An eagerly awaited game in the Dragon Quest saga. Having only played Dragon Quest 8 on the PS2 I am only following the Dragon Quest games and not the earlier Dragon Warrior games. Anyway I really liked 8 so I was waiting patiently for this one to come along. I think about a year after it came out I finally got around to playing it! That's how much I'd been wanting to play this game! Right ok so the fact that you play a slime in this game was a little disappointing... Especially after playing a Dragovian Prince in DQ8. (That should have had a spoiler alert... ooops) And seeing as the slime is the first, worst enemy, I had my doubts. Once you get past that though the game is very enjoyable. You start of playing with your slime friends in the palace garden (leading me to belive the "Hero" was royal again. Alas no! He's the son of a palace guard). You find a "warrior flute" and then your dad shouts abuse at you and you swallow it and the flute. Good job too ...