Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King

ReleasedNov 27, 2004

PlayStation 2

About

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.

Developer: LEVEL-5, Square Enix Product Development Division 9
Publisher: Square Enix
Genres: Role-playing (RPG), Strategy, Adventure
Themes: Action, Fantasy
Modes: Single player
Perspective: Third person
Age ratings: ESRB T, PEGI 12, CERO A, ACB PG
Time to beat: 53 h rushed · 73 h normally · 102 h completionist
IGDB rating: 87 / 100 (129 ratings)
Also known as: Dragon Quest 8, DQ8, DQVIII, 勇者斗恶龙VIII, Dragon Quest VIII: The Sky, the Ocean, the Earth, and the Cursed Princess, Doragon Kuesuto VIII Sora to Umi to Daichi to Norowareshi Himegimi, Dragon Quest VIII: El periplo del Rey Maldito, Dragon Quest: Die Reise des verwunschenen Königs, Dragon Quest: L'Odissea del Re Maledetto, Dragon Quest: L'Odyssée du Roi Maudit