DRAGON QUEST III

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About this game

DRAGON QUEST III: The Seeds of Salvation—one of the most highly acclaimed and best-selling games in the franchise is finally here for mobile! Now all three instalments of the Erdrick Trilogy can be played in the palm of your hand!

Every wondrous weapon, spectacular spell and awesome adversary in this rich fantasy world is yours to discover in a single standalone package. Download it once, and there’s nothing else to buy, and nothing else to download!
DRAGON QUEST III: The Seeds of Salvation has an independent storyline and can be enjoyed without playing DRAGON QUEST I or DRAGON QUEST II.
※In-game text is available in English only.

◆ Prologue
On the morning of their sixteenth birthday, the child of Ortega, hero of the land of Aliahan, is charged with a seemingly impossible task by the King himself: to slay the Archfiend Baramos, master of darkness!
What trials await our intrepid hero as they set out to take on a quest not even their legendary father was strong enough to complete?

◆Game Features

・Freely Customisable Party System.
Set out on an unforgettable adventure with a party of up to four characters who can be customised to your exact specifications at Patty’s Party Planning Place! Choose names, genders and jobs, and put together the team of your dreams!

・Freely Changeable Vocations
Your party members can be assigned any one of up to 9 vocations, a choice which will dictate their stats, equipment, spells and abilities.
Though the hero’s role has been decided by fate, the jobs of all the other characters are yours to change as you see fit.
Characters who change jobs will be returned to Level 1 and have their attributes halved, but they will retain all the spells and abilities they’ve learned, allowing you to tailor your team to perfectly suit your needs.
Turn a priest into a warrior to add healing abilities to your swordsman’s arsenal, or mix it up any other way you like! The possibilities are endless!

・Experience an epic RPG experience with over 30 hours of gameplay with added features to the original release!
Travel across multiple continents and dungeons as you level up your characters and unlock new spells and abilities. The personality system changes how your character grows making your party always unique. Mini-games like medal collecting to unlock powerful new items that were not available in the original release. Discover and explore bonus dungeons and location after completing the main plot.

・Simple, Intuitive Controls
The game’s controls are designed to work perfectly with the vertical layout of any modern mobile device, and the position of the movement button can be changed to facilitate both one- and two-handed play.

・Experience the multi-million selling series, beloved both in Japan and beyond, and see how the masterful talents of series creator Yuji Horii first combined with the revolutionary synthesizer sounds of Koichi Sugiyama and the wildly popular manga illustrations of Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball) to create a gaming sensation.

◆ Supported Android Devices/Operating Systems ◆
・Devices running AndroidOS version 8.0 or above.
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Ratings and reviews

The pinnacle of the Erdrick Trilogy. Yuji Horii's magnum opus. If you liked 1 or 2, just go ahead and pick this one up. Don't even think about it. This timeless masterpiece has an extremely expansive setting, classic turn-based combat, and intuitive controls optimized for mobile devices. It's perfect on the go. If you have been playing the games in order, (1-3) you are going to be in for a really neat surprise at the end of this journey. If there is a game to play forever, this is one of them.

It's Dragon Quest III, one of the all time classics of JRPGs and video games in general. The SNES era graphics are gorgeous and controls excellent for a mobile game. However, I can't give it a full 5 stars due to a few bugbears. Pachisi is out, so the game's main mini game is gone and it's absence is blaring. Enemy animations are gone, which was present in the SNES and GBC version of the game. Items are missing info boxes. None of this is game breaking and it's still worth playing through.

I can't speak for everyone, but personally, this game was pretty easy to write off at first glance. It has so-so SNES graphics, a skeleton of a plot, and the battles play out like a first-person, still-frame picture book with a little ticker at the bottom that tells you what's happening. It doesn't help that the game is also outdated--this was originally released in the US in 1991 (when I was just 6 years old), and by today's standards it's super basic. Further, if you do boot it up, you're going to have a heck of a time getting used to the controls. Still, gosh darn it, the game is just a lot of fun to play. The story, while certainly barebones, feels adventurous and fulfilling, even if the majority of the adventure is created by your random encounters. Escaping the pyramid, waking the legendary giant bird, and falling to another world aren't compelling plot points, but they feel personal. The game also has a sense of discovery that rivals modern games like The Witcher 3--even with the simplistic presentation, finding and looting towers is exciting and tense. Awesome game--challenging, satisfying, and fun.

What's new

Bug fixes.