If you're thinking about buying this game because you like DQ11, I think it's important you understand this game is very different from DQ11. This is very much a traditional RPG where you walk in the overworld and get caught in a random encounter. If you're going into this expecting a modern RPG experience, you will absolutely be disappointed.

However, if you're like me, and you grew up on this type of RPG and love this type of RPG dearly, you will undoubtedly love this game. DQ3 takes me back to a time I miss in RPGs, where you as the player weren't really concerned with stopping the big evil bad guy. Yeah he's out there, but there's a whole world to explore, go fight him later. To me the old Dragon Quest games (1-3) aren't so much about completing the story as it is seeing everything in the world, finding all the weird characters whose names are puns and have a funny accent, seeing all the monsters and finding every chest. This game tells you "hey theres a bad guy out there, go and get strong so you can fight him", then sends you out into the world. And I love that.

Put this game on the hardest difficulty, go out and see everything there is to see, enjoy the music, play around with weird builds. This isn't a high stress game, it's a fun and simple RPG. Don't rush it, savor it.

And Square. Please. For the love of God. Bring the other ports to Steam. I know you have DQ1-8 sitting there ready to ship, they're all on mobile, what are you waiting for? Dragon Quest genuinely has the ability to compete with Final Fantasy in the west, you just need to give it room to grow on the proper platforms.

An excellent remake of an excellent game.

If you are on the fence:
1. You can choose Japanese text and/or voice
2. There is a hard mode (you can swap difficulties at any time)
3. You can disable the objective marker
4. There is post-game content

Let's be a welcoming and fun community to everyone, especially those new to DQ.

This is absolutely phenomenal.

I grew up with this series, have played every version of DQ1-3 that exist (was *not* happy with the Switch versions...), and I'm happy to say we've finally reached an era where Remakes are (sometimes) no longer a cash-in. No, this game was rebuilt from the ground up and is now the definitive version of Dragon Quest 3. (Anyone complaining about "woke mobs" coming for pronouns... just ignore those reviews.)

The graphics are beyond gorgeous. There are so many ridiculous little details - light flowing through stained glass windows of a church onto the cobbles below, fireflies in the forests at night, dust motes in the light in towers, and the hero/ine carrying a tiny lantern in caves... there were real blood, sweat and tears put into this.

The music is quite good, although some of it sounds cribbed from the String Quartet album, not that I'm complaining. There were only so many songs on that album, and with Sugiyama sadly passed, it was probably for the best that they use what already existed.

There are so many QoL enhancements and alterations - hidden points of interest and items on the map (that are very much worth hunting down), a monster arena akin to DQ8's and I'm sure many other things I have yet to discover. I expected a nostalgic stroll through the world of DQ3, and now suddenly I feel like I'm in a completely different - yet familiar - experience.

The $60 price tag might be offputting to some for a game that is "older," but I promise you, if this is your first DQ experience, it'll be a good one.