Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (Nintendo DS)

This game is impeccable. Fantastic. A Masterpiece. The game has an excellent story, which to complete will span at least 30hrs if not closer to 40hrs, the story itself containing several bosses, at least 13 within the main adventure. The animation sequences that depict the story are beautiful to watch, and create an excellent story to play through. These bosses are no easy feat, getting more difficult as the game progresses, with the end bosses being nightmarishly challenging to beat. However, even after completing the main adventure you will be nowhere near 100% completion of the game, there are over 100side quests, maybe even over 200, I'm still playing through them, and the game is highly addictive. If you complete all the sidequests, there is still more to do. In the game you can find treasure maps to go seeking new items and equipment on a treause hunt in dungeons and other kinds of areas. At the end of these treasure maps, there is a boss, giving the game well over 30bosses to play through and defeat. The multiplayer is fantastic, having yourself and three friends play in any of your games is a riot, and can help you level up quicker or you can just pilfer their map for things you can't yet attain in your own game. The map is enormous, with continents to adventure through and new things, items and places to discover. There are too many things to write in expressing how great this game is, so I'll stop here, with the end note being: Buy it, it's hard to be disappointed.

Bought this in 2019 and I'm still playing it in 2022 such is the sheer enormity of joy I get from playing this. I'm a huge fan of the Dragon Quest series of games-DQ5 had been my favourite before I bought and played this. But you don't need to have played the previous games to be hooked in to it. It is both accessible and challenging which is no small feat. If you want to get lost in a game and spend many many hours playing it this is the game for you. I honestly can't recommend it enough. The only downside is that by the time I bought it Nintendo had discontinued their DS Wi-Fi so I missed out on all the online content. Even so this is still an outstanding game. Dive in and enjoy a truly rewarding and enriching gaming experience.

I like the fact that you can develop the characters strengths and skills as they advance in levels. There is plently to be done, there are quests to be completed throughout the game and treasure hunts at the same time as trying to fulfil the main aim of the story. You can also make your own items if you have the right ingreadients. Dragon quest IX offers much choice, the graphics are good for a ds game, and if you have friends who have the same game, you can visit their world (or visa versa)and help them out. There is a lot more which I have not tried yet - it really is great fun and I'd recommend this game to anyone.

I got this game about a month ago and have really enjoyed it so far. I wanted a game that was fun and light-hearted but also one that was in-depth enough I could get lost in it; being a Final Fantasy lover I was hoping for something similar! This game is really good at easing you into it, starting off with simple tasks before you get into the real stuff. The monsters can be quite tough later on if you don't take time to level up enough in-between story-points, but it doesn't get too monotonous levelling up. I didn't realise when I bought the game that you basically create your own party in 1P mode; I thought characters joined you as you went along. While this is fun because you get to design your party members' looks and choose which skills they pursue, it does mean they are relatively non-descript, just to use as healers/attackers etc, rather than having any part in the story at all. Overall the game is really good, I have just managed to aquire a ship to explore further and feel like even though I've spent a lot of time playing there is still a lot further to go. Doing side-quests bulks the game up further and it has kept my interest well, I would definitley recommend this game!

Originally bought this in 2009/10, but then I lost the cartridge after a few months. By that time I'd already finished the game and most of the post game content so I simply sighed and carried on with my life. However, I felt that the game was so good that I bought it again,now in 2014! Now to the review: + Excellent item crafting system + Wacky monsters + Brilliant storyline + A nice level of customisation that is seen rarely in JRPGs + Tons of post-game content + Nice soundtrack - Can be a touch repetitive - some quests are simply item retrieval which can become tedious - Turn based combat system may be slow for some If you're looking at this now, I'd highly recommend this to you; this game is very special! After all, I came back crawling after 4 or so years...

Arrived promptly and a reasonable game. Good value

I just don't like the way the bosses in the game are made harder as you progress simply by giving them multiple attacks in 1 turn for no real reason, i quit playing it after the bosses were doing 3 attacks for artificial difficulty sake, nothing to do with a speed stat or anything either, they just get multiple moves per turn because they are a boss, workable and by no means impossible, just felt cheaply designed. The world so far seemed interesting though and the character class system looked quite in depth with quite alot to do with it, I just personally couldn't get past the method they made bosses harder than other battles.

