He drinks the potion and, indeed, he notices that he really wants to marry Bianca. With the legendary hero finally found, Luca looks for a way to infiltrate the heavily fortified fortress of Ladja. •  Knick-knackatory  You cannot make said Removal Proposal without permission from an admin first. When the old lady goes to hidden street, she transform back to her true form and it's revealed that it was Nera all along, who, despite loving Luca deeply, cannot bear to see him lie to himself so she decided to help him realize his true feelings. [8], Martin Robinson of Eurogamer, offered a positive review of the film, pointing out that it might be a good starting point for new fans of the series due to it having the warmth, humour and innate humanity that characterize the Dragon Quest series. Music Bianca goes out of her way to help Luca propose to Nera, despite her own feelings for him. •  Mantleplace  „ ~ Bishop Ladja to the Hero and his son.. Bishop Ladja (in Japanese: ゲマ) is a major antagonist from Dragon Quest V, often considered one of the most manipulative and heartless characters in the entire series. Finally reunited, the family goes to rescue Mada, who warns them not to do it since Ladja has become stronger than before. Dragon Quest IX It is touching, nyet? " So now I am sending parent and child together into eternal world of darkness. •  Starkers  Shortly after, Luca thanks the old lady. Some time after, when Luca and Prince Harry are chatting outside the castle of Coburg, Bishop Ladja's minions abduct the Prince, prompting Pankraz to rescue them. •  Items  This underlines the senseless and gratuitous cruelty of the hacker, whose virus indiscriminately targets people both of the above categories, as well as boys whose fathers want them to experience a game the fathers enjoyed when they were young. With Gootrude, Luca is able to enter and meet a fairy. [2] Film In the Sony PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS versions, he is the one to imprison The Hero and his wife in stone, whereas the Super Famicom version had Kon the Knight doing so. The player is then taken along with Harry to serve as slaves. Ladja's final appearance is inside Mt. The chief director of the film was Takashi Yamazaki with Ryuichi Yagi and Makoto Hanafusa as co-directors. The script was written by Takashi based on the original work by Yuji Horii. They go to the fairy kingdom in order to request the help of the fairies. He later encounters Sancho in the cabin, who at first doesn't recognize him. He once again fights the player, but this time is truly defeated. The film follows the same basic plot of Dragon Quest V with some variations for narrative sake. •  Kon the Knight  •  Nera  •  Estark's Labyrinth  As programmed by his creator, the virus chastizes Luca about how it's stupid to still play the game at his age and that he should grow up and stop deluding himself into thinking that playing the game gave him a true experience. Later, despite, Luca's attempt to unsheathing the Zenithian Sword before Bjorn the Behemoose. •  Battenburg  TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. •  Bianca  •  Recruitable monsters  You can watch the first trailer here and the second trailer here. However, Ladja, before dying, is still able to absorb the powers of Mada and opens the gates for Grandmaster Nimzo. Parry can equip certain swords, boomerangs, axes, and staffs, and even the metal king equipment. Thus, once the game is completed, Luca will always remember this adventure as the time when he was the hero that saved the World. There is no spell to open the gates that keep Nimzo imprisoned, neither does the, The film does not mention the story arc that takes place in. •  Estuary Sanctuary  •  Dwarf's Den  •  Talon Tower  However, Ladja appears and captures Luca, forcing Pankraz to allow himself to be beaten to death by his generals, Kon the Knight and Slon the Rook. •  Zoomingale  As the gates open, Alus throws the Zenithian Sword to close them. A lot of Japanese fans of the original game did not appear to like the film due to the turn of the events that takes place within the plot that deviate from the original to make it an Isekai story, contrary to expectations that it would be an adaptation of the original game story. Most of the Zenithian themes mentioned in the film are not in the game. Ladja is confronted again much time later when the player, now The King of Gotha, goes after his wife, who had been kidnapped by Kon The Knight. Suddenly, Gootrude shows up and starts talking, revealing that he's the antivirus program of the VR game, and gives Luca a sword that looks like Erdrick's sword. It starts with the 16-bit graphics of the original game depicting the birth of the protagonist and the kidnapping of his mother Mada. Luca clings on to his memories of the game, both old and new, but all seems lost as the virus is erasing everything in the virtual world. •  Knot Welcome Inne  The film ignores the Prince Wilbur subplot with Prince Harry. •  Whealbrook  Ladja returns to his lair and reveals that Bianca is a Zenithian, so he tries to convince her to open the gates to free Nimzo, but Bianca, who had telepathically communicated with Mada, refuses, so Ladja turns her to stone. •  Zenithia  •  Gotha Pass  •  Bestiary  •  Slon the Rook  •  Minor Characters  The Four Dreadfiends (Murdaw | Jamirus | Gracos | Dhuran) | Ivy | Spiegel | Stormsgate Citadel | Overkilling Machine | Terry | Blackmar | Mortamor | Nokturnus is revealed to be an antivirus program. •  Shields  but it is the virus that is injected in Nimzo’s code that is the ultimate threat to the game’s world. •  Dwight  •  Saber  •  Faerie Palace  Just before dying, Pankraz compels Luca to find and rescue her mother Mada, who he reveals is still alive. Dragon Quest: Your Story (ドラゴンクエスト ユア・ストーリー Doragon Kuesuto Yua … Tricky Devil | Jarvis | Slayer of the Sands | Jasper | Arachtagon | Tentacular | Dora-in-Grey | Krystalinda | Headless Honcho | Tyriant | Avarith | Gloomnivore | Boodica | Booga | Alizarin | Gyldygga | Auroral Serpent | Tatsunaga | Indignus | Mordegon | Tweedledoom & Tweedledeath | Bathysfear | Calasmos | Necrogondolier | The Past Masters | Timewyrm. Luca eventually notices Bjørn's weak point and with Bianca's help, he manages to make Bjørn yield. Deborah, one of the possible choices for a bride in the DS remake, does not appear in the movie, although it does adapt several elements from it (most notably Bishop Ladja's role as the Hero's arch-enemy). Due to its extreme isolation, Battenburg is the only nearby settlement and the mountain town boasts an incredible view of the kingdom. He could indeed be a NEET loser, but he could also be a successful man indulging in a bit of nostalgia on a well-deserved holiday. Robot Communications, Shirogumi He also discovers that Ladja kidnapped his mother Mada in the hopes of opening the portal that guards Grandmaster Nimzo and that she is still alive.