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DQ4 is best played on NES. It's one of the best games in the series and doesn't even feel like an old ass NES JRPG.

DQ5 needs the Dejap translation patch. Avoid the Byuu patch, it's a very dry literal translation with no real flow.

DQ6 needs the NoProgress patch, which is 95% complete and only missing some irrelevant ENDGAME NPC dialogue from a few early towns you never need to go back to. But patch it yourself (it's a SNES game, so careful with the presence or absence of a header when patching). The patched version that is floating around is for some reason an earlier, more incomplete version of the patch. That's why the translation got its undeserved reputation of being incomplete. The only real but small problems are being unable to see your money unless you are at a shop (they had to make space for the English menu) and the fact that backing out from certain menus crashes the game. This will NEVER happen to you unless you go really far into a long ass menu tree and then slowly back out of it step by step. Just don't do it, who the hell does that in a DQ game?

If you want more detailed info on how to avoid the very few crashing bugs on this translations, check out the warosu archive. I posted about it at least twice in the past.

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On the differences between DQV and its remakes:
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>>4167990
it was alright, but not all that great. Just like DQ5, its progression was heavily railroaded and event-centered, every time you get some new vehicle you still ran into reefs, mountains and so on. It didn't stop being linear until the heavenly equipment search. I did like the last leg of the game in Deathtamoor's world, though.

Dragon Quest 3,5,6

>>3462363
It's still a good game, it just drags in the middle. It gets really good near the end, and the ending is probably the best in the series.

The game has flaws, but it also has Barbara. She is flawless. Literally the best DQ girl.

>>3412968
I never used the monsters in the SFC version, but it's still a lot better than the DS remake.

Better graphics, better music, better difficulty, decent translation... It's the best version. You have to be aware of a couple of menu bugs so you don't accidentally trigger them. They are perfectly avoidable if you know about them.

If you like how the DS version looks and don't mind the horrible translation, play that version. It has party chat, which is nice I guess. But it's a pretty shitty remake. I started with it and now I can't play it anymore. Party chat isn't worth it if everything else is either inferior or straight up bad.

Also, best DQ girl looks like shit in the remake. Her battle portrait is disgusting.

Barbara is cute! CUTE!

>>3365340
That's probably the best non-hentai Moonbrooke picture ever.

I think this one is the cutest Barbara ever drawn. And it's by Toriyama himself!

The daughter of Calberona is cute! CUTE!

>>3340192
I don't understand how people can like the other waifus more than Flora.