Talk:Dragon Quest II

Game Boy Remake
I am not at all familiar with the Dragon Warrior I & II remake for Game Boy Color. There are names in the article that I am not at all familiar with: Samantoria and Lorasia. Are they the names from the Localized remake, or are they the Japanese names for Dragon Quest II? If they are the names from the Game Boy remake, then I think that needs to be pointed out.--Rika95 00:04, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Reception
We should have a section describing how well received the game fared. This should mention sales of the game in each of its incarnations, both Japanese and localized versions. Review scores of the games in magazines would be good information, too. (I could provide the Nintendo Power critic scores for the NES Dragon Warrior II.)--Rika95 00:13, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

That would be a good idea, Rika95. These games were way ahead of their time and I don't think we give them enough credit in this article or in general for their importance to the RPG genre. Lord mortekai (talk) 01:26, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Hi. I've worked a lot with most of the DQ articles (particularly 3 and 6). Most of them have been horribly neglected here (unlike the final fantasy articles). If you ever want to do some massive editing with any of the DQ articles, drop me a note and I'll help out. : ) Evaunit ♥666♥ 01:20, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: move the page to Dragon Quest II, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 00:34, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

Dragon Warrior II → Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line – Or Dragon Quest II? A recent smartphone edition is using Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line right now. With an exception of Dragon Warrior III, we must be consistent with other Dragon Quest titles. --Relisted. Dekimasu よ! 19:51, 8 November 2014 (UTC) George Ho (talk) 06:38, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
 * I think we should move to Dragon Quest II, with the full title and original title and such being in the lead. I also think that we should do moves to all the other Dragon Quest titles that have not already been moved. --ProtoDrake (talk) 08:43, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * The title is already Dragon Warrior II. By the way, Dragon Warrior became dragon Quest (video game). --George Ho (talk) 08:47, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Whoops, that was silly. I've corrected it. --ProtoDrake (talk) 11:34, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose for now: This has primarily been released in the West as Dragon Warrior II, which can be considered its English title. However if the rerelease is under the Dragon Quest name, and does well, that would be good reason to change. Adam Cuerden (talk) 12:11, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support. Should be like DQ4 which uses the latest official English title. Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line is the correct name . --MK (talk) 19:50, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Has it been rereleased in the West under that name? There's no information on that in the article that I see, just an out-of-date note about a mobile release. Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:13, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes the infobox states WW (World Wide). Also, Luminaries of the Legendary Line is not the original title (Akuryō no Kamigami/Gods of the Evil Spirits).--69.157.253.160 (talk) 03:13, 6 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Suppport the series has long since dropped the Dragon Warrior name. It should also be noted that article for the first and fourth games were changed when they were released as Dragon Quest.--69.157.253.160 (talk) 22:39, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support Dragon Quest II, no subtitle. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_enix.android_googleplay.dq2_gp  --> This highly downplays the subtitle and is listed as just "Dragon Quest II."    You have to look at a full title shot to see the subtitle.   Combined with the fact the subtitle didn't exist in earlier releases, I'd say it's best to leave it off.  SnowFire (talk) 18:38, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I just want to point out that DQ4 & 8 were also released on mobile, like DQ2, without a subtitle on the download page, but the subtitles exist in-game for all of them. For the sake of consistency, I suggest either adding all or removing all of them. --MK (talk) 20:06, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Not really. DQ4 has a NDS release and DQ8 has a PS2 release with far more influence than the mobile versions, and they had the subtitle there.  So it's reasonable to treat them differently. SnowFire (talk) 02:29, 13 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Dragon Quest II, no subtitle, explain in the lede, leave the box art as is, similar to the previous title. The rerelease would indicate that "Quest" is the official name, and if "Warrior" is used just as often, let's default to the series standard. The guideline on subtitles says not to use them unless they're necessary for disambiguation (really short titles), which they aren't in this case. czar ♔   19:55, 12 November 2014 (UTC)


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Dragon Quest I and 'Pop Music'
I found this line in the article:

"Since the original Dragon Quest opened with a pop song, Sugiyama decided to use this song to make the games stylistically connected.", citing http://dragonquestage.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-84.html

This is completely wrong (the original Dragon Quest contains no 'pop songs' at all), and may be from a misreading or mistranslation of the cited article (which is in Japanese).

From what I can read from machine translations, it says that Dragon Quest II takes place 100 years after Dragon Quest I, so Pop Music may be appropriate to a newer setting.

--Dwedit (talk) 23:13, 9 September 2021 (UTC)