Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation

released on Jan 28, 2010

Dragon Quest VI did not receive an enhanced remake on a console until the Nintendo DS. The Dragon Quest VI enhanced remake for the Nintendo DS was announced in late 2007 by Square Enix and was developed by ArtePiazza. A handful of changes were made to the game, some remaining controversial among fans.


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De mis dragon quest favoritos, los personajes y las mecánicas son geniales y la historia está bastante bien. Probablemente el héroe de esta entrega sea mi diseño favorito de todos.

This game is the best game in regards to gameplay pre 8. Class customization with the classes actually being distinct, not just stats. But narratively, a lot of good idea but poor execution esp with dream world thingy.

Amos is the craziest party member in gaming history

Beside the random encounter I'm loving it so much tbh, idk why all the hate.

So I started this playthrough back in 2018, fell off for years, then picked it back up in 2020 or so and went through most of the rest of the game. Dragon Quest VI is weird because it's vignette-based and the main plot doesn't build its tension much so when I got to the last leg of the game, the Dreadworld, I didn't feel connected to the story and felt like I had seen enough. I quit knowing I was just a few steps from credits.

And I was okay with that but I don't like leaving playthroughs unfinished, especially if they are so close from the end (and even if I was playing on replaying this game anyway), so I paused my Dragon Quest VII run to close the book on this one and pushed out the last few chapters. I pride myself on my recent habit of finishing RPGs but any playthrough that has years worth of breaks in between– you're gonna lose the plot. Luckily finishing this game off wasn't too hard since I picked some great class progressions.

So what is the deal with Dragon Quest VI? I think its focus on vignette-based storytelling and having two large worlds to explore make it a little immemorable. There is too much game in this DQ6. Too many towns, too many vehicles. The real world/dream world plotline is overly complicated. I never got a good sense of how the two worlds work together.

That said, any game with a class system as robust as the one DQ6 has gets point for me. That sort of thing– picking classes and levelling them up– has great appeal and overall the Dragon Questiness of this journey is infectious and satisfying.

And I guess I am a little forgiving of this game's shortcomings because they were trying to do something different. Yeah, I prefer the tighter narrative of Dragon Quest V but Enix had already made that game so for the next one they went for something more open-ended and episodic. They might have not done a great job but overall I still think they made a pretty good game.