Dragon Quest X is Online on both Wii and Wii U, Coming to Japan in 2012
Update: A trailer and two gameplay videos taken from the stream have been added to the bottom of the post.
The wait is over! We finally have details on the next Dragon Quest game and things have certainly gone an interesting direction. It’s titled Dragon Quest X Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku Online which already seems to have translations ranging from Andriasang’s The Five Awakening Races to 1up’s Rise of the Five Tribes.
The important word, though, is “online”. Dragon Quest X will evolve the ideas established in the previous game by allowing you to play with a customized character teamed up with several friends online. This includes cross-platform multiplayer between players on both the Wii and the freshly announced Wii U version. In addition to this, there will also be some kind of 3DS connectivity which seems to be in the brainstorming phase.
There are certainly a lot of “firsts” at play here as you will be able to create a non-human main character for the first time ever. As the subtitle suggests, you’ll be able to create characters of various different races and tribes. Dragon Quest X is also the first in the series to be developed internally by Square-Enix, with past games being developed by companies such as Level-5 and Chun Soft. Yuji Hori (designer), Koichi Sugiyama (composer) and Akira Toriyama (character designer) will still maintain their established roles. with Yosuke Saito (NieR) heading up development.
Character and world proportions are once again one-to-one as they were in Dragon Quest VIII. No more squat, chibi style adult characters are seen (other than some of the non-human races shown).
Battles show characters moving freely while engaging monsters and teamwork is highly emphasized. Some sort of crafting system was also shown, though this should come as no surprise to anyone that has followed the series.
The game will be available (in Japan) next year, though Hori mentioned some will get the chance to play it early in a beta test (of which details will come at a later time). Monthly fees are also currently unconfirmed, though a section for “usage fee” with the contents “TBA” does exist on the game’s spec sheet.
While you wait for more details to surface, here is the game’s first official screenshot:
Update: Here is the trailer shown in the stream courtesy of Nintendo Everything:
This video shows off character creation and some battles:
And here is some additional footage showing off some of the vistas and other aspects:
Source: Ustream with translations via 1up and Andriasang and video from Nintendo Everything
Tags: Dragon Quest, Dragon Quest X, Dragon Quest X Online: Rise of the Five Tribes, JRPG, MMO, rpg, Square Enix, Wii, Wii U
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September 5th, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Unlettered and Ordinary says:So /when/ is this coming out for the Wii? I am too lazy to look it up myself.
September 5th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Jesse Gregory says:Japan 2012 is about as specific as we know. With the track record of localization time, I wouldn’t be surprised if that meant 2013 for North America. It’s going to be a loooooong wait.
September 27th, 2011 at 5:01 am
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