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Dragon Warrior III

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Wow. I'm impressed. I have played this game on the original NES and I must say this is definitely a step-up from the NES version. For those who don't know much about the game, this series (Dragon Warrior) is hugely successful in both the U.S. and Japan, and in Japan it is almost as successful as the Final Fantasy series. DW I+II, released last year, prompted Enix to go ahead and port DW III. I'm so glad they did.

First off, you can have multiple classes to your characters over the course of the game. The world is huge and the battles are new in that the monsters have animations, and so do your attacks. From what I have played the difficulty seems just about as hard on the NES version. Also the passage of time is incorporated into this game, as night and day pass, and people have different things to say depending on the time and some people will be out at night, etc.

I haven't found anything that detracts from this game. I'm only about an hour into the game, but I'm impressed with what i've played so far. It makes an excellent game to play on breaks and when everyone leaves the office (it can get lonely at night when you are the only customer service rep in the place ;)). I'm very impressed with this game and if you liked DW I+II and/or Final Fantasy (all of them) you will definitely go for this game. It earns every ounce of recommendation I can give.

This is a very well done remake of the original Dragon Warrior III for the NES, a wonderful game, and above all a really fun RPG, something that recent RPGs haven't captured. This remake is very well done. Graphically the colors are very vibrant and the animations of both spells and enemies is a definite plus. My only gripe is they didn't put backgrounds in like they did in DW I remake, but that might be because of the graphical limitations of the gameboy color. Playwise the game has only been improved, adding tons more depth to your characters. Now they have personalities that guide how their stats increase, of course it also depends on the class. They have added a new mini-game in the Pachisi tracks, which are very interesting. They also added a concept of monster medals which you can randomly win after battles(there are 3 levels of medal, gold, silver, and bronze, you can't get a silver till you get a bronze etc) and if you collect enough medals you can unlock a secret. In addition, the ability to trade medals over the link is nice, but I still would have liked to have seen a battle mode, where your party can take on a friends party. The translation is also improved, being much more true to the Japanese version(which is why it recieved a Teen rating, the original was released when Nintendo was big on the family friendliness concept in the States). Overall, this is a must have RPG!

For those gamers that were fortunate enough to have played Dragon Warrior III on the NES, this will be just a reiteration of what you already know - this game rocks.

Even in the face of today's modern graphics and effects, the scope, storyline, and gameplay of Dragon Warrior III still stand strong. The characters can be customized in numerous areas, and even retrained if they aren't working out - you can take your Lvl 40 fighter and make him a wizard, or let your cleric train as a merchant. The number of sidequests and the evolution of certain areas is impressive, and will give you 60+ hours of things to do. Best of all, the fighting system is so simple that even a novice can start playing and get hooked immediately.

This game gets my highest possible recommendation. For a fraction of the cost of a Final Fantasy game, you can get a game that will give you more enjoyment for a longer period of time.

This is one of the best Gameboy games I have ever played. For a gameboy game, its graphics are top-notch and make full use of GB color's pallet. They are especially impressive when you are first starting a new game. The character sprites are mediocre but cute, and every graphic in towns, caves, and the overworlds is eye candy.

The world in this game is much larger than in Dragon Warrior 1 or 2. You start out as the hero and can get three other people to join you, from classes such as cleric, dealer, warrior, etc. Each class has different strengths, and all of them but the Fighter and Warrior learn spells. (Although the Jester learns only one, which is rather useless. But there's something else that makes jesters useful...)

The music is catchy, especially for the overworld and battle themes. It really sets the mood for every area of this game. From quiet, peaceful towns, to to dark dungeons, the music does everything correctly. One melody that stood out for me is that of a decimated village where everything is run down, the grass is a dry yellow, and all the people have been reduced to corpses. The music for this place is not just sad; it's scary and downright dismal.

There is some humor in this game that I found to be a very amusing bonus, such as what happens when you return the stolen crown to the king of Romaly. Some humor gives this game its Teen rating. You'll have to see for yourself :)

The battle style is also greatly improved. Not only are there over 150 enemies to fight, but you can collect medals of the monsters. While they first appear to be motionless images on the screen, when it's their turn to attack, they spring to colorful life!

Overall, I highly reccomend this game to anyone who is a fan of the RPG genre. I also recommend it to anyone who is just being introduced to Role Playing Games. It's well made, with beautiful graphics and good music, and bonus games to boot. Great job, Enix.

I am surprised to the opinions that there are some game users that do not like Dragon warrior(Japanese game title:Dragon Quest). Neddless to say, in Japan the most famouse and high quality and great story games are Final Fantasy series and this Dragon Warior series. FF series may be a little high level on the CG. But even now DG warrior series get high value from the broad game users in Japan.

