Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King

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

by Armor Project, Bird Studio, LEVEL-5, Square Enix Product Development Division 9, Square Enix
Genres:Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Strategy
Themes:Action, Fantasy
Game modes:Single player
Story: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.Show more
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user avatar@Mendax1989user avatar@Mendax1989
January 29, 2025
Best PS2 JRPG. Great Gameplay. Great Story. Amazing graphic style. Fun to play. Akira Toriyama characters. Great soundtrack. One of the best games ever made, not available to buy.
user avatar@Farfek27user avatar@Farfek27
January 29, 2025
My favorite RPG on the PS2 and one of the best ever made!! There is no way to buy it on modern consoles and its a real pity... Amazing style, memorable characters and beautiful music!!
user avatar@adtr009user avatar@adtr009
February 06, 2025
One is the Best JRPG. Awesome Gameplay. Great Story. Amazing graphic style. Fun to play. Akira Toriyama art style One of the best games ever made, not available to buy anywhere have to add it!!!!!
user avatar@NHASAuser avatar@NHASA
February 06, 2025
Not only one of the best RPGs of all time, Dragon Quest VIII can be considered one of the best games of all time! DQ VIII has all ingredients for an unforgetable game! The amazing story by Dragon Quest's creator Yuji Horii, the art of legendary Akira Toriyama and the epic soundtrack by the music master Koichi Sugiyama... All of this packed on an amazing adventure with delicious cel-shading graphics that lets you involved in that amazing world for incontable hours, and when you are in the last boss, the tears of joy and sadness (because you know that your are saving that world but that awesome story is coming to an end) are rolling by your face, and you know that moment will be marked in your mind and heart for the rest of your life... So, this is the reason that Dragon Quest VIII: The Sky, the Sea, the Earth and the Cursed Princess (I like the japanese subtitle more) is a must play for all publics! So i think that GoG could do a partnership with Square-Enix to bring back not only Dragon Quest VIII but all DQ games that didn't come yet! So that's it!!!
user avatar@Risaxuser avatar@Risax
March 17, 2025
The first Dragon Quest game I ever played. And as a kid who grew up with Dragon Ball Z and who loved fantasy, of course I fell in love with it. I would love the chance to play it again.
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