About the evaluation of "Dorakue 9" The inside of the net was in a state of roughness, what the hell did this have come about?

Dragon Quest's latest work "Dragon Quest IX Hoshizora no MamoribitoAlthough it was finally released on Saturday, July 11, 2009 after repeated postponement of release, at the present moment there is a state in which roughness goes around the evaluation around the net, "Dragon Quest 9 is a damn Even now there are conflicts between people who evaluate that "Dragon Quest 9 is normal and funny!"

I tried collecting the flow so far as to what is going on and what is going on.

Details are as below.
Repeated postponement, excessive inflating expectation


First of all as a premise, this time Dorakue 9 is supposed to be released in 2007 if it is as planned, but there is a fact that it has been postponed twice. The first deferral is announced on 27th August 2007.

Notification of schedule for sale of "Dragon Quest IX Hoshizora no Mamoribito" software for Nintendo DS | SQUARE ENIX

By this, it will be on sale through 2007, and it will be on sale throughout 2008. At this point already "Almost completedIt seems that it was in a state, but it will be announced that October 1, 2008, the release date will be March 2009.

Notice concerning release time of "Dragon Quest IX Hoshizora no Mamoribito" software for Nintendo DS | SQUARE ENIX

After all, it was decided to be released on Saturday, March 28, 2009, but it was decided again on July 11th (Sat) on 1st month ago announcing postponement release again is.

'Dragon Quest IX Hoshizora no Mamoribit' postponed release, serious trouble with software - GIGAZINE

In other words, it has undergone a transition like 2007 through 2008, March 2009 → July 2009, and there is a fact that the release has actually been delayed for about two years. for that reason,Expectations swelled to an excessive extentThe possibility is great.

Regarding this last postponement, Square Enix's president Wada will"Because debugging was not in time" "I was careless"I commented.

◆ History of the game system
Originally in December 2006 this Dragon Quest 9 was made as "action RPG". This is touched also in the original recital of the series commemorating the 20th anniversary of the series which was held in December 2006 at the beginning.

SQUARE ENIX, DS "DRAGON QUEST IX Hoshizora no Mamoritai" announcement. Online action RPG for 4 person simultaneous play on Wi-Fi

The content of the game is an action RPG at the bird's-eye view point, which is greatly different from battle by command selection so far. It also supports Nintendo Wi - Fi connection, and it also supports online play with four people.

You can watch the screen when you were actually presented at the presentation in the movie from below.

YouTube - Dragon Quest 9 DQ 9 DS


As of May 2007, this is somehow the same command selection type battle system as before.

"Dragon Quest IX Hoshizora no Mamoribito" Command Combat !! - Famitsu.com

Also at this point it was supposed to be possible to "network play" with the following feeling.

The battle of "Dragon Quest IX Hoshizora no Mamoribito" is decided as a command selection type battle system! Just like the previous series, you will challenge the battle by carefully planning the strategy. However, the new elements unique to this work are packed, such as monster wandering in the field, adoption of network play that can adventure in multiplayer, and so on. What kind of adventure and battle will they produce?

Initially, it should have been said that online cooperation playing using "Wi-Fi connection" was possible, but as of June 2009 it is as follows.

Painful news (No ∀ `): DS Dragon 9, proved unable to play online cooperation on Wi-Fi

Sueni, DS "Dragon Quest IX Hoshizora no Mamoriban" finally completed! -GAME Watch

[Apology and correction]
Originally "cooperative play that can participate up to 4 people on Wi-Fi", but this is an error by the editorial department, correctly "DS wireless play" will be. We apologize to you that we have inconvenienced the various concerned, and I will correct it.

What got the apology wasArticles on the 12th December 2006 recital. Since Square checks various articles in detail, sometimes GIGAZINE also comes in contact, so it is a bit of an unexpected thing to leave the mistake for two and a half years. About this, the spokesperson of Square has responded as follows.

"Cooperative play of Dragon Quest IX, only DS Wireless Play from the beginning" and Suk · Eni - ITmedia News

Dragon Quest IX uses the "DS wireless play" function to sell cooperative play by communicating with people in the vicinity and up to three people, but since it was "official" corresponded to "Wi-Fi connection" There were users who expected to be able to cooperate with strangers via the Internet.

It seems that this was a misunderstanding, the company spokeswoman said, "From the beginning of the development, it was specification to cooperate with DS wireless play, not Wi-Fi." Wi-Fi is utilized in the download function etc. of additional quests.

