The Return of Difficult Games: Hooray!!!

I read this morning on VG247 about an interview from Touch-DS that the creator of the the Dragon Quest series Yuji Horii has reported to the masses that the upcoming Dragon Quest game (ninth in the series) will be ‘hard’. You guys all remember when games actually took some skill and plenty of invested time to beat? I do too. Quoted from the interview, Yuji says:

“It’s harder than any of the previous titles, and the enemies are also powerful… We strengthened the bosses, stuff like that.”

The last difficult RPG that I played where I actually feared for my characters’ lives was Lost Odyssey, especially the first major boss battle at the top of the Ipsilon Mountains…man that bitch took some work to bring down. I’m just really happy to know that some of the old-school developers are happy to actually challenge the players for a change. It’s too bad that the proposed Nintendo ‘demo-play’ system was also reported to be coming to the DS today as well. Oh well.

by Alan Smithee

I sit upon my throne as the owner/shogun of this site, WatchPlayRead. But it wasn't always so. I too have had blogspots, I've done other community blogs, I've even written professionally for other sites out there...yet none of them provided the content I had a real passion for. It is then that I became tired of being a small cog in a big machine, and of writing about nothing but game news after game news article and the periphery that comes from such schlock, like knowing who Michael Pachter and Bobby Kotick are. I decided to start MediaWhoreNetwork.com and ran up my post count there for about 2 years, commenting about any and everything that I wanted to. I even started a weekly podcast that I feel has come into its own. It wasn't until earlier this year that I realized that having the word "whore" in your URL might be a bit limiting to my potential audience. I then made the website and its branding move over to WatchPlayRead.com.

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