One of the best RPGs of all time

I dont write many reviews, but I cant help myself here. The true makings of a classic game provide tons of replay value, and impact people in multiple generations with that title, while spawning endless titles afterwards. Three particular titles come to mind from the late 80s/early 90s that were all on the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Those titles are The Legend of Zelda 1, Final Fantasy 1 (FF1), and Dragon Quest/Warrior 3 (DQ3). All three games have combined for about 50 new titles after these legendary releases. Both FF1 and DQ3 were games that you would beat, and then wonder, "Cool, can I do it with another party?" You would then devote another week or so to running the gauntlet again with the new party, kill Chaos (FF1) or Zoma (DQ3), and then maybe take a 6 month or one year break from the game, but it would still be on your mind, "Hey, I have to beat this game again, but with another party." This would go on for the next 20 years for me, but with longer breaks. I bought these games for $65-70 USD in the 90s with my allowance money, downloaded the free ROMs in the 2000s, and spent a fraction of that 90s money again in the 2010s to continue playing those two games on the iPhone. DQ3 is such a fun game, because not only can you customize and substitute in your party, you can also vary your path in where you go. For example: Want to challenge yourself early and get the Golden Claw, and delay going north to the town of Kanave, you can do that. So much variation is in this game, that you will never get tired of it. I also love the nostalgia of reliving Alefgard in DQ1 as the dark world in DQ3. You did some amazing work on DQ3 Enix (would become Square Enix years later). Everyone always slams DQ2 so hardly too. Was that game really so bad, or was DQ3 just one of those games that changed the standards of RPGs forever? I tend to think the later.

Pigpopper23 about DRAGON QUEST III