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Originally Posted by ChadFL
Funny, but despite being a big Dragon Quest fan for decades, I never knew until very recently that nearly every mainline Dragon Quest game in the series was farmed out to third party developers.
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Enix was a publisher rather than a developer so practically all of their stuff was made by other companies (Tri-Ace, Quintet, etc.) I presume Dragon Quest switched from Chunsoft because Horii wanted to improve the look of the series (VI and III SNES definitely look far prettier than anything the series had beforehand.) I’d say the Heartbeat-era was generally a plus; VI doesn’t rank as high these days but the SNES remake of III is still typically considered the definitive version and VII was hugely popular in Japan and remains liked there today. I count VII among the best DQ games, it just took so long to come out it looked downright homely to the general audience by 2001…and Enix only started using Toriyama artwork to promote the series here that same year despite DBZ having exploded in popularity in North America in 1998.