At the time of presentation, the one that was "online play with four people" is settled as "the DS wireless play with three people", and when you see it it receives the impression like shrinking. Many people seemed disappointed to know this, and the clouds began to become suspicious.

Furthermore, on June 25, 2009, it turned out that the number of save data is "one".

"Dragon Quest IX (DQ 9)" released next month, only one data can be saved per software - GIGAZINE

The painful news (No ∀ `):" Dragon Quest 9 ", turn out to be able to save only one ... Fan puzzle

By doing this, it is said that genuine "one software is required per user who wants to play", which made a big fuss.

Furthermore, the numerical value objectively expressing the expectation to excess to Dragon Quest 9 is "10 million booksEstimated number of sold stocks. President Wada said at the press conference "I know that the bottom (the lowest line) is hard like the "Dragon Quest 4" (DS version) "Dragon Quest 4" has exceeded 1 million lines, but we do not know where to go and we are also looking forward to it. If it is DS, it is not a story not more than 10 million books. It was impossible for PS2 (Dragon Quest 8)"I commented.

And, on July 10, 2009 just before release, it becomes clear that the number of reserved books has reached an unusual number.

Finally tomorrow's release of "Dragon Quest IX (Dorakue 9)" achieved the best sales ever - GIGAZINE

According to the Mainichi Shimbun news report, Merchantizer who is offering merchandise for game software to its member stores at TSUTAYA expects the best hit for "Dragon Quest IX (Dorakue 9)" released from 7 am tomorrow It seems to have revealed what can be done.

This is one that received more than twice the reservation of Dragon Quest IX who entered all stores of TSUTAYA in the past week, more than twice as "Dragon Quest VIII (Dragon Quest 8)" which sold 4,880,000 series highest in the whole world And as the price is also cheap, it is predicted that it will be ranked high until the end of the year as a long seller.

In this way, various disappointments and disappointments, the opposite of it, "expectation that it must be interesting since it took so much time", the number of reservations representing the number of expectations, the fact that it is the official numbering title of Dragon Quest , And the evaluation which has accumulated up to now crossed with each other, and it finally celebrated the day of release.

◆ a rough review site
The downside evaluation such as "Dragon Quest 9 Bimiu" first started out from users who got flying before the release date. For this flying get itself the following is detailed.

I'm Gaming Bulletin @ Blade: "Dragon Quest 9" Flying Release Sale Excuse

Zakka Z "Dorakue 9" The excuse for selling early shops is amazing


In addition to the situation that Dragon Quest 9 leaks out on the net before the release date.

Elephant Z "Dragon Quest 9" data leakage Patch that children can also unprotect will be distributed

And the appearance on the day of launch was like the following.

Dragon Quest 9 released. A picture of Akihabara at 7 am - Akiba Blog

"Dragon Quest IX", Yuji Horii appears on release countdown event | Hobby | My Combi Journal

Hachimama Production - "Dragon Quest 9" released! Body pillow Men and mysterious foreigners appear and various things like chaos

And the rumors of Amazon 's review raging hard.

Hachimama bulletin - The way the rage of Amazon's review column of "Dorakue 9" is not ordinary

Painful news (No ∀ `):" One star is over 100 "Amazon's" Dragon Quest 9 "review is in a state of rough

【Spoiler】 Dragon Quest 9's Amazon Review seems to be tremendously crazy. : Alfalfa mosaic

Originally, because Amazon was also able to review products before "on sale", Dragon Quest 9 was also given 300 reviews as of March 2009,Amazon has deleted more than 300 reviews attached to Dragon Quest 9 by March 9, Furthermore on 7th July 2009Abolished product review function before releaseIt is supposed to be a situation to do. As a result, various thoughts, expectations, uneasiness, etc. accumulated piled up until the day of release were all bursting out.

For that reason, not only on Amazon but also on sites like price.com are extremely appraised.

Price .com - Square Enix Dragon Quest IX Hoshizora no Mamoribai User Reviews and Ratings


The characteristic point is that people who think "interesting" are evaluated as abstract in a normal category and abstract things, while those who answer "not interesting" are often touched concrete and detailed points often , That is, the amount of information that was touched beforehand and the expected value etc. are directly connected directly to the "review" which should be subjective impressions as it is, and furthermore due to various incidents etc. that have been seen so far It seems that it became a form where excessive reaction was drawn out than usual.

