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Eiichiro Oda; the creator of One Piece is a fan of the Dragon Quest series, so much to the point where he drew Monkey D. Luffy into a Hero.
... Something of which Luffy vocally refuses to be portrayed as.
Hero’s Up-Air in Smash Bros is based off an infamous kick that is considerably known in the Dragon Ball Community that is unofficially called the Toriyama Kick.
You literally just shove your foot towards the sky while in midair. I’m not sure if it’s an actual move or not?
Local Dragon Quest Fan by the name of Ichiban Kasuga (Yakuza: Like a Dragon/Yakuza 7) went to prison somewhere in the year 2001.
He eventually got out in the year 2019, which means he missed out on playing DQ8-DQ11 between those years.
A Japanese Streamer has singlehandedly beat every Dragon Quest mainline game without sleeping for over 85 hours.
Give this man some utmost props for this incredible feat!
Don’t let anything distract you from the fact that DQ3 2DHD will be the first Erdrick Trilogy remake and first DQ3 remake that allows you to see your characters during battle.
The Heroes starring in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was originally going to be two instead of four, with the two choices being Eleven and Erdrick. That all changed when Yuji Horii suggested to add Solo and Eight as well.
A party of four is enough to save the world, you know!
The success of Dragon Quest 9: Sentinels of the Starry Skies is the sole reason for the existence of one of the Nintendo 3DS’ features: the Street Pass, according to Hideki Konno during one of Iwata Asks interviews.
Since the 35th anniversary is coming up, let me tell you about this amazing statue:
Around the 30th anniversary, the people of Sumoto erected a statue in honor of the series. It can be found in Awaji Island; Yuji Horii’s birthplace.
During April Fool’s Day in the year 2012, Google Maps managed to recreate their entire program to where it looks like a Dragon Quest NES/Famicom game.
They even made the logo look similar to that of a Dragon Quest Logo!
Yūki Kaji; the voice actor for Shoto Todoroki from MHA, Meliodas from 7DS, and Eren Jaeger from AoT expressed that he was excited to not only be a voice actor for Super Smash Bros Ultimate, but to also voice act his personal favorite Hero in the Dragon Quest series: DQ8 Hero.
According to the description of Dracky from Dragon Quest 11, the real reason why they smile a lot is to hide the fact that they’re actually afraid of everything.
Dragon Quest 8 is the first of many things in terms of the series’ transition to 3D, but its also the first game in the mainline series to where you’re no longer looking at the game at a top down perspective.
Somewhere around 2016, The Marunouchi Line section of Shinjuku Station placed up a Dragon Quest 1 mural made out of 180k Legos. People were free to take them down one block at a time, only to reveal what was behind the mural:
An advertisement of Dragon Quest Builders 1!
There was a Dragon Quest Slime Speaker stand that allowed you to play sounds from the Nintendo DS to your little slime buddy.
While the setup itself looks kinda awkward when it comes to playing your DS, rest assured that the slime itself is soft enough to rest your wrists on!
While all the Dragon Quest heroes in Smash Ultimate was designed by Akira Toriyama, Solo can be considered as one playable character who is the CLOSEST in having a Dragon Ball character in the Smash Bros. series.
Both he and Future Trunks share the same voice actor.
Despite what you see in this concept art of the DQ3’s Hero wearing Spiked Armor, you cannot dual-wield weapons in Dragon Quest 3 or any of its current remakes.
Vince Vanquish from DQ11 fights for the sake of making money for his home’s orphanage.
His ambition is based off the real-life story of a priest named Sergio Gutiérrez Benítez (Fray Tormenta), who supported the orphanage he directed as a luchador for 23 years straight.
According to DQ11, Drake Slimes and all of their variants are just more formidable slimes that believed in themselves hard enough to have dragon-like features.
Although they will never be classified as dragons, we must support our winged slime friend here in the best we can.
Aside from the four playable heroes in Smash Bros, the rest of the mainline heroes can be found via using the Final Smash called Gigaslash.
This tweet will go over why these heroes weren’t playable to begin with, so I’ll be going in numerical order.
Dragon Quest 9 was originally going be an action-based adventure game, which would be the first mainline installment in the series to do that… but the beta testers were not keen of the idea, so the devs went back to the original RPG roots.
According to Sakurai during a DQ11S launch livestream in Japanese, Yggdrasil’s Alter was one of the more harder stages to make since everything in the stage was made from scratch.
