Aphelion

I wasn't underwhelmed or impressed in particular. I just had no real feelings about it. Mind you, I didn't care all that much for the PS3 either and we actually have one. The lines are starting to blur together with the Xbox and I'm sure that trend will continue.

 

I feel like this next gen will be a lot more casual gamer-friendly, which I don't mind at all. I don't see why there's so much resistance to it.

I don't think mine are that great, aside from the special ones I have. The highest level ones I have are Bronze World of Evil. Lv. 90 and Gold Path of Regret Lv. 72.

Alena's outfit is unisex and if you put it on male characters, it gives them boobs. I always thought that was kind of funny.

Putting male characters in the maid outfit is worth a chuckle as well.

One of the main problems with the post-game stuff is that you either have to get it yourself, which can take hours of grinding, or find a way to get your hands on some special maps. Lucky I was able to circumvent this problem with an R4 and a 2nd DS, but I can see how it would be frustrating for other people.

Mind you, I still have had to do a lot of grinding, which is normal in a DQ game I suppose. If you were outside of Japan, you were pretty much screwed over, since it was hard to find other people who had the game and were trying to get maps, too. Hopefully somewhere down the line when DQ9 gets remade, trading maps will be easier since they'll likely make it online (something they added for the DQ7 remake).

I've been going through the same thing. Most of my maps are below lvl. 50 and I only have a handful of high level ones with only +2 to my main character as a Sage. It would be cool to find someone near me to trade high level maps.