school to purchase the game,[49] and 3.8 million copies total in Japan.[50] In Japan, the Super Famicom remake sold 1.4 million units, with nearly 720,000 units sold in 1996 alone.[51][52] The Game Boy Color version sold a lower 604,000 copies in Japan by the end of 2001.[53] However, together, with the sales of the remakes, Dragon Quest III is the most successful title in the series and one of the best selling role-playing games in Japan.[54] As of November 2010, Japan mobile phone version was downloaded more than 1,000,000 times.[55] Wii Dragon Quest Collection sold 403,953 copies in 2011.[56]

Reviews

A survey conducted by the magazine Famitsu in early 2006 among its readers placed Dragon Quest III as the third most favorite game of all time, being preceded by only Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy VII,[57] It is often mistakenly thought that in 1988 the game's success caused the Japanese government to outlaw further releases of Dragon Quest games on school days. In truth, Enix themselves decided to hold off the release of future Dragon Quest games until weekends.[58] The North American release of Dragon Quest III did not meet nearly as much success. Considered an improvement over the first two games, Dragon Quest III "kept the same ugly graphical style and clumsy interface", explained Kurt Kalata of Gamasutra.[8] The North American release's poor sales are partly due to the fact that the game was released after the release of 16-bit gaming systems, making it seem archaic to gamers.[8] Critics found the new day/night system and the addition of an in-game bank praiseworthy.[8] Its reputation has risen in America since its release, primarily due to its gameplay innovations, leading Nintendo Power to list it as number 176 on their Top 200 Games list.[59] IGN later listed it as the 96th best Nintendo Entertainment System game.[60] GamesRadar ranked it the 17th best NES game ever made. The staff chose it over the other Dragon Warrior titles due to its job system which they felt had depth and was influential to video games.[61]

The Game Boy Color remake received very good reviews from critics. GameSpot gave the Game Boy Color version a "good" 7.6/10, saying that "DWIII is a worthy port of its old NES ancestor, but its firm grounding in the RPG old-school means that only the hard-core need apply."[14] Nintendo Power gave the remake a 4/5, while IGN gave the game a perfect 10/10.[47]

Manga

The manga series, Dragon Quest Retsuden: Roto no Monshō (ドラゴンクエスト列伝 ロトの紋章, Dragon Quest Saga: Roto's Emblem), was written by Chiaki Kawamata and Junji Koyanagi with artwork by Kamui Fujiwara and was published inMonthly Shōnen Gangan from 1991 through 1997.[62] The series was later compiled into for 21 volumes published by Enix;[63] in 1994 it was released on CD and was released on December 11, 2009 on the PlayStation Portable as part of manga distribution library.[64] In 1996 an anime movie based on the manga was released on video cassette.[65]

A sequel series, Dragon Quest Retsuden: Roto no Monshō ~Monshō o Tsugumono-tachi e~ (ドラゴンクエスト列伝 ロトの紋章 ～紋章を継ぐ者達へ～, Dragon Quest Retsuden: Roto no Monshō - To the Children Who Inherit the Emblem), published by Square Enix started in 2005 and is still ongoing; as of December 2012, fifteen volumes have been released.[66] The first four volumes were written by Jun Eishima and all the rest volumes written by Takashi Umemura. All of them have been supervised by Yuji Horii with artwork done by Kamui Fujiwara.[67] Dragon Quest Retsuden: Roto no Monshō is meant to take place between Dragon Quest III and Dragon Quest.

After monsters possessed the Carmen's king for seven years, the kingdom fell to the hordes of evil. The only survivors were Prince Arus and an army General's daughter, Lunafrea. Meanwhile, in the Kingdom of Loran, a child by the name of is born with the name Jagan per the orders of Demon Lord Imagine. As Loto's descendant, Arus, along with Lunafrea, set out to defeat the monsters and restore peace to the world.

Dragon Quest Retsuden: Roto no Monshō ~Monshō o Tsugumono-tachi e~ takes place 25 years after the events in Dragon Quest Retsuden: Roto no Monshō. The world is once again in chaos and a young boy, Arosu (アロス), sets out gathering companions to once again save the world from evil. Dragon Quest Retsuden: Roto no Monshō was popular in Japan, it has sold 18 million in Japan.[68] Its sequel Dragon Quest Retsuden: Roto no Monshō - To the Children Who Inherit the Emblem has also sold well in Japan. For the week of August 26 through September 1, 2008, volume 7 was ranked 9th in Japan having sold 59,540 copies.[69] For the week of February 24 through March 2, 2009, volume 8 was ranked 19th in Japan having sold 76,801 copies.[70] For the week of October 26 through November 1, 2009, volume 9 was ranked 16th in Japan having sold 40,492 copies for a total of 60,467.[66]

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