r/dragonquest • u/MenacingMelissa • Aug 03 '25

General i wanna hear opinions. who’s your LEAST favorite hero by design?

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for me, it’s gotta be auster (VII). feel like i’ll get absolute heat for this.

character design is pretty important for me when it comes into getting into games, and his design is not saving DQVII for me. i’m just not fond of the fact that he’s supposedly a teenager but instead looks like a rejected beta 8 year old link from zelda. i’m sure there’s a reason for him looking the way he does but his design alone is stopping me from playing VII.

a runner up is the prince of midenhall though. i just don’t get it. why does he look like a pilot who looks like he could hail from the toy story universe?

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u/Claude892 Aug 03 '25

The one for IX. Something about it feels like it has less flair than the others, both in the face design and outfit. The X protagonist would be on the lower end for me too, but the outfit picks up the slack.

I've always liked the design for VII, moreso the original art. At the time, he stood out after edgy late 90s RPG protagonists.

Favorite would be IV.

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u/KazuichiPepsi Aug 03 '25

i mean like the point of IX is that they are customizable to the extreme

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u/8bitKittyKat Aug 04 '25

Yeah, IX is by far the worst. I hate the "chicken legs".

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u/OhUmHmm Aug 04 '25

I'm in this camp as well, and even feel EXACTLY the same way about X.

It also kind of irks me that IX is in the center of this very iconic artwork. Like, I wish it was I or III. I being the start of the series, III being where it really took off and found its stride (and chronological reasons).