Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Jul 11, 2009
The most recent installment of the "Dragon Quest" franchise debuts exclusively on the DS. It features 4 player co-op and turn-based combat.
Dragon Quest IX Out in July in North America, Europe
Let's keep this story short-ish and sweet-esque: Nintendo has announced that Square Enix's RPG sensation, Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, is set to come to the States on July 12 and Europe on July 23. Japan has been enjoying the ninth entry in the venerable Dragon Quest franchise since last July, so there was some speculation about whether the DS game would show up in English at all. I mean, some people were speculating. I was speculating. I like to speculate. I'm a speculator.
Actually, one possible reason that it took Square Enix so long to bring the game to the States is because...well, they aren'tbringing the game to the States. Back in February, Square Enix announced that Nintendo would be publishing Dragon Quest IX in those places where people speak English, French, Spanish, German, and Queen's English. It's possible that the distribution deal pushed the U.S release back some time. Or maybe Square Enix doesn't like money.
(I have it on good authority that Square Enix does, in fact, like money. I can't tell you how I know that. Just trust me.)
Oh, and Square Enix recently announced its sales numbers for the March 2009 to March 2010 fiscal year, and Dragon Quest IX was the second best-selling game the company released, with 4.2 million copies sold in Japan. That's more copies in one region than Batman: Arkham Asylum, the third best-selling game Square Enix released in that same time period, sold in the entire world.
So, there you go. Slime beats Batman.
Check out some new screens from the game!
Are you looking forward to Dragon Quest IX's summer release?
Let's keep this story short-ish and sweet-esque: Nintendo has announced that Square Enix's RPG sensation, Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, is set to come to the States on July 12 and Europe on July 23. Japan has been enjoying the ninth entry in the venerable Dragon Quest franchise since last July, so there was some speculation about whether the DS game would show up in English at all. I mean, some people were speculating. I was speculating. I like to speculate. I'm a speculator.
Actually, one possible reason that it took Square Enix so long to bring the game to the States is because...well, they aren'tbringing the game to the States. Back in February, Square Enix announced that Nintendo would be publishing Dragon Quest IX in those places where people speak English, French, Spanish, German, and Queen's English. It's possible that the distribution deal pushed the U.S release back some time. Or maybe Square Enix doesn't like money.
(I have it on good authority that Square Enix does, in fact, like money. I can't tell you how I know that. Just trust me.)
Oh, and Square Enix recently announced its sales numbers for the March 2009 to March 2010 fiscal year, and Dragon Quest IX was the second best-selling game the company released, with 4.2 million copies sold in Japan. That's more copies in one region than Batman: Arkham Asylum, the third best-selling game Square Enix released in that same time period, sold in the entire world.
So, there you go. Slime beats Batman.
Check out some new screens from the game!
Are you looking forward to Dragon Quest IX's summer release?
I've played a few of the Dragon Quest / Warrior games (working on IV and V on the DS right now) and I have to say I find them waaay more interesting and compelling than the Final Fantasy games (at least the recent ones... I didn't play that series before VII).
DQ has always been fairly stripped down JRPG fare from a gameplay perspective, still regular-ass turn based combat, but the music, the characters, and the enemies have always been a lot of fun... I'm looking forward to this one (although I wish it was on PS3 or 360 instead).
Yeahhh, Square have a serious issue with releasing games in any reasonable amount of time. I mean that PSP Kingdom Hearts game is only out at the end of this year. That's been around since... three/four years ago?
That said I will totally pick this up! Love me some Dragon Quest.
I should probably finish up (read: start playing) that copy of DQ8 that's been collecting dust on my shelf for years.
I haven't used my DS (FAT) in months, but It looks like I may have a reason to finally dig it out.
For the record, Outside of Tetris, I don't play many games on my DS. Pokemon Diamond and Pearl was good, but ANOTHER REMAKE Pokemon after that game isn't going to interest me. I've played the same Pokemon game with the same basic Pokemon story for 12 odd years now. I wish Gamefreak would totally reboot their hand-held Pokemon RPG Franchise, it's getting super stale and it honestly shouldn't be. But I guess it's a Nintendo hand-held with Nintendo game designs (make the same game over and over.)
I loved Dragon Quest 8 and I bet 9 will be great as well. If Nintendo is doing the translations I hope they don't mess up the spell names. Or maybe I do hope they mess it up. Can't wait! It hits soon.
i am scared of this release. I want to enjoy it, but to experience the game you need to know other people with the title. I don't know even a single person with a DS, let alone someone that is interested in playing Dragon Quest. How am I supposed to enjoy all the bonus content Enix and prepared for the game.
In case anybody here hasn't heard about Dragon Quest 9, all the bonus content is unlocked by having your game in sleep mode and walking by somebody with another copy of the game. If you do run into someone with the game, you will unlock things like new dungeons, quests, characters, or items that you can only receive this way. From what I have heard somewhere close to half the content of this game is locked behind this horrible decision.
" I've never played any Dragon Quest games. Do they all have separate stories and worlds like Final Fantasy or is it just one long continuous story? "Each DQ game is standalone.
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