After playing Dragon Quest VIII I saw Dragon Quest IV and V and knew that both were remakes and I avoid remakes but since I knew that Dragon Quest V was never released in North America and Dragon Warrior IV is about $100 used I decided to get the games. I bought Dragon Quest IV first for two reasons (1) numerical order (2) IV was $24.44 and V was $39.99.  After play IV I went to get V and they no longer had it, went to other stores could not find it. Thought I lucked out online from Square-Enix website store to find out it was 'Out of Stock' . Continued looking in stores till one video game store looked it up in their computer and said it was discontinued. (Which would explain why it was $75 online.)

I started to look for it used and was at EB Games that store didn't have it but offered to phone the other store so I let them, and the other store had one copy left and it was new. So I walked as fast as I could with a bicycle to the other store and ............. we couldn't find the case. I bought the game card anyways because I might not find it again. The game new was $44.99 I got 10% off which brought it to $40.49 before taxes and I had a felling I might regret it later.

Couple of month later only played the game to the first chance to save to see if it saves and check the beginning out. I went to EB Games looking for a random less than $15 game when I saw Dragon Quest V used for $39.99, looked in the case, it had everything with it. Than the regret checked in, I bought this copy for the fact that the other copy sticks out of my DS games because it is the only DS games without the original packaging. So when I got home I played it to the first chance to save since there was not save file, and afterwards I swapped cases so I didn't have the price of the complete set to remind me of it and to this day I have not played Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride.