Get A Closer Look At Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake In New Gameplay Trailer

My eyeballs are planted against the screen. I want the closest look possible burned into my retinas.

I'm a bit conflicted about this game. I was really excited when it first was announced, but the exitement is a bit down since its been so long.

I also would perfer to have them release the first 2 games as well before I play this one. Especially, since we know they are working on them.

This probably will not be a day 1 buy, but maybe down the line.

@HeroEightBit This is actually the first one, where the story of Erdrick begins. It's the best place to start!

So… no demo before release? 🥺

Yeah, this looks great. One of the reasons I'm not always keen on first person views in RPGs is a lack of cool spell & monster animations and not being able to see your party in combat. Thankfully, this has a little bit of both.

@xmkbest Since it's a November release, I'm thinking late October if we get a demo.

Love it! Gotta get my yen eshop card soon!

@xmkbest doubtful. It’s still just DQIII at its core. Which has been released like several times already. Which is actually a decent way to boost sales of the older version of the game actually to get new people to try at a lower price point. I would think they would want folks to buy the game to see the changes beyond a trailer.

@the_beaver Wait, is this a prequal? (Never really play the dragon quest games before.)

@HeroEightBit Yep, that's it! This story tells the beggining of the hero, so it's a great place to start. You won't miss out on anything.

@HeroEightBit Welcome to the world numerical sequels that are actually prequels. But yeah it is.

@the_beaver Dang, maybe I will have to get it sooner now. I was not aware of that. Thanks for the tip!

still censored. keeping me money.

looking forward to Romancing Saga 2 (played the Demo and was very impressed)

@ottoecamn What's censored?

God the wait for this game is so painful.

@DripDropCop146 a lot of character designs have been toned down compared to the original versions, especially the females. For instance, the fem warrior has these weird looking shorts covering her waist region. There should be images out there comparing the designs for the remake vs the original, but that is the most notable example

@DripDropCop146 also, outside of character designs, they changed the color of the trolls’ lips to be not pink anymore, likely due to its resemblance to a certain demographic

anyone know if square=enix added new islands or lands to explore in this remake?

loving the battle animations very cool..

@OwenGamer22 I took time to look and, well Im fine with it. I'll still give the game a go as I never played it.

@DripDropCop146 Some people need to see girls pretty much naked in order to buy games.
Weird stuff, I know. I'll never understand lol.

Now seriously, while I understand that some don't want to support this kind of behaviour, I think it's much more important to show SE that we actually WANT this kind of games, instead of others much worse like Forspoken or the GAAS. This game seems to be really polished and handled with care. This type of products are the ones we should support, imo.

@the_beaver I understand where you’re coming from, but I just think the censorship is very disrespectful to Toriyama. And I agree with you, the game does look very good, and that’s coming from someone who isn’t as big of a fan of this “HD-2D” style Square Enix has been doing to a lot of their more recent titles(with the exception of Octopath, obviously!). However, all of the discourse surrounding this game, including stuff that is not censorship, have really soured my interest in the DQIII remake, and that’s a huge shame because it was the only thing I was asking for going into the June Direct. I initially preordered it, but I cancelled it and am now thinking about getting a used copy later next year, after playing the original, of course.

@johnedwin There is new story content centered around the protagonist’s ancestor

I have to say, I don't understand what's so "gorgeous" about the visuals. The 3D environments look generic to me. I'll give the game a chance because I'm a DQ fan, but the visual style is not impressing me so far.

The music sounds so holy.

@johnedwin
They mentioned something about new monsters/bosses, im unsure if its related to the stuff regarding the heroes father or if they added bosses to older dungeons which didn't have them.

@JohnnyMind
yeah i enjoy the visual style, it does kind of remind me a bit more of that star ocean 2 remake than something like octopath or the live-a-live remake which im cool with, hopefully it runs as smoothly as that star ocean remake did.

either way 3 was one of my faves and i loved the feeling of "adventure" it had, the game becomes extremely open as it goes on.

@DripDropCop146 rhats fair, if it doesn't bother you, go for it.
In my case, I'm sick and tired of seeing this happening. Specially when it comes to historic revisionism and altering products from the past for the sake of an audience that doesn't exist.

@the_beaver kind of a disingenuous characterization.

Nobody is gonna be complaining about peach being covered up in a mario game, what most people are against is the censorship of games from the past made for the sake of people who probably wouldn't buy the game regardless (one example is censoring cleavage in female designs, like the female form is something to be frowned upon, but another is what Capcom is doing with the dead rising remake, removing line from a war veteran about communism, making one of the many psychopaths in that game white when he was originally Asian, or removing the "erotica" rating which was an optional type of bonus points you could get in the original).

It's more of a matter of respecting the original vision and not having american sensibilities forced in Japanese made products (which is something that HAS been happening, with the people behind it not even hiding it).

@OwenGamer22 I'm kinda in thr same boat, I do really wanna pick this up, but the censorship is a deal breaker. I might get it used down the line (it's not liket he switch is lacking games to play).

I brought up Romancing Saga 2 in my initial comment cuz, from what I've seen, none of the designs seem to have been toned down (probably because its a more niche title that isn't big enough to get the attention of the ethics department/consultation companies/censorship Square associates with. I didn't care much for it in the dirext but the demo really turned me around on it.

