Why the name change from Quest to Warrior? It's still basically the same thing, unlike changing Biohazard to Resident Evil, where RE is just an objectively cooler name.
Because TSR Inc. (the company that published Dungeons & Dragons way back in the day) had a tabletop game called Dragon Quest trademarked and Enix didn't want the hassle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Quest_(video_game)#1989_North_American_localization
>>12554629An IP ownership issue afaik.
>>12554635Ahh, it was SPI not TSR. Well, my memory was mostly right.
>>12554645No, check that. I knew I wasn't losing my mind in my old age. https://www.nobleknight.com/P/2807/DragonQuest-3rd-EditionDid Wikipedia get this one wrong?
>>12554664SPI created the game but TSR bought SPI
>>12554664https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonQuest#Publication_history
It bothers me how when Enix reopened their American branch they went with a more faithful translation of original Trilogy having Loto as the name of the legendary hero and not Erdrick. Only for them to go back to Erdrick again. Erdrick never made any sense as a title you get, it's a name.
>>12554783They only really went to Loto because there was too little text space in the Game Boy Color games to fully write out Erdrick, then the new localizers came in for DQ8 and upended everything that had been done before.
>>12554717Ok, so it would have been a TSR product by the time DQ came around for localization. Well, either way, it was an IP issue.
>>12554629Biohazard is way better and more fitting than Resident Evil.
