{"id":40264,"date":"2024-11-21T12:46:26","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T03:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=40264"},"modified":"2024-11-21T13:41:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T04:41:21","slug":"dragon-quest-3-hd-2d-remake-is-losing-players-midway-for-an-unfortunate-reason-its-target-audience-has-grown-old-and-farsighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-quest-3-hd-2d-remake-is-losing-players-midway-for-an-unfortunate-reason-its-target-audience-has-grown-old-and-farsighted\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake is losing players midway for an unfortunate reason \u2013 its target audience has grown old and farsighted\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake\u2019<\/strong>s recent release has been massive in Japan, with the game <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-quest-3-hd-2d-remake-switch-physical-version-swiftly-sells-out-in-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">selling out<\/a> at various retailers and racking up a <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/dragon-quest-3-hd-2d-remakes-steam-performance-is-the-third-best-in-square-enixs-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">record-breaking Steam player count for Square Enix<\/a>. However, as the remake caters to fans of a classic RPG from that\u2019s a whole 36 years old, it has run into an unexpected problem \u2013 some of its players simply can\u2019t read anything.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An article by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jprime.jp\/articles\/-\/34362?display=b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Weekly Josei Prime<\/a> quotes some reviews from Japanese players who had to cut their adventures short after struggling with Dragon Quest III\u2019s text:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#eaeaea\">\u201cI can only play for about 2 hours before my eyes start to hurt.\u201d&nbsp;<br><br>\u201cThe Dragon Quest 3 remake is awesome, but as someone from the Dragon Quest generation, the Switch screen is hard on my farsightedness. The text is so small&#8221;&nbsp;<br><br>&#8220;I\u2019m a 65-year-old dad who bought Dragon Quest 3. Here&#8217;s a haiku: Dragon Quest&#8217;s most powerful enemy \u2013 hyperopia.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This seems to be an issue for people on the Switch especially, and the Switch version of Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake also happens to be the best-selling version in Japan too (source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/article\/202411\/23920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Famitsu<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The situation has even prompted a reaction from Nintendo legend Takaya Imamura, who simply posted an \u201cUh-oh&#8230;\u201d on his personal X account.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3046\u3063\u30fb\u30fb\u30fb<br><br>\u5192\u967a\u3092\u3042\u304d\u3089\u3081\u308b\u201c\u5143\u5c11\u5e74\u201d\u304c\u7d9a\u51fa\u202636\u5e74\u3076\u308a\u300e\u30c9\u30e9\u30af\u30a83\u300f\u306b\u3042\u3089\u308f\u308c\u305f\u30e2\u30f3\u30b9\u30bf\u30fc\u4ee5\u4e0a\u306e\u201c\u96e3\u6575\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ldnews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ldnews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZvlUNba1Tl\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZvlUNba1Tl<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u4eca\u6751\u5b5d\u77e2 \/ Takaya Imamura (@ima_1966) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ima_1966\/status\/1859036569581269430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake has run into an unexpected problem \u2013 some of its players simply can\u2019t read such small text anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":40267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-40264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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