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Dragon Quest IX for Nintendo DS

Posted by Zonk on from the circle-is-now-complete dept.

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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  1. DS.. more like BS by Micklewhite · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I haven't actually played any dragon quest games.. ever so I can't pass judgement.
    I've found lately though Nintendo's been going through all its games and making them un-fun. It's like 'hey! instead of doing a game similar to the extremely popular starfox 64 let's change the format to include a totally lame strategy element! Ha people will love that!'
    or 'Hey instead of making a new fun mario platformer, let's make a mediochre mario platformer, and release a mario basketball game! Haha! That'll be so great!'
    or 'Hey, let's re-release dig dug on the DS! Remember Dig Dig? What no? Oh well someone made an obscene mod for it once. Yeah that's the one! Haha! People will love it!'
    OR 'HEY! Let's re-re-release animal crossing for the DS, everybody loves paying off massive debts, it's just like life. Get up go to work all day long, put up with stupid assholes who don't have anything interesting to talk about! Hahah! It'll be totally great!'

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    1. Re:DS.. more like BS by Erwos · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      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!

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  2. Re:The real DQ9? by falcon5768 · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    FF versus XIII is for 360, not PS3.

    But no this is IX proper, not a spinoff. They would never have announced a spinoff before their actual game.

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  3. What is Squenix thinking? by Pluvius · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    DQ9 is the next main-line game of one of their biggest franchises, one of the most popular video-game franchises in Japan, and they put it on a portable? I don't care how popular the DS is, it's still a portable, and it can't offer the same technical power of any of the new console systems. It'd be one thing if Dragon Quest was still known to have crappy graphics, but DQ8 changed that. This move just makes Squenix look opportunist, not caring about the continuity and reputation of its games as long as it can make a quick buck. (We already knew that to be the case, but still.)

    Rob