Dragon Quest VII
Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past is a 2000 Japanese role-playing video game developed by Heartbeat and ArtePiazza, and published by Enix for the PlayStation. It was released in North America in 2001 under the title Dragon Warrior VII. The game received a remake on the Nintendo 3DS in Japan in 2013, released in English under the title Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past in 2016. A version of the game for Android and iOS was released in Japan in 2015.
| Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past | |
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Box art of the original North American PlayStation release, titled Dragon Warrior VII | |
| Developer(s) | Heartbeat ArtePiazza (3DS, iOS, Android) |
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| Director(s) | Manabu Yamana |
| Producer(s) | Taichi Inuzuka |
| Designer(s) | Yuji Horii |
| Programmer(s) | Manabu Yamana |
| Artist(s) | Akira Toriyama Shintaro Majima |
| Writer(s) | Yuji Horii Sachiko Sugimura Fuminori Ishikawa Kazunori Orio |
| Composer(s) | Koichi Sugiyama |
| Series | Dragon Quest |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation, Nintendo 3DS, Android, iOS |
| Release | PlayStationNintendo 3DSiOS, Android
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past is the seventh installment of the popular Dragon Quest series of role playing games, and is the successor to 1995's Dragon Quest VI for the Super Famicom. An immediate success upon release, Dragon Warrior VII's sales totalled 4.06 million by April 6, 2001, making it the best-selling PlayStation game in Japan, and is an Ultimate Hits title. It was the first main series Dragon Quest title to be released outside Japan since the release of Dragon Quest IV in North America in 1992, the last Dragon Quest title to be released in North America with the Dragon Warrior name, and the last Dragon Quest game outside of Japan to be published by Enix, before merging with Squaresoft in 2003 to form Square Enix. The game was produced by Yuji Horii, who has presided over the Dragon Quest series since its inception. Artwork and character designs were once again provided by Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama, the artist responsible for all previous Dragon Quest games.
The game follows the Hero and his friends as they discover secrets about the mysterious islands surrounding their home of Estard. Through some ancient ruins, they are transported to the pasts of various islands and must defeat evil in each new location. Game mechanics are largely unchanged from previous games in the series, although an extensive Class system allows players to customize their characters.