Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation

Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation
Box art of the original Super Famicom release
Developer(s)	Heartbeat (SFC) ArtePiazza (DS)
Publisher(s)	Super Famicom JP: Enix Nintendo DS JP: Square Enix NA: Nintendo EU: Nintendo Android, iOS Square Enix
Director(s)	Manabu Yamana
Producer(s)	Yukinobu Chida
Designer(s)	Yuji Horii
Artist(s)	Akira Toriyama
Writer(s)	Yuji Horii
Composer(s)	Koichi Sugiyama
Series	Dragon Quest
Platform(s)	Super Famicom, Nintendo DS, Android, iOS
Release	Super Famicom JP: December 9, 1995 Nintendo DS JP: January 28, 2010 NA: February 14, 2011 EU: May 20, 2011 Android, iOS JP: June 10, 2015 WW: June 24, 2015
Genre(s)	Role-playing
Mode(s)	Single-player

Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation is a role-playing video game developed by Heartbeat and published by Enix (now Square Enix) for the Super Famicom as a part of the Dragon Quest series and as the last Dragon Quest game in the Zenithia trilogy. It was released on December 9, 1995, in Japan, developed by Heartbeat; whereas the previous Dragon Quest games were developed by Chunsoft. In July 2007, Square Enix announced a series of remakes of Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen, Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride and Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation for the Nintendo DS, making this the first time the game in question got released on other consoles and overseas. Like its predecessor, Dragon Quest VI was a Japan-only release as the larger ROMs needed for English dialog were cost-prohibitive (the game was already 32 megabits in size, the limit for SNES ROMs without using bank switching). In addition, the game's release occurred very late into the SNES's lifespan, by which time Enix had dropped support for the console outside Japan. The title was finally released overseas for the Nintendo DS in North America on February 14, 2011, and in Europe on May 20, 2011. A version of the game for Android and iOS was released in Japan on June 10, 2015, and worldwide in English on June 24, 2015.

As the sixth installment to the Dragon Quest series, the graphics and gameplay remain close to the other games, with minor additions and upgrades. The graphics were vastly improved from Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride, which was also for the SNES, but had rather unimpressive graphics due to being an early game on the console. Navigation remains largely unchanged from the previous games and the turn-based battles are still in first-person. The class system from Dragon Quest III returns, with minor adjustments. The large cartridge ROM used by the game resulted in an extremely high price of 11,970 yen (about 137 dollars),Dragon Quest VI sold 3.2 million copies in Japan, becoming the best selling game of 1995. The DS version sold an additional one million copies by March 2010.