Dhoulmagus is running around killing the descendants of the Seven Sages who sealed Rhapthorne in the magical scepter, so of course, this directly affects the villagers, including the characters who join your party. Even though DQ8’s story ends up being about saving the world, as usual, the town stories feel very grounded and personal. They work as self-contained stories, but add to the world and overarching plot at the same time. Each town is like playing through a story arc in an anime. This is the thing I love the most about DQ games the individual scenarios you find in each town. You travel from town to town, look through everyone's closets and break every pot you find, talk to villagers until you find out what's going on, go to a dungeon for some reason, and then come back to town and maybe get a new party member in the end. Now, the Hero, King Trode, and Princess Medea (the horse) must travel around the world in search of Dhoulmagus in order to kill him and break the curse.ĭragon Quest VIII plays a lot like other DQ games.
This Hero was a Royal guard in Castle Trodain, but was not affected by Dhoulmagus' magic for some reason. Dhoulmagus, the game's villain, has stolen the Scepter of Rhapthorne from Castle Trodain, turned King Trode's daughter into a horse, turned King Trode into a Namekian-looking green monster, and turned everyone else in the castle into a plant, except for the Hero. The game's subtitle, Journey of the Cursed King, refers to your NPC companion throughout the game, King Trode. DQ8 came out on 3DS a little over a month before the Switch launched, so I’ve overlooked it for a while, but I’m glad I’ve gone back and played it because it’s a pretty great game. The 3DS version removes random encounters on land in favor of visible roaming monsters, it has a fast-forward toggle for battles, and shortcuts and a map on the bottom screen.
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The graphics and music are a bit of a downgrade from the PS2 version, but the 3DS version adds a handful of quality of life improvements to modernize the game. Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King for 3DS is an enhanced port of Square-Enix and Level 5's 2004 PS2 RPG by the same name.
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