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Dragon Quest IX

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I don't know if there any Dragon Quest fans here. Me... I love the series.

Anyway, Dragon Quest IX is coming out for the DS in March of 2009 in Japan. nearly 3 years after it was originally announced. It's the first main-entry Dragon Quest game to have multiplayer (multi-card wireless, no wifi apparently).

http://www.dqix.jp/ <--- site, japanese but fairly easy to navigate. The entry to the actual site is below the text box.

This would be the "latest" entry in the series, but the creator let it slip that Dragon Quest X is in development for the Wii.
 
Yeah, that DQX announcement was cool and surprising, but expected.

As for DQIX, I can hardly wait! I'm going to have a hard time of not importing the game, I really just can't wait. I know it is completely different from past Dragon Quest games, but it still seems like it is appropriate to me. Dragon Quest, like Pokemon, always seemed like a series where you role-play as yourself in the world (unlike series like Final Fantasy where it is like you are playing as someone else, or watching a story you have control over).

So yeah, this game, as a completely customizable and online title, it seems awesome. Really, DQIX reminds me of getting FFXI and FFXII in one package (with it's complete single and multiplayer experience)

This game, though, does have a lot of changes to the series. I really wonder how the class system is going to work, and things like it because that part is kind of confusing. I also wonder (and Hope) if there will be any voice chat for the multiplayer. It seems like a strenuous feature that isn't found much in DS games, but here (and in FFCC Echos of Time) it would be very welcome.

I also wonder if there will be monster raising again, but I thought that I remember reading something on it included someplace.

Yeah, this is my most wanted game of 2009 (though we'll probably get it in 2010... but I may import) fallowed closely by Fire Emblem and Phantasy Star Zero. (The DS has a lot of great things going for it too though, other systems as well, but the DS still has me impressed). It'll just be difficult for me not to import, and if there is the likely DQIX special edition DSi (I believe they showed some cool covers that I'll probably get) with the game, I'm definitely dropping down the money to pick it up. (which will probably be even more expensive looking at the US dollar... :( )
 
The Dharma Shrine is present in Dragon Quest IX, so you will likely not be stuck to a single job as the purpose of the shrine in previous entries was to change jobs.

And so far there are no DQIX DSis, but there are these: http://tinypic.ws/files/5bkbvq3pbh30r3d68hkl.jpg cute use of the lens :p
 
Yeah, those were the covers I was talking about, they probably will make a DS of some form, I bet. This is the DS's biggest game since Pokemon, Nintendo probably just wont reveal anything until probably the month of release so as to convince people not to wait to pick up the DSi.
 
I'm looking forward to DQIX but thats gonna be along ways off. Until then, I'm excited for DQV DS.
 
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