Hey, Pokemon's changed more than DQ has, and immediately had more to stand out and be interesting, especially by setting.
Dragon Quest is a series that rarely if ever defies it's incredibly typical fantasy setting. Almost all of it is in FF1-4 setting, with about half of them lacking even an alternative interesting twist to them (time loop from FF1, taking down a human emperor and all his forces only for him to take control of hell when he's dead in FF2, etc).
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