In the Recent Square-Enix press conference this December 10, 2008, SE has unveiled the release date for Dragon Quest IX for the DS. The game will be released on March 28, 2009 with a price of 5,980 Yen.

They have even released a special edition Slime model DSi:

But the most shocking part of the conference is that the next iteration of the DQ series, Dragon Quest X, will be coming for the Wii. Its not very surprising since Dragon Quest aren’t really too much about the graphics, but about the story.

You can read the source on gigazine here

Dragon Quest 2 was one of my first RPG’s so it still holds some form of nostalgia with me. When I saw this epic cosplay of the DQ2 characters, it reminds me of an era where role-playing games was an exercise on the user’s imagination.

Old 2D sprite-based games usually required you to imagine what the character looks like and what their personalities are. But now, modern RPGs now trend to have realistic graphics with more emphasis on the character’s design and crazy fashion while leaving fun gameplay, plot, and character development behind.

Anyways, enough of the nostalgia, here is the awesome Dragon Quest 2 cosplay:

With my long waited Dragon Quest V DS coming out this week, the advertisement of it is already going on in Japan, and here is one of the commerical of it.

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