Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King coming to 3DS

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InnocentSin said:

irstupid said:
Considering there is already a western release of this game on the ps2 it would be stupid as hell not to release this in the west. All the translation work is already done. should cost barely anything to at least throw it up on the eshop at minimum.

DQVII was released in the West on the PS1 but the remake still hasn't come out here so there is some unpredictability. But I do think that the 3DS version of DQVIII will make its way to the West.

There's a reason 7 didn't get localized. 8 has a much higher chance of coming due to the fact the VA/script were in-tune to what modern DQ games are like. It was the first to truly... flesh out the series, you could say -script wise. Dragon Quest 7 lacks the colloquial dialogue and such that started with 8. In a way, DQ8 was like the Persona 3 of the DQ series. It brought it into full 3D, VA, colloquial dialogue, fully orchastrated music (NA/PAL versions), and was the first to release outside of Japan and America. 7 sold pretty bad in the west, is slow, and suffers from a few other problems. When they say they want the game translated, they want it up to stardards similar to 8, 9, and the remakes of 4, 5, and 6 with accents and such. So I believe 8 will definitely get here.