Dragon Quest 12 has been very discreet since its announcement. Square Enix’s RPG is getting talked about again, but unfortunately, not for very good reasons.
After a dragon quest 11 highly rated and a handful of standout episodes, Square Enix wants to take its legendary RPG franchise in a new direction. No more childish atmosphere. With Dragon Quest 12: Flames of Fate, the Japanese firm wants to address an adult audience and transform its combat system. Kind of like Final Fantasy 16 actually. Unfortunately, since the announcement of this new episode in May 2021 with a simple teaser, the project has been particularly discreet. The publisher has still not shared any gameplay trailer of the game while the community’s impatience continues to grow. One of the thinking heads of the project finally gives news of the game, but they are not particularly reassuring.
Dragon Quest 12, a floundering project?
In an interview granted to the Japanese radio Denfaminicogamer (and later transcribed on their site), Yuji Horii, creator of DragonQuest, gives news of the next numbered episode of the saga. Unfortunately, his statements should put off those who hoped to discover gameplay from dragon quest 12 soon and even, potentially, a not-so-distant release. Because of its new orientation, the development is very complicated for the teams.
I think it will take a little time (note: before the release). This time, we are creating a game for an adult audience, so we are having a lot of difficulties. There was also the COVID-19 pandemic.
He specifies that because of the pandemic, some employees do not ” haven’t been to the office for about a year, and some don’t even use company computers “, some preferring to work from home. You would have understood it, dragon quest 12, so it’s not for now. Yuji Horii indicates that the more mature direction of the game is problematic, but the development of the new combat system mentioned during the announcement of the title must also take a lot of time from the development team. At the moment, therefore, we have no idea of the release period of dragon quest 12, or the media on which the Square Enix RPG will appear. Let’s hope that Yuji Horri gives additional (and more reassuring) news at the Tokyo Game Show, next September. In the meantime, fans of the saga can still keep busy with a few spin-offs from DragonQuest including Infinity Strash, scheduled for the start of the school year.