Tag: Dragon Quest
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Tokyo 2020 Olympics Opening Ceremony A Delight For Gamers
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics finally kicked off today after being delayed for a year by the COVID-19 pandemic, and its opening ceremony had a surprise for gamers around the world. Athletes March to Familiar Tunes As athletes from over 200 countries marched into the Olympic Stadium, spectators at home immediately recognised the dozens of legendary…
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The Top 11 Dragon Quest Characters
Celebrating Dragon Quest A lot of major video game franchises are having landmark anniversaries this year: Zelda is turning thirty-five, Sonic is celebrating its twenty-fifth, Donkey Kong is turning forty. While a bunch of these are generating a ton of noise from their fandoms, there’s a couple that I feel are relatively flying under the…
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In Defence of Dragon Quest: Your Story
For an American JRPG fan, I am something of an oddity. Even though I got into JRPGs at the height of Final Fantasy-mania in the late ’90s, that is not the SquareEnix franchise that I am most familiar with. While I like the games I’ve played, there’s another SquareEnix franchise I tend to get more…
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Top 10 Video Game RPG Classes
This is an oddly celebratory year in terms of video game RPGs. Chrono Trigger turned 25 this year. Chrono Cross turned 20. Dragon Quest VII also turned 20. I’m sure there are many, many other landmark moments in video game RPG history that I am missing. So, in celebration of all this, here is my…
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Musings on Dragon Quest XI S: Definitive Edition and Industry Practices
In 2019, the Nintendo Switch finally got a version of Dragon Quest 11. It had been a long time since I played any Dragon Quest game, but I kept hearing how good it was. So I downloaded the free demo. After booting that sucker up, I remembered, “Oh, right, I love Dragon Quest,” and set…