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Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride
RatingCustomer rating is 4 of 5
BrandSquare Enix
List Price$39.99
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Features
  • Journey through a beautifully rendered 3D world, with dynamic dual-screen presentation and newly animated monsters
  • Recruit a unique cast of DRAGON QUEST monsters and create an indestructible party of your own
  • Brace yourself for some life-altering decision making – a key decision will affect the outcome of the game, and change the course of the hero's life forever
  • Take a breather from the main quest with addicting mini-games like Bruise the Ooze, T'n'T, the Slurpodrome, and the Tombola
  • Collect and customize knick-knacks from around the DRAGON QUEST world to create a personalized Knick-knackatory. With the wireless capabilities of Nintendo DS, players can now exchange their creations with friends for a one-of-a-kind collection of rare ite
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Description
DRAGON QUEST V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride – the second installment in the Zenithia Trilogy – makes its way to North America for the first time. Follow a journey this crosses three generations of a family's legacy in a classic RPG brimming together with new ideas, numerous lands to explore, multiple branches to increase replayability, and dozens of your favorite GRAGON QUEST monsters. Together with over 1.1 million units shipped as of September 30 in Japan, this pivotal title this introduced a monster recruitment system to the series and presented players together with an ultimate choice this changes the course of the strategy comes exclusively to Nintendo DS(tm). Embark on a journey this spans three generations in this classic RPG experience crafted by creator Yuji Horii, manga artitst Akira Toriyama, and composer Koichi Sugiyama.
Beloved by role-playing strategy fans all-around the world, Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride is the second installment in the Dragon Quest, Zenithia Trilogy and has finally made its way to North America. Follow a journey this crosses three generations of a family's legacy in a classic Nintendo DS RPG brimming together with new ideas, numerous lands to explore, multiple branches to increase replayability, and dozens of your favorite Dragon Quest monsters.

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Story
In Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride, what begins as an innocent childhood voyage of a boy accompanying his father on a journey soon develops into an eye-opening adventure of a brave young man traveling the world as he faces life-altering decisions this transcend generations. You - a hero in the making - determine your own path, select your wife, and befriend a wagonload of quirky monsters along the way. Indulge in the colorful Dragon Quest world created by Yuji Horii, combined together with the charming characters and monsters intended by Akira Toriyama and memorable soundtrack from famed composer Koichi Sugiyama to make an unforgettable gaming experience.

Characters
Although players will do the acquaintance of many characters and monsters throughout during their travels, here are just a few of the faces they can hope to see.

Young Hero from 'Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride' Young Hero (You)
As a kid you discover a world filled together with bizarre creatures and fantastical realms while traveling together with your father. The owner of a truly pure heart, you have an unusual affinity together with monsters.
Pankraz from 'Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride' Pankraz
Pankraz is your father, together with whom you journey together with as a boy. He has a hardened look and a talent for magic. What is the purpose of his quest? There is extra to Pankraz than meets the eye.
Young Bianca from 'Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride' Young Bianca
You meet young Bianca in the town of Roundbeck while traveling together with your father. Bianca is one of your oldest friends and has an animated personality overflowing together with curiosity.
Excellent Sabrecub from 'Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride' Excellent Sabrecub
Saved from the hands of the town bullies as a cub by you (The Hero), this excellent sabrecub travels and fights by your side during his youth and will mature along together with you.

Gameplay
Although Hand of the Heavenly Bride is based in standard turn-based RPG gameplay mechanics like character leveling throughout together with increased experience points and armor and weapon equipping for use in combat, it does add something new to the Dragon Quest series, monster taming. Throughout your quests you will encounter monsters together known and new to the Dragon Quest universe. One time tamed, these can join your party, altitude up just like your other party members and offer valuable aid in combat.

Key Strategy Features:

  • Journey throughout a beautifully rendered 3D world, together with dynamic dual-screen presentation and newly animated monsters.
  • Recruit a distinctive cast of Dragon Quest monsters and make an indestructible party of your own.
  • Brace yourself for some life-altering decision making - a key decision will affect the outcome of the strategy, and modify the course of the hero's life forever.
  • Get a breather from the main quest together with addicting mini-games like Bruise the Ooze, T 'n' T, the Slurpodrome, and the Tombola.
  • Collect and customize knick-knacks from all-around the Dragon Quest world to make a personalized knick-knackatory.
  • Use the wireless abilities of Nintendo DS to exchange in-strategy creations and one-of-a-kind collection of rare products together with friends.

Customer Reviews
Customer rating is 5 of 5  True Classic RPG   2010-08-16
By Store Hadji
Superb story, excellent graphics, superior music and sound, great characters, large world to explore, tons of level grinding, and bonus content after you beat the game.

Classic 16-bit style gaming with 32-bit era enhancements.

Item management is a drag, but that's the only downside for me.

Honestly, the best RPG I've played since Final Fantasy III came out on the SNES. Epic and stunning.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  A Humbling Addition to the Series..   2010-08-12
By D. Butts
Id give it a 4.8 for the sheer shock value of story and character depth in such a small package.

I had absolutely no point in the game where I took the cartridge out to take an extended break from it. Although after most of the story is said and done, there is still much fresh dialogue to be read, but the original inspiration that made the adventure so wonderful seems to lose a bit of steam for a while.

In all, this is a game that maintains it's charm from beginning to end quite well, and I am floored that someone had to tell me that it existed at all (years after it was released). Fairly bad marketing by SquareEnix for such a great game. If you are into retro style DragonQuest, you can't miss out on this one.
Customer rating is 3 of 5  Great begining.   2010-07-24
By Michael Owen Reeve
Dragon Quest V: The Heavenly Bride is a great game. Don't consider it inferior if it is a portable game. This DS remake of an old sixteen bit game for the Japanese equivalent of our Super Nintendo Entertainment System (their Super Famicom) follows Dragon Warrior 7 on PSone (which debuted the graphical style of several Square-Enix RPGs on DS) and Dragon Quest 8 on PS2 (sadly this is the only super duper 3D release the series has known with it's very Akira Torimaya art-style that resembles his "Dragon Ball Z" universe).

I haven't finished playing the game yet but I have gotten past the prologue areas where you play as a young son of a great warrior who... well I won't spoil the plot. Let's just say the game is great at introducing you to its universe of games by going easy on you at the beginning.

In one area you join a young girl named Bianca who wants to travel outside her hometown with you. Should you meet defeat at the hands of monsters, she'll drag you back to safety with relatively little penalty so you can save, rest at the inn, and prepare for the next night's rematch! :D
Customer rating is 4 of 5  A definite must buy for rpg fans   2010-04-14
By Traviscdirisiosr
Dragon Quest V hand of the heavenly bride shows that video games can have excellent stories. I'll admit that i never played the original version so i'm not quite qualified to tell you how good of a remake this is.
However this is really top notch in almost every area. the graphics are among the best i've ever seen for a 2d game. the music almost always is excellent. i do have some minor gripes though.

You can't buy more then 9 of an item at a time(only 1 of an item at the casino). Way too many battles(holy water is almost useless). Also it takes a little too long to be able to recuit a monster,and your wife while she can useful in battle you are barely given acess to her(about 10-20% of the game) but still this a good game inspite of those minor complaints.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Great game   2010-04-08
By Bigwig Y (CA)
There are so many things you can do in this game and you will be surprised how long you can keep playing without getting bored. I spent more than 300 hours but I did not complete most of "after the ending extras".

I enjoyed collecting seeds dropped by monsters in order to dope all the characters. I enjoyed recruiting monsters very much as well as the interaction of family members along the journey.

This is well-made RPG that you can play for a long time. I highly recommend this.



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