(Sadly, Alefgard has many dragon-related problems.) Thankfully, it turns out you’re the legendary hero, descendant of Erdrick, so you should be able to square this away. Also, his daughter Princess Gwaelin has been kidnapped by a dragon-not the Dragonlord, but a different, minion dragon. King Lorik promptly tasks you with defeating the Dragonlord, who has stolen the Ball of Light, which is causing monsters to appear everywhere. You are a stranger, newly arrived at Tantegel Castle in the world of Alefgard.
The story itself is quite basic, the stuff of a Dungeons & Dragons beginner’s quest. However, many of the core elements of the golden-age ’90s Japanese role-playing games that would follow in the original game’s wake are already present in this series’ first installment. At the time, many players expected every game to be a button-mashing platformer. The pacing was slow, and there were reams of text. It’s important to realize that while Dragon Quest sold fairly well in North America, it initially struggled and was widely misunderstood-mainly due to it being the very first RPG for the Nintendo Entertainment System. I played through the original game as a child, and picked up a remastered version recently for 5 bucks on the Switch store for a second playthrough. It’s how nearly every aspect of that first Dragon Quest-quests, monsters, weapons, and plot devices-has woven itself into the fabric of role-playing games, and some other, unexpected genres as well.
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It isn’t only that the series is in its 11th incarnation as Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age, an entry that many hardcore fans have hailed as the best in the series. But what’s more impressive is the enduring legacy of Dragon Warrior-known globally since 2005 as Dragon Quest, the name I’ll use for the rest of this story-and how great of an impact it’s had on gaming. Three decades later (more if we’re counting from the 1986 Japanese release), it’s impressive how angry I still am about the forever-loss of the Flame Sword. Hold in the RESET button before you turn off the POWER. Gaming in the ’90s could be merciless that way. If you sold a weapon, it was gone forever, and if someone started a new game, your save file was toast. Of course, the pain of this ignorant betrayal will never fully go away, but that’s what happened when games only had a single damn save file. “Well it’s going great, I got you the copper sword.” “Hey _, what do you think about Dragon Warrior so far?” Which led to a conversation that went like this: Although I hadn’t yet beaten the game, I desperately needed someone to discuss it with, so I pushed the game on my friend with specific instructions not to sell any of my equipment or start a new quest-the game only had one save file, so anything he did would be permanent.
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