Dragon Warrior III (NES)

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Description

Dragon Warrior III is the concluding game of the first Dragon Quest/Dragon Warrior trilogy, and its story takes us back to the time period of the legendary Erdrick (also known as Loto), the ancestor of the first game's hero. You are the son of a powerful warrior Ortega, skillful in physical combat and spellcasting. Your father went out to fight the evil Baramos, who is responsible for the appearance of monsters in your region, and never returned. You are sent by the king on a quest to continue your father's brave deeds and to defeat Baramos.

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. When a character switches classes, they lose all earned experience points, and half of their stats, but retain all of the abilities of the previous class. In this way, you can create powerful combination characters that are able to cast spells and fight effectively.

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Alternate Titles

• "勇者斗恶龙III" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "ドラゴンクエストＩＩＩ：そして伝説へ" -- Japanese spelling
• "Dragon Quest III: Soshite Densetsu he" -- Japanese title
• "DQIII" -- Common abbreviation

Part of the Following Groups

• Dragon Warrior / Dragon Quest series
• Dragon Warrior / Dragon Quest universe

User Reviews

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Critic Reviews

Questicle.net	Nov, 2011	A	100
Nintendo Land	2003	91 out of 100	91
Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the NES Library	2016		90
Jeuxvideo.com	Dec 09, 2011	18 out of 20	90
NES Times	Sep 21, 2007	9 out of 10	90
Quebec Gamers	Dec 05, 2007	8.7 out of 10	87
GamePro (US)	Dec, 1991	4 out of 5	80
All Game Guide	1998		80
GamersMark	Aug 04, 2001	7 out of 10	70
Game Zero	Jun, 1992	53 out of 100	53

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Platform split	5	Terok Nor (26757) Dec 11, 2014

Trivia

Beginning

Dragon Warrior III was the first RPG where the quest begins with the hero waken up by his mother. This opening has been copied by many games, such as Chrono Trigger, Golden Sun and several others.

Music

As of 2007, the Famicom/NES version of Dragon Quest/Warrior III is the only title in the series which does not feature the Dragon Quest overture music at title screen.

Related Web Sites

• The Kingdom of Alefgard (Great fan page with tons of information about the entire Dragon Warrior series.)