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Nothing in excess
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Join Date: Sep 2008
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Posts: 7,496
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Nothing in excess
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Here
Posts: 7,496
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Dragon Quest IX... anybody playing it?
I picked it up in the shop to keep myself occupied on a train journey to Sheffield and now I'm hooked. Must say I'm impressed. The world of DQIX is huge, the customisation is extensive and varied and there is a surprising degree of freedom early on in the game by old-fashioned JRPG standards. You can choose whichever group of warriors you like and while I must admit there are some balancing issues with this, it's nothing that a good bit of grinding can't handle.
It was a strange choice to release this game on the DS, what with its predecessor having been released on the PS2, but for everything it lacks in hardware, it makes up for in polish. Invisible walls are never present without good reason and they have done away with random encounters. I would recommend this to most gamers, even casuals.
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No matter that they act like senile 12-year-olds on the Today programme website - smoking illegal fags to look tough and cool. No matter that Amis coins truly abominable terms like 'the age of horrorism' and when criticised tells people to 'fuck off'. Surely we all chuckle at the strenuous ennui of his salon drawl. Didn't he once accidentally sneer his face off?
- Chris Morris - The Absurd World of Martin Amis
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