Everything you need to know about Dragon Quest Heroes, out today on PS4

Nine years ago, the Dragon Quest franchise made its European debut back on the PS2 with Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (yes, it really was that long ago!) and this week, the franchise returns to PlayStation! Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below is out now on PS4 in Europe! It’s good to be back!

To celebrate the launch of Dragon Quest Heroes, we’ve got a load of info for you but before we go into the details be sure to check out the launch trailer, which you can watch below:

Dragon Quest Heroes is the first game in the franchise on PS4 and it’s also the first action RPG in the franchise as well. To make sure Dragon Quest Heroes is a proper Dragon Quest experience, the series creator Yuji Hori was very hands on with the development of Dragon Quest Heroes alongside Koichi Sugiyama who composed all of the music and Akira Toriyama, the world renowned artist who designed all the characters and monsters. If the art style of Dragon Quest Heroes feels familiar it might be because it reminds you of his work on the Dragon Ball manga and anime which he created.

If the launch trailer wasn’t cool enough, we’ve also got some good news for those of you who like to own digital copies of games. I can confirm that as of today you can purchase Dragon Quest Heroes on PlayStation Store!

There are two different versions: the standard edition and the Digital Slime Edition. The Digital Slime Edition comes with a load of extra in-game goodies which are listed below:

Nine special Slime weapons
Gold Digger’s map
Happy map

If you want to find out more about these items and how they work in game then check out one of our gameplay walkthrough videos below:

The standard edition costs €59.99/£49.99 and the Digital Slime Edition costs €64.99/£54.99, so it’s only a fiver more and you get a load cool extras in it.

Now, as an additional bonus, if you purchase either digital edition of Dragon Quest Heroes from PlayStation Store in the first month of release then you will get two extra items completely free! Cor blimey!

These are:

The Goolden Axe – a special Slime weapon for the character Yangus
A static Dragon Quest Heroes PS4 theme (shown below)

On top of that, if you are a PlayStation Plus subscriber you can also get the Fandangoo which is a special Slime weapon for the character Maya, completely free too! This is available to everyone who’s a PlayStation Plus subscriber so you don’t need to buy the digital version of Dragon Quest Heroes to get this.

These free items will only be available until the 15th November, 2015 so be sure to get everything you want before then.

Still with me? Goo-reat, because there’s even more news!

Every weekend until the 31st January, 2016 we will be hosting “special online events” in Dragon Quest Heroes. To access these all you have to do is log into PSN and enable online access in the game settings. Below is the schedule of things you can look forward to:

Every Saturday 0:00-12:00
- Experience up campaign
- Experience that can be achieved within the campaign time is 20% up

Every Saturday 12:00-24:00
- Rear items campaign
- Rear items that can be achieved within the campaign time is doubled

Every Sunday 0:00-12:00
- Gold up campaign
- Gold that can be achieved within the campaign time is 20% up

Every Sunday 12:00-24:00
- Experience up campaign
- Experience that can be achieved within the campaign time is 20% up

If you want to see a bit more about what Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below is like and how it actually plays, then you can watch a bunch of gameplay videos in this spiffy playlist on our YouTube channel.

Hopefully you’ve met our little superstar Healix. He plays a really important role in Dragon Quest Heroes and he’s super proud of his crown. He runs our Facebook and Twitter accounts so be sure to give him a like and follow!

Thanks for reading this massive blog post and I hope you’re excited about picking up Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree’s Woe and the Blight Below. If you’ve got any questions, leave a comment and I’ll do my best to answer them!