

Airplane Arms: King Trode of all people does this everywhere he runs.Actually Four Mooks: The 3DS remake does away with Random Encounters by replacing it with individually spawned multi-mook encounters like the 3D DS-era games.Additionally, key items are automatically transferred over. The original game did not have any reserve party members, but when this game added the mechanic, they receive the same amount of experience: even when you are in a dungeon (and cannot swap them out). Acceptable Breaks from Reality: In the form of Leaked Experience.It's also the first in which party members are visible during battle sequences. The only one spared is a young guard, and he dutifully follows orders to hunt down Dhoulmagus, return the scepter to its rightful place, and break the curse over everyone.ĭragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King broke ground in several respects: it's the first Dragon Quest game on the PlayStation 2, the first DQ game in three dimensions, the first released in Europe (not counting the spin-off Dragon Quest Monsters), and the first released as Dragon Quest in the United States (as Square Enix finally acquired the rights to the name).

The villainous jester Dhoulmagus has stolen a powerful scepter from the kingdom, and used its power to curse its inhabitants: most of the inhabitants have been turned into humanoid plants, King Trode has been turned into a squat little troll, and the beautiful Princess Medea has been turned into a beautiful white horse. The eighth entry into the Dragon Quest series.ĭark times have fallen on the kingdom of Trodain.
