Square-Enix today announced the forthcoming release of the next game in the Dragon Quest series. Based on the Japanese-only SNES RPG Dragon Quest V, Dragon Quest: The Hand of the Heavenly Bride - released next Spring - is the follow-up to this year’s superb The Chapters of the Chosen.
The press release announces that the game is ‘considered to be one of the best games in the entire series’ but I’m sure Square-Enix said that about the last one, too. Though if it is as good as COTC, it’ll likely offer more excellent old-school role-playing with some amusing regional accents shining through in the written dialogue.
The story features three generations of the same family, with your protagonist starting the game as a child, following his father around the gameworld. You’ll get the chance to recruit monsters to your party to assist you in battle, and a new feature for this DS remake is the Exotica Net, which enables you to transfer items to and from other players wirelessly on your travels - a little like the ‘mingling’ system in The World Ends With You.
It’s the second of the so-called Zenithia trilogy, which concludes with the forthcoming Realms of Reverie, which could well be out before 2009 is over. Hardcore RPGers have plenty to look forward to next year, then.
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