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This is in contrast to its predecessors, which featured world map travel and locations represented by icons. The game, unlike its predecessors in the series and the majority of Japanese role-playing games in general, features a continuous world with fairly vast landscapes and integrated towns and dungeons. It features random encounters with enemies, straightforward turn-based combat mechanics, and the management of a party consisting of four characters, each of whom belongs to a class that is explicitly defined. The king, the princess, a former bandit named Yangus, and a few other travelers set out from the castle with the lone surviving member of the castle guard in order to find the villainous jester and discover a method to lift the curse.ĭragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King is a traditional role-playing game in the Japanese style. He also used this power to destroy the palace. Dhoulmagus used the power of the scepter to bring a curse upon the kingdom and its people, as well as transform King Trode into a troll and the princess into a horse. The court jester of the kingdom of Trodain, Dhoulmagus, was responsible for stealing a powerful magical scepter that was kept hidden beneath the royal castle.

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