Dragon Quest IX Sentinels of the Starry Skies
The Story: The Observatory is home to mighty Yggdrasil, the Great World Tree, and to the Celestrians, a race of beings charged with watching over the mortal realm beneath. According to legend, when the sacred fyggs finally blossom on Yggdrasil's boughs, a celestial carriage will arrive to transport the Celestrians to the Realm of the Almighty.
In order to bring about the blooming of the fyggs, the Celestrians have long gathered benevolessence, the crystallized gratitude of their mortal charges, and offered it up to the great world tree. And now. at long last, fyggbloom draws near...
Dragon Quest IX is the boldest installment of the series's 24-year run. The director Yuji Horii always brings a lot of creativity to the story. Many great new features but the most notable new feature is too play with two to four players in your team at any point in your long adventure by using wireless connection to wrap into each other's game world.
The co-op mode takes center stage as the game serves up hundreds of hourd of side quests to explore, randomized dungeons to explore, and new skill trees to master. The postgame content is simple, lots of side quests that involve killing a certain number of monsters or collecting a certain quantity of rare items and of course bosses. The bosses are very hard to defeat if you keep running away from random monsters and never raise your level.
This game is full of clever puns and flavorful accents. The game is also a feast for the eyes, featuring smooth 3-D environments, colorful town and dungeon designs, well-animated 3-D monsters, and an equipment system that features over 1,000 items with unique appearances.
The only real disappointment in the game is the lack of save slots. Like right before you battle a boss I want to save... but I can't. I just got to hope my team is prepared and strong enough to defeat the boss. Because if you die you start right back to the town and have to go through the dungeon all over again.
All that aside Dragon Quest IX Sentinels of the Starry Skies is a very good game. Dragon Quest IX gets a 9/10. Bravo.