Dragon Fantasy 1: The Volumes of Westeria

🗃️ Specifications

📰 Title:	Dragon Fantasy 1: The Volumes of Westeria	🕹️ / 🛠️ Type:	Game
🗃️ Genre:	Adventure & Action	👁️ Visual:	2D Scrolling
🏷️ Category:	Adventure & Action ➤ Role-playing game ➤ Action RPG ➤ Zelda & JRPG	🏝️ Perspective:	Third person
🔖 Tags:	Action RPG; JRPG; Fantasy; Retro; Pixel Art; Controller	⏱️ Pacing:	Real Time
🐣️ Approx. start:	2015-04-09	👫️ Played:	Single
🐓️ Latest:	2015-04-09	🚦 Status:	04. Released (status)
📍️ Version:	Latest: -	❤️ Like it:	9. ⏳️
🏛️ License type:	💰 Commercial	🎀️ Quality:	7. ⏳️
🏛️ License:	Commercial	✨️ (temporary):
🐛️ Created:	2016-08-21	🐜️ Updated:	2024-06-22

🚦 Entry status

📰 What's new?:		👻️ Temporary:
💡 Lights on:		🎨️ Significant improvement:
👔️ Already shown:		💭️ New version published (to be updated):
🎖️ This work:		🚧️ Some work remains to be done:
👫️ Contrib.:	goupildb & Louis	🦺️ Work in progress:
🎰️ ID:	15065

📖️ Summary

📜️[en]:	Experience an all-new old adventure! Fight your way through hordes of strange, silly, and scary monsters! Explore the caves, castles, and dungeons of an ancient evil! Meet warriors, princes, pirates, zombies, and crazy old woodsmen in a huge world of epic retro adventure! Authentic 8-bit artwork and an original soundtrack by renowned Bay Area 8-bit musician Crashfaster keeps the game true to its retro roots.	📜️[fr]:	Un JRPG à l'ancienne / au style rétro, dans lequel le joueur se fraiera un chemin à travers des hordes de monstres étranges, stupides, et effrayants, en explorant des grottes, des châteaux et sous-terrains d'un antique démon. Il rencontrera des guerriers, des princes, des pirates, des zombies et des vieux bucherons fous dans un monde immense. Il bénéficie en outre d'un graphisme 8-bit authentique et d'une bande son originale du célèbre groupe Crashfaster.

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📕 Description [en]

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Experience an all-new old adventure! Fight your way through hordes of strange, silly, and scary monsters! Explore the caves, castles, and dungeons of an ancient evil! Meet warriors, princes, pirates, zombies, and crazy old woodsmen in a huge world of epic retro adventure! Authentic 8-bit artwork and an original soundtrack by renowned Bay Area 8-bit musician Crashfaster keeps the game true to its retro roots.

Evil is afoot in the land of Westeria, and the only man who can stop it...
...is fat, bald, and retired!
Rediscover what it means to be a hero in Dragon Fantasy!

Battle over 80 different enemies over multiple episodes! Equip powerful weapons, learn arcane magic, and master the skills of thievery!

🌍️ Wikipedia:

Dragon Fantasy is a retro-style role-playing game developed by The Muteki Corporation. It was originally developed for iOS, where it launched on August 23, 2011, and was subsequently released for Mac, Windows, and Android phones. On April 9, 2012, Sony Computer Entertainment of America announced on their blog that a greatly enhanced "16-bit" version of the game would be launching on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. The game was originally created as an homage to series designer Adam Rippon's late father, sculptor and professor Thomas Rippon, who died in December 2010.

Dragon Fantasy features classic JRPG gameplay, including random battles, lengthy treasure-filled dungeons, and a story about a lone hero saving the world. The game features numerous homages to other games in the genre, most notably Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, but also Lufia and EarthBound, amongst others.

With the release of Dragon Fantasy Book I and Dragon Fantasy Book II on PlayStation Network, an enhanced mode with updated 16-bit styled graphics and orchestrated audio was added. This enhanced mode may be turned on or off at any time to allow the player to experience the game as either a Nintendo Entertainment System-style or Super Nintendo Entertainment System-style game. The compiled Volumes of Westeria that is available for Nintendo 3DS as of mid-2015, via digital download on the Nintendo eShop, includes this feature as well.
Plot

Dragon Fantasy Book I features three separate canonical chapters, plus one intermission chapter based on Minecraft.

Chapter One, simply titled "Dragon Fantasy", centers around the character Ogden, who is based on the series creator's father, and focuses on the idea of a washed-up former hero getting back into the business of world-saving. It also sets up many of the characters and themes for the rest of the game.

Chapter Two, "The Heir Unapparent", tells the parallel story of Prince Anders, brother of Prince Marlon, who was kidnapped at the beginning of Chapter One. During his travels, Anders discovers an important artifact that becomes central to the story in later chapters, particularly in the sequel, Dragon Fantasy Book II.

Chapter Three, "Operation Desert Plunder", introduces new characters Jerald and Ramona, a thief and his niece trying to escape the eastern desert empire of Sandheim. They rob a ship that the heroes from the first two chapters are traveling in, and find the artifact found in Chapter Two, to their great peril.

Finally, Intermission M features a non-canon side-story about the heroes traveling to a Minecraft server and retrieving Notch's magic Swedish hat from an Enderdragon in order to return to the real world. It was created in honor of the game's first appearance at a convention during Minecon in 2011.

📕 Description [fr]

Un JRPG à l'ancienne / au style rétro, par le studio Muteki, publié par le studio Choice Provisions.

Dragon Fantasy: The Volumes of Westeria (Dragon Fantasy Book I) est un JRPG à l'ancienne / au style rétro, dans lequel le joueur se fraiera un chemin à travers des hordes de monstres étranges, stupides, et effrayants, en explorant des grottes, des châteaux et sous-terrains d'un antique démon. Il rencontrera des guerriers, des princes, des pirates, des zombies et des vieux bucherons fous dans un monde immense. Il bénéficie en outre d'un graphisme 8-bit authentique et d'une bande son originale du célèbre groupe Crashfaster.

Vivez une toute nouvelle aventure à l'ancienne ! Frayez-vous un chemin à travers des hordes de monstres étranges, stupides, et effrayants ! Explorez des grottes, châteaux et sous-terrains d'un antique démon ! Rencontrez des guerriers, des princes, des pirates, des zombies et des vieux bucherons fous dans un monde immense d'une aventure épique au style rétro ! Un graphisme 8-bit authentique et une bande son originale du célèbre musicien Crashfaster maintiennent un jeu fidèle à ses racines rétro.