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Dragon Quest V Tenkū no Hanayome (ドラゴンクエストV 天空の花嫁, Doragon Kuesuto Faibu Tenkū no Hanayome^?, lit. "Dragon Quest V: Bride of Heaven") is the fifth installment in the Dragon Quest video game series. It was first released as a Super Famicom game in Japan on 1992, and has been remade as a PS2 game in 2004 in Japan. It remains one of the two installments in the series to not have been released in North America (the other game being the next Dragon Quest VI). Enix did not release the game outside of Japan due to programming issues discovered after the game's Japan release. While the game was never officially translated, two fan translations exist for the Super Famicom version.

Dragon Quest V takes place over twenty years of the main character's life, in which he gets married and has a family. The title features an interesting gameplay dynamic in which monsters from random encounters may offer to join your party. This concept was used in later Dragon Quest games, and focused on exclusively in the Dragon Quest Monsters series. This idea would be later used in the Pokémon video game series.

Development

PS2 remake

Square Enix released a PlayStation 2 enhanced remake of Dragon Quest V on March 25, 2004. As of April 2004, the game has sold over 1.5 million copies making it the top selling Dragon Quest remake game of all-time. The remake was developed by former Dragon Quest VII art directors, Artepiazza. It features 3D graphics that are similar to Dragon Quest VII, but it utilizes the extra PlayStation 2 graphical capabilities. The hero and his companions have to fight more monsters in the PlayStation 2 remake than they did in the Super Famicom original, but the character limit on the party has been increased from three to four. Also, there were only 40 monsters available to your party in the Super Famicom version of Dragon Quest V due to ROM limitations. The PlayStation 2 remake, however, does not suffer from this restriction. The music is performed by the NHK Symphony. Another new feature in the remake is the "Yuujii's Speciality Museum;" the player has to collect local specialties from all around the world, return the items back to a character named "Yuuji," and receive rewards for them. The Dragon Quest V remake is the first Dragon Quest release in the Square Enix name. Lastly, a Dragon Quest VIII preview video disc is included in the Japanese release of Dragon Quest V remake. As of 2004, Square Enix's North American branch has no known plans to localize the Dragon Quest remake, but that may be possible depending on how well Dragon Quest VIII does in North America. The likelihood of localizing of this version of Dragon Quest V is unclear as of now. (Dragon Quest VII was announced for localization as Dragon Warrior VII one year after its Japanese release. Unlike the Dragon Quest IV remake, Heartbeat was not involved in the development of the Dragon Quest V remake.) If this version of the game does get localized to North America, it will be released in the Dragon Quest name, because Square Enix registered in the Dragon Quest trademark in the US in 2003 signaling the retirement of the Dragon Warrior name. As of this fiscal year, as Dragon Quest is one of the company's flagship franchises, Square Enix is planning to release at least four Dragon Quest titles in North America, and that may include Dragon Quest V. A fan translation of the PS2 version is currently being worked on by Kojiro Translations.

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