The Smash Team almost gave up and nearly decided on using Mount Huji as a stage instead.
This one’s not a fact nor is there any connections to this observation, but the International House of Pancakes (IHOP)’s usual blue sign looks like a Dragon Quest slime is smiling at you.
One of the biggest fake outs that the series has done so far was making most people believe that Alena from DQ4 was a Mage class character prior to the game being played.
Dragon Quest Fan Ichiban Kasuga from Yakuza 7/Yakuza: Like a Dragon has a tendency to quote references from Dragon Quest to stuff he comes across during his adventure…
Such as the famous “There’s no response. It’s just a corpse.” with Ichiban changing it to this quote:
The official Dragon Quest 4 Tarot Cards have four packs representing the main cast and Healie in different locations with different art representing them. One of them features the main cast in a dungeon and Alena in particular is…
using something that shouldn’t be possible.
Nintendo Power’s longtime writer by the name of Alan Averill was camera shy.
In each issue, he masked his face with various things until he used a Slime plush. Majority of readers quoted on how cute he looked, thus causing him to act as the plush for the remainder of his career.
In Smash Bros Ultimate, there is a strategy called “Top Decking” that Hero players use by spamming Down B and instantly chooses the first spell even if its good or bad.
Top Decking originated in the TCG scene where a player instantly uses a card they just draw from their deck.
Eleven is the first hero in the franchise to ever receive an English Voice Actor.
Give it up to Rasmus Hardiker for being the first English voice actor to voice a Dragon Quest Hero character!
As some sort of continuation of the poll I made yesterday…
In the 2018 Special Interview with Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii, Yuji Horii’s believes that Action Based Combat in Dragon Quest would go against a player’s creative freedom in controlling the pace of battle.
According to Dragon Quest 9, the origins of Slime Stack started when three slimes wanted to combine themselves into making a King Slime, but they lacked the numbers to do so.
Eleven obtains six different elemental sword attacks when his powers are awakened by Elder Eegoltap in Act 3.
These attacks, along with the starting stances the hero takes, are based off the Avan Style Sword Techniques from the Adventures of Dai series.
Square Enix has officially trademark their unique visual art style for the upcoming Dragon Quest 3 remake and dubbed it “HD-2D.”
This is the same art direction you’ll see in games such as Octopath Traveler and the upcoming Triangle Strategy.
One Piece Odyssey is a JRPG being developed by ILCA, Inc., the same studio notably responsible for developing Pokemon BDSP and… you guessed it! Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age.
Today (or yesterday if you live in Japan) is the 34th anniversary of Dragon Quest 3. The game was so highly anticipated to where there were reports of theft, assault and truancy with nearly 300 confirmed arrests during the game’s release date.
According to Dragon Quest 9, Pink Sanguinis evolve into Bloody Manguinis when they drink up enough blood and fall into a food coma. Once they wake up is when the transformation begins...
According to Dragon Quest 9, the majority of Liquid Metal Slimes have their own form of playing Chicken amongst each other.
The game consist of which Slime can last the longest without getting killed and still succeed in escaping.
Solo’s Alternative Costume in Smash Ultimate has him wearing a piece of Metal Slime Earrings.
Though, these earrings cannot be obtained in Dragon Quest 4 since it was introduced several installments later.
The Wayfarer’s Clothes is a popular low level armor since it can be equipped by almost every party character in each game it appears in. It’s so popular that the DQ3 Hero/Heroine, Alena, and the DQ5 Hero’s children wear their own versions of the Wayfarer’s Clothes.
Happy 29th Birthday to Yuuki Aoi; a voice actress known for voicing Tasumaki from One Punch Man, Tsuyu “Froppy” Asui from My Hero Academia and is also the current voice actor for Maribel Mayde from Dragon Quest 7.
The HORI Dragon Quest Slime controller is pretty cute and a nice edition to add to your collection. Though in terms of actually using it for its intended purposes…
Some would rather just stick with traditional controllers, according to consumers.
According to DQ11’s description of Golems, they are peaceful enough to allow birds to land on their shoulders while waiting for someone to beat up.
This peacefulness seems to be exclusive to that of small monsters and animals, which can also be seen in the DQTact Reveal Trailer.
