Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past

Travel to the past to save the present in this classic Dragon Quest adventure that has been completely remade from the ground up for Nintendo 3DS. The world has been rebuilt, the characters have new 3D models…

81 7 February 2013

Adventure Role-playing (RPG) Turn-based strategy (TBS) Fantasy

Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past is an adventure developed by ArtePiazza, released 7 February 2013 on Nintendo 3DS. The main story takes about 80 hrs to finish.

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What Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past is

Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past is an adventure game developed by ArtePiazza and released in 2013. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Dragon Quest VII tells the story of a young hero, the son of a prominent fisherman in the village of Pilchard Bay on Estard Island, the only landmass in the world, and his friends in a fantastical, medieval-like world. They set out on adventures through the world's past and learn about its history. Upon discovering different lands in the past and solving the troubles, they reappear in the game's present-day map. The party begins their adventure when the hero and Kiefer discover a mysterious fragment of a map that the former's father brings home from a fishing trip. Further investigations lead the hero to discover that the world he lives on, which seems to consist of only his small island…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the Dragon Quest series

Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past is the 56th of 122 entries we hold in the Dragon Quest series. It arrived 6 months after Dragon Quest X: Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online. The next entry was Dragon Quest: Monster Parade in 2013. Its critic score of 81 is 8 points above 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 VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2013 averaged 70, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 80 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 117.5 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past launched on 7 February 2013, within three weeks of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Antichamber, Dead Space 3 and Crysis 3. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Antichamber, Dead Space 3, Crysis 3.

Cheats and codes

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