![]() ![]() The first of these leaps back in time take you to a village filled with forlorn Scottish accented men, after all of the women have been kidnapped. Always eager to go on adventures, your protagonist and his two friends Kiefer, a prince of Estard, and Maribel, the daughter of the mayor of Fishbel, find themselves jumping back and forth in time.Ĭollecting magical stone shards and placing them in a particular pedestal, you’re transported back in time to a different part of the world and with the opportunity to change things for the better, like Quantum Leap but without becoming a different person. The story begins as the main hero’s father returns with a fragment of an old map, suggesting that, while there is now just a single small island of Estard on this planet, there used to be many, many more. Subtitled ‘Fragments of the Forgotten Past’, this is a fantasy tale of time travel that permanently changes the world in which you initially find yourself. More than 15 years later, ArtePiazza’s remake for Nintendo 3DS has completely overhauled with remade 3D graphics throughout and even a fully controllable camera.Įach Dragon Quest game features its own story. To achieve that, while others embraced 3D to a greater extent, Heartbeat and Enix saw the CD-ROM as an opportunity to pack the game with a truly staggering amount of content, sticking with sprite-based characters within the 3D world. Even just sticking to the main path of the story and eschewing side quests in the game, you can easily brush past the 100 hour mark before completing this story. The Dragon Quest series has often found itself in a similar position, and while Dragon Quest VII did release on PlayStation in the US, its remake for 3DS – amusingly enough, already out in Japan since 2013 – will finally fill one of those long standing gaps in the series for the EU.Ĭonsidered a classic of the series, one of the most notable things about Dragon Quest VII was how the developers decided to make use of the PlayStation hardware. Final Fantasy III in North America was actually the sixth game in the series, with II, III and V not released outside of Japan until Square Enix saw fit to remake the games for Nintendo DS a decade and a half later. Back in the 80s and 90s, there were more than a few instances of games simply not seeing a release outside of Japan, or of being confusingly renumbered. That’s in the modern context of the internet and a more global gaming audience. So those looking forward to the next Persona, Yakuza, Monster Hunter, even Yo-Kai Watch, all have to wait. A lot of that comes down to the fact that a game that’s a big hit in Japan might only have this niche appeal in the rest of the world, the rest comes down to the time and effort required to translate and localised for other audiences. For fans of Japanese RPGs, there’s all too often a difficult long wait for a game to make its way to the West. ![]()
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