Concretly, the music, graphic and story is that. The person that have made the DW music is Kouichi Sugiyama. He was once a member of Japan popular band Garo. And he knew about classical music very much too. He be active as a conducter of DA musical orchestra even now. His high level and nostalgic music sence have gotten many Japanese geme user hearts. For instance, the field music or battle music are that. The music characters are not always this 7 only, all the DW series will be that.

Secondly, the monster character drawing is Akira Toriyama. Needless to say, he was the maker of the most popular Japanese anime, Dragon Ball. He had gotten the fan by this anime before DW. His making picture is very cute and in other case is terrible. It was a great creater that could draw the both way. In additon to, he have the scence that get children hearts, and lead the nostalgy of adults even.

Thirdly, the story, that is, Yuuji Horii is that. the first DW series was reliesed before about 20 years by Nintendou Family Computer. I was a game user that bought the DW1. I was very surprised the story in that time even, that is, the combination story of Japanese historical story and old Europ knight story. Though it was the story that I had not experienced, I felt the nostargy.

By above three points mainly, I recommend the DW series rather than FF series. But when I read the U.S.A reviewers on this site, I knew that there are game users who do not like DW series compared with Japanese users. I am afraid a little, but I understood what the difference might be the culture difference in the both countries. In fact, recently FF series have made in Hawai, U.S.A, on the other hands, DW series have made in Japan only. FF maker, Square company may be consiouse of U.S.A commercial market.

But I think that the soft that can feel the truth Japan game mind will be DW series. DW series is what have been collected long Japanese history, animation, pop music etc.
If you are DW fans, may be true Japanese culture fans at the same time.

Thank you for my poor writing. and sorry for the spell miss.

I've never played the original Dragon Warrior III for the NES, but I can already tell how much better it is. First of all, instead of pressing "A" then selecting a command from the window, it's simple to just walk up and talk to villagers. Second of all, the graphics look absolutely incredible for a Game Boy game!

I do like the idea of selecting different types of members to join your party as you go along trying to kill the evil Demon Lord, whild finding keys, and solving puzzles.

I like the Class Change option. It gives somebody like a Mage to start becoming an experienced fighter, like changing them to a Warrior, or something else useful. What's REALLY helpful is that they don't forget the spells they've learned in their previous stage.

Not to mention how the text is completely re-translated. I thoroughly enjoyed this Teen rating that the game received, because I don't think that younger players would enjoy this as much as an older audience would. Not to mention the suggestive themes and mild language that you find in the game. Not too often, but it's there.

There's also a really cruel plot-twist that will surely drop your jaw. Because, I had always known Dragon Warrior games to be completely non-linear, and then suddenly, BAM! The nastiest twist that will tick off every single gamer. However, the irony is that the gamer will love this feeling because it's completely unexpected.

My diagnosis: BUY IT!

I have been into Dragon Warrior since I was a little kid, and it got me into the RPG genre. But I never really relized how good the series was until I played a imported copy of Dragon Quest 5. It's story was so much better then the endless "Art thou's" of the warrior series, and the the reason all of Japan was crazy over Yuji's and Akira's brainchild was apparent. I have been a fanatic for years, but not even in the Dragon Warrior 1&2 remake where they ditched the Old English stihck, the couldn't capture the charm of the orginal text, one of the reasons I think that it was easily surpassed in america by the Final Fantasy series. Now, the text as close as Yuji's true text(Notice the Teen rating) and feel of the real Dragon Quest. I have played the emulators, and if the release title is half as good, it should be a incredible game.

Another thing that should be noted is it's stunning graphics. It is a 32 bit game for an 8 bit system. That should tell you something right there. It looks as if it has scaling capablites, but that is impossible for Game boy Color...are you sure this isn't for advance? The graphics far surpass it's orginal, and should be the last major graphical achieivement of the Game Boy Color Era.

The last thing that should be noted is it's new features. It has the monster medal system, which should be known by people who has imported any Dragon Quest games. It also has a board game which is a intresting diversion and monster battleing bets which is also a fun diversion. But the newest addition is the revoultionary personality system. It truely puts you into the game, and people react to your diffrently because of how you are really. It also changes you Hero from a invincable warrior stat wise into a person where your flaws and strenths in personality in the real life effect your power in the game. If you answer the questions truthfully, you will get a personality close to your own. Best of all, if you try to answer all questions so to pass yourself on as a noble, self sacrficeing warrior, you will often be named naive. This alone makes the game the best rpg you can buy on the gameboy, and probally better then some console RPG's.

All in all, Dragon Warrior 3 is the best possible recreation of one of the best, only rivaled by Final Fantasy VII and Chrono Trigger, RPG's of all time.

