| Dragon Knight (ドラゴンナイト) | |
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| 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.
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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]
| A Fantasy Role-Playing: Dragon Knight II (ドラゴンナイトII) | |
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| Developer(s) | ELF Corporation NEC Avenue (PC Engine) |
| Platform(s) | MSX, NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-9801, TurboGrafx CD |
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| 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]
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 | |
English Dragon Knight: Another Knight on the Town cover |
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| ドラゴンナイト (Doragon Naito) |
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| 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 |
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 (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 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. The cast included Kappei Yamaguchi as Kakeru, Toshiyuki Morikawa as Eto and Kaneto Shiozawa as Lucifon.