You'll select moves for each member of your team and then turn them loose against monsters as a group. In battle, too, each character has a clearly defined set of strengths that you'll learn to bring to bear against your challenging opponents.Įach character has a unique set of abilities to learn to help you out against the wealth of critters that cross your path.īattles are turn-based and randomly occur as you explore the wilderness, though the spacing between encounters feels pretty generous and isn't invasively jarring to your progress. But that sort of focus serves the game's simple, straightforward style of storytelling, familiarizing you with your friends as you're introduced to a host of other personable characters on your way to bring Dhoulmagus to justice. Unlike some other role-playing games, Dragon Quest doesn't have dozens of characters of all types to recruit to your cause. It's this group of four characters that sets out to face the world and its many monsters. In addition to the stalwart, powerful Yangus, you'll eventually meet up with Jessica, a self-confident young woman with a fondness for magic and skimpy clothing, and Angelo, a holy Templar knight who's more occupied with drinking, gambling, and the indolent pleasures of life rather than with the noble precepts of his Order. That's all the preamble you need to start off on your adventure, and soon you're out meeting the locals and following clues to trace Dhoulmagus' sinister trail. You (a palace guard and hero of this tale) were the only other inhabitant of the castle to survive the tragic events, and you set off with King Trode, the equine Medea, and a portly companion named Yangus to track down the foul magician. You'll begin with a simple setup: An evil wizard named Dhoulmagus has seized a legendary scepter, cursing the castle from which it was taken and turning the king into a toadlike creature and the princess into a horse. Now Playing: Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King Video Review
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