Memorial Day is usually light on reportable news, but this day also happens to be “Dragon Quest Day” according to Japan, so some light information regarding future titles in the series was put out there this morning.
The elephant in the room regarding Dragon Quest is that the artist who gave it its siguature look, Akira Toriyama, is no longer with us. That, however, doesn’t mean Square Enix is packing it up and shutting the whole series down. Creator Yuji Horii used this year’s Dragon Quest Day to assure everyone the next mainline game is still a going concern.
“Thank you so much to everyone for the many congratulations!” he said in a tweet. “There has been some worry about Dragon Quest XII, but I was actually in a meeting until just a bit ago. While I can’t share any details yet, I want it to be something worthy of the posthumous work of the two who passed away. I’ll do my best!”
The two? Horii also means Koichi Sugiyama, the composer for the Dragon Quest series who passed in 2021. That same year, Dragon Quest XII was formally announced. We’re guessing Sugiyama did not have time to create anything for the game. They’ve had three years to figure out what to do. When Square plans to release DQ XII is still unknown.
We do know we’re probably getting another DQ remake before then. A new teaser for Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D appeared on the DQ YouTube channel…it just shows a brief design and not much else, but it does confirm DQ 3 HD-2D will be a multiplatform game. PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch and PC are all getting it. We may learn more next month when Not-E3 With Geoff Keighley happens.
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