◆ Cause Summary That Becomes To Expect Excessive Expectations

Summarizing factors that will cause excessive expectation so far will be like this.

· The release in 2007 was in July 2009
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As we announced that the first postponement will be postponed in the meaning of "improvement", such as crushing bugs after the second time in "For quality improvement", "Because it takes a lot of development time The expectation that it must be a very good content surely has increased excessively.

· It should have been an action RPG became the same command battle system as before
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It became easier to compare with past numbering titles. In other words, past Dragon Quests 1 to 8 are compared with all of them. It means that there is a certain user base that will not be convinced if it does not exceed all past dragon Quest.

· Numbers of negative information that appears just before release
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Although I imagined online free RPG of a more free style when I heard "network play", information on the negative side of feeling such as the fact that there is only one save data, etc. was imminent immediately before I came out in rapid succession. In other words, it surely was a user who was "betrayed" strongly, because it is expecting too much.

· Expected people were orders of magnitude more than other games
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The fact that the president himself declared that he could aim for 10 million books, because the number of reserved books in advance is a great number, the number of users is overwhelmingly larger than other games, for example, It is obvious that there are many. In other words, it is inevitable that the number of complaints users will increase.

Flying get information and magicone related information are expanded on the net so as to catch up further, and at the end of the phrase also the following information.

【2ch】 New speed VIP blog (`· ω · '): a certain frantic technique of Dragon Quest 9 was found and a fuss wwwwwww

Actually it is a part of the technique that can be used only for a certain occupation, so there is no unnaturalness in particular, but taking out only here certainly has a strange atmosphere. However, dragon Quest has been in the beginning since the time of Dragon Quest 2Dangerous mojiats"So if you say the same as usual, it is certainly the same as usual. But there is also some soil that "do not forgive us" as usual.

There is also the fact that if you are a person familiar with games on the net, it is detailed in various back circumstances. For example, the postponement of release is as follows.

Watch out for TV games whose release is postponed! - Pen Kimitachi 's diary.

The postponement of the release of the video game is common in recent times. Well, although it can not say anywhere, there is a postponement of the release date of a new game as it is common in certain □ companies. Let's make it a certain □ company because it becomes a problem if I give out company name. To the end, it is a certain □ company.

I thought a little why I could postpone the release.

Three major elements to be postponed

1. The development itself was delayed
2. A fatal bug was discovered and it took time to fix
3. I tried but it was not fun

Are these three factors the main reason?

Also, if you feel that the game was not interesting, you will ask the game company about its responsibility, but if you are a well-known player who already knows that the following situation may also exist There is a change in the era that it is.

The project proceeds with roughly this kind of flow of feces gauge.

For the time being, the producer talks about the game he wants to make. It is a seat of sake.

Somehow tell the planner and make business materials. In this process, although it says that it is not meant to be said that it is not meant to be said that it is not meant to be said that the material is abstract, somehow like a picture that looks like it and a somewhat familiar system named its own name Just make it a perfect fitting item. It is easier to say that it is said to "make Pokemon" when speaking out real intention. If you decide to make "your own game that you can not explain, you can not explain it until now," it will not be completed before a bug or feces.

I will go to the sales with the perusal material, but I can not readily decide. I was told that it was a nice feeling during this time and it was also developed. I will say the same thing down as it is.

Although it is not decided, for the time being, it starts to be made, and it is thrown to the designer and the programmer. For the time being, I have only decided on the genre name so I try to make it while listening to various things. Of course it will be funny or boring old content. (Just moving the picture with the four-way keypad or only making one system like a system)

As development begins, depending on circumstances such as political power balance some things I have been making go to the trash can. But "It is easy to do because it made about half already" is said to be. Has been DS 's ARPG became SRPG of PSP. (Although it is extreme, hard change is Zara, there is not much big problem)

The planner also asks the content as it did at the beginning. Since it says different things when crossing the day, I bulleted as quickly as possible. Although I do not get along quite well, designers and programmers create something again. I do not know what to make but somehow deliberately imagine the number of characters and the number of backgrounds and create a sharing table. The programmer also creates a virtual man-hour table.

If you leave it, you will be desperate to stop as a large number of items, massive events, massive monsters, bugs in specifications, talks that are not very effective for the effort, and a grand plan go up.

