Dragon Quest IX for Nintendo DS

PKFC writes "Square Enix, at the 20th Anniversary Dragon Quest conference, has announced Dragon Quest IX: Defender of the Stars ... for the DS. Developed by Level 5, the game will feature four player co-operative mode and an action battle system. Also announced is a Dragon Quest arcade game called Battle Road. Both are expected to hit sometime in 2007 in Japan." This is huuuge news, as it puts the immensely popular Dragon Quest together with the immensely popular DS. Odds are Nintendo will pick up even more sales on the heels of this announcement. Relatedly, DS Fanboy got a few tidbits of info on the upcoming Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles , also for the DS.

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Re:DS.. more like BS

[Erwos]

Is this some kind of joke? I played Mario Kart DS, and it was practically the same frigging game I played on my SNES! Ditto for New Super Mario Brothers - it's a fun game, but has practically no innovation (it's a pale shadow of SMB3) sans "big huge Mario mode", which isn't all that much. Not to mention that they've been re-releasing old games under new titles for how long now? While I haven't played it, one of the major criticisms of Twilight Princess was that it felt like every other modern Zelda game.

Nintendo makes fun games, but they're nowhere near being a pure font of innovation, and, if anything, they've gotten worse in recent years. A new controller with the old game does not mean it's a new game!