Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King (Nintendo 3DS)
A new adventure awaits!
Enjoy an epic re-imagining of this fantastic RPG adventure; new features exclusive to Nintendo 3DS!
Embark on an epic journey to save your king and country and lift the shadow of the evil jester’s spell in DRAGON QUEST VIII: Journey of the Cursed King!
The story begins when a jester, Dhoulmagus, comes to Castle Trodain and steals the King’s sceptre. He then uses its power to turn his majesty into a troll, the Princess into a horse, and the castle inhabitants into plants. The only one left unscathed from this attack is a castle guard who escaped the curse and must now step up to save the kingdom he’s sworn to protect.
Only by travelling the lands, recruiting allies, and following the trail of destruction that Dhoulmagus leaves in his wake will The Hero be able to retrieve the sceptre in order to restore Trodain back to its former glory.
Key Features
- New Quick-Save function, allowing you to save and exit the game at any time.
- Pause the action and take a photo of your adventure thus far.
- The “Speed Up†feature allows heroes to cut their way through each encounter with much greater haste.
Enjoy full voice-acting
Whether you’re familiar with the rich story of DRAGON QUEST VIII: Journey of the Cursed King or diving in for the first time, you can enjoy full voice-acting in all plot-important cut-scenes, and new story content that will provide more backstory about The Hero and the villainous Dhoulmagus. There are also extra quests to complete and dungeons to explore, and even a new alternative ending.
New Quick-Save function
Adventurers in a hurry no longer need to rush to a Church to save their progress thanks to the new Quick-Save function, allowing them to save and exit the game at any time. And for warriors in a hurry, battling foes is also much faster with the introduction of the “Speed Up†feature, allowing heroes to cut their way through each encounter with much greater haste.
Capture your journey!
Want to capture a memento of your quest? At any time outside of battles and cut-scenes, you can pause the action and take a photo of your adventure thus far. These photos can be customised in a variety of different ways, including allowing The Hero and his companions to perform special poses, adding stickers, filters, or putting a frame around the image to add a personal touch to your memory.
Share images & collect items!
Once you meet Cameron Obscura in Port Prospect you’ll also be able to unlock Cameron’s Codex, where you’ll earn rewards for taking pictures of certain subjects, monsters, and situations. All of these images can be saved to your Nintendo 3DS family system’s SD card and shared to other players via StreetPass. Once these photos have been shared, other players can give them a thumbs-up, and the more of these the image earns, the higher the chance of receiving a new item.
DRAGON QUEST VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
An evil jester has placed a spiteful curse upon the whole kingdom. In the space of a moment, the people were transformed into thorns and the land was frozen in time. To add insult to injury, the king and the princess were turned into hideous beasts!
In this enormous, turn-based RPG, embark on an epic journey to save your king and country and lift the shadow of the evil jester’s spell!
| Dimensions: | 13.8 x 12.6 x 1.6 cm; 100 Grams |
| Model: | 182709 |
| Origin: | Japan |
I didn’t realize this game was only for European consoles. I give 5 stars because it was in a really good condition.
Tanto la caja y el juego estn en buen estado pero el precinto no parecia el oficial y la caja de cuesta un poco abrirse por lo dems todo perfecto
Love the long well written story which takes about 60 hours to get through plus about 150 hours to complete everything and even longer to max every single stat.
Been obsessed with this game since the ps2 original release and every 2 or 3 years I always recomplete this game especially to relax after a long dull day.
lo ha terminado pronto de lo mucho que le ha gustado
Lots of battles, huge variety of monsters to slay. Vast weapons and armour.Huge terrain, and extras. Good story and visually pleasing on the eye. Brilliant game
Titoloo che sto rigiocando per la quarta volta, e su 2DS mi mancava! Prodotto ottimo.
Arrived in great condition with the instructions in the package. A brilliant game with a brilliant story and characters and with the adding of being able to recruit another two characters. Really enjoyed the additions they made and had a wonderful time playing it.