(Specification bugs are unreasonable things that you can understand simply by looking at specifications, for example, composing three from 100 material items and all different items are being trimmed and all the names and effects and pictures are attached. I can not understand that there are thousands)

The planner is about to die at this stage. Once the deadline of the existing planner approaches, naturally every night to prepare a specification document, but even if I rewrite it a bit, "It was boring", "This place was not going to be like this" "Looks interesting Because I do not care about names "" Because I do not care about the (temporary) picture, inspiration "~" It is better for young people "" It was better to think yesterday "It is returned to a mortal work such as. If you are drawing a temporary picture on the designer, go head down to the designer many times. Of course you can not protect planner deadlines. The designer and the programmer will wear it accordingly. Planners who made eyes on both divisions everyday everyday apologize "I can not make it in time." But neither the designer nor the programmer get angry. It is not a reason that Planner is playing and being late. Together with helping to solidify the specification.

I will make it while watching the planner 's specifications that have gone up somehow. However, I do not write any details about anything. It is necessary to have only one word on the option screen and it is also Zara that existence of option screen is not transmitted. For that reason the programmer identified the necessary setting items, the designer built a screen design that read the whole air, and believed in your own inspiration and programed arbitrarily. When I show the thing I made for the time being, it is often said that it is "different from my instructions." Even though there are no instructions. However, this is often used as it is.

By the time the development comes into the middle stage, the specifications are steadily rising ... ... not. Absolutely. Only time is too heartless, but the route has not yet been decided. I make it while listening everywhere I do not know. I make it even if I do not listen. It is said that he did not ask why luck is bad. The designer only takes a retake. Whether it does not match with the world view or only this character is floating. There is only a story about the world view which is drawn around two pages of the manual. It increases as the number of pictures becomes larger. Color number designation is broken. The capacity runs short. It is said that the capacity should be managed by the program. I've already compressed a lot.

Late development development. I will cut off the specification for the time being after it becomes deterministic that it will not be in time for the deadline. Producer is dissatisfied face, although it scraps the place which said continued saying that it does not need from the beginning. If I did not enter from the beginning I kept talking every time I went much earlier, but it does not change. We say whether debugging period can be short. Well I guess I had bugs before. After all I do not like that, so change it and say it over this period. The designer is retaken to the last minute as the working time per picture is clear and clear. The planner strikes the data desperately. "Battle balance is bad, is not it adjusted?" That time you scraped off. Programmers crush bugs while replacing frequent data. It is thought that replacing data can be done quickly no matter how many times it is said. I do not want to stop Celeron soon. Since the designer also has insufficient memory, it is arbitrarily increasing it. Forcibly bug the bug. Everyone has a face that looks like a dead, but I'm also getting overweight.

A producer seems to be great before coming out and comments on magazines and blogs.

It is said to be released as feces gay. If the general public bugs, it is blamed by the selling agency and the programmer (it seems that the programmer makes a mistake because it did not make a budget) Director and producer are criticized unless it is boring. (Or I do not understand what I think is interesting!) For this reason producers and directors who are shaky about axles will put a change in specifications when feeling that things that are going up are not fun . Even bugs are not myself being beaten unless the content is bad. Those who do this without wasting time and money will waste time. Since the programmer does not want to issue a bug, he / she wants to go to the nail beforehand so as not to appear so that the specification change does not come out.

By the time we finish, the number of people is decreasing. And recruitment is taking place w

Furthermore, in this case of Dorakue 9, the following entry which appeared in December 2008 was quite fatal.

It seems that the major episode that will be coming next year is getting pretty bad

It is a story I heard from a friend, but it seems that the big masterpiece that comes out next spring is going to be pretty bad.

The so-called friends are working at a development subcontracting company and are making big game which everyone knows.

It is a famous work that anyone can know but not know if it is heard.

I was surprised when I first heard it. It was because he had played quite a while when he was a child.

But development is not going well. I heard that it is busy because I knew that there was a death march, but it seems to be ridiculous to listen carefully.

There seems to be various causes and it seems who can not be said to be the worst.

It seemed true that only the fact that the motivation of the work site is lacking is because it is because the greatest creator is fickle and subcontractor work has stopped.

And since the subcontracting company had become a big company unequivocally different from the time when he first took the big piece,

Because there are so many popular pieces of software made with just my own company, I put my emphasis on their games rather than being whimpy on caprice

By the time when a capricious creator eventually got motivated, the hands were sorted out to other games

Since there is no manpower, work does not proceed at all, it seems that the game content will be delayed late and the contents of the game will be on sale next spring as ridiculously ridiculous things.

