Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride

Dragon Quest V uses basic role-playing video game mechanics seen in the rest of the series, which includes leveling up by gaining experience points through battle, first person turn-based battles, and…

70 17 July 2008

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Action Fantasy

Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride is an adventure developed by ArtePiazza, released 17 July 2008 on Nintendo DS, Android and iOS. The main story takes about 40 hrs to finish.

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What Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride is

Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride is an adventure game developed by ArtePiazza and released in 2008. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on Nintendo DS, Android and iOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride, known in Europe as Dragon Quest: The Hand of the Heavenly Bride and in Japan as Dragon Quest V: Bride of Heaven, is a 1992 role-playing video game developed by Chunsoft and published by Enix for the Super Famicom. The fifth main installment in the Dragon Quest series, the game was the first title in the franchise to not be initially localized in North America due to programming issues.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Dragon Quest series

Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride is the 43rd of 122 entries we hold in the Dragon Quest series. It arrived 7 months after Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road. The next entry was Dragon Quest Wars in 2009. Its critic score of 70 is 3 points below the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Dragon Quest VII Reimagined at 92.

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How it was received

Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 40 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 70 hrs, roughly 1.8 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride launched on 17 July 2008, within three weeks of Braid, Persona 4, Street Fighter IV and Rhythm Heaven. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Braid, Persona 4, Street Fighter IV, Rhythm Heaven.

Cheats and codes

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