Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies is an upcoming RPG from Level-5 and Square Enix for the Nintendo DS, the first flagship Dragon Quest title to be released on a handheld system.
Dragon Quest IX was developed to be the hardest Dragon Quest game yet. Since most RPGs can easily be completed using information found on the Internet, the Dragon Quest team wanted this game to present a challenge in the modern gaming world. The game removes random battles for most of the gameplay (they remain when sailing a ship).
The game prominently features multiplayer gameplay, with up to four players able to play together locally. Because of the amount of save data required, Dragon Quest IX has only one save slot.
Dragon Quest IX was first announced in December 2006, with a planned 2007 release date. The game has since undergone a much longer development cycle. Dragon Quest IX was released in Japan on July 11, 2009 and sold over two million copies in its first day, and has since passed four million copies sold.
Dragon Quest IX will be released July 11, 2010 in North America, and July 23, 2010 in Europe.
