The environment also has a daytime, night time feature when the player travels around the world in the day, he or she will encounter certain enemies with some fairly normal attack and defense strengths, but when night falls, different, much stronger enemies will appear. Churches are also scattered throughout the world of Dragon Quest VIII, used for saving the progress that was made in the game, healing the player's characters, and purchasing items. Treasures chest are scattered throughout the world filled with some interesting, yet sometimes useless items. The turn-based battles and leveling up systems is very throw-back to old 2D RPG games from the early 90s, it's "Easy to control, but difficult to master." The beautifully constructed world of Dragon Quest VIII.Īs mentioned, the game features a huge environment for the player to explore. It also has a non-linear progression, unlike most 3D RPG that many see today. Gameplayĭragon Quest VIII features a beautifully constructed 3D environment for the player to explore, filled with many secrets, towns and side-quests. The voices were performed by British actors to complement the game's medieval world, setting a trend for future English releases of Dragon Quest to have scripts that follow British grammar and slang. In addition, voice acting was added, which was not in the original. While the original Japanese version featured a MIDI soundtrack like previous entires, the English release used a fully orchestrated version of the game's soundtrack. The game was changed and enhanced for its English release. The game sold 3 million units in its first week of release in Japan, and went on to sell over 4 millions units worldwide. The game follows a Hero and his party as they travel around the world trying to break the curse of a King and stop an evil force known as Rhapthorn.
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It features character design from Akira Toriyama and was the first game in the series to use full three-dimensional graphics and features a fully detailed world to explore. Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King is a role-playing game developed by Level-5 and published by Square Enix, first released in 2004 for the PlayStation 2.
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