Before I even joined TouchArcade, I knew of the Dragon Quest mobile ports thanks to Shaun’s reviews of them. I’m definitely a part of the group who has spent a fair amount of money on premium mobile ports thanks to his reviews. Dragon Quest V ($14.99) from Square Enix is considered one of the best if not the best games in the series. Today, Square Enix brings it to modern iPhone screen sizes with the first update in years.
Dragon Quest 5 has some interesting monster catching mechanics. Today’s update also helps with that. With update 1.1.0, iPhone X and later screen size support has been added. Check out the screenshots below to see how it looks with this update. You can also win the “Monster Magnet" in the casino which helps recruit monsters easily.
The last udpate for it arrived around 3 years ago adding more language support. This makes Dragon Quest IV and Dragon Quest VI the two games missing modern iPhone screen size support. I hope they patch those soon and consider bringing Dragon Quest VII to the West on iOS and Android. If you haven’t bought Dragon Quest V yet, read Shaun’s review for it here.
I have a DQV save file that is saved from when you visit the first casino and can start catching monsters... fired
up the save file and it's in the shop for 20000. Cool update to a very good game and one of my favorite JRPGs ever
I bought DQ V about a week ago on iOS, having owned it on DS back in the day but never beating it. I’m completely hooked. The port is really great and adding X support makes it even better to play on my XR. The out of the blue X support update makes me hopeful that IV and VI get support and that they will consider porting VII as well.