Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake Has Officially Gone Gold, Out This November

Inject to into my veins! Haven’t played 3 in a while and a lot of the story has gotten fuzzy, so should almost feel like a new game to me. Gonna be a great way to round out the year.

My backlog is never gonna recover. Sigh.

I’m even more excited for DQ I HD, but I’ll definitely be picking up III as well.

When will it go Palladium?

Why no PS4 version? Serious question

@JSC016 apparently 3 is a prequel to this trilogy called the "Erdrick trilogy" so maybe wait for 3 HD 2D to come?

I never played Dragon Quest but maybe I might try the series with this game.

I've played the original Dragon Warrior on the NES. Should I play Dragon Warrior (Dragon Quest) 2 before this one?

@Logicfire You definitely don’t need to. Chronologically, 3 happens before 1 and 2.

@JSC016 @anoyonmus I’d say start with 11.

@LastFootnote thank you! I’d completely forgotten about that.

Well done! Woah, the pictures are so beautiful. I am very much looking forward to it.

With videogames there is always something to look forward too.

@JSC016 I second starting with XI. Though VIII is also incredible, and the DS remakes were also great. The remasters of 1-3 on Switch are bad mobile ports, so I would not touch those. XI also can be played in 2D, and it's pretty similar to the old games. It's really the best way to gauge whether you might click with the rest of the series.

@LastFootnote ah well, a bit too late for me heh. Maybe one day. But 3 looks interesting so I want to see that.

@JSC016 i would skip the mobile versions of the game and play the hd 2d remakes instead..

Nice, can't wait for this one! Love the art style, I'm getting it physically day one.

Zelda and Plucky Squire in September.
Ys X Nordics in October.
DQ III and Mario & Luigi in November.

What a way to finish the year!

Between the price and censorship, it’s going to be a 2nd hand, on sale purchase for me.

@Chimichanga
Yep, but i guess i will even forget until than about the Game or just play the original

It looks good but it’s weird how everything is rendered in HD 3D … except for the characters which are 2D pixelated. It doesn’t look bad it’s just weird how they changed art direction completely an no one seems to notice.

Would have been interested if it was not censored.

I hope these three are the start of all of them coming to Switch!
or even Switch Successor!

@dil_power that's the HD-2D style (see Octopath Traveler)

Oy yes, another game to make me go bankrupt.
Really want this one.

@Tobiaku
Cencored? How?

@The-Chosen-one Here is a article about the censorship
https://www.techopse.com/square-enix-bastardizes-toriyamas-legacy-with-censored-character-art-in-dragon-quest-iii-hd-2d-remake/

@Tobiaku
Wauww.... Didnt know this.
Mmm, thanks for sharing.

11 was a big COVID game for me and made me love this series enough to go back to the others, played 1&2 iOS and playing 7&8 on 3DS, so I’m excited to play 3HD and the other two HD eventually.

@JSC016 Get the remakes. Looks like it'll be more than worth it. III comes before I and II, but you can still play it in the original order if you'd like.

Can't wait for this game! Have it preordered on both PS5 and Switch.

@Taguon I think you either tagged me by mistake or forgot to write a comment to me. As is you just tagged me with a yawning smiley.

I will probably still buy the game, but Square-Enix should be ashamed about the disgraceful censorship in this remake. They are spitting on Toriyama's grave mere months after he passed. But this is exactly why the originals can never be replaced by remakes.

Yeah I never thought we'd see a remake of the original DQ, let alone the entire 1-3 trilogy! So I begrudingly played the only legit version we were given on the Switch, and to echo a lot of people here, I would definitely give them a wide berth — they run like absolute bum-gravy.

I will not be buying due to censorship.

@Tobiaku Even the men are censored in DQ III too. Truly bewildering that Mario can be shirtless in Odyssey, but Monster Wrangler Male has to cover pecs.

@geshem maybe I expressed myself poorly but my whole point was that the original HD-2D art style like in Octopath Traveller was completely pixelated even though everything other than characters was modeled in 3D… this new look is weird to me. If you’re gonna have smooth HD graphics for everything and then pixelated characters it’s just weird. The original DQ HD-2D trailer looked much different. This new art style is maybe not noticeable to most but it feels like a downgrade to me

@dil_power ah, I understand. Thought you were talking about the characters but you were talking about the world. You're right, I noticed that it looks very high-res in some scenes, but didn't think about it too much. It is a difference.

@philwhite Oh please, a costume being slightly different or a word missing from some line is the smallest deal ever lol

I understand censorship being a big deal, it definitely is pandering to a small amount of people who complain about non-issues which is frustrating but DQ is one of my favorite franchises and this game looks absolutely incredible regardless so I'm still getting it day one.

I always said, if I never played another Dragon Quest game, I made a promise to myself that if they ever remade the Erdrick trilogy, I would play each of those. Looks like I got my wish(es). Can't wait to FINALLY play Dragon Warr... ahh, Quest III!

@ItsATM Downplaying it is all the more reason why it was unnecessary to change. "Little changes" add up. If it was all inconsequential, then none of it would need to change in the first place.

Let me ask you, How do you translate Ruida's Tavern to Patty's Place? The GBC version is more faithful having the NPC and her store be named Ruida and apparently the Patty name choice is referencing the Simpsons character. That's the tip of the iceberg, and knowing SE's ethnics department telling the devs what to alter to meet 'global standards' ala sensitive snowflakes that is far 'n between, there will be a plethora of changes to the dialogue on top of rewriting character and locale names to reference pop culture like the aforementioned, Patty's Place.

@Porky
I don't think it's referencing Marge's sister, as nothing else seems to indicate that and Patty is a pretty standard (if not super common) name.

I figured she was called that due to how it sounds like "Party," since you always choose/make your party in games where you can talk to her.

@JSC016 play 11. It’s distilled a lot of the best of the series gameplay and ideas into one game. And it is a good game in its own right. Plus you can play in 2d if you are looking to keep the old school feel to prep you for 3.

@MatthewTaranto I would be inclined to believe you were it not for the addition of them rewriting Roxanne's name to 'Sellma' in DQIX and subsequent spinoffs she appears in running a service like Ruida. I contest the naming of these characters reference more than the puns that align with their service and their names reference Marges sisters from the Simpsons. That's butchery either way; it's not the job of the translater to completely alter naming of the creators vision so they can 'cleverly' make puns that never existed in the original. If they wanna name chatacters with puns in mind referencing their duties and other variants, go create it theirselves. Don't take someone elses work, rewrite it, and credit it as your handiwork. Which these localizers do as failed writers.

@Porky
Oh, I didn't even put two and two together with Sellma! Okay fair enough, that's a Simpsons reference.

I'll be honest though, I generally really love DQ's localization. While I do agree that it sometimes goes too far with punny names to the point of being distracting (DQXI's Gloomnivore comes to mind for me), I find its writing on a micro level to be really engaging, fun, touching when necessary and full of personality. So I'm okay with the odd pop culture reference here or there if the name still works otherwise--and in this case, there's a double-meaning with Patty/Party and Sellma/Sell. I feel similarly about A Link Between Worlds' Hilda and Zelda Sabrina reference. A little out-of-nowhere but I think it's okay.

Plus, who's to say that Ruida and Roxanne weren't themselves Japanese pop culture references in their own right? This is a series with puff-puffs and farting ferrets, after all. Yuji Horii certainly has a sense of humor about his work so the puns and homages might just be part of the series.