Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi (1995) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi

Dragon Quest VI is the sixth installment in the Dragon Quest series. It is the penultimate title for the Nintendo Super Famicom as well as the last game in the Zenithia trilogy, and the first game in the…

9 December 1995

What Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi is

Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi is an adventure game developed by Heartbeat and released in 1995. It was published by Enix. It is available on Super Famicom only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dragon Quest VI opens as the Hero and his party of a mysterious woman and a bulky man approach Murdaw, the demon king's castle. After the woman uses an ocarina to summon a dragon, the party enters the castle and comes face to face with Murdaw. Overpowering the trio, the demon king appears to destroy each member of the party, but suddenly, the Hero wakes up in the mountain town Weaver's Peak. Tania, a young woman from Weaver's Peak, insists that he was having a bad dream and introduces herself as his sister.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Dragon Quest series

Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi is the tenth of 122 entries we hold in the Dragon Quest series. It arrived 2 years after Dragon Quest I.II. The next entry was BS Dragon Quest in 1996.

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What it launched against

Dragon Quest VI: Maboroshi no Daichi launched on 9 December 1995, within three weeks of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest and Rayman.

Released around the same time: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Rayman.

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