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DRAGON QUEST VII Fragments of the Forgotten Past 3DS Release Date
September 9, in the year of our Lord 2016 --
The old RPG adventure arrives in Europe for the first time,
rebuilt from the ground-up in 3D. When Auster and Prince Kiefer
are determined to prove there’s more to life than their island
home, they soon stumble into a quest that will see them
travelling through time in order to save the fate of their world
in DRAGON QUEST VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past, coming to
Nintendo 3DS family systems on 16th September.
Making its debut across Europe, DRAGON QUEST VII: Fragments of
the Forgotten Past is the latest in the long-running Dragon
Quest RPG series. This instalment of the series has been rebuilt
from the ground-up in 3D, and represents the latest in a line-up
of RPGs on Nintendo 3DS family systems this year, including
Bravely Second™: End Layer and Fire Emblem Fates.
In this handheld re-imagining, DRAGON QUEST VII: Fragments of
the Forgotten Past begins when, in their quest to prove their
island isn’t alone in the world, life-long friends Auster,
Prince Kiefer and Maribel find themselves embarking on a journey
that will see them travel through time and rescue civilisations
long-forgotten in order to save the future. By collecting
fragments of tablets and putting them back together again, the
intrepid heroes can travel to new places and past dungeons in
order to restore the world in this truly massive adventure.
To aid in their fight against evil forces, Auster, Prince Kiefer
and friends can be customised with over 50 different vocations,
allowing them to specialise in a wide variety of classes that
allow players to take more control of the battlefield. From
Warrior to Mage to Martial Artist, each brings new strategies to
the fight, and through the use of special items, heroes can even
take on Vocations that allow them to fight as monsters, such as
Dragon Quest’s memorable slime enemy.
During their travels, adventurers can not only fight as
monsters, but will also be able to discover, befriend, and
collect over 200 types of monsters to help grow their personal
Monster Meadow. By populating the Meadow with monsters found
throughout time, players can eventually send monsters out on
scouting missions into special caves that can’t be explored by
humans in order to find traveller’s tablets that grant access to
special new dungeons. In addition, players can connect to the
internet to download exclusive tablets that provide additional
dungeons where extremely powerful monsters and rare weapons are
waiting to be discovered.
As well as the Monster Meadows, monsters can also be invited to
live in the player’s Haven. By inviting people and monsters into
their Haven that they’ve met through their travels or via
special dungeons, heroes will eventually be able to develop new
buildings and settlements in their quest to cultivate the best
civilisation and make their village the ideal place to live.
Introduction
Dragon Quest is an iconic Japanese role playing game (RPG)
series where the main character is an alter-ego for the player
who goes on an a great adventure to defeat a demon lord
threatening the world. The Dragon Quest series has consistently
maintained a classic RPG setting from the original Dragon Quest
released on the NES in 1986 all the way to DRAGON QUEST X in
2012. But at the same time, each title has strived to bring new
gameplay mechanics making use of modern technology, such as a 3D
map, StreetPass functionality using wireless communication and
online features.
In DRAGON QUEST VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past, you must
travel to the past to save the present, as you restore forgotten
lands and battle an unknown evil. Customise your party from more
than 50 vocations and level up in turn-based battles to learn
new spells and abilities in this timeless quest!
Facts: Rescue the past! Create the future!
Celebrating its 30 year anniversary in Japan, Dragon Quest,
along with Final Fantasy, is one of the most popular Japanese
RPG series ever created. In addition to the core series from I
to X, over 80 other titles have been released such as the Dragon
Quest Monsters series. All of these original titles established
a formula that would come to influence every following Japanese
RPG.
DRAGON QUEST VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past introduces the
story of Hero and his friends Prince Kiefer, Maribel, Ruff,
Aishe and Sir Mervyn, who have to travel back in time in order
to rescue the past and thereby create the future! On their
journey, they stumble across more than 400 monsters.
DRAGON QUEST VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past is an all-new
story, which makes it enjoyable for both fans of and newcomers
to the series, as you need no previous knowledge of the other
titles. While the story overarches previous Dragon Quest
adventures, each territory has a self-contained storyline that
is relative to what happened in the past.
The Fragments of the Past that are already being hinted to in
the title are so-called tablet fragments that can be used to
complete maps in order to access lost continents. A new radar
called the fragment detector will make it easy to locate nearby
tablets. Once a map is complete, the player will be transported
to the location depicted. In DRAGON QUEST VII for Nintendo 3DS,
there are items called traveller’s tablets which, when exchanged
with other players via StreetPass, can be collected and used to
access special dungeons.
While Dragon Quest fans have so far already been able to enlist
monsters to their party, they now even have an entire playable
monster class that enables them to actually change their
character into the monster that they’ve defeated. The classic
Dragon Quest Slime will be one of 34 different monsters to
choose from.
During the game, you get to meet monsters disguised as humans
who would like to live in peace. You can direct them towards the
Haven. Monster Meadows on the other hand is a place where
monsters befriended during battle can be sent to live
peacefully. Monsters you fight will sometimes also give you the
opportunity to send them to Monster Meadows once defeated. They
can be sent to scout traveller's tablets in caves that only
monsters can enter on behalf of the player.
On the other end there’s Ruff – Hero’s bright-eyed, energetic
sidekick, who was once a wolf cub and got transformed into a
human by some evil magic. During the game, the player undoes the
magic which switches the people and animals of L'Arca around.
The only ones not affected by this are – of course – Ruff and
his mother.
In Dragon Quest VII, a remake of the 2000-PlayStation version,
the gameplay alternates between exploration and battle phases.
Contrary to the original versions, which featured random
encounters, enemies are now visible on the map and will engage
the player on sight.
Quests, especially when there are Dragons involved, are long and
challenging but always worth the ride. On top of that, there’s
post-game content, which makes it one of the longest JRPGs ever
created. In case the player is in need of a longer break between
two different quests, a recap feature that summarizes past
events has been added for players who have not played the game
for some time.
The story of Yuji Horii, also known as the father of the Dragon
Quest series, started on his path to becoming a game designer in
1982 when he won a prize in a game programming contest run by
Square Enix. He eventually decided to team up with Akira
Toriyama - the manga artist previously known as the creator of
the DragonBall franchise, who is now the designer of the epic
Dragon Quest characters and monsters, including Slime, who has
appeared in almost every Dragon Quest game.