Metareview: Dragon Quest IX

I'm sure it's great, but I can't help but wish it were on a console instead.

Ahh well.

Good game

Definitely one of the best in the series, and at least as good as III and IV. It blowing both VII and VIII out of the water is good enough reason for it not being on a console for me. It's my GOTY for sure so far at least.

enjoying this one very much. Excellent DS game.

Some say the game runs slow when with a full party, is it true?

I'm not too liking whole party of player-generated characters... prefer NPC with personalities. (Prefered Baldur's Gate to IWD, etc.)

I knew 1up was going to give Dragon Quest an A before even looking at the review lol

Jeremy Parish rocks.

I love love love this game. Even though it's on a less powerful system, 9 is definitely a step-up from 8. The changes they've made are small but helpful. Thanks to a quick-save function and no random battles, the game is much less frustrating than previous iterations. Also helpful is you no longer lose progress when you die. You simply resurrect at the nearest church. Anyone who's went through an entire dungeon in DQ8 only to wipe on some random creature knows what a godsend this is.

That said, the frame rate really chugs once you have a full party. It's noticeable and annoying, but it's worth dealing with just to experience the game.

I'm sure it'll be fun, but it's sad, that I'll never use the multiplayer option although the game is build around it :(
Square Enix should have thought of all the Dragon Quest fans in rural areas and implemented online servers etc.

I hope DQ X for 3DS will do that.

The only and I mean Only thing that concerns me personally about the law is if it makes developers do that second guessing about content.

Hell they already pull content to get an slightly lower ESRB rating.

And if one thing has FREAKING KILLED MOVIES FOR ME its PG-13
you look at PG-13 and say Horror movies (my personal favorite) and the combination just resonates "this is going to suck don't bother with it because its watered down beyond reason for the teeniebopers"

I mean look at the live action Akira, I wasn't really expecting much but I figured I'd give it a shot to see if they actually did something worth anything with it..... until it was confirmed it was PG-13 at which point I abandoned all hope for anything redeemable to come from said movie.

So it concerns me that laws like this might cause Developers/Publishers to neuter their games to sell more copies.

Been playing it since Sunday and I love it! I hope they don't take this long to get DQ X released in the USA after it's done. I wish gamers loved it in the U.S. as much as they do in Japan because it's such s fun rpg series.