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Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is a turn-based role-playing game developed by ARTDINK with Square Enix's Team Asano and published by Square Enix, a full HD-2D reimagining of the 1988 Famicom classic Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation. It was released worldwide on November 14, 2024 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. The player creates the child of the legendary hero Ortega and leaves the island kingdom of Aliahan with a party of hired companions to hunt the archfiend Baramos, a quest that eventually drops its heroes into Alefgard and reveals the game as the story that comes before the original Dragon Quest. The remake keeps the turn-based battles, the vocation and personality systems, the ship-and-phoenix world map and the day-night cycle, then adds the Monster Wrangler vocation, recruitable Friendly Monsters and the Monster Arena on top, all wrapped in diorama-style HD-2D visuals and a re-recorded Koichi Sugiyama score.

• Vocation system — Characters change class at Alltrades Abbey from level 20 onward and keep roughly half of their accumulated stats, so a Mage can be rebuilt as a Warrior or a Priest as a Sage; the roster is Hero, Warrior, Martial Artist, Mage, Priest, Thief, Merchant, Gadabout, Sage and the new Monster Wrangler.
• Personality system — Every character carries a personality, set by the opening personality quiz for the Hero and by books for everyone else, that multiplies stat growth per level, so the same vocation trained under a Genius and under a Tough personality ends up with very different stat curves.
• Turn-based party combat — Battles are classic first-person, turn-based fights for a party of up to four, with Attack, Spells, Abilities, Items, Defence and Flee, plus a Tactics setting that hands party members to AI for grinding.
• Monster Wrangler and Friendly Monsters — The remake's new vocation tracks and recruits weakened Friendly Monsters on the world map; captured monsters can be called into battle by the Wrangler, whose own skill list grows with the number collected.
• Monster Arena — Rescued Friendly Monsters can be entered solo or as a team of three into rank-based Arena tournaments that pay out items, gold and one-time prizes for each rank cleared.
• Ship, Ramia and the day-night cycle — The world opens in stages with the ship and then the phoenix Ramia for flight, while towns, shops and encounter tables change between day and night and several story events only fire after dark.
• Mini Medals and the bank — Mini Medals hidden across the world are traded at medal academies for rare equipment, and gold parked in Aliahan's bank survives a party wipe instead of being halved.
• HD-2D presentation — Locations are rebuilt as diorama-style HD-2D scenes with depth of field, bloom and dynamic lighting, and Koichi Sugiyama's original score is re-recorded with live instrumentation.