Spoiler Alert: Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies for DS

There are times where a game is released where you really want to know what happened but you either can’t or don’t want to buy or play it. To help you out, Gamertell offers Spoiler Alert. We’ll play the games and tell you what happened so you don’t have to spend, or waste, your time on it. This week, we’re looking at Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, the DS RPG from Nintendo. Prepare to be spoiled.

So in Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, you play a Celestrian (read: angel) who is guardian of a town called Angel Falls. You’ve just gotten your first guardianship, actually. Celestrians assist and protect mortals, and then collect the benevolessence, the crystalized thankfulness from mortals, and offer it up to the world tree Yggdrasil at the Observatory. When Yggdrasil gets enough benevolessence, it will boom and grow fyggs. When fyggs grow, the Celestrians can return to the home of the Almighty and mortals won’t need their protection anymore.

Coincidentally, after your avatar performs his or her first day of service in Angel Falls, he or she gets the last bit of benevolessence needed to make the World Tree bloom. The problem is, right when it does, purple beams of light suddenly appear from the Earth below and shoot straight up to the sky. The Observatory, the Celestrian’s home, is badly damaged and your character falls to Earth. Also, the Starlight Express, a golden train which would take Celestrians to the Realm of the Almighty, is trashed and crashes to Earth as well. Your avatar falls below, and loses his or her wings and halo in the fall. Coincidentally, he or she lands in Angel Falls.

So the goal is to do good deeds to acquire the needed benevolessence to return home. You learn this after finding the Starlight Express outside Angel Falls, and its stewardess fairy Stella tells you so.

After doing enough good deeds in the general area, you get the Starlight Express moving and get back to the Observatory. There you learn from the head Celestrian, Apus Major, that all the fyggs dropped to Earth during the attack. Also, many Celestrians, including your mentor Aquila, went down to Earth after the attack to find out what happened and get the fyggs. Aquila, in particular, went down to find you. But, they all disappeared and only you returned. So you have to go fygg hunting for the seven dropped fyggs, which coincidentally turn mortal people and creatures into monsters if consumed.

Right when you get all the fyggs, Aquila comes and takes them from you. He attacks you and knocks you out, then disappears with a strange owl warrior riding a black dragon from the evil Gittish Empire. You get knocked out and knocked off the Starlight Express and fall to Earth again.

You then have to get the dragon Greyknarl on your side, so you can defeat the black dragon and help save the world. While heading to meet him, you encounter a ghost named Serena that you’ve seen often on your travels. She finally stops and talks to you. You retrieve a necklace for her, that was given to her by a Celestrian named Corvus that she loved – Aquila’s mentor. She opens the path so you can go to Greyknarl.

Except when you reach Greyknarl, you find he’s past his prime and hurt. Nonetheless, when the black dragon Barbados and the owl warrior comes to attack Greyknarl again and destroy the town he protects, Upover, he jumps into action, gives you a Gittish seal he recovered after beating a soldier once, and takes off with you on his back. Barbados has some kind of amazing power that’s being stolen from some unknown source, and uses it to unleash a devastating attack towards Upover. Greyknarl dumps you, reveals that he knew you were a Celestrian and takes the blast in place of the town.

After that your avatar awakes in the Goretress, a Gittish Empire prison camp run by a giant pig warrior. The head prisoner foreman, a man named Sterling, guides you around and shows you seals that keep prisoners in. However, the badge you got from Greyknarl allows you to go through the locked seals. The next day, Sterling and you lead a revolution. You find out Sterling is the Captain of Starlight Express, the Gittish Empire soldiers and warriors are all undead and that Celestrians are being held and used as a power source to keep Barbados in check and power up Gittish forces.

Once the captured Goretress Celestrians are freed, Sterling, Stella and you take them up to the Observatory to recover. There you meet with Apus Major to tell him Aquila turned traitor, only to learn that immediately after stealing the fyggs from you, Aquila brought them to the Observatory. Since Captain Sterling is back, he takes your avatar and Apus Major up to the Realm of the Almighty.

There, you find that the attack that devastated the Observatory also did massive damage to the Almighty’s temple. You find one spot that seems ethereal on the second level and offer the fyggs there. Then Celestia’s voice appears, and tells you to return to the Observatory and World Tree. It turns out she is the Almighty Zenus’ daughter, and turned herself into Yggdrasil. Her father was going to destory mortals because so many turned evil. But Celestia had hope for them, and begged him not to. She turned herself into Yggdrasil to stay his hand, and he agreed. He also created the Celestrians to serve her and bring her benevolessence from the good and pure humans so she may one day regain her form.

Everyone concurs that God must still exist, as the whole world wouldn’t if he died.

The Gittish Empire is the main concern, since it houses an evil person who wants to destroy the world. So Celestia creates a tree there so your avatar can head down. You take down the leopard warrior and owl warrior and head inside to the Gittish Emperor. There, you see Aquila before him with fake fyggs. It was all a ruse so Aquila could attack him and destroy him. But Aquila is overpowered. You step in and defeat the emperor. However, you only defeat one form of him, and Aquila steps in to save your character’s life. You then dispatch the emperor, and Aquila’s dying wish is that you free the remaining captured Celestrians and his mentor Corvus, who’s been trapped there for all those years.

After freeing everyone else, you reach Corvus. He looks half-Celestrian, but half-monstrous. After you free him, you learn he was behind everything and became a hatefilled individual after being trapped for hundreds of years. He destroyed Zenus and is now god. You try to fight him, but Celestrians can not fight their superiors and he’s your superior. He defeats you and takes off on Barbados with the intent to go to the Realm of the Almighty and destory Earth.

Serena appears, and reveals how he was captured. Her village traded him, their village’s guardian, for safety from the Gittish. She unwittingly gave him a sleeping potion, not knowing her neighbors and father’s plan. He heard what happened, and thought she betrayed him. So she vowed to find him again. She disappears.

You head back to the Observatory and Celestia. She says that all the people you helped earlier will give you strength, and an eighth fygg is created. If your avatar eats it, he or she can become mortal and defeat Corvus. You head to the Starlight Express, eat it and then head to the Realm of the Almighty.

You then go through massive boss fights and battles, finally facing off against a dark, menacing, transformed Corvus. After you beat him, he still has power and is going to kill you. But Serena appears before him. Her necklace glows, showing he’s still a Celestrian after all this time and signifying that he can still be saved. He turns back into himself and they are reunited. He learns the truth about what happened and apologizes for what he had done. They both move on together, Celestria regains her true form as a goddess and not a tree and she goes to the Realm of the Almighty and restores it to its true form. All the Celestrians are transported up to the Realm of the Almighty. The Observatory disappears because it isn’t needed anymore. Your character boards the Starlight Express and heads down to Earth.

As the end credits roll, you fly over all the places you’ve been during your travels and see the people you helped getting on happily with their lives. Sterling and Stella drop your avatar off near Alltrades Abbey, and you can see both are starting to fade as your new mortality fully kicks in.

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