>>3781097
I gotta say, I agree with this. It's a strange comparison but DQ9 feels a lot like Legend of Mana to me where instead of being one bug story the game plays out as a series of short vignettes most of which are wonderful. I wish more RPGs took that approach.

It might be telling that my favorite DQ aside from 9 is 4 and my favorite FF by a pretty wide margin in 6.