Comments on: Dragon Quest IX: My Review That Isn’t A Review

By: double

double — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:01:39 +0000

Sadly, there’s no wifi play for DQIX.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:27:04 +0000

Yeah I freakin’ am all over this game. It’s so cool. But I agree that there is no such thing as a perfect game. When I was living in Japan, I wanted to kill all those “Sandy-ish” girls…but suprisingly I don’t really care that much that she is in the game.
I LOVE the customization of the characters. That’s what I’m all about (despite the fact that they are just dummies).
Hey man if I could get my dumb DS to get online with it, I would so play with you!

By: apeescape

apeescape — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:05:23 +0000

As the above user said, 4 Famitsu reviewers gave it a 10/10 instead of a one perfect score. These things fluctuate from time to time, so I think it’s a little unfair to say Famitsu is biased (not that I read their magazine).

As for the low Amazon Japan reviews, it seems like what the main gripe about the game (especially from the DQ purists) is the storyline. I’ve played about 15 hrs so far, and I share some of that sentiment.

The main character is a blank face per usual, but there really isn’t any character development or a real backbone to the story that makes people delve into the DQ world. The DQIX story is basically Angels from a Heaven world needs to kick out monsters from towns and cities in order to save the world (not unlike Secret of Mana). But these events are discrete and unemotional. The only reason the characters move from point A to point B is some fisherman/farmer/Princess/… wants monsters destroyed for their own convenience.

The network play is nice; but as a single player game, not having any characters from the story in your team makes you just simply not care. The ganguro character is sort of a symbol that the developers missed the “character” of DQ (ooh I need a fairy to hold my hands because there’s no interaction from our team!).

Otherwise, I’ve been enjoying the gameplay (no random battles!) and the replay value. But I can’t get rid of that mini-game feeling from a mini-console.

By: BionicDog

BionicDog — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:29:39 +0000

Famitsu doesn’t actually rate games out of 40, but four reviewers each score the game out of 10. The quoted score of 40/40 is just the total of these four review scores added together.

By: double

double — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:04:37 +0000

I’m not really bothered by the character designs. After all, if I’m alright with stuff like Akagi, there’s nothing else that’s ugly to me.

By: tj han

tj han — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:25:37 +0000

I’m probably never going to play the DQ series because Akira Toriyama’s character designs piss me off. I hate how his guys look. Then again, I like Dragonball. Doesn’t make sense eh?

Actually Eternal Sonata is probably the worst RPG I’ve played so far, despite it having the best looking backgrounds, dungeon designs and other eye candy.