The Greatest Arms Merchant in the World

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Torneko and family in Torneko’s Great Adventure: Mysterious Dungeon || Official Art

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Torneko, Tessie and Tipper in  Torneko no Daibōken 3 of the Mystery Dungeon Series || Official Art

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EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.

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Dragon Questers in a cartoonier style by らくがき帝国民.

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Inktober day 24! As suggested by @softcremebrulee here’s Tsarevna Alena from Dragon Quest 4.

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Alefgard || Original Art

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Dragon Quest Mystery Dungeon || Torneko: The Last Hope

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序章～４章まとめ

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Inktober Day 13: scared

Day thirteen of the Inktober Dragon Quest edition! I based this picture on the Cave of Betrayal, a part I really like in DQ4. 

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Some of the items from Dragon Quest IV!

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Torneko is the man

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I found this on Mandarake in Japan and I’m super happy about it! It’s a Dragon Quest IV card game from 1990 called Silver Tarot (銀のタロット) based off Minea/Nara/Meena’s tarot in the game. I am very excited to learn the rules and try it out with my friends! The art is fantastic, and it was in amazing condition for being so old. :) Thanks Japan!

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Aaand done!  Another Dragon Quest item redone for study purposes.  This is the “Ruby of Protection” Please support me on Patreon :D  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=110865

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Some of the characters from Dragon Quest IV!

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Here’s one of the official Dragon Quest IV official guide books from 1990. It’s full of a lot of lovely art I had never seen before for the most minor of characters and items. Here are some of my favorite highlights.

First, we have my favorite page in the book, because Alena looks sweet in her toga-dress, Maya looks wonderful in her 80s workout outfit, and Borya is just hilarious. Next, it’s cool to see Ragnar in other armors befitting a royal knight.

I’m amazed that pretty much every single character of minor importance gets a little blurb. Cynthia on the right there makes sense, but I have no clue who Jill is to the left of her. I can read their Japanese names, but I’m more familiar with minor characters’ English names.

I don’t remember an important dog. I can’t believe he warrants a place here haha. The next page has some old men who, despite having the same sprites, have different art, which I appreciate.

I adore Lucia’s art. She’s adorable. The last thing of note is just how amusing some of the transliterations are. “Rollins” is clearly supposed to be Laurence, but due to the limitations of Japanese when writing foreign names, Rollins is technically correct too. Other fun names include Lyon instead of Ryan (Ragnar) and Arena instead of Alena.

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It’s probably the dog forms Torneko’s town who scares off the tricky foxes.

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Torneko: The Last Hope was out today in 1999. A roguelike featuring Torneko, the merchant from Dragon Quest IV.

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In my opinion, Dragon Quest IV (Dragon Warrior IV) was easily the best JRPG on the NES, and the first “modern” JRPG in a sense. Dragon Quest III and Final Fantasy both got the formula down right, but what made DQ4 so wonderful was the story. I love Dragon Warrior II with all my heart, but it’s rather simple as far as plots go. DQ3 and the three NES Final Fantasies had interesting enough stories for the time, but DQ4’s chapter system blew them all out of the water.

Four short stories, each with their own protagonist, that combine their plots to form an amazing fifth chapter was a unique idea. Many games even to this day have a problem with party members feeling like satellite characters. Christo/Kiryl and Brey/Borya are this to Alena to an extent, but the majority of characters felt like real people from all walks of life. Rather than a random fighter, we got to see royal guard Ragnar protecting his homeland, and experience for ourselves why he’s motivated to find the hero. You got to play as a store clerk, for crying out loud. The plot was also much more interesting than collecting four magic items. The plot actually moved along, with a villain who actively set his evil plans in motion, rather than sitting on his throne for the whole game. While not perfect, it was truly ahead of its time.