Dragon Quest IX ... getting BAD reviews?!?!

[ClaudeLv250]

Kenryoku_Maxis said:

Millennium said:

Xen said:
All of it? especially the laughable art style... it looked.. childish. DQ8 didn't have that.

ZOMGKIDDY trolling? In other words, it's nothing but a handful of fratcore whining that it didn't go to a graphics-are-everything system. Not worth paying any attention to.

I'd like to see some links to Japanese sites complaining about the game looking 'kiddy'.  When DQVIII came out, people complained about THAT game looking 'kiddy' (due to its Anime cel shaded style).  I suspect many, if not all the 'kiddy' complaints for DQIX are coming from the same people.

"whoamg kiddy" is just an extension of the "it's not going to look like dragon quest viii!" waaaambulance. It's usually how you discern the Sony fanboys from the Dragon Quest fanboys. When DQ9 was announced for the DS the first thing cited in meltdowns was that the game would suck because it wouldn't have the "Realistic graphics" or "lifelike overworld" that DQ8 had. Anyone that's been into Dragon Quest knows that up until 8 the games used to look like this:

The only other game that looks like DQ8 is DQ Swords and guess what? That got trashed! DQ9 actually looks more like a merging of the old and the new, but if anyone is complaining about the graphics or the appearance of the characters...they're clearly into the wrong franchise.