Para mi es uno de los mejores jrpg de la historia de los videojuegos. Buena historia, grficos cell shedding muy bonitos, el combate es por turnos pero muy bueno y fluido. Es un gran dragon quest y muy largo. Para mi merece mucho la pena jugarlo.
Super nice not having to find the chestwith a map in it each dungeon and just having the map there. Sometimes feels a bit odd, it’s a touch screen device, sometimes I’d like to be able to select thing on the touch screen, and some of the button mapping seems odd, but that could just be that I’ve gotten very used to remapping every button!
The Photomode is a cool extra that i love for an hour then forget about then fall in love again!
And speeding up combat is great!
Only thing is don’t get excited for all the online content you could get, it got deactivated a year ago!
Still a great game though that I’d thouragly recommend
It always disappoints me that Dragon Quest doesn’t get more attention in the West. I suppose the more cartoonish graphics don’t appeal to people or cause them to write it off as a kids game – which couldn’t be more untrue. There are a number of mature jokes and some scenes that are borderline inappropriate. The art-style simply adds to the charm of the game, and as always for dragon quest, this game is full of charm. It’s also full of classic JRPG dungeon-crawling, puzzle-solving, treasure-hunting goodness. The addition of the camera function introduces a new side quest to photograph many people/monsters/locations/objects in the world and get rewarded for it. It’s essentially an extra task for completionists such as myself to sink our teeth into. DQ8 is one of my favourite games from the PS2 era and it’s even better now that it’s portable.
Another one from the series that my sons and hubby enjoy playing
Even after 13 years this game is incredible. One of the BEST games ever made.
Was a favourite game of mine back on the ps2. And enjoy playing it again on 3ds. Got a lot of hours out of this game. And the new stuff added was also interesting as well.
One of my childhood favourites on the PS2. So much nostalgia playing it again! Really enjoying it on the 3DS and the updated features like increasing battle speed which is a useful touch on the original. Would recommend to anyone who played it on the original and to newcomers.
I destroyed the game in a week! i played it from ps2 and on the 3ds is awesome too! the only things i didn’t like were the censorships on some scenes in the game… too bad
his is well worth the purchase if you have played ps2 version the 3ds version is well made like the original few voice actor changes here and there for new dialogue purposes
This is the game that led me to play japanese roleplaying games. It has a wonderful story and well thought out characters. It’s impossible not to love Yangus.
op game stiill playing now , loads more side quests grea
Great game! Old school turn based system with its presentation is fun to play and it has a fast forward button to make battles faster. Story is decent with quirky characters. Only issue is the leveling system can make you feel like your wasting your points in skills that are worthless but this can be remedied by looking at a leveling guide however you can still get through the game even if you feel like you wasted your points (like I did). Overall worth getting if your looking for an on the go RPG.
Pretty good. Voice acting present, which I understand was a problem with the android release. Does have quote a bit of grind but a thoroughly worthy jarpig.
For westeners trying to get into the DQ universe, this is where you should probably start.
Fantastic port of the original Dragon Quest 8; which if you’ve never played is a turn based JRPG for the Playstation 2,it is basically the same game but is easily accessible on the 3DS. Would recommend to any JRPG fans looking for a new game to play or for anyone that has played the original!
addicted to this game, loved it growing up, now being able to play it on the go is incredible, the music is a big let down tho, the orchestra versions of the OST was far bette
Great game, great story and for the most part the graphics look cleaner than the PS2 original (albeit with some low res textures to keep the file size down).
Lots to do. I never finished the original and I’m over 50 hours into this version with probably another 10 or so hours to go.
Brilliant game for all RPG lovers. Fast delivery from this company
I played the original on PS2 and have thoroughly enjoyed reliving one of my favourite games just as much the second time round!
The storyline lasts forever, so if you’re looking for playtime value for money you won’t get much better than this.
Also came a day early which was nice. 🙂
Loved playing it on PlayStation 2 and love the 3ds version even more! Great story and great characters (hilariously great vocals)
Arrived on the day it said it would and plays without faults.
Great game, great quality.
If you had this game as the PS2 version, or want to try out a Dragon Quest game, then I recommend you get this.