Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
Developed from the ground up to take advantage of the Wii and its motion-sensing technology, Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors is set to slice its way onto Nintendo's…
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by 8ing, released 12 June 2007 on Wii. The main story takes about 8 hrs to finish.
What Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors is
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by 8ing and released in 2007. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Wii only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Developed from the ground up to take advantage of the Wii and its motion-sensing technology, Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors is set to slice its way onto Nintendo's next-generation platform. This exclusive title utilizes the Wii's motion-sensing controls as players use the Wii Remote to slash, parry and blast their way through a land filled with trademark Dragon Quest foes. Developed with both longtime fans and casual players in mind, Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors is poised to take video gaming to an entirely new level of fun and interaction.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Dragon Quest series
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors is the 38th of 122 entries we hold in the Dragon Quest series. The next entry was Itadaki Street DS in 2007. Its critic score of 63 is 10 points below the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Dragon Quest VII Reimagined at 92.
How it was received
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 25% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored about average for its year.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 15 hrs, roughly 1.9 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors launched on 12 June 2007, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Ninja Gaiden Sigma and The Darkness. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, Ninja Gaiden Sigma, The Darkness.
Official trailer
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