In addition to the launch of the Dragon Quest IV website, Square-Enix announced the pending release of Dragon Quest V and VI DS remakes through the Dragon Quest hub website. Due to some similar elements, all three titles are known collectively as the "Castle in the Sky" trilogy even though there is no official indication that the games are directly related. Both titles have been given subtitles for their eventual release: Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Maiden and Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie.
Both Dragon Quest V and VI have never been released in America before. Neither title has been assigned a release date, but players should not expect them until after Dragon Quest IV arrives.
There is currently no word on availability in other territories, but those involved in the DS homebrew scene have revealed that the Japanese Dragon Quest IV ROM contains translations data for all of the European languages. While this is not an official confirmation that the title will see release in Europe, it is a strong sign favoring that notion.
Dragon Quest IV (known as Dragon Warrior IV in America when it was released for the NES in 1992) was the last Dragon Quest title to be localized for the American market until the eventual release of Dragon Quest VII on the Playstation in 2001. Though immensely popular in Japan, the Dragon Quest series did not garner widespread support in America until the release of Dragon Quest VIII on the PS2 in 2005.
Probably something that's not inherently illegal would be best.
Probably something that's not inherently illegal would be best.
But then he's not a smuggler, but simply a courier. And couriers don't make the big money last I checked.
Though I have one request: release the original versions, translated into English, on the VC! Square Enix seems reluctant to release games on the VC that they figure they can re-release in some other form and charge full price. Fair enough. Sucks for us, but we can all see why they would do that.Maybe for these DS titles, like FF3; less so with the GBA ports of FF1/2/4/5/6.
The thing is though that I'd argue these are two separate, non-competing products. In fact they compliment each other. The original and the remake are different enough that it would be worth owning both, especially since we're talking about a shift from 2D to 3D. If anything the original versions would make a fine companion to the remakes.
Hell Square Enix could even charge a premium for these titles on the VC because they're imports. Meanwhile the translation was already done for the remake. You could probably get an American intern with no knowledge of Japanese to take the remake's translation and shove it into the originals.If they still have the source code and assets. If they had to ROMhack the translation in, that's not exactly a trivial task...
Cool! According to IGN these are 3D remakes so I assume they'll be like Final Fantasy III.
