DQIV gets European release confirmation?

by David Hinkle on Apr 30th 2008 7:00PM

Apparently, a listing for Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen has shown up on the USK (or Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle, but we're sticking with the easier, shorter name), Germany's classification board. Not satisfied with just knowing the title exists in their database, we hit the USK's official website to see it with our own eyes and found this listing for the game.

The chances that Europe will receive this game just increased, but we're curious about one thing. Just why isn't the game listed as Dragon Quest IV? It merely says Dragon Quest: The Chapters of the Chosen. Odd, if you ask us.

[Via Wiiz]

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Tags: dqiv, dragon-quest, dragon-quest-iv, europe, germany, rpg, square-enix, usk

Reader Comments (2)

Dragon Quest VIII didn't get a number in front of its European release either (it was just "Dragon Quest: Journey of the Cursed King"). Guess it's a Squeenix Europe thing.

Square Enix dropped the VIII from DQVIII's title because none of the previous seven DQ games were released in Europe. They probably thought the mainstream gamer might be a bit confused to see a game that was the 8th in a series they may never have heard of before.

All of the main series DQ games have a subtitle that distinguishes them from eachother (Chapters of the Chosen, Journey of the Cursed King, etc) so the lack of the number in the title isn't that big a deal with this series.

Anyways, I'm just glad there's at last some confirmation that the game is getting a european release!

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