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Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride
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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  Breath of fresh air!   2010-03-02
By anonymous
Remember when RPG's were fun? You'd get a hero or a band of heroes, and you'd run about the world killing everything that got in your way? Remember when you didn't have some angsty-emo-teen as a main character that wielded a sword the size of a box truck? Well, Square-Enix smartened up for a change and remade several classic RPG's from the NES and SNES days. Final Fantasy IV, Dragon Quest IV and this title in question: Dragon Quest V. Unfortunately I never learned Japanese or got my hands on a translated ROM version of the original installment, so I can't compare how it is now to how it was. But I can tell you that this version is outstanding!

Story, music, characters, things to do... This game seems to deliver on all fronts! The fact that you can recruit monsters to fight on your party adds a bit of randomness, which is nice. You can change up your party many times and get a slightly different feel for combat each time. One thing I noticed is a distinct sense of humor here: It feels rather Japanese, which is nice. To me, that means they probably kept the translation as close to the original as possible. I could be wrong, but that's just an impression I got.
Customer rating is 5 of 5  An excellent RPG that any DS or DSi owner must buy!   2010-01-27
By AlexJouJou (California)
One of the first RPG's I ever played was Dragon Quest IV for the DS. I spent over 60 hours traveling about fighting monsters and having a great time. The system and menu's performed extremely well for me. So I knew I would love this game!

I actually prefer DQIV but this one is no slouch. It is good enough for my 5 stars. I love the graphics and the art as it has a very unique style. The gameplay is engaging and provides a nice balance between easy and difficult. The story is a bit more developed than in DQIV but not quite as engaging. Don't get me wrong I still loved it but I did find recruiting monsters took some adjusting. I am just more used to fighting them than having them on my team! Also I did find that monsters do not really provide personality for your party - non monsters do that better. I thought the storyline of getting married was very cute and quite fun to play.

The Dragon Quest series are some of the best RPG's out there if you like traditional JRPG. Although very different than Final Fantasy I must confess that these two series hold a special place in my heart. Consistent quality is also a bonus as there were no issues at all with the technical side of things.

A highly recommended purchase!
Customer rating is 5 of 5  Best classic RPG on DSi   2009-10-02
By Jack Nettis III (Ohio)
If you are any type of fan of SNES-era RPGs or Dragon Quest games, this is a must have. Catching monsters to assist you in battle laid the foundation for games such as Pokemon and the unique story that spans three generations of the Hero's family adds a layer of attachment to the characters and story that is only exemplified in the best of the genre. Gameplay is very retro and simplistic, but is exactly what you would expect for a Dragon Quest game.
Customer rating is 3 of 5  Old School RPG   2009-07-17
By David Bastian Jr. (Texas)
The monster gathering and character building can be fun but the story is typical trite RPG gimmicks. What do you expect though from game this old, it was part of the development of those trite gimmicks. Overall decent game, engrossing but a little dull at the same time... hard to explain.
Customer rating is 4 of 5  More remake goodness   2009-06-16
By Erik Shanahan (Washington DC)
I can't tell you how disappointed I was when I heard the news that Enix of America was closing it's doors in the United States. Almost all hope of seeing Dragon Quest V and VI state side slowly dwindled away. Then in 2003 Square and Enix announced that they were merging. At first I was skeptical, but then I realized there may be a good chance of seeing US releases of games that never made the leap across the Pacific Ocean.

Six years after the merger of S-E we finally get to play Dragon Quest V in the west. Were all my expectations upheld? I don't know. It is definitely a very good game; however, I don't have the same drive to play as I did with Dragon Quest IV; a game I did play when it was originally released here. I can't tell if it's the game or just what I've got going on in my life right now; enough of this, on with the review.

Many of the good and features present in the DS remake of DQIV are present in the most recent iteration of the series. The graphics, once again, are modeled after the unreleased version of DQIV for PS1, the music has the same nostalgic feeling of earlier games and the quest is huge with hundreds of monsters, items, weapons, places to visit and side quest that provide a distraction from the main quest.

New to this game is a system of recruiting monsters. I haven't really embraced this system. I prefer to play with named NPCs. The recruited monsters do have one excellent use. Fill the inactive spots in the wagon with recruited monsters that have support magic and use them to heal your party when not in battle. It doesn't always work since you need your wagon with you to take advantage of this technique.

Battles are turn based and offer the same level of strategy as other games in the series. If you don't want to micromanage your party there is an option to set up tactics and allow the members of your party to act according to the strategies you've selected.

Saving games and checking to-next-level still must be done at churches; although there is a quick save feature.

There are plenty of side quests. This recent edition of the franchise, as with most DQ games, there is a casino to try and hit your in game windfall. Scattered around the world there are several board games you can play with tickets found hidden around the games multiple town, castle and dungeons. Finally there is the knick-knackery, where you can take unusable spoils to be displayed.

The story arcs several generations and you get to choose a bride; which has been done in games before but still feels fresh in this game. It does give you the feeling that you get to choose your in game destiny to some extent.

In summary, if you didn't like DQIV or were annoyed by some of its outdated game play mechanisms then DQV is probably not for you; however, if you do like old school RPG game play, enjoy a long quest with battles that require some strategy then I definitely recommend this game. I would give it 4.5 stars if Amazon had the option. I can't justify giving it 5 stars because I feel that DQIV is a slightly better game. If you are only going to get one of the two games then I suggest DQIV.



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