History Headscratchers / DragonQuestIX

*** [[YourMileageMayVary Speak for yourself.]]

* So you become mortal to fight the last boss, and presumably your Celestrian-ness is leaking throughout the last dungeon. By the time the ending rolls around you can no longer see the supernatural. So...how do you talk to the ghost in Porth Llaffan to figure out how to kick off the postgame?

* Aside from the on-going mystery of the Gortress Guerillas (Digby on the tower has [[DarkAndTroubledPast 'nowhere to go back to']]?), one point about returning to the Gortress post-game: the ex-prisoners/random travellers have ''opened a restaurant''?!

** He's apologizing for keeping himself locked away, and making them worry about the man who saved them.

* The ending kinda got my goat. So let me get this straight, in order to finally defeat [[spoiler:Corvus]], I have to [[spoiler:demote myself to a mortal and sacrifice my opportunity to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, the way my character has lived their entire life for the chance to do, just so I can bypass my magical inability to attack a superior? And for my sacrifice, I'm condemned to [[RoamingTheEarth roam the Earth]] and right the wrongs with no foreseeable reward? And the Villain is redeemed, forgiven and gets to ascend and live happily ever after with his deceased girlfriend?]] [[FlatWhat What]].

* Why does Doctor Phlegming have to apologize to the town? He was busy researching how to save their lives while they kept talking him down. If anything, they should apologize to him!

** Aquila is also the guardian of the ''entire Proctrate'' while your guardian of one tiny village.

** Yeah, this bothered me too. So much so, that I thought the loss of the protagonist's wings and halo were actually his reward. I interpreted the Celestrian's 'salvation' as them being turned into mortals... at least until I found out otherwise. I figured that the Celestrians were corrupt mortals and were forced to serve mortals until they redeemed their actions, but were unable to remember what they did to deserve the punishment. I continued to believe this until the Reveal. This was supported by the fact Greygnarl's moster log entry states he dislikes Celestrians for some reason, but in-game he dislikes the smell of the [[spoiler:Gittish empire]]. This isn't a WMG because it's ultimately proven wrong, but honestly the game never does explain the protagonist's Cosmic Power Failure.

** Presumablly AM's comment that even he is ranked under the BigBad means he can't promote you that high.

** Yeah, this bothered me too. So much so, that I thought the loss of the protagonist's wings and halo were actually his reward. I interpreted the Celestrian's 'salvation' as them being turned into mortals... at least until I found out otherwise. I figured that the Celestrians were corrupt mortals and were forced to serve mortals until they redeemed their actions, but were unable to remember what they did to deserve the punishment. I continued to believe this until the Reveal. This was supported by the fact Greygnarl's moster log entry states he dislikes Celestrians for some reason, but in-game he dislikes the smell of the [[spoiler:: Gittish empire]]. This isn't a WMG because it's ultimately proven wrong, but honestly the game never does explain the protagonist's Cosmic Power Failure.

*** Speak for yourself.

* Celestrians physically cannot defy their superiors... so, rather than eating a magic fruit that takes away your awesome supernatural powers, why not just have Apus Major promote you? At that point in the game the protagonist is pretty much the Guardian of the planet as it is, and they'd certainly done enough to earn it. Or, alternately, why not just wish on the fygg to simply be able to break that rule?

* Why are the "male" versions of the DQ3 hero's gear sex exclusive? Didn't the male and female hero share a sprite set (Read: both wear that outfit) until the remake?

** Same reason a male character needs a one of a kind magic trinket to don a skirt?

* Why does a female character need a one of a kind magic trinket to wear a pant-suit?

* The fight with Aquila is a hopless boss fight because celestialians can't attack their superiors. Except he's ''not'', the start of the game has you promoted to ''his exact rank'' (which he conceded, so the ''inverse'' should be true).

* Okay, so you need a fygg to turn you mortal so you can fight Corvus because Celestrians can't go against their superiors. Fine, I can accept that. The problem is that afterward, you need to find a second fygg to negate the first one. All the other fyggs could be removed without killing the entity that had consumed them. For that matter, even when one of the fyggs was cut up and eaten, you still recover the whole thing. So why can't you just give up the powers you gained in the first place?

* The shields man, the ''shields''. First of all, the characters hold them wrong. They hold them so that the logo is facing the wrong way when they're in the blocking position, which really bugs me for some reason. Also, despite the fact that your character almost always has their weapon sheathed outside of combat, they never sheathe their shields; they're always just sitting there on their arms. Doesn't it get in the way? Speaking of getting in the way, during certain class abilities it shows the weapon missing from their hand, but the shield just ''stays there''. Why do the shields never move!? Why!? ''Why''!? '''WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY'''!!!!! *[[YourHeadASplode headsplosion]]*