Final Fantasty vs Dragon Quest - Which is more popular in Japan.

[Kenryoku_Maxis]

The Anarchyz said:

To add to this, Akira Toriyama is not only the lead designer of DQ and creator of Dragon Ball, he also is the lead designer of games like Blue Dragon, Tobal Nº 1 and Nº2, and the highly praised Chrono Trigger, Square had a dream team in that game:

Hironobu Sakaguchi

Yoshinori Kitase

Yasunori Mitsuda (lead composer of this game, Uematsu was his mentor, even recommending him at Square and helping him with this game)

Nobuo Uematsu

Takashi Tokita

Akira Toriyama

Yuji Horii

Masato Kato (Known before this for his work on the Ninja Gaiden NES games)

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Now, back to Dragon Quest, here are the original boxarts, they're another reason why DQ games are so popular in Japan

DQ FAMICOM boxarts down

As opposed to the US boxarts that were really lame, at least the Megaman boxart artists made us laugh...

Well, as much as I think the various localizations of Dragon Quest are why DQ has never gotten popular here...the first Boxart of Dragon Warrior was actually really cool.

But that aside, I do have to drive home that Dragon Quest, even to this day, has NEVER been handled well outside of Japan.  And all the various mistranslations, 'britisions' and other alterations to try to make it more 'western' I think just drained everything that made the series unique.  And as a result, made people outside of Japan never get interested in the series like the Japanese did.

It would have been interesting to see what could have happened if all those years ago they released the original Dragon Quest titles focusing more on where it came from and who made it (especially Akira Toriyama's original art).  Seeing as how the Anime craze was just knocking on Americas door.  And Akira Toriyama was one of the biggest influence for Anime worldwide.