Dragon Quest 9

[Grandy]

More puns per second than the whole last season of Two and a Half Men.

[fruckert]

Oh god, I didn't think that that was possible.

[Grandy]

Oh god, I didn't think that that was possible.

Quoting the boss named Jack who could change classes, coming from the town of Alltrades Abey:

"I am no longer the Abbot Jack of Alltrades Abey! I have now became the Master of Nu'un!"

[Archem]

Christ, I need this.

[Bluhman]

"I am no longer the Abbot Jack of Alltrades Abey! I have now became the Master of Nu'un!"

Now, if only I had a DS. That wasn't in japanese.

[Grandy]

Don't get me started on monster names. A walking cucumber named 'Cruelcumber' is just the tutorial battle.

Cruelcumber:
Pocky little vegetables that often trouble travellers, but are terribly sour losers.

Then there are the wizards telling me to use the Fource.

[fruckert]

Oh...God...
I think I'm literally in pain.

[Darkfox]

Ah, it can't be that ba- *struck by lightning*

[zuhane]

I've yet to play a Dragon Quest game for longer than 3 hours, due to extreme, tedious boredom setting in.

Why's this one good, then?

[Grandy]

I've yet to play a Dragon Quest game for longer than 3 hours, due to extreme, tedious boredom setting in.

Why's this one good, then?

I'll admit this happened to me the three other times I tried DQ games, but this one feels like a winner to me.

The plot is a little more than the previous ones of "You're an adventurer, adveture away". Your (fully customizable albeit not that deep) character is an angel charged with taking care of a village, and everytime you do a good deed their gratitude generates Benevolescence, which in turn you use to feed Yggdrasil so that one day a shooting star will transform into a train and take the angels to the Almighty. Just the angels, humans be damned. Aside a few of the main group, the angels forgot over the years how to love humans and rather think of them more as cattle from where to farm Benevolescence from.

The story picks up from there, and anything more would be a spoiler.

[oooog]

The plot wasn't all that interesting to me.  What does interest me is the fact that you have four characters that you can thoroughly customize via equipment and vocations, and can change these on whims.  In addition to this, the game differs from it's predecessors because there isn't an absolute need for grinding, what with monsters appearing on the map.  Metal Slimes are placed in well spaced out places and can easily be grinded on rather than spending hours upon hours grinding on the weaker creatures out there.  And because creatures appear on the map, it is easy to spot said metal creatures and avoid all of the useless ones.

The actual story only took me about 48 hours, and that was with about 8 hours of grinding, but the post-game is where the real game is at.  Admittedly I wasn't too fond of spending the rest of the game grotto exploring and completing side quests, but the game has another feature.  You are able to link up with up to 3 other people and explore each others worlds freely to get better equipment and recipes, or work together to fight these ridiculously powerful bosses and work through the dungeons.

All in all I give the game about an 8.  It would have been higher, but without other people to play with, the game lost it's appeal to me towards the end.  I can't even imagine doing half of the post-game stuff solo.

[Grandy]

I? had to grind to kill the Tyrantula, tho.

[SaiKar]

"I am no longer the Abbot Jack of Alltrades Abey! I have now became the Master of Nu'un!"

Buying this game today.

[zuhane]

Right, so you're saying that this one's not absolutely awful? I maaaaay get it then!

[drenrin2120]

Hm... Seems interesting enough and I've been looking for a new RPG to play.