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Title: Dragon Quest Wars Comes Exclusively to DSiWare
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on May 17, 2009, 09:29:50 PM
Famitsu reveals Dragon Quest Wars, a strategy game developed by Intelligent Systems.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=18462

 Famitsu recently revealed a new entry in the Dragon Quest series, Dragon Quest Wars. Unlike the main entries of the series, Dragon Quest Wars is a mixture of a board game and a strategy game. It is being developed by Intelligent Systems, who are known for developing strategy games such as Fire Emblem and Advance Wars.      


Players pick a team of four monsters from the Dragon Quest universe and battle the computer or other players locally or online. Battles are played on a grid and the goal is to knock out all the monsters on the opponent's team. The game supports up to four players, however only two players play at a time in an elimination style of gameplay.    


Yuji Horii is serving as the supervisor for this title, Akira Toriyama returns as the character designer, and Koichi Sugiyama returns as the music composer for the title.    


The game will be released some time in mid-June in Japan for 500 DSiPoints. There is currently no release date in North America.      


  Thanks to James Charlton for translation help

Title: Re: Dragon Quest Wars Comes Exclusively to DSiWare
Post by: broodwars on May 18, 2009, 08:16:53 AM
Interesting move.  Can't really argue with this at only 500 DS Points.
Title: Re: Dragon Quest Wars Comes Exclusively to DSiWare
Post by: Ian Sane on May 18, 2009, 06:27:22 PM
Strategy games like this are usually very big, in the sense that there is a lot of content.  They don't seem like the type of game to be offered as DSiWare.  So I'm wondering how will this turn out.  Is this going to be comparable to Advance Wars or Fire Emblem or will it be more scaled back?
Title: Re: Dragon Quest Wars Comes Exclusively to DSiWare
Post by: NWR_insanolord on May 19, 2009, 12:06:49 AM
I'd been considering buying a DSi in a few months but I needed to see good stuff on DSiWare; an Intelligent Systems-developed strategy game is definitely a start.
Title: Re: Dragon Quest Wars Comes Exclusively to DSiWare
Post by: KDR_11k on May 19, 2009, 12:33:52 PM
Strategy games like this are usually very big, in the sense that there is a lot of content.  They don't seem like the type of game to be offered as DSiWare.  So I'm wondering how will this turn out.  Is this going to be comparable to Advance Wars or Fire Emblem or will it be more scaled back?

Not sure but for your content argument Swords and Soldiers takes 140 blocks on WiiWare, far below the 300 limit that most games reach.
Title: Re: Dragon Quest Wars Comes Exclusively to DSiWare
Post by: vudu on May 19, 2009, 01:53:07 PM
Strategy games like this are usually very big, in the sense that there is a lot of content.  They don't seem like the type of game to be offered as DSiWare.  So I'm wondering how will this turn out.  Is this going to be comparable to Advance Wars or Fire Emblem or will it be more scaled back?

Sounds to me like there's probably just the one chess/checkers-style board.

Famitsu recently revealed a new entry in the Dragon Quest series, Dragon Quest Wars. Unlike the main entries of the series, Dragon Quest Wars is a mixture of a board game and a strategy game.