Looks great, sounds great, and provides hours of fun

User Rating: 8.9 | Dragon Quest VIII: Sora to Umi to Daichi to Norowareshi Himegimi PS2
The graphics, while are just standard cell shading that has been done many times before, look magnificent. Everything on the screen has very natural movement. The towns, forests, and caves all look awesome.

Orchestrated music follows you everywhere you go, almost as if you were playing an animated feature film. This world is so immersive it is amazing for a single player console RPG. The voiceovers are done in all different types of European accents, which help pull the gamer out of the anime looking world and add a little more to the fantasy. Finally the combat system is totally traditional, nothing new and fancy here. While this may be a turn off for some, there is always the old school RPG fan who has not been given a game like this for quite some time now. If that is a category you fit, I recommend this game.