Dragon Quest


 * For a more comprehensive take on the Dragon Quest game series, please visit the Kingdom Hearts Wiki! Certain links present here automatically take you to the corresponding Dragon Quest Wiki page for that term. Multiple spoilers for the series are present here.

Dragon Quest, published as Dragon Warrior in North America until 2005, is a series of internationally best-selling console role-playing video game titles originally published by Enix, now Square Enix. The first title was published in 1986; there are currently nine main-series titles and numerous spinoff games. The series has had a significant impact on the development of console RPGs, and introduced a number of features to the genre. The basic premise of most Dragon Quest titles is to play a Hero who, usually with a group of party members, is out to save the land from peril at the hands of a powerful evil enemy. Common elements persist throughout the series and its spinoff titles: turn-based combat; recurring monsters, including the Slime, which has become the series' mascot; until recently, a text-based menu systems; and, until recently random encounters

Elements from Dragon Quest have made several cameo apperances in the Final Fantasy series.

Final Fantasy
In some versions of the game, Erdrick's tomb can be seen in Elfheim.

Final Fantasy XII
Among the swords collected by the interdimensional traveler Gilgamesh is a replica of Erdrick's Sword, here called the Wyrmhero Blade. It is called Tolo's Sword in the Japanese version, a pun on Erdrick's Japanese name Loto.

Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Special
This game from the Itadaki Street series makes the first officially overt crossover between the Final Fatnasy and Dragon Quest series.

Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime
Cid appears in the Dragon Quest series for the first time ever as the inventor Ducktor Cid.

Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable
This second Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street game features additional character crossovers.

Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Mobile
In this third Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street game, the characters featured go up to Final Fantasy XIII and Dragon Quest IX.

Trivia

 * A demo disc of Final Fantasy XII was included with the North American version of Dragon Quest VIII.
 * Despite the merging of Square and Enix, there has been almost no development team crossovers between Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest. The only team crossover has been with Final Fantasy XIV, as the game's director Naoki Yoshida was previously the director of the Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road spinoff series.