Dragon Warrior: Descendant of Erdrick

This is a long-time passion project where I am aiming to recreate Dragon Warrior 1. With the help of SnakekillerX on Discord, the scrolling text of the original NES title is mostly restored, as well as how battles play out--with a few small QoL changes, including Auto Battle and Defend. 

CURRENT BUILD FEATURES:

• Level Up to 40
• All Weapons and Armor
• Spells List:
  • Heal
  • Firebal
  • Healmore
  • Firebane
  • Surround
  • Return
  • Radiant
  • Sleep
  • Stopspell
  • ...Plus some extras after LV 29!
• Brecconary
• Garinham + Garin's Grave Dungeon
• Mountain Cave
• Kol + Fairy Flute
• Swamp Cave (No Gwaelin / Dragon Boss yet)
• Rimuldar
• Hauksness + Axe Knight and Erdrick's Armor
• Bottom floor of Charlock + Dragonlord Fight
  • To access Charlock, reach LV 17 and go to where you would normally make the Rainbow Bridge. You will be prompted to travel to Charlock there.
• Some original remakes of the OST written by me
• Secret Boss Battle after defeating the Dragonlord
• Special Boss guarding Erdrick's Sword in Charlock

SECRET WOLF MODE

There is a hidden mode in the game where you equip a cursed item that permanently transforms you into a wolf monster! This disables your ability to equip weapons, shields, and armor, but buffs your base attack and max HP, and also prevents spell casting. In later updates, there will be a quest that allows you to regain your spells and equip shields, as well as re-enter towns and the castle.

This mode also, without meeting certain conditions, prevents game saving, making the game more of a roguelike from the point of the curse's infliction. The ability to save and buy items is still accessible, but those same prior conditions must be met beforehand. Can you find the secret? And moreover, CAN YOU BEAT THE DRAGONLORD???

Not every town and dungeon will emerge as expected. See what secrets you can find--including the wolf mode!

REVISIONS

Please let me know what bugs you find as you play so I can update the game accordingly. Thank you!

RESOURCES AND CREDIT

• Battle System and Scrolling Text by SnakekillerX on Discord
  • Very special thanks here! This remake would be impossible without you Snake. Thanks for working with me!
• NOSTALGIA tileset/charset on itch.io, with some edits by me
• Monster Sprites by Kuro-chan on Spriters-Resource.com
• Spell / Skill animations by me with some stock RMMZ ones used
• FF6 sound effects, as well as some misc NES sfx including some from NES DW1-4
• Some DQ1-SNES OST rips
• 1 sprite ripped from DQ3-SNES with some recolors
• Some original music tracks by me
• Some special music ripped as MIDI and re-sampled in FL Studio

That said, one last thing...

AI DISCLOSURE:

I have used Microsoft Copilot to create some small QoL add-ons to how the game runs in battles, fixing the Auto Battle and also showing HP regen and EXP deficits from cursed armor. No AI was used in the generation of graphics, music, or writing of the game's dialogue.