Reviews from

in the past


this is exactly like gorbinos quest

This game is just all of what makes fantasy such a fun genre. A young Evan beat this little gem and continued to play it for many hours afterward. The exploration, the music, the items... so full and so fun.

Le seul DQ que j'ai joué étant enfant, le seul DQ que je continue même en 2024 et honnêtement incroyable, un des tops de la DS jouez-y !

This game makes me feel like im worth something #TooReal4Backloggia

I FUCKING LOVE HELPING PEOPLE AND SEEING THE GOOD IN HUMANITY DESPITE THEIR MANY SINS AND SHORTCOMINGS!!!! GRAHHHH!!!!!!


Terminar dragon quest ix me deu uma sensação de finalizar uma aventura e mesmo com sua estrutura diferente, até pra serie dragon quest, foi algo único que vou lembrar por muito tempo.

would be a 5/5 if I had friends

Really good game and plot: if you are new to turn based combat this might be difficult at first but once you learn how to counter bosses (Magic Mirror that reflect spells back on spellcasters for example), the game is (mostly) a cake walk. Had to deduct half a star as I would prefer that your companions were actual characters instead of mute characters that you create yourself. But again, preference. I highly recommend it otherwise!

maybe one of the weakest dragon quest games to me and one of only two of the games in the series i even dislike at all. while dragon quest 3 makes up for its lack of defined party with an almost unparalleled sense of adventure and dragon quest 10 makes up for it with the greatest extended cast in the series, dragon quest 9 just doesn't do anything to make up for it at all and it's really disappointing. the game simultaneously has no defined party and also features one of the more unremarkable stories this series has other than corvus, and while i imagine the gameplay and more is made more enjoyable by the multiplayer capabilities its hard for me to even justify entertaining the thought of not only sinking my time into 9 but asking another person for their time when dragon quest 10 is right there, easier than ever to play in english with a fan translation infinitely better than the official ones we've been getting since the ds games, and is deeply compelling in its own right without even needing to play with other people at all. i get that this is a game that is very special to a lot of people within and outside of the dragon quest fanbase but i could never enjoy this one, especially in the current year now that it's as redundant to me as it is boring.