Late last year, when Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation wasn’t announced for North America, one of my friends asked what’s the big deal about the missing sixth game. I replied, it’s kind of like the Final Fantasy V equivalent in the Dragon Quest series.

Meet the Hero, Carver, Milly, Ashlynn, and Nevan.

Dragon Quest VI has more forms of travel than previous games in the series.

ArtePiazza, developers of classic Dragon Quest games and Opoona, have a DSiWare tower defense game too.

You’ve already played Half Minute Hero…now Rising Star are publishing games like 10 Second Run.

As January 28th came and went, I – like countless others in Japan – found myself at a local electronics store buying Dragon Quest VI, the latest [and currently, also the final] installment in Square Enix’s Dragon Quest DS remake series.

Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie has necromancer, unicorns, and spotted slimes to worry about.

Square Enix is starting 2010 with two of their biggest franchises. Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie is due in stores on January 28, three weeks after Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep.

This Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie update has plenty of towns…

Square Enix announced their Dragon Quest VI DS remake almost two years ago.

Unlike its predecessors, which were all developed by Chunsoft, the original DQVI was developed by Heartbeat — the studio that also worked on Dragon Quest VII for the PS1. The remake is, of course, being handled by ArtePiazza.

We haven’t heard much about Dragon Quest VI, but that’s going to change real soon. Square Enix will have a playable build of Realms of Reverie inside their Tokyo Game Show booth.

We’ve known about Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie for DS for a while but this is the first time in a while we’ve seen actual artwork for it.

Finished Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen yet? Better get working on it. Chrono Trigger comes out in November and shortly afterwards Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride. Classic RPG fans can look forward to an English release on February 17, 2009.   The story in Dragon Quest V: Hand in the [...]