Moreover, the story that came out after being kept waiting a while is not motivated more and more on the spot with obsolete things such as the fight of angels and devils. I thought that I imitated megatten by listening to the identity of Rasubosu.

Battle balance is not adjusted at all, it seems that all of the dungeon gimmicks are not working (?) It is the same as passing through the tunnel and it seems to be very boring.

It packed various systems but it has become a messy system without cooperation,

Even my favorite casino was planned at the beginning, but it seems that everything is gone because it will not make it in time.

Kisekae system seems to sell, but it is time to complete the game soon

It seems that producers and creators have increased cabaret appearance and clothes as they want to be cabaret girls.

In the story it is all you want to do, including the content of the inner ring receiver that only the girls of the cabaret club enter, or attach the name of the lover to an important character,

Before making it with a very famous game I liked it but it seemed that I became disliked to know the back side.

Even though there are additional factors in such a place I am busy at the scene, the contents of the game of the main line are getting boring due to bashing work,

My friend said complaints that he was really disappointed. I'd absolutely want to make the company out at my company without involving the subcontracting game,

It seems that I have patience with gggggggggttyyyyyy months.

It seems that I am doing my best because 2 clubs are looking forward to becoming a festival after the release.

I had promised that it will be finished, but honestly I heard the complaints I got motivated.

I think that it passed many years ago. Please make it properly. I was looking forward to it.

I can not tell him, but creators and producers do not feel angry.

My friends are sorry. You guys are doing it?

Dissatisfaction with Dragon Quest 9 is already seen in various review sites and bulletin boards even if this is enough or even this, but if you are dissatisfied with systems other than "SandyThere seems to be quite a lot of dissatisfaction about the fairy.

Fairy Sandy - Creator's Voice

Ichimura: Even now,Fellows of adventure gather at "Lyda's Bar" (* 10)It has become like. You can also take the character that was originally set as it is to the adventure, you can choose your face, hair style, and occupation as well as the main character, make your favorite character and take it with you I will.
Then, I can not put together a party,Fairy called "Sandy"It also appears as one of my friends. It is a guide role of adventure, so it is also a very important role, so I talked a lot about what kind of character it should be. Then Mr. Horii said "Gal is good" (laugh).

Horii: In the previous work "Dragon Quest VIII", I got a character called Toro de with the main character and adventure. This role is like a "storyteller", so to speak, in whatever circumstance the party is, he will face a little and follow the adventure. Thanks to that, the story was also advanced at a tempo well, but since it was an ugly figure like an obsession, this time I'd like to go with "Cow Yus series" this time. That's why I decided to make it a girl group called Small Devil Ageha (lol).

There are certain people who can accept such characters, but there are others who are not, plus, as you can see from the point that they summarized roughly,In addition to the accumulation of expectation and anxiety, various emotions accumulated as a result of accumulation accumulated at the release date and it exploded in a stroke and it fell into a situation where it could not keep upIt is considered.

Although it is about a matter not directly related to the above case, on the official blog of Sieni, the following entry has been posted by the spokesperson on July 8, 2009.

Some reports (Dragon Quest IX Information Blog)

Well, the things that touched it in the world as it is
There really is something to say on a big media.

Today some reports
Development model and game system of "Dragon Quest IX"
There was a news report like it was decided by one president's crane.

I guess this story was made from the president's character
It is different from the fact.

Dragon Quest is the one that creators created to the last
It is Dragon Quest.
The role of Square Enix in Dragon Quest production
What creators created means they are neat
Produce so that many people can reach you.

Of course this time "Dragon Quest IX" too
To realize multiplayer using wireless communication function
To develop for Nintendo DS for that
All with game designer Yuji Horii
Development staff / producer
"It must be fun if I can do this in Dragon Quest next time"
It is what decided under the belief that.

What you can do is to become the world of "Dragon Quest".
What made possible by the company's circumstances is not "Dragon Quest".

So everyone peacefully "Dragon Quest IX" world
Please enjoy!

Frequently, when Windows XP was also released, it was said that "the worst OS in heavy heavy history, Windows 2000 is the supreme OS", but now "XP highest, Vista fucking, expectation for Windows 7" Since it is a kind of feeling, what kind of evaluation will ultimately be given to this "Dorakue 9" should be a little later.

By the way, in GIGAZINE editorial department, about 3 people are playing Dorakue 9, but if it says in 5 grades it seems to be "4".