The first three Dragon Quest games are coming to Switch

According to Square Enix, the first three Dragon Quest titles are coming to the Nintendo Switch on September 27.

For fans who haven’t played the series, the franchise made its debut with Dragon Quest in Japan in 1986 and was later brought to the US in 1989 as Dragon Warrior to avoid trademark issues with a tabletop RPG game called DragonQuest.

For console fans around the world in the 1980s, Dragon Quest (aka Dragon Warrior, until the mid 2000s) was the first game to introduce gamers to the role-playing game genre that became the model for many RPG games that followed.

The first three games, called The Complete Erdrick Trilogy, consists of Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line, and Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation.

This modern version of the games comes with “simple and intuitive controls that mimic retro gameplay, paying homage to where the legacy began.”

Dragon Quest, the title that started it all, takes Erdrick into an epic adventure in Alefgard. Then, DQ II takes Midenhall and two descendants of Erdrick into an adventure to defeat the evil Hargon. In DQ III, a young hero in the land of Aliahan is told to slay Baramos, the master of darkness.

Famed manga artist Akira Toriyama, of Dragon Ball fame, worked as character designer for these three video games.

The three games will make their digital debut on Switch on September 27. Dragon Quest will cost $4.99, Dragon Quest II for $6.49 and Dragon Quest III for $12.49.

[Source]: Square Enix: Classic Dragon Quest Games arrive on Nintendo Switch September 27.