DQIV: better than actual questing, says commercial
by JC Fletcher 
{ Nov 6th 2007 at 4:40PM }
The adorable little layabout in this Dragon Quest IV commercial sells the central message quite well: playing the garish, hokey adventures of some medieval types on the DS is way better than stepping into a real cartoon adventure.
This silly commercial nails the Dragon Quest aesthetic and mood: always goofily happy and bright, with that endless, bouncy march music. We also definitely get a Famicom-era vibe from it: if not for the, you know, Nintendo DS, the ridiculous live-action interpretation of game graphics could easily have tricked us into thinking we were watching a commercial from the late '80s. This is one of the rare cases in which we don't mind the relative lack of in-game graphics in a commercial!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
TomCo @ Nov 6th 2007 4:58PM
Usually its not permitted to advertise on those kinds of walls. If you've ever seen "NO BILLS" printed, thats what it means.
TomCo @ Nov 6th 2007 4:59PM
Ugh, wrong story.
onepointfivevolt @ Nov 7th 2007 7:38AM
That's.... that's the best commercial I've ever seen.
Bluebreaker @ Nov 7th 2007 3:14PM
Alena, did you always have that big of a hat? And where's Cristo? (I'm assuming that's Brey whom she's horsing around with.)