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Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D is the excuse I need to properly play this iconic series


Firstly, a confession: despite being a huge Final Fantasy fan, and fan of the genre overall, I've never played a Dragon…

Exiting to the world map is perhaps the biggest visual change: the camera is pitched lower than in the original, giving more of a proper 3D feel than top-down. The story remains the same as the original | Image credit: Square Enix As a point of comparison, I've been playing the Final Fantasy pixel remasters recently and one of the most impenetrable elements of games from the era is simply knowing where to go. It's far too easy to lose the thread of a quest and wander in circles attempting to find that one character to speak to, all the while getting swamped by random battles interrupting exploration.

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