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The Hero Draws Near! It’s time for our first full Dragon Quest GaMetal remix: the overworld theme, Adventure, along with the Battle Theme from Dragon Quest 3 (or Dragon Warrior 3 for those us in the West).

As you may know, “The Hero” from the DQ series was recently revealed as the next Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC character, alongside Banjo-Kazooie. With this news, I saw all sorts of Banjo related content fly out of the woodworks, but because of DQ’s low popularity in here in the West, hardly any DQ content in comparison. Which is a shame, because Dragon Quest is a great series with great music!

I’ve already briefly touched on 2 other Dragon Quest tunes: Dragon Lord from DQ1 in NES Medley 3 and the Battle Theme from DQ4 in NES Medley 5. I had originally intended for Dragon Lord to also be a part of this arrangement, but I just couldn’t get in to fit in well without sounding too out of place. Maybe I’ll get back to that one some other time.

Adventure is one of the most popular and known Dragon Quest songs, so I figured that’d be a great starting point. I also found the DQ3 battle theme to be really interesting, probably because of that part where everything randomly spazzes out for a second (I had Bowser handle that in the video because it was a bit too crazy for me).

Don’t get me wrong, I’m more than hype for Banjo-Kazooie’s inclusion in Smash, but I felt this was remix was necessary after seeing DQ not getting a whole lot of love made in the new content department. I’m sure we can get around to celebrating Banjo later. 🙂