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The game has also been renamed from "Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate" to "Dragon Quest XII: Beyond Dreams".


Just announced on the official live stream:

 

[Judge Magister]

 

[Moondoggy]

 

[Oberstein]

Zoomer Quest.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

I guess it just felt too far away from classic Dragon Quest. I'm now extremely interested on what it was.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Zoomer Quest.

They even uses they/them pronouns apparently.

 

[Vandole]

Well, as a long time Dragon Quest fan, I'm not unfamiliar with 10-year gaps between games.

 

[Kilau]

Bruh, chat are you seeing this?!

 

[DreamcastSkies]

The speculation of troubled development and potential restart of development ended up being true. I like what they're showing here. Reaching something showing up in your dreams is equally (or more) appealing to me than they "darker than normal DQ games and you will have to make choices that have consequences" angle they gave us for the original DQ XII. I like the MC design. The shot of the town at night is beautiful and movement through the overworld looks like it feels good. People will spend forever wanting to see the scrapped XII project but I'm really happy with the direction they decided to pursue.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Square Enix when commenting on development hell

 

[adamsapple]

 

[RoboFu]

Looks good.. will 100% be a switch 2 title as well.

 

[touchfuzzy]

"Development now restarting" seems a bit misleading, looks like it restarted quite some time ago based on that trailer. Looks great though!

 

[IFireflyl]

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Bruh, chat are you seeing this?!

We're cooked chat no cap on god

 

[Little Mac]

The environments looked absolutely amazing but the Protagonist looks kinda like a dope fiend, doesn't he?

 

[Puscifer]

The speculation of troubled development and potential restart of development ended up being true. I like what they're showing here. Reaching something showing up in your dreams is equally (or more) appealing to me than they "darker than normal DQ games and you will have to make choices that have consequences" angle they gave us for the original DQ XII. I like the MC design. The shot of the town at night is beautiful and movement through the overworld looks like it feels good. People will spend forever wanting to see the scrapped XII project but I'm really happy with the direction they decided to pursue.

Same. Dragon Quest could be "dark" and "mature" if need be to move the story along but I was remaining cautious because I don't want a western style RPG from DQ.

 

[mèx]

Is Dragon Quest XII: Beyond Dreams another woke slop?

 

[Power Pro]

They even uses they/them pronouns apparently.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Draugoth does not actually read anything on this site I'm convinced.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

 

[Metnut]

I wonder if this will borrow some concepts from DQ6. All DQs in multiples of 6 have a dream world