Dragon Quest IX/Trivia

• Creator Backlash: Zenus, towards the humans, which he viewed as an "aberration" and full of sin. Prior to the events of the game, he even tried to destroy his creation, but his daughter Celestria transformed herself into the form of the World Tree, Yggdrasil, under the condition that she will only revert back to her normal form once the human race had achieved benevolence and redemption, in order to convince him to stay his hand. Much later, history would repeat itself, only with Corvus and the player character in the place of Zenus and Celestria. The player character does manage to save the human race a second time, again at some personal cost: due to needing to become "mortal" to defeat Corvus, he does not get to retire to the stars along with the rest of the Celestrian race, and instead is left to stay in the "mortal" realm to remain serving as its "Guardian".
• Marth Debuted in Smash Bros: The Dragon Quest VI crew, whose own game was still being prepped for its first North American release.
• Network to the Rescue: Can you believe that Square Enix wasn't going to localize this gem? Nintendo took this game into their hands, and gave it some much-needed publicity, as they did with the original Dragon Quest I and later did with Dragon Quest VI.
  • Square Enix has hence declared Dragon Quest dead in the West, leaving Nintendo to localize Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 and all future titles.