Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below

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Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below is a hack-and-slash game developed by Omega Force and published by Square Enix for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. It was released in Japan and Asia in February 2015, and in North America, Australia and Europe only for PlayStation 4 in October 2015. It was later released via Steam for Microsoft Windows in December 2015 for North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. The game received generally positive reviews, with a sequel Dragon Quest Heroes II being released in Japan during May 2016. Dragon Quest Heroes would later be released with the sequel in a compilation for Nintendo Switch in Japan.

Tropes used in Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below include:

• Divergent Character Evolution: Some of the legacy characters have been diversified or alternatively associated with particular weapons since their source canon games.
  • Alena nigh exclusively is a Bare-Fisted Monk, while she had a slightly larger weapon pool in her canon game.
  • Kiryl defaults to spears, but does mention he can uses other weapons like swords.
  • Yangus sticks primarily to axes, while he could also use hammers and flails in his own game.
  • Jessica sticks to whips, while she could also use staves and daggers in her own game.
  • Maya could use daggers, staves, and some other weapons, but sticks to fans in this game.
  • Bianca sticks to bows in this game, while she had a much more varied weapon skill set in DQV.
  • Nera has a partially original skill set based on her stave skills from her own game.
  • Psaro now primarily uses great swords in this game, while his arsenal was a tad more diverse in his source game.