Dragon Warrior/Quest Themed Crawl

[BlueLegion]

I played DQ9 for a while and tried really really hard to like it. However, the game didn't deliver. It was a disappointing, shallow experience. I want RPGs to be as awesome as Final Fantasy III / VI and Chrono Trigger again.

Also, what good is the option to exit the game after saving? In most cases, that doesn't even return you to the main menu, but gives you a "you may now shut down the game" screen that is entirely pointless.
Consoles/handhelds have power/reset buttons these days....

Those days are all but behind us now my friend.

The shutdown screen is a hold over from days gone by for DQ/DW. When it was a simpler time and a power fluctuation through the cart could flash erase your save.

I figured as much, but it has no place in a 2009/10 game on a handheld with no such problems. It seems that they are keeping this "feature" for the sole reason that it has been with the DQ series for a long time.

[HaunterV]

I played DQ9 for a while and tried really really hard to like it. However, the game didn't deliver. It was a disappointing, shallow experience. I want RPGs to be as awesome as Final Fantasy III / VI and Chrono Trigger again.

Also, what good is the option to exit the game after saving? In most cases, that doesn't even return you to the main menu, but gives you a "you may now shut down the game" screen that is entirely pointless.
Consoles/handhelds have power/reset buttons these days....

Those days are all but behind us now my friend.

The shutdown screen is a hold over from days gone by for DQ/DW. When it was a simpler time and a power fluctuation through the cart could flash erase your save.

I figured as much, but it has no place in a 2009/10 game on a handheld with no such problems. It seems that they are keeping this "feature" for the sole reason that it has been with the DQ series for a long time.

Dude, the entire design of the DQ series is a hold over. not that there is anything wrong with that. After all, it's legislated in Japan that a DQ game CANNOT come out on a weekday because it's so popular there.

[Jordan]

It's an urban legend that there was a law passed prohibiting the release of a DQ game on weekdays, no legislation was ever passed, Enix made the decision after DQ III - probably motivated from a PR/sales perspective.