Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King

The game that got my girlfriend into gaming.

User Rating: 7 | Dragon Quest VIII: Sora to Umi to Daichi to Norowareshi Himegimi PS2

By nathanroop | Review Date: October 12, 2006

Before this game I had never picked up a Dragon Quest game, how foolish of me yes? I origionally picked up this game in order to play the FInal Fantasy 12 Demo, unbeknownst to me it did not come with the game fly rental. 10 Minites later, it didn't matter anymore. To put it very simply this game kicks ass on every level. One of the best games that I have played this year and probobly the second of third best games I've ever played, and I am a pretty staunch Xenosaga fan, so for any game to outrank any Xeno game from me is the highest complement.

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