@Jhena Orchestrated is where it’s at

Looks great, definitely playing this, a real shame about the awful censorship though. I wonder if we should blame Square Enix, or the ratings boards increasing their requirements to get a reasonable rating.

lots of things get censored or changed for modern audience old books get revised so do games it is no big deal this remake will be a much better experience then the older versions..

@johnedwin Eh...It's not so black and white.

Like look, im okay to some degree with a creator changing their work as they see fit. However it's just as valid for others to question why and voice their disagreement. However, that's talking about a creator still involved.

It's abit different when the creator is no longer in control of their creation. Then you have to ask many questions as to why changes are needed and what purpose do they serve?

Like, I wouldn't want a piece of media to omit a word or scene due to modern sensibilities. In doing so you are omitting intent by the creator. Sure it may be something bad, but you have to judge a piece of work with the context of it's time.

But back to DQ3 here. It's perfectly valid for people to question the point of these changes. It would be nice if Square sat down and explained it. Sure it might not change much, but atleast an answer is better than no answer.

Does Square owe an explanation? Well no, it's their IP (I assume). But for those who invested in the series for a long time are on some level atleast entitled to understand why these things are needed.

Oh, I was going to play this on an emulator. So I'm glad switch is getting it. I'm just finishing up DQXi s and it's been awesome. Although this will have to wait. I'm going to play both Star oceans next.

Alright I'll say it; people going so far as to boycott because of extremely minuscule levels of censorship is just ridiculous.

This is not like other games, where the entire point of the story or theme was disrupted; this is a few pixels on a sprite being tweaked. Nobody will even see the artwork in-game anyway, or only for a few moment if they do. I really hope the four of you know that your boycotts will make zero difference to Square Enix. All you're doing is punishing yourselves.

I really hope we're getting an English dub for voice overs.

@DripDropCop146 Horii is CEO of his own company, Armor Project, a company that has an exclusive production contract with Square Enix,[4] a contract established with Enix before the company merged with Square, and is also one of the companies who co-own the Dragon Quest franchise alongside Square Enix.

basically yuji horii runs dragon quest..

Dragon Quest is the king of RPGs. The altered stuff isn't my favorite but it's kind of a side-effect of the CERO (Japanese ESRB) ratings and as such has been going on for a few years in the series.

The same thing happened with Smash Bros and some of its character designs since they wanted to go for the lowest CERO rating possible to maximize sales. Kind of lame but not a dealbreaker for me. Because I cannot resist this legendary series.

@the_beaver I wouldn’t say it’s the best place to start. You certainly can start here but it’s better to progress through each as they improve substantially with each entry. Going from III, where the series reaches maturity, back to the first, even with the remakes that make it the light briskly paced game it should be, is going to be jarring for a lot of people. Plus, the original experience of these games is for people to encounter what they knew from the first two games in the third, not the other way around.

@ottoecamn I’m still going to get it but I really don’t like it. Doing this after the man has passed just feels so messed up.

The unnecessary and quite frankly ridiculous censorship of the late great Toriyamas character designs is turning this from a day one purchase to possible never.

@Ulysses
It’s not minuscule it’s quite a bit of censorship. Especially to censor a great artists artwork essentially saying that they fixed his art. How dare they. Just leave it as it was originally. Just because they want to please a small minority of “oh think of the children” alarmists that aren’t actually going to buy the product regardless anyway regardless of the changes.

In one hand I'm really hyped for this game, in the other hand, all the censorship just make me though "whyyy?", why the heck can squareenix let akira toriyama art style shine in this new graphics rather than censor it for, let's not mince word here, twitter lunatics?

Btw, do you know than cleric in the game has cross symbol in their clothes because they're class that use god miracle to heal others? Want to know what their new, updated for modern audience symbol is? A fork of course, a symbol of the devil. I really think the one that censor this game is actually evil, like, a true evil person 😕

@GameOtaku You are assigning intent upon Square Enix's actions based on nothing but grand assumptions. It's possible various ratings boards pressured Square Enix to make small tweaks here and there to maintain a certain rating for their game. In fact, they could have made small tweaks to many other aspects to the game that we're currently unaware of in order to keep the technically-objectionable items by a ratings boards under a certain threshold.

We don't know why they made those tweaks, and you're simply assuming the worst for the sake of moral outrage.

@Ulysses
It’s in poor taste. The changes completely alter his art. These changes aren’t going to cause someone to buy it who wasn’t going to anyway although they may claim some grand agenda about making a fantasy character less sexual. It’s a fantasy game. Bikini armor is a trope of fantasy games and fantasy in general. The bunny girls and puff puff parlors and casinos have also been a staple of the series. So why?

Would have been interested if it was not censored.

I mean, I loved DW3 back when and it's a nice thing for modern audiences, but couldn't we have gotten a remaster of 7 or 8?

/entitled complaint

The official creators said something about the censorship.

https://x.com/dimitrimonroez/status/1840322307367092717?s=46

Can’t wait to play it. Tired of hearing about the controversy. Play it or don’t.