DQ6 hit the best !!
Like I wrote on a previous page here, on this Jan.28 Dragon Quest6– one of the most popular national RPG series– in Nintendo DS version was released.http://www.tenkai-japan.com/2010/01/11/dragon-quests-luidas-bar-is-going-to-open-in-tokyo/ As for other titles, such as DQ 3,4, and 5, there have been renewed versions in DS or in other games. Yet as for DQ6, this was the first remade version since the original version’s release with SFC(Nintendo Super Famicom) 15 years ago. And just one month has past since this release and it has been proven this title hit the best sales. 
910,000 copies have been sold within the first 4 days ! This amazing number of sales is even outstanding compared to the previously remade titles of DQ 4 and DQ5. The remade DS version of DQ sold 4 60,1000 copies and DQ5 did 67,9000 copies in the first week of the releases. In the second week, DQ6 sold 180,000 and thus, this title so quickly and easily reached one million sales ! DQ4 and 5 reached that level of number about one month later since the releases, so, this is the record-high of the DQ series sales as a whole.
Actually I, personally, had bought DQ6 in pre-order sale at a big store and on the very released day, I bought it started playing it. But as I have been very busy, since almost one month has past, I have not beaten it yet, though I have already arrived at the big stronghold of the “last boss” . I had played the original version of SFC 15 years ago, but as this DS version has new functions ,such as “passing-by correspondence” which DQ 9 also was equipped with, I found it very fresh and interesting. I am looking forward to beat the last boss and see the impressive ending descriptions.
I also referred to the opening of real “Luida’s Bar” in Roppongi Tokyo on the previous page. The bar was opened on the same day of the release of DQ6, and has been visited by so many DQ fans. In the bar , ” the Sword of the Roof of Heaven” and ” the Sword of the King” are hung on the wall ,and there special food being so popular related to the game, such as “the Club of Gigant” and ” the meat dumplings of slimes”. 
On the Feb. 9, Kouichi Sugiyama (/すぎやまこういち) , the composer of all the music of DQ series turned up in the Luida’s Bar and hosted a press conference there.
It was done for the promotion of the CD, “Symphonic Suite Dragon Quest Ⅸ” that was to be released on the next day. He said the overture of DQ 9 was a bit different from other ones of the previous titles as it was the first tittle of the new series. The introduction part of the overture was changed a litttle for the first time in 19 years since the change in that of DQ6(original version). Sugiyama is known as the composer of the theme music of the ” Ultra Man” ,which was the pioneer work of Sci-fi TV shows for children of a giant hero fighting with evil monsters. He is also known as a huge fan of games in general and he actually had beaten DQ 9 with all his characters in the game level 99 (!) before he beat DQ6. Now, he says ,” As for DQ 9, after having beaten the game. the true pleasure of enjoying the game’s world begins, but as for DQ6, the course up to beating the last boss is really rich and really fan.” What he says is exactly what I feel about DQ9 and DQ6,which makes me so happy .
According to the comment of Sugiyama on that day, the company has not taken up producing DQ10 yet, still it seems they would start up the new project shortly. I am really looking forward to its being released so soon like all the other millions of “Dorakue” (abbreviation of DQ in Japanese) fans.
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