Dragon Quest IX est un jeu de rôle au tour par tour sur DS. Si le soft repose en grande partie sur les bases établies par ses aînés, il offre néanmoins un bon nombre de nouveautés, à commencer par la possibilité de créer ses héros de toutes pièces. Six classes de base sont disponibles : troubadour, guerrier, artiste martial, magicien, prêtre et voleur. L'aventure est également jouable en multijoueur et permet à quatre aventuriers de fracasser du slime en coopération.
She gave my mother such a turn, that I have always been convinced I am indebted to Miss Betsey for having been born on a Friday. The word was appropriate to the moment. My mother was so much worse that Peggotty, coming in with the teaboard and candles, and seeing at a glance how ill she was, - as Miss Betsey might have done sooner if there had been light enough, - conveyed her upstairs to her own room with all speed; and immediately dispatched Ham Peggotty, her nephew, who had been for some days past secreted in the house, unknown to my mother, as a special messenger in case of emergency, to fetch the nurse and doctor.
