Dragon Quest 3: The Seeds of Salvation. 14 RPG bestsellers

Darius Matusiak

Dragon Quest 3: The Seeds of Salvation

Developer: Square Enix / Eidos

Year of release: 2011 (original in 1988)

Estimated number of copies sold: 6.45 million

NOTES

The figure also includes remakes of the game and ports to other platforms, including mobile. It's worth noting that since its debut on the NES, there have been versions for SNES, Game Boy, Wii U, Android, iOS, and, most recently, the Switch.

Globally, Dragon Quest is a game that can boast a few impressive records, such as selling one million cartridges in a single day.

On the day Dragon Quest III was released in Japan, there were 300 arrests of students by police. The reason was truancy.

This is the third part of the series, but it's also a prequel to the original installment. In the game, we play a teenage hero, who must save the world from the arch-demon Baramos. We traverse an open world with a team of companions, as in many other jRPGs, exploring and fighting in turn-based mode. Despite its age, the game offers quite a few RPG elements that set the standard that's relevant till this day, such as a day-and-night system with events taking place on a particular time, diverse enemies, and a hybrid class system. A compelling storyline encouraging completion is also noteworthy. It all added up to a timeless classic that's still worth playing today.

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Darius Matusiak

Author: Darius Matusiak

Graduate of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Journalism. He started writing about games in 2013 on his blog on gameplay.pl, from where he quickly moved to the Reviews and Editorials department of Gamepressure. Sometimes he also writes about movies and technology. A gamer since the heyday of Amiga. Always a fan of races, realistic simulators and military shooters, as well as games with an engaging plot or exceptional artistic style. In his free time, he teaches how to fly in modern combat fighter simulators on his own page called Szkola Latania. A huge fan of arranging his workstation in the "minimal desk setup" style, hardware novelties and cats.