Dragon Quest Heroes, fully titled Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below (lit. Dragon Quest Heroes: The Dark Dragon and the World Tree Castle) is a Dragon Quest hack and slash spinoff game based off of the Dynasty Warriors series.
Plot[]
The setting is the peaceful country Elsaize. People and monsters lived in harmony until the monsters mysteriously went berserk. Humanity is surrounded by the monster armies and use anything they can to survive. The nefarious Velasco schemes to plunge the world into darkness by taking control of all the monsters in order to release the darkness dragon Shadroth: Lord of the Night.
Characters[]
Playable Characters[]
- Luceus
- Aurora
- Doric
- Isla
- Alena, from Dragon Quest IV
- Kiryl, from Dragon Quest IV
- Maya, from Dragon Quest IV
- Psaro, from Dragon Quest IV
- Bianca, from Dragon Quest V
- Nera, from Dragon Quest V
- Terry, from Dragon Quest VI
- Jessica, from Dragon Quest VIII
- Yangus, from Dragon Quest VIII
Support Characters[]
Other characters[]
- Beryl
- Elven Elder
- Grand Mother Mediator
Monsters[]
Some monsters can be used by players upon dropping tokens and will fight for players as a "sentry" or a "saviour." Some monsters manifest in battle through a Mawkeeper. Among the featured monsters are:
- Agoomulator
- Archdemon
- Atlas
- Bag o' laughs
- Barbatos
- Belial
- Bjørn the Behemoose
- Bloody hand
- Bomboulder
- Boss troll
- Brownie
- Bubble slime
- Cannibox
- Chimaera
- Corpse corporal
- Cosmic chimaera
- Cureslime
- Darkling
- Dark skeleton
- Demon-at-arms
- Drackmage
- Dracky
- Drackyma
- Dread dragon
- Gargoyle
- Genie sanguini
- Gigantes
- Gold golem
- Golem
- Goodybag
- Great sabrecat
- Green dragon
- Grim golem
- Grinade
- Hacksaurus
- Hammerhood
- Hawk man
- Healslime
- Hell gladiator
- Hellion
- Hocus chimaera
- Hunter mech
- Imp
- Killing machine
- King cureslime
- King Hydra
- King slime
- Lethal armour
- Liquid metal slime
- Living statue
- Magus
- Man o' war
- Marquis de Léon
- Merry man
- Metal king slime
- Metal slime
- Metal slime knight
- Mimic
- Minidemon
- Moosifer
- Muddy hand
- Nokturnus
- Obstrocktion
- Overkilling machine
- Pandora's box
- Pazuzu
- Pink sanguini
- Restless armour
- Rockbomb
- Roseguardin
- Serpent of the scales
- Shaman
- She-slime
- Silvapithecus
- Skeleton
- Skeleton soldier
- Slime
- Slime knight
- Sorcerer
- Stone golem
- Stone guardian
- Stout troll
- Tactical wizard
- Teeny sanguini
- Toxic zombie
- Trialblazer
- Troll
- Type G0
- Tyrantosaurus
- Uberkilling machine
- Walking corpse
- Zoma
- Zombie gladiator
Gallery[]
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- This was the first Dragon Quest game to be localized in Taiwan.
- During the first cutscene, its possible to see the prizes of the shooting gallery; these prizes include stuffed doll versions of the 5 non-Human races of Dragon Quest X: the Poppets, the Ogres, the Wetlings, and the Dragon Quest X versions of the Dwarf and Elf races, both of which do appear in Heroes under a different guise.
| Other languages | |
| French | Unknown |
| German | Dragon Quest Heroes: Der Weltenbaum und der Tyrann aus der Tiefe |
| Spanish | Unknown |
| Italian | Unknown |
| Dutch | Unknown |
| Norwegian | Unknown |
| Greek | Unknown |
| Portuguese | Unknown |
| Russian | Unknown |
| Chinese | Unknown |
| Korean | Unknown |