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Dragon Warrior III
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Game + box: the cartridge and its box; the manual is not included. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
For most of its length, Dragon Warrior III feels like the start of a brand-new legend. A young hero from the kingdom of Aliahan sets out on their sixteenth birthday to finish the quest that claimed their father, the great warrior Ortega, and to stop the archfiend Baramos. Only later does the story reveal how deeply it is tied to the two games that came before it, and that payoff is one of the great surprises of 8-bit role-playing. Developed by Chunsoft and published by Enix, it was a phenomenon in Japan in 1988 and finally reached North American NES owners in 1992.
The big leap is the party. Instead of a fixed cast, you recruit your own companions, choosing from soldiers, fighters, pilgrims, wizards, merchants and the infamous goof-off, a class whose habit of ignoring orders has become a running joke among fans. Once a recruit reaches level 20, they can change to a new class and start back at level one while keeping their spells and part of their strength, and the hidden sage class waits for players who discover how to reach it. Mixing classes lets you shape a party that plays nothing like anyone else's, and replaying with a different lineup feels like a new game.
The world is enormous for an NES cartridge, its continents loosely modeled on real-world geography, and a day-and-night cycle changes what you find in it: shops close after dark, different monsters come out, and some people and events only appear at certain hours. Earning a ship throws the whole map open, and the long campaign of towers, caves and castles keeps revealing new corners well into the endgame.
Dragon Warrior III completed the Erdrick trilogy, and its customizable party and class-change system left a mark on console RPGs that is still easy to see. It is the Dragon Warrior to play if you want the series at its most freeform, and the chapter where the legend of Erdrick finally comes full circle.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1988
- Publisher
- Enix
- Developer
- Chunsoft
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Dragon Warrior III is a top-down role-playing game where you travel around the overworld, caves, castles, cities and other locations while battling random encounters, buying equipment, and talking to people. You and your party members receive experience when they beat up monsters and level up with enough experience, increasing their stats. The game features a day/night cycle - as you travel, day slowly changes to night and vice versa; shops are typically closed at night. You begin with control of just the main character but can quickly recruit three more members to your party. During the game you can choose to drop your current characters and recruit others at any time. The recruitable characters are divided into six classes: soldier, fighter, merchant, goof-off, pilgrim and wizard. The game has a unique job system, giving you the ability to switch your hired characters' classes after they have achieved at least level 20 in their base class. Characters can switch to the other beginning classes, as well as the sage class, which is not available at the beginning.
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