Like a character in an anime, at the moment of truth, when the meaning of friendship is revealed, I would be the one wiping my nose and eyes on my sleeve, weeping a waterfall of tears. Though, as I was sitting on the bus while playing Dragon Quest IX, I held all that back. Because weeping in public over a video game might draw more than weirded out stares.
At first, it seemed clear cut, this latest leg of the fygg quest. But, as it turns out things just aren't what they seem.
Marion of Bloomingdale is dead. The fygg wasn't eaten, but somehow absorbed by her doll and the only friend she had in her short, illness-ridden life. Of course, being a divine fruit, the absorption brought the doll to life. So, as her only true friend, Marion's dying wish was to have her doll (Marionette) live on as her so that she could make all of the friends that the real Marion never had a chance to.
Once again, the game has taken a surprising turn. A turn that's got me thinking.
If there are sidequests that are locked off until level 40, and these quests feel like they'll be second of a sequence of three, then just how long is this game going to be? Will it be the rare RPG where the level limit is 100 and you end up closer to that than you might like just through getting to the final boss?
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