Great game fun for most ages. Great story and tonnes of post-game content. DLCs may have gone down, but there are alternative ways of getting them. Bomb loads of weapons, armors, accessories and items. Fully customizable characters and many differents classes and ways of fighting. Good graphics - for a DS game. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

Das Spiel ist schnell angekommen, war in einwandfreiem Zustand und im Vergleich mit anderen Anbietern ist es sehr günstig. Man kann es stundenlang spielen und es wird nie langweilig.Die Story ist lustig, aber auch fesselnd und an manchen Stellen sehr emotional. Wenn ihr ein gutes RPG sucht, hier ist es :D

L'articolo è arrivato in buone condizioni, la spedizione è stata velocissima, è ancora impacchettato quindi non l'ho ancora ancora provato, ma è nuovo come da negozio

Llevo tiempo en el mundo de los videojuegos, y he de decir que en consola portátil nunca me había encontrado un juego de tal magnitud. Este juego, de la prestigiosa saga de RPG Dragon Quest, tiene los mejores gráficos vistos en nds (los npc y algunos mapeados no, pero la mayoría son excelentes para ser de la consola que es), mejores que juegos de gran calibre como The Legend of Zelda, New Super Mario Bros. o El profesor Layton y la llamada del espectro. También hay que decir que es el segundo juego de la saga que es completamente en 3D, siendo el primero Dragon Quest: el periplo del rey maldito. En cuanto a audio: las mismas sinfonías de siempre, gravadas otra vez para la ocasión. Como siempre, un placer para los oídos proveniente de la mente de Koichi Sugiyama. El diseño de personajes esta vez es más reducido, ya que la mayoría de los miembros del grupo se los crea el usuario, a partir de un patrón, eso sí. Los nuevos monstruos encajan perfectamente dentro de la saga, que mantiene parte de sus enemigos de otros juegos, como los carismáticos Limos. El maestro Toriyama (conocido principalmente por sus obras Dr.Slump y Dragon Ball) ha acertado al diseñar los personajes, que encajan perfectamente con el entorno. Sobre su jugabilidad, es un RPG con combates no-aleatorios por turnos, es decir, el usuario puede elegir si luchar o no contra un grupo de monstruos porque los monstruos aparecen en el mapa. El mayor fallo que tiene y a la vez una de sus mayores bazas es el modo multijugador. En este modo pueden participar hasta 4 jugadores por "mundo", y para poder conectarse se necesita un cartucho por consola. El mayor fallo radica en que para jugar en multijugador se tiene que jugar en local. En su país de origen sí que se pudo explotar esta característica ya que hay una gran cultura en torno a los videojuegos (y más en esta saga), pero en el resto del mundo ya es bastante más dificil. Por este motivo tengo 2 copias del juego: una que compré de salida y otra que compré aqui hace unos meses. Por contra, es una de sus mayores bazas porque con 4 jugadores se puede explorar mucho más rápido, se requiere trabajo en equipo, hay bonificaciones solo para el multijugador (es más, hay un objeto que solo se consigue al conectarse con otro mundo). La duración es un tema que en Level-5 y Square-Enix se han trabajado. Se podría decir que es el plato fuerte. La historia principal, a mí, que soy un jugador experimentado en esta saga, me duró unas 65 horas. Con esas horas mis personajes solo estaban al nivel 40. En una sola vocación cada uno. Para completar el juego al 100% se tiene que tener mucha paciencia. El primer chico que lo conseguió sobrepasó las 750 horas. Para el 100% hay que: completar la lista de objetos (incluidos los de mision hacen unos 202), la lista de vestimenta (armas, armaduras, cascos, zapatos, etc. En total hay unas 1000 piezas), la lista de monstruos (eso incluye encontrar-se con todos los enemigos finales de los otros Dragon Quest y vencer a los amos de las grutas), la lista de alquimia (y haber hecho todas las recetas, no basta con tenerlas), acabar las 184 misiones (tarea muy ardua, por cierto), subir cada vocación al 99 con el heroe/heroina un total de 10 veces por vocación (al lado de la vocación ha de salir una estella). Además tambien se puede intentar conseguir todos los galardones, una especie de logros que se desbloquean al hacer ciertas cosas. los más arduos son los de conseguir 10.000.0000.000 de monedas en el banco (no obtenidas en total, sino depositadas) y conseguir 1000 horas jugando. Jugar a este juego sin guía es una locura. En internet hay, pero no tan completas como la de Brandygames (está en inglés y como hay muchos nombres a veces lía un poco) Le doy las 5 estrellas por ser el juego portátil de esta generación que más horas de diversión (y de frustración) me ha dado.

I'd only ever seen the price of this particular Dragon Quest game to be in the triple digits (USD), so to find a reasonably price listing for a PAL copy here on Amazon was a miraculous thing for me as I thought it would be forever out of my reach. What was described on the listing was exactly what I received, the game along with its case (booklets included) and both in pretty good condition. The package even arrived sooner than I expected, by well over a week! DQIX works without issue on my NTSC DSi XL console and I've been having plenty of fun with it! Almost 10 hours into my first playthrough as of the time of writing. Needless to say, I'm quite the happy customer!

Ce jeu a un très bon scénario qui maintient le joueur attaché au jeu. J'aimerais que Square Enix fasse une version remasterisée de ce jeu pour les consoles modernes et/ou PC.