Dragon Quest 7 - Fragments of the Forgotten Past
Dragon Quest VII on 3DS remakes the time-travel adventure around collecting tablets, visiting lost islands, restoring the world, and developing vocations through turn-based battles. This catalogue entry evaluates the recorded original-platform release, including its period-specific controls, presentation, content structure, hardware limits, and intended mode of play.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.4 / 10
About this game
Dragon Quest VII on 3DS remakes the time-travel adventure around collecting tablets, visiting lost islands, restoring the world, and developing vocations through turn-based battles. Episodic islands, class growth, and an enormous story provide exceptional volume, while the remake improves navigation and encounter handling. The opening and middle remain slow, vocation grinding and repeated local stories can tire, and presentation is modest. It rewards patient long-term play. This description covers the original nintendo-3ds release represented by this catalog entry and does not assume conveniences introduced by later ports. The assessment also treats period hardware limits, documented mechanics, original controls, and release-specific access as explicit evaluation boundaries.
Collected in series
Dragon Quest builds fantasy journeys around visiting towns, exploring dungeons and growing stronger through battles. Its mainline adventures are known for turn-based decisions and heroic quests, while spin-offs take the same world of monsters and magic into other kinds of play.
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Dragon Quest VII on 3DS remakes the time-travel adventure around collecting tablets, visiting lost islands, restoring the world, and developing vocations through turn-based battles.
Episodic islands, class growth, and an enormous story provide exceptional volume, while the remake improves navigation and encounter handling. The opening and middle remain slow, vocation grinding and repeated local stories can tire, and presentation is modest. It rewards patient long-term play. Overall, its main strengths are Episodic islands and vocation growth; Enormous time-travel content. Its material limitations are Slow opening and middle; Vocation grinding and repetition. This score covers the original platform release represented by this catalog record and excludes conveniences added by emulators or later ports. The conclusion also accounts for original hardware readability, input, and access conditions. Documented uncertainty remains explicit. The evidence supports this balance.
Strengths
- Episodic islands and vocation growth
- Enormous time-travel content
Weaknesses
- Slow opening and middle
- Vocation grinding and repetition
Who it is for: Players who value episodic islands and vocation growth.
Play notes: Expect slow opening and middle and vocation grinding and repetition.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Enormous time-travel content; Vocation grinding and repetition. | Reviewed | 8.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Episodic islands and vocation growth; Slow opening and middle. | Reviewed | 8.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Enormous time-travel content; presentation is judged within the original platform conditions, with no bonus for age alone. | Reviewed | 8.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Judged on the original nintendo-3ds release's input, readability, saving, and accessory conditions. Slow opening and middle. | Reviewed | 8.0 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- ArtePiazza
- Release date
- 2013
- Platforms
- Nintendo 3DS
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- FantasyTime TravelLevel Progression3D GraphicsClass BuildsExplorationSolo-friendlyStory-drivenThird PersonTurn-based CombatMain Story 100 Hours or More
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Not provided
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- Nintendo 3DSWorldwide2013
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