Dragon Quest IX has significantly more character customization options than any other Dragon Quest game to date. You start your adventure by making a hero by picking a gender, face, body, and a ...

That doesn’t mean IX will be a cakewalk, however. Nintendo is promising that it will be the hardest Dragon Quest to date, spanning 60 hours of storyline and nearly another 80 hours of side quests.

And yet we write this review with 21 hours, 43 minutes and 17 seconds on our save file clock, a tiny slice of an estimated 200-hour runtime, but a testament to Dragon Quest IX’s playability.