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Dragon Quest 7 was going to be an open-world game, series creator Yuji Horii says, but "the story fell apart" so the team had to "add some degree of order to it"

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Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past
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Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past
Genres · adventure, rpg, tbs
Release · Feb 7, 2013
Developer · Heartbeat, ArtePiazza
16 articles 18 writers 4 reviews
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Role · Developer
Active · 1983
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Top genres · adventure, visual_novel, point_and_click
46 articles 21 writers 1 games
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