Dragon Quest IV

Dragon Quest IV:
Chapters of the Chosen
Box art of the original North American NES release, titled Dragon Warrior IV
Developer(s)
Chunsoft
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Koichi Nakamura
Producer(s)Yukinobu Chida
Designer(s)Yuji Horii
Programmer(s)Kan Naito
Manabu Yamana
Artist(s)Akira Toriyama
Writer(s)Yuji Horii
Composer(s)Koichi Sugiyama
SeriesDragon Quest
Platform(s)
Release
February 11, 1990
  • Famicom / Nintendo Entertainment System
    • JP: February 11, 1990
    • NA: October 1992
  • PlayStation
    • JP: November 22, 2001
  • Nintendo DS
  • Android & iOS
    • JP: April 17, 2014
    • WW: August 7, 2014
Genre(s)Role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen,[a] titled Dragon Warrior IV when initially localized to North America,[b] is a role-playing video game, the fourth installment of the Dragon Quest video game series developed by Chunsoft and published by Enix, and the first of the Zenithian Trilogy. It was originally released for the Famicom on 11 February 1990 in Japan. A North American NES version followed in October 1992, and would be the last Dragon Quest game localized and published by Enix's Enix America Corporation subsidiary prior to its closure in November 1995, as well as the last Dragon Quest game to be localized into English prior to the localization of Dragon Warrior Monsters in December 1999. The game was remade by Heartbeat for the PlayStation, which eventually was available as an Ultimate Hits game. The remake was ported by ArtePiazza to the Nintendo DS, released in Japan November 2007 and worldwide in September 2008.[8] A mobile version based on the Nintendo DS remake was released in 2014 for Android and iOS.

Dragon Quest IV differs from the rest of the series by breaking up the game into five distinct chapters, each of which focuses on a different protagonist or protagonists. The first four are told from the perspective of the Hero's future companions and the fifth one, from the Hero's perspective, brings all the characters together as they start their journey to save the world.[9] The remake adds a sixth chapter.

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  4. ^ "IGN: Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen (Dragon Quest 4)". IGN. Archived from the original on September 18, 2008. Retrieved September 21, 2008.
  5. ^ "Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen for DS". GameSpot. Archived from the original on April 6, 2012. Retrieved September 21, 2008.
  6. ^ "ニンテンドーDS版『ドラゴンクエスト』天空シリーズ". Square Enix. Archived from the original on 2012-07-28. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
  7. ^ ゲーム開発 (in Japanese). Cattle Call. 2010-04-08. Archived from the original on 2011-08-16. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
  8. ^ "EXPERIENCE DRAGON QUEST IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND ZENITHIA TRILOGY ANNOUNCED FOR EUROPE". MCV. 2008-05-21. Archived from the original on 2010-11-10. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  9. ^ Staff (March 1993). "Dragon Warrior IV". Nintendo Power. No. 46. Nintendo of America. pp. 82–87.


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