In their ongoing effort to (thankfully) inundate us with Dragon Quest games this year, publisher/developer Square Enix recently released ports of the first three Dragon Quest games to the Nintendo Switch. Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line, and Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation, are all now available for individual purchase via the Nintendo Switch eShop. If you?ve enjoyed Dragon Quest Builders II from earlier this year, or are still in the midst of your adventure with Dragon Quest XI, you might be curious to see where it all started, and as a trilogy, I do think the original games are worth checking out.
As far as presentation goes, all three games don?t really have supplemental material or any additional features worth noting. It?d be nice to see that stuff here, but don?t go in expecting much past the actual port. These ports are based on the mobile releases from a while back, and while absolutely competent on the performance side, they lack the bells and whistles found in Square Enix?s Final Fantasy releases (3x speed, skip battles, etc). I?m also not a huge fan of the character sprites that carried over from the mobile version of the game, they?re a little too shiny and glossed over compared to the backgrounds and dungeons, which are more in line with the pixel-based look of the original games.
Note: Square Enix provided us with a Dragon Quest I, II, and III codes for review purposes.
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