Dragon Knight (video game)

For other uses, see Dragon Knight (disambiguation).

Dragon Knight (ドラゴンナイト)
Developer(s)	ELF Corporation NEC Avenue (PC Engine)
Publisher(s)	ELF Corporation (PC88, PC98, X68k, MSX) NEC Avenue (PC Engine)
Series	Dragon Knight
Engine	Walrus
Platform(s)	MSX, NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, Sharp X68000, TurboGrafx-16 (PC Engine)
Release date(s)	1989-11-01 (PC88, PC98, X68k, MSX) 1995-03-31 (PCE)
Genre(s)	Eroge/Role-playing video game
Mode(s)	Single-player
Media/distribution	Floppy disks, CD-ROM

Dragon Knight (ドラゴンナイト) is a sword and sorcery eroge/role-playing video game series by the game company ELF. It has also a hentai OVA and a four-episode series based on it.

The series mostly tell the story of Yamato Takeru (ヤマト・タケル) (no relation with the historical figure of Yamato Takeru), a somewhat wayward youth whose main purpose in life seems to be saving damsels and slaying evil.

Dragon Knight

In the kingdom of Strawberry Fields, a place inhabited only by women, the Goddess' Tower has protected the land and its people for generations. Then one day, the Demon descended upon the tower, and the people of Strawberry Fields suddenly find themselves threatened. Answering Queen Luna's (Noriko Hidaka) plea for help, the young warrior and traveler Yamato Takeru (Akira Kamiya) takes them on.

Two soundtracks: Dragon Knight - Treasure King of Water Chapter (ドラゴンナイト～水の宝王篇～) and PC Engine World — Dragon Knight & Graffiti were released in Japan in 1990 and 1995.^[1][2]

Dragon Knight II

A Fantasy Role-Playing: Dragon Knight II (ドラゴンナイトII)
Developer(s)	ELF Corporation NEC Avenue (PC Engine)
Platform(s)	MSX, NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, TurboGrafx CD
Release date(s)	JP December 20, 1990 (MSX, PC-98) JP 1992 (PCE)
Media/distribution	Floppy disks, CD-ROM

Takeru Yamato (again Akira Kamiya) wanders into the small town of Phoenix. However, the very next day Phoenix is cursed by an evil sorceress named Mesaanya (メサーニャ) (Yumi Nakatani) who has captured all the girls and turned them into monsters and other enemies (werewolf, centaur, mummy, harpy, angel, catgirl, elf, berserker, kunoichi, etc.) and also possessed the town mayor's granddaughter Kate (Aya Hisakawa). Only Takeru is brave enough to try to defeat Mesaanya and break her spells.

Soon, it turns out Mesaanya has a personal grudge against Takeru, as she it is a sole descendant of a legendary group of she-demon witches which was fought and destroyed there 300 years ago, before Phoenix was built, by a Dragon Knight who incidentally was his ancestor. In order to save the girls and change them back to normal, Takeru must remove the curse one has to find three sacred writings in the Phoenix Tower, the ancient home of the witches, and find the Falcon Sword and the sacred Genji Armor that would be used to destroy Mesaanya. Along the way he meets the mighty warrior Baan and the mysterious priestess Sophia (ソフィア) (Sumi Shimamoto) who join him on his quest.

According to EGM, the game "became a sleeper hit with Japanese role-playing fans."^[3] Two soundtracks: Dragon Knight II Fantastic Remix! (ドラゴンナイト II ファンタスティック・リミックス!) and Dragon Knight II PC Engine World (ドラゴンナイト II ～ＰＣエンジンワールド) were released in Japan in 1991-1992.^[4][5]

Dragon Knight III

Main article: Knights of Xentar

The gameplay system is game is also different, resembling this of the early Final Fantasy (even more in the PC version) series instad of first-person-view dungeon crawler.

It is the only part of the video game series released in the west, in English and in German (which is in itself a rarity in such games), as Knights of Xentar for PC DOS. Some of the characters were renamed in this version, including the Takeru's name changed to Desmond.

Dragon Knight 4

Main article: Dragon Knight 4

OVA series

Dragon Knight
English Dragon Knight: Another Knight on the Town cover
ドラゴンナイト (Doragon Naito)
Genre	Erotic (1st & 2nd series), medieval fantasy, harem
Original video animation
Directed by	Jun Fukada
Produced by	Yukio Kakehi
Written by	Kinuyo Nozaki
Music by	Hiroshi Taguchi
Studio	Polystar, Studio Wombat
Released	1991
Original video animation
Dragon Knight: Another Knight on the Town
Directed by	Jun Fukada
Studio	Polystar, Studio Wombat
Released	1995
Original video animation
Dragon Knight: The Wheel of Time
Directed by	Hiromichi Matano
Produced by	Tohru Suzuki
Written by	Akira Takano
Music by	Harukichi Yamamoto
Studio	Pink Pineapple
Released	1998
Episodes	4
Anime and Manga Portal

Dragon Knight

The first OVA was produced by Polystar. VHS and LD versions were made. SoftCel Pictures sold the English version in VHS format. It was re-released on DVD in 2003^[6]. The anime is based on the first game. The cast included Yasunori Matsuno as Takeru and Yūko Mizutani as Luna.

Dragon Knight Gaiden

Dragon Knight Gaiden (ドラゴンナイト外伝) was created in 1995. VHS and LD versions were made. The 1995 version was sold by Taki Corporation. It was again rereleased in 1999 on VHS, then in 2000 in the VHS and DVD formats as "Sexual Grade Up Edition". They were all sold by FiveWays under the Honnybit brand (BOUKIDOU). SoftCel sold the English version in VHS format as Dragon Knight: Another Knight on the Town. The American version contains very minor edits of penetration.

Cast: Mitsuaki Madono as Yamato Takeru, Mikiko Kurihara as Jodis, Nina Kumagaya as Yurius, Yōko Sōmi as Shade, Hiroshi Naka as Runter, Kenichi Ogata (voice actor) as Renaldo. Character design by Keiji Gotoh.

Dragon Knight: The Wheel of Time

Dragon Knight: The Wheel of Time is an adaptation of Dragon Knight IV containing the same characters. It is a four part OAV. It was originally released in Japan in 1998 and released in the US on DVD in 2003 with an edited version released two years later that removed the graphic sex scenes.^{[citation needed]} The cast included Kappei Yamaguchi as Kakeru, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Eto and Kaneto Shiozawa as Lucifon.

See also

• Words Worth

References

1. ^ PSCX-1013 | Dragon Knight - Treasure King of Water Chapter - VGMdb
2. ^ NACL-1180 | PC Engine World — Dragon Knight & Graffiti - VGMdb
3. ^ Electronic Gaming Monthly 43 (February 1993), page 64
4. ^ NACL-1043 | Dragon Knight II Fantastic Remix! - VGMdb
5. ^ NACL-1078 | Dragon Knight II PC Engine World - VGMdb
6. ^ Chris Beveridge (November 23, 2002). "Dragon Knight". Mania.com. http://www.mania.com/dragon-knight_article_74930.html. Retrieved August 21, 2011. 

External links

Games

• Dragon Knight series at MobyGames
• Dragon Knight franchise at Giant Bomb
• Review and strategy guide for Dragon Knight II

OVAs

• Dragon Knight (video game) (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• SoftCel Dragon Knight page (archived)