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Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (2004)

LEVEL-5, Square Enix Product Development Division 9

PlayStation 2

4.17 from 789 ratings

2268 members have it in their collection · 116 playing now · 936 backlogged · 573 wish listed

How long? Main story 53h · with extras 68h · 100% 122h (from 23 logged playthroughs)

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King is the eighth installment in the Dragon Quest series, developed by Level-5 and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was also later released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2015. It is a traditional Japanese-style role-playing game with random enemy encounters, simple turn-based combat mechanics, and management … Read more
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King is the eighth installment in the Dragon Quest series, developed by Level-5 and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was also later released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2015. It is a traditional Japanese-style role-playing game with random enemy encounters, simple turn-based combat mechanics, and management of a party consisting of four characters, each belonging to a clearly defined class. Unlike its predecessors in the series and most Japanese RPGs in general, the game features a continuous world with fairly vast landscapes and integrated towns and dungeons, as opposed to world map traveling and locations represented by icons. The game features full camera rotation and optional first-person view. Like in the previous Dragon Quest games, many objects can be interacted with; for example, barrels can be physically lifted, carried, and broken, to reveal items hidden within. Read less
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Details

Developers
LEVEL-5, Square Enix Product Development Division 9
Publishers
Square Enix
Genres
Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), Strategy
Themes
Action, Fantasy
Franchises
Dragon Quest
Series
Dragon Quest

Release dates

  • Nov 27, 2004 (Japan) PlayStation 2
  • Nov 15, 2005 (North_America) PlayStation 2
  • Apr 12, 2006 (Australia) PlayStation 2
  • Apr 13, 2006 (Europe) PlayStation 2

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Rating distribution

5 stars
341
4 stars
280
3 stars
131
2 stars
31
1 star
5
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nico.kauffman

Status nico.kauffman Jun 19, 2017

Easily one of the best jRPGs I've had the chance to play. DQVIII is a great example of a traditional jRPG being converted to 3D, and one that more new releases should follow (looking at FFXIII and XV here). Only downsides IMO, are being a bit grindy and lengthy, but it's not unfair in terms of difficulty.

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