I wish Namco refunded my money and still sent me a Wizard's Edition. :(

Cripes, I hope they send me a copy randomly, too.

Heh, that WOULD be all kinds of awesome.

I will be buyeing this game
!

UPS is trying to charge me 100 bucks in brokerage fees for delivering this shit.

Luckily Canada Border Services says I can tell them to fuck off and still get my package. Shame I have to wait until Monday to do it.

Gotta say the genie boss fight was -great-. Tedious, but fun.

I don't know why people think this game is hard, or at least what I've read from reviewers. So far I haven't had a single issue with a boss, though to be fair I'm just about to reach the fourth town.

Fuck all of you.

I had to ask about receiving the book and they said they checked and that I canceled my order in September. I threw a shitfit about how THEY canceled it and that I might have been the first of thousands of fuckups.

Two hours later they still insisted that I was trying to cheat them out of free product and that this was only offered to people that got fucked in January.

Seriously, if you get a pallet of free copies by mistake and don't intend to give them away to us, stop posting about it. Maybe I'd be less upset if tons of people who didn't bother in August got a Wizard's Edition copy a week before launch, but jhgkfdjghdfkjghdfkjhgdjfghdfkjghkgjhdfjkgfkjhgjkhg dfkjghdkfjghjk!!!!!!!!!

That said I found the world map and found where you just get fucked by monsters through exploring.

Reviewers always claim that average difficulty games are too hard, and use it as an excuse to dock points. The slightest hint of a challenge sends most of them into a weeping fit.

Woh what? They haven't even contacted me regarding getting my so called free copy of the guide, and I was part of the January fucked-over group.

Also yeah, pretty true that if you go exploring once you get the boat you get your arse rammed by monsters. It's especially difficult if you go to do a certain sidequest (i think it was a golem of some sort) and find that all the monsters on that island are incredibly higher level than you. WHAT THE FUCKKKKK.

I thought that was supposed to be for the people that ordered it on time, not the "woops" date in January. But yeah, its not just that island (despite getting the quest and it being on the way to the next area...which is stupid to scale your bounty hunt like that, but whatever), its half the fucking world at this point.

Also yeah it officially turns into DQ when you get to do alchemy. And yes you can do the experimental shit that I won't do. Looking up those recipes.

I'm finding myself sidetracked now trying to tame everything I can. I have a feeling before I start advancing the story, I'll be like level 50 and pure rape mode the rest of the way.

Also I tamed a Monolith and morphed it into a Megalith. Best familiar on Earth. Why lie. Maybe I should have named it Zeal.

Enjoy chasing mobs until they run away and despawn. It sorta forces you to move to the next area.

Yeah, I'm in the Tombstone Trail and only level 35 and everything is running from me. I just want to capture a Girlfiend! ;_;

o3o went a huntin' tokos and got to level 40. I'm ridin' tengri around and being a baller before I get to collecting all those three parts. Man, I can't imagine I'm getting to the end, but most of my familiars are getting to their last evolution.

If you stop chasing, they stop running. It just takes a bit more strategy to sneak up behind them.

Meanwhile, I need to capture one of those Cog things from the Hamelin area for a quest, but they never seem to spawn on the map. I think I've fought 2 of them in total, and neither one was recruitable.

they also show up on fairy island if i remember correctly.

Yeah, that's where I got mine.

Fun fact: It seems that if you constantly jump while running, you go a little faster. I do it sometimes out of boredom when traveling long distances (before getting Tengri), and noticed that Drippy and the others slowly start getting farther and farther away. It sometimes helps with outrunning mobs on the world map.

All that said, oh man you guys. I just got the first (Moon) stone, and am only just hitting level 35. I should probaby TRY to go find some of those Tokos, but I haven't really done any outright grinding.

I'm also kind of stuck on two errands. I know that one requires more Confidence [I think is the one], but there's one sitting in my journal that needs Courage, and I haven't seen any in ages, but nobody seems to have any. :<

Yeah, I'm stuck on that Courage one too. I'm sure it'll pop up eventually.

Just got Tengri tonight. That trumpet noise is the best ever.

That is EXACTLY what I thought when I first... trumpeted.

So considering how glorious this game is, can we just all assume that we'll be playing Dragon Quest X together happily (minus the collector edition bullshit)?

PS: This game is really pushing me towards that "top 10 games of all time" status. I'll review this consideration when I finish it.

I'd like to put it on that list, but the pacing, especially the repetitive "Take heart, give heart" quests, holds it back. Mr. Drippy and the other characters are constantly connecting the dots and explaining things like we're 5 years old.

To be fair, though, there's actually a legitimate chance that the player could be 5 years old. It's been a while since i played an RPG with such gloriously simple mechanics.

Also, Oliver is what, 8?

The more I play the more I think its going to have a terribly depressing ending where it turns out Oliver was just dreaming this all to deal with the grief of losing his mother.

But again, that's something I would write, and nothing that fits in Ghibli. But I still worry Q_Q

Don't play Eternal Sonata.

Except in Eternal Sonata, that's pretty much the concept of the game, so ... no spoilers there.