Well, if you can't get past that horrible art-style, then more power to you. Personally I didn't care for the previous one in the series.

Nice use of Triple H.

There's actually an interesting write up about this in GamesTM this month from their Japanese Correspondent Tim Rogers regarding how some of the more obsessive otaku responds to things that happen with their favourite franchise. One thing he mentioned was a story of a comic fan who burned their stack of comics because the author mentioned the 'pure' female character had a boyfriends and lost her virginity prior to the start of the story line (creepy).

But more topically he writes; "However, it [Dragon Quest IX] scored just two stars overall on Amazon.co.jp with a brain-numbing number of one-star votes that all spill the same story.; they hate the tanned girl fairy character, and wish it was on PS3. Japan's biggest internet community, 2ch.net contains a 94,000-post 'anti-Dragon Quest IX' thread where bored people [...] have organised 'trolling efforts".

He also states that he himself thinks the game is damn good, if not perfect, and it scored the full 40/40 from Famitsu. 94,000 posts is an insane quantity.

The funniest part is that people think the guy in the pic is posing, like at a photoshoot.
He's just watching TV. The drool must mean he's watching a reality show.

Typical Japanese otaku, making a huge shit-storm over a single character...

Completely ignoring their customers, huh? Square just might be the "Epic Games" of Japan. It will be cemented in truth if they start banning people from their forums for reporting bugs.

@Conan-San

I think the default image matches my user name =D

@ParsleyBoots

More reason why Square-enix should stop thinking they know best with their mediocre 360/PC games and constant remakes.
Granted they put a lot of quality into the remakes but I haven't seen a truly great, truly original game from them in ages!

Hopefully their partnership with a western company (Eidos) will bear interesting fruit.

He makes a good point. People are always looking for something to be angry about, especially when it's a popular video game franchise like DQ. I played an imported version from Japan, and although I didn't get very far because it was all in Japanses, I really liked it.

Didn't DQ9 get a perfect score on Famitsu? Yeah, there are japanese trolls too. Although I do agree that it should be on PS3.

What exactly is so bad about this tanned fairy character.

Obvious trolls are obvious.

i don't care about the game. i got 8 for the ps2. the only one that matters haha.

Personally I hate Toriyama's unoriginal art style and by extension, all the stuff that use it...be it Blue Dragon, DQ or whatever. I admit that the DQ on the PS2 was pretty awesome but the character's made my eyes bleed after a few hours...

A pity, I'd be REALLY into the series if they'd just ditch Toriyama...or if Toriyama actually had some talent and designed characters that didn't look like DBZ-rejects. I swear, ALL of his creations look similar to his OTHER creations. No other manga-ka or artist is so unoriginal.