This is not just from the difficulty of the enemies, but also due to the fact that the experience and money gains in the remake were also greatly increased.
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The most notable difference is that remakes are a fuckton less grindy than the original.
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Having gone from the NES version to a fan translation of the Super Famicom remake, there are some surprisingly vast differences from one version to the other.
Dragon quest 3 snes vs mobile password#
While the addition of a save feature is a welcome addition and an immense improvement over the password save, the change does remove a rather creative implementation where if you accept the Dragonlord’s offer to take half the world, he gives you a password that starts you at the beginning of the game with weaker stats. There is a reason that the English release of the Mobile version retained this style. There is just way too much iconic charm to the localization to dismiss it (although titling the first damage spell “hurt” sounds overly cringeworthy and childish). While I am usually in favor of staying true to the original script, I do have a preference for the more medieval aesthetic of localization.
Dragon quest 3 snes vs mobile manual#
The NES version added improved graphics and a save system that replaces the original’s password system, but Akira Toriyama’s cartoony aesthetic in the manual was replaced with a more traditional tone in a similar vein to the Ultima series, and the text was written in an Elizabethan style. It is worth mentioning that the US release that we know as Dragon Warrior is practically a remake in and of itself of the 1986 Japanese original. Then everything changed when the Dragon Nation attacked! I plan to briefly talk about each version though and this piece is meant as a critique of the game overall. For the sake of context, the version I played through was the SNES version but I played a bit of the NES version until my emulator went kaput and made me lose all my progress. I beat the first Dragon Quest a few weeks ago and am very close to completing Dragon Quest 2. Prior to about a month ago, I have never played the first three Dragon Quest games (and still have not played the third as I am writing this). Today I am going to look at the game that started it all. While the series is moderately popular in the west, the Dragon Quest series is pretty much mainstream in Japan. There is a strange sense of disconnect when thinking about how popular the series is in Japan when comparing its overseas releases.
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Given the niche of people who read my stuff, I am sure most of you are aware of the impact the Dragon Quest series has on JRPGs as a whole.