{"id":98169,"date":"2019-08-09T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/08\/decade-old_ds_game_dragon_quest_v_re-entered_the_japanese_charts_this_week"},"modified":"2019-08-09T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T12:45:00","slug":"decade-old-ds-game-dragon-quest-v-re-entered-the-japanese-charts-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/09\/decade-old-ds-game-dragon-quest-v-re-entered-the-japanese-charts-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Decade-Old DS Game Dragon Quest V Re-Entered The Japanese Charts This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/13ce935404ad3\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/13ce935404ad3\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Dqv\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/13ce935404ad3\/dqv.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/13ce935404ad3\/dqv.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Dqv\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Despite being just over ten years old (or way older than that when you consider its original release on the Super Famicom), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/dragon_quest_v_hand_of_the_heavenly_bride\"><strong>Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride<\/strong><\/a> managed to leap right up into the top 30 best-selling games in Japan this week.<\/p>\n<p>The game sold 1,905 copies to make it into 28th position, and as you can see below, it actually sold more copies than <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\">Super Mario Odyssey<\/a><\/strong> to get there. This is the bottom five of the current Japanese Top 30:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>26) [PS4] <strong>Labyrinth Life<\/strong> (D3Publisher) {2019.08.01} &#8211; 1.977 \/ NEW<br \/>27) [NSW] <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/doraemon_story_of_seasons\">Doraemon: Story of Seasons<\/a><\/strong> (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.06.13} &#8211; 1.951 \/ 82.507<br \/>28) [NDS] Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride (Square Enix) {2010.03.04} &#8211; 1.905 \/ 192.683<br \/>29) [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo) {2017.10.27} &#8211; 1.735 \/ 1.989.942<br \/>30) [NSW] <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/taiko_no_tatsujin_drumnfun\">Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum &#8216;n&#8217; Fun!<\/a><\/strong> (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.07.19} &#8211; 1.730 \/ 353.459<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>So, how on Earth did that happen? Well, it&#8217;s very likely thanks to the new movie which launched in Japan last week. <em>Dragon Quest: Your Story<\/em>, a film directed by Takashi Yamazaki, is actually based on that particular game. You can see a trailer for it below.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ANB1TBs6RRA?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>So that clears that up, but we&#8217;re still left wondering how 2,000 new copies of the game are still out and about in the wild. A quick trip to a local game store in the UK will present you with just the newest releases and the odd pre-owned Wii game; we imagine Japan has things a little better.<\/p>\n<p>You can catch up on the business end of the Japanese charts in our usual weekly round-up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/08\/japanese_charts_super_mario_maker_2_knocks_fire_emblem_three_houses_off_top_spot\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite being just over ten years old (or way older than that when you consider its original release on the Super Famicom), Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride managed to leap right up into the top 30 best-selling games in Japan this week. The game sold 1,905 copies to make it into 28th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}