(sometimes Heartbeat) was a Japanese

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, famous for developing the sixth and seventh installments of the '' Dragon Quest'' series. Heartbeat also developed a remake of ''

Dragon Quest IV ''Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen'', titled ''Dragon Warrior IV'' when initially localized to North America, is a role-playing video game, the fourth installment of the '' Dragon Quest'' video game series developed by Chunsoft and publish ...

''. Plans to localize this remake in North America were halted when the employees of Heartbeat decided to take a sabbatical in January 2002. The company stated its reason was "the raise of development costs", despite the massive financial success of its games. Several of its former members created

Genius Sonority is a Japanese video game development studio, whose staff consists of programmers who have previously worked on the ''Dragon Quest'' series of video games. History Genius Sonority was incorporated in June 2002 for the original purpose of developi ...

. The company now appears defunct.

Games

Super NES

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Dragon Quest VI ''Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation'', known in Europe as ''Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Reverie'', is a role-playing video game developed by Heartbeat and published by Enix for the Super Famicom as a part of the '' Dragon Quest'' series and ...

'' *''

Dragon Quest III ''Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation'', titled ''Dragon Warrior III'' when initially localized to North America, is a 1988 role-playing video game developed by Chunsoft and published by Enix. It is the third installment in the '' Dragon ...

'' (remake)

PlayStation

*'' Dragon Quest VII'' *''

'' (remake)

References

External links

Heartbeat official website
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