An amusing juxtaposition

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So I picked up Dragon's Quest VIII on Friday and spent way too long playing it on Saturday. My other current game is Final Fantasy (note lack of any numbers). Two RPGs, two decades apart, with computing power order of magnitudes apart. There's certainly little common in appearance between the two, with Dragon Quest looking exactly like a Saturday morning cartoon. The game-play however, is the same with some tweaks.