Being a European means my ability to playDragon Questgames have always been rather limited. However, we Brits did manage to get our hands onDragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed Kingand all I can say is that it was pretty bloody challenging. If anybody felt that was too hard, however, they better run for the hills —DQIXis going to beeven tougher.
“We make the game to be quite hard,” says series creator Yuji Horii. “It’s harder than any of the previous titles, and the enemies are also powerful … We strengthened the bosses, stuff like that.”
Apparently, part of the reason for the high difficulty is to offset the fact that gamers can look up things on the Internet these days, which seems to be accepted as a part of the gameplay experience. I guess the thinking here is that a hard boss is hard, no matterwhatyou look at on the Internet.
I don’t mind this news, but the DSi is certainly more frail than a game controller. Please don’t make me throw it, Square Enix!
