The game is a sequel of "Dragon Knight" and "Dragon Knight II". Its gameplay system is different from that of previous installments of the "Dragon Knight" series, resembling this of the early "Final Fantasy" (even more in the PC version) series instead of first-person-view dungeon crawler, and enabling the player to explore the entire world of the game. Some of the characters were renamed in the English and German localized "Knights of Xentar" release, including the protagonist Takeru's name changed to Desmond.