The Wayfarer’s clothes is a low level tunic armor that has been in multiple games in the series. This armor is commonly associated with Erdrick in DQ3 since they start off wearing this in all versions of DQ3 and they’re usually seen wearing this tunic in most media sources. (1/2)
According to the description of the Bubble Slime in DQ11, it is assumed that these slimes live their lives without knowing what a loved one’s embrace feels like… and that is a pretty tragic thing to live through.
It’s Friday, so here’s a Final Fantasy Fact.
According to the Tekken 7 debut trailer of Noctis, the only reason why he’s in that universe was to go on a small fishing trip with Lars Alexanderson.
Given the spot is Jungle Outpost, they picked a pretty good place to fish.
The Zenithian Trilogy Heroes have their journey starting points either surrounded by, nearby or on top of a series of mountains.
Can’t blame them given the circumstances, though.
Eleven is the first character in the Dragon Quest series to get caught lacking by Kingdom Heart’s Sora’s Counterattack.
Luckily enough, Eleven didn’t obtain a critical hit… otherwise this counter would’ve definitely rock his entire soul to Yggdrasil and back.
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Within Dragon Quest 5, it would appears that weddings acknowledge the fact that churches and magic have the ability to bring people back from the dead at anytime, since the quote “Til death do you part” is not mentioned during the ceremony.
Upon Dragon Quest 1’s first release in Japan, the initial sales were so low to where Enix nearly lost money.
Thanks to the efforts of Horii’s Shonen Jump Articles to bring people in, Toriyama’s artwork and Sugiyama’s music, they manage to sell 1.5 million copies of the game!
Along with the fact that Dragon Quest 8 is the first game in the west to not be named Dragon Warrior, it is also the first game in the west that added a subtitle under the main title.
In honor of
#JadeJanuary
,
The international fan poll for DQ11 on Famitsu states that Jade is considered the most popular female of the main cast with a total of 606 votes, sitting pretty in
#3
as one of the most popular characters in all of DQ11.
The existence of Dragonlord’s grandson confirms only two things:
1. It is possible that even the future generations of the most wicked individuals can become good people.
2. Dragonlord got laid at one point in time.
In the Japanese Version of Smash Bros, all the four heroes have a chance to shout the spell names of their Neutral B + Up B and Side B moves.
Sakurai didn’t think adding those voice lines were important, but decided on doing so anyways with Yuji Horii’s permission.
Don’t forget…
Because of their privileges as a mascot, the Slime has made more appearances than every single main protagonist in the Dragon Quest franchise combined.
Munchie is always stationed within Eight’s coat pocket in Smash Bros, so you’ll always have your little buddy at all times.
He does not have any animation in regards to what’s going on around him, however…
The Computer Virus is a boss that brings forth multiple RPG-like enemies for Kirby to face in Kirby Super Star/KSSU.
While not a direct reference to any rpg in particular, the Great Dragon and its remake variant has a similar pose to that of the Green Dragon in the DQ series.
Yoko Taro; the creator of the Drakengard and NieR series is a fan of the Dragon Quest franchise.
If he ever got involved with making a game for the Dragon Quest series, he wishes to make a pinball game.
According to DQ11’s description of the Slime Knight, the bond between both slime and rider is so strong to either individual will drop dead as well if their partner is slain in battle.
Talk about being best friends to the end.
The overseas version of DQ4 on the DS lacked the Party Chat function despite it being implemented in the PS1 remake for DQ4 and the Japanese Version of the DS game. (1/?)
If you look closely at the face of Erdrick’s Sword, you will see runic markings on it.
Translating these markings will spell out the words “Dragon Quest” on it.
Given that his sole reason for joining the party was out of gratitude towards the Hero in DQ8, Yangus is the only party member in the original version of the game that bears no personal grudge against Dhoulmagus.
Joe Higashi from the Fatal Fury Series is voiced by Nobuyuki Hiyama, who also voiced as Erdrick in Smash Ultimate.
… oh and pipin tarupin from ffxiv also shares the same voice actor too
In the Japanese Version of Earthbound Beginning (Mother 1), there is a male student in Twinkle Elementary School who’ll ask the player if they’ve beaten Dragon Quest 4.
The student would then state that he has yet to beat Dragon Quest 3.
Back during the NES/FC Era, The Heroine from DQ4 didn’t have any Slime Earrings as opposed to her male counterpart. It remained like this until the the Playstation Era to where she was soon given two slime earrings instead of one.