Verified buyer
Item came exactly as described and shipping from seller was Ultra fast! Would do business with seller again! Thank You :)
RighteousBlaze· September 2026
BoughtNinja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey Of The Cursed King
- $39.99
- Regular price
-
$46.99 - Sale price
- $39.99
- Unit price
- per
This one has sold.
Tell me when this is back in stock
Explore PlayStation 2 games
Get one email when this title is back in stock — same game, same console, any condition.
Looking for a similar version? Email us and we can help!
Box, manual and game — all original, all in the photos. Game condition guide →
Ships in 1–2 business days·Tracking on every order·Signature required on orders $250+
Item Condition
Complete in box: the disc, the manual and the original case, all original; anything beyond that is included only if you can see it in the photos. Look over the photos for condition, packaging and details. Discs are professionally resurfaced when they need it and tested before listing. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
A king transformed into a squat green creature, a princess turned into the horse that pulls his wagon, and a quiet young guard who was somehow untouched when a curse swallowed their castle in thorny vines. Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King opens on one of the most charming setups in the genre, and it never loses that storybook warmth across a journey that easily runs past sixty hours.
Developed by Level-5 for Square Enix, this was the first Dragon Quest built around one continuous world, and that change is what players remember most. Instead of icon towns on an overworld map, you walk out of the gate and the landscape simply keeps going, across fields, coastlines and mountain passes to towns and dungeons that sit right in the terrain, with a fully rotating camera and an optional first-person view for taking it all in. The cel-shaded visuals make Akira Toriyama's character and monster designs look as if they stepped straight off his sketchpad, and even a humble Slime has never looked more alive.
The party is just as memorable. Yangus is a gruff former bandit with a heart of gold who insists on calling the hero "guv", Jessica is a sorceress set on avenging her brother, and Angelo is a smooth-talking Templar knight who would rather be at the card table. Battles are classic turn-based Dragon Quest, sharpened by a tension system that lets characters Psyche Up over several turns for one devastating blow, and skill points let you steer each character toward the weapons and abilities you like. The alchemy pot rewards experimentation by turning ordinary items into rare gear, and the Monster Arena adds a whole side game of recruiting and battling your own monster team. All the while, the jester Dhoulmagus stays one step ahead.
For North American players this release marked a turning point. It was the first in the series to arrive here under the Dragon Quest name instead of Dragon Warrior, and the Western version added voice acting and an orchestral rendition of Koichi Sugiyama's score. Those touches, together with the sheer scale of the world, introduced the series to a much wider audience. A Nintendo 3DS version followed years later, but this PlayStation 2 original is the game as most players first discovered it: a long, generous adventure where cresting a hill and spotting the next town on the horizon never stops being a thrill.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 2004
- Publisher
- Square Enix
- Developer
- LEVEL-5
- Players
- Single player
About the game
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King is the eighth installment in the Dragon Quest series, developed by Level-5 and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2 video game console. It was also later released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2015. It is a traditional Japanese-style role-playing game with random enemy encounters, simple turn-based combat mechanics, and management of a party consisting of four characters, each belonging to a clearly defined class. Unlike its predecessors in the series and most Japanese RPGs in general, the game features a continuous world with fairly vast landscapes and integrated towns and dungeons, as opposed to world map traveling and locations represented by icons. The game features full camera rotation and optional first-person view. Like in the previous Dragon Quest games, many objects can be interacted with; for example, barrels can be physically lifted, carried, and broken, to reveal items hidden within.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.Watch gameplayDragon Quest VIII: Journey Of The Cursed King on PlayStation 2
Make an offer
Request more photos
Ships in 1–2 business days (Monday–Friday, excluding major U.S. holidays). During the holidays and big sales, allow one extra business day.
- Live USPS and UPS rates at checkout. Every order ships with tracking.
- We ship to all 50 states, U.S. military addresses (APO/FPO/DPO), and Canada. Canadian orders may owe duties and taxes on delivery.
- Orders of $250 or more ship with signature confirmation.
- Delivery dates shown at checkout are estimates, not guarantees.
Read the full Shipping Policy, including holiday order-by dates.
Most of what we sell is one of a kind, so all sales are final unless something goes wrong on our end.
Contact us within 14 days of delivery if your item doesn’t work, arrived damaged, is the wrong item, or isn’t as described. We’ll send a prepaid return label and make it right with a replacement or a refund. Orders placed November 1–December 24 can be reported through January 15.
Not covered: change of mind, compatibility issues, and opened sealed trading-card products.
Email support@coolection.com with your order number. Read the full Refund Policy.
PlayStation 2
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey Of The Cursed King
$39.99
Offering on several items? Build an offer list →
Submitting an offer does not guarantee acceptance. Items aren’t held while an offer is open, and prices can change until then. We reply within 1–2 business days.
PlayStation 2
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey Of The Cursed King
$39.99
Real photos of this exact item: we’ll photograph what you ask for and email them to you, usually within 1–2 business days.
