Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
- PlayStation 2
- 2004
- Role-playing (RPG)
- Strategy
- Adventure
Developed by LEVEL-5, Square Enix Product Development Division 9, published by Square Enix.
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King is the eighth installment in the Dragon Quest series, developed by Level-5 and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was also later released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2015. It is a traditional Japanese-style role-playing game with random enemy encounters, simple turn-based combat mechanics, and management of a party consisting of four characters, each belonging to a clearly defined class. Unlike its predecessors in the series and most Japanese RPGs in general, the game features a continuous world with fairly vast landscapes and integrated towns and dungeons, as opposed to world map traveling and locations represente
