Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation
Dragon Quest III is noted for greatly expanding upon the original Dragon Warrior and Dragon Warrior II. The game uses basic console role-playing game conventions, such as leveling up by gaining experience…
Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation is an adventure developed by Matrix Software, released 19 November 2009 on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Android. The main story takes about 15 hrs to finish.
What Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation is
Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation is an adventure game developed by Matrix Software and released in 2009. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Android, iOS and Legacy Mobile Device.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Dragon Quest III is set many years before the original Dragon Quest in a world bearing great similarity to the real world. A wicked fiend, Baramos, threatens to destroy the world. The hero, son or daughter (you can choose to be either male or female) of the legendary Ortega, recruits up to three travelling companions and sets out to defeat Baramos, only to find later that Baramos is merely a disciple of Zoma, the fiend who rules the Dark World below. The hero then travels to the Dark World, which is known as Alefgard in subsequent installments of the series, and restores light. For his bravery, the hero receives the title of Loto (Erdrick in the NES version). The flow of the game is as…
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Dragon Quest series
Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation is the 46th of 122 entries we hold in the Dragon Quest series. The next entry was Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation in 2010. Its critic score of 0 is 73 points below the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Dragon Quest VII Reimagined at 92.
How it was received
Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation holds a critic score of 0 out of 100. That places it above 0% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 67 points below the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 25 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation launched on 19 November 2009, within three weeks of Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Assassin's Creed II, Dragon Age: Origins, Left 4 Dead 2, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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