Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
- Approach and role-playing combined – Each level you go up, you’ll get new experience points to spend — you’ll also have to seletc the right weapons and magic combos for most combat effect
- Tension system enhances the action – forgo attacking for a few rounds, then build up your potential to let loose a multi-hit combo that destroys opponents
- Special Bonus Disc with playable demo of Final Fantasy XII included!
Product Description
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King continues the mega-hit turn-based role-playing approach of Dragon Quest – the worldwide hit, now available for Americans to delight in. You’re the last survivor of King Torode’s army, and the king and his daughter have both been transformed. As his final warrior, you must track down the evil jester who stole his powerful scepter and caused this tragedy. The full-orchestral soundtrack, completely renovated GUI menu system, new battle abilities, and improved animations will take your breath away, while the living, breathing anime world offers a wealth of new places to explore. An epic tale of friendship, bravery, and adventure awaits you on the grassy fields, snow-capped mountains, and restless seas of Dragon Quest VIII.
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If you want to grind for hours, this is your game. If you expect things like tale and splendid graphics, find another game.
Rating: 1 / 5
there is no tale and everything about it is just incredibly dull. who cares about excellent graphics and sound if the there is no point to the game. overrated.
Rating: 2 / 5
Nathan A. Webster “Musical anti-snob” has a splendid critical review, so I won’t say anything more on the actual game set-up, especially since I played the game owing to about, well let’s say just the first couple of battles one must go owing to in the instructional introduction. I changed the game disc at that point, and this now sits up in the stack of my things that I will probably never do anything with ever again, except to place them in a box when I go them to my next home.
I really bought this game because of Amazon’s delightful way of making recommendations for you based on what you buy. Since I read a lot of Fantasy books with Dragon in the title, plus I have PS2, this was a sparkling jewel that has no real regard, now that I have seen it for myself. I guess, this could all be due because I have already played owing to twice Final Fantasy X and both the Kingdom Hearts, plus I’m currently playing FFXII and Fantasy Star Universe. So you can presume that seeing small tamagotchi characters showing you how to defeat your enemy, made me feel nearly insulted (I realize that Kingdom Hearts and Fantasy Star U are RPG-just not turned based, but take a look at FFXII which was being developed and already was included as demo in one of the US releases of Dragon Quest and you see huge differences)
So, I guess I should have looked at the original release date (which is in fact October 2004 in Japan, the 2006 date refers to US only) and the TEEN rating, but to tell you the truth, it should at most be ‘tweener’ since apparently battling with brightly colored fun small pokemon animations has no real basis of what defeat in real life would be. Also, this is now the second Square Enix game I’ve bought that, to me, doesn’t live up to it’s reputation. I guess my Quest to find a attractive game these days is like a Journey of the Cursed
Rating: 2 / 5
If I want to play this game, do I have to play DQ 1-7 to be properly acquainted? Can I just start with Dragon Quest VIII? Also, is this game based off of the show Dragon Ball Z?
Rating: 5 / 5
I was so psyched to play this game. Every review and reviewer going on and on about this game and how splendid it is.
This game really sucks. It feels like you’re playing a terrible MMORPG, hour upon hour upon hour of level grinding and no tale to boot. Except, this isn’t even as fun as an MMORPG (which I can’t stand by the way) because character customization is nearly really absent and what small their is (the skill system) is pretty much useless!
I played this game for 20 hours before finally meeting back, sighing and saying “this game really bites.” Don’t dissipate your time and your cash on this game.
There’s a reason why this series never got well loved outside of Japan. And it’s because it’s horrible.
Rating: 2 / 5