One of the ultimate RPGs for the NES comes to Gameboy Color. Some things in the game have changed slightly, and things like the graphics and mini games have changed dramatically. It's the same old story though; you are the brave son of Ortega growing up in a small town. You must then create characters to help you on your quest to destroy the evil Demon Lord. There are useful character classes like Warriors, Fighters, Cleric and Wizards. Then there are useless character classes like Jesters, Dealers and Thieves. To top it off, a huge Gameboy improvement is the game is that the characters now have different personalities (such as brave, romantic, honest, jock and selfish), which determine how they gain hit points, magic points, intelligence, agility and so on when they level up. The game is a very nicely diverse RPG, because in some cases you must first go to a town, then go off to a tower and destroy a boss and his minions, but other times you must go to a castle, talk with a king, then go into a cave, find an item in a treasure chest, go to a town, give that item to someone who will give you a different item that the king wanted! There are fun mini games, such as the old "monster fights" where you bet on a monster to win in a battle against monsters, but something new from the NES version is that the game lets you bet double or nothing when you win once! The second mini game is a track where you are given dice to roll, which you will move spaces according to the dice to either tricks, traps, treasures or monster battles. There is a new "field log" which will allow a player to save anywhere in the game! The graphics are VERY dark for Gameboy Advance and this game seems to disable exterior lights (it shuts the GBA off if you use a light).

In this game you play as a 16 year old whose dad, the great warrior Ortega died in a epic fight with Baramos, the deamon lord. so you gather a party of four and set off to save the world in your fathers footsteps, usaul storyline but ... a lot of fun. it will make you mad a parts with training to get to sertain levels to beat up the boss. but if you haven't played any previous versions before it it will be fresh every battle. best of all[for me of course] was it always had something new like there are new worlds[yes a new world other than the one you begin yourr quest on] to explore. three basicly. it also requires you to learn stuff to move on through the game like shoals. that ends my review and i have completed the game so i know everything about it. a few hints too
1. always have one cleric and don't change her eather yes make her a girl.
2. turn a theive into a sage for it will be useful on the field when your week on a new island.
3. finaly increase your parties weekness like give warriors agility seeds as for there slow
finaly for the best storyline play the dragon warrior sieres in the following order. 3, 1, and 2.

First off, let it be known that I have played the initial release of this game when it was on the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System). It was the first truely great RPG I have ever had the fortune to play, keeping in mind that I'd played Dragon Warrior 1 before that (not a fan of 1 vs 1 combat) and that I don't really consider Legend of Zelda an RPG (Action/Adventure in my book). The game was long, fun, and an amazingly deep in story for a game that old. Only problem is it was a rental and I didn't get to finish it (I was on the last battle too).

Fast forward 11 years...

I bought a copy of this game on Amazon.com Marketplace for the GBC, since I knew I'd enjoy it again. That was truer than I expected.

The core gameplay is all here, so any fans of the NES version will love this one as much, if not more. Like most Japanese RPGs, the combat is turn-based and consists of standard fantasy elements. Swords, magic, and several monsters to fight (including the well known slimes, who always feel the need to grin despite the fact that you'll run them through). What amazes me is the amount of tactics involved in battles compared to other recent RPGs, such as the Final Fantasy games. The FF games rarely give you a run for your money in standard fight (perhaps with the exception of FF4), but with DW3 almost any battle has the potential to go horribly wrong, making you struggle to win. Most notable is when status effects are involved. Sometimes you'll find that your entire party has been put to sleep by a spell, or someone can be paralyzed, or a monster will boost their defense. Each of these has a counter, but sometimes you'll run into the bad luck of having it happen to the wrong person or that you didn't plan ahead of time with the right items to remove the effect. Running is always an option, but you take your chances with this, as a failed run will leave you open to more damage.

The graphics are much improved. This is the first game in the series I've seen with animated sprites for the enemies, and those are amazingly fluid. The rest of the graphics are improved as well, and make it seem almost SNES quality at times. The amount of items is greatly expanded, and item management is a lot easier thanks to a bag shared by the party that you can put everything in (you won't have access to those items during combat, though). Plus, there are several bonus touches, like a mini-game called Pachisi where you can earn bonus items (and most of them are pretty good items at that, like weapons), as well as two bonus dungeons, though unlocking the second one is a rather painful process requiring you to collect 144 unique monster medals... and those rarely appear after finishing of a monster.

If you've never heard of the series, and you're a fan of turn-based battles, this game is certainly a worthy introduction to the series. You'll wonder why this game series hasn't gotten huge sales numbers anywhere except Japan. Even more so if you've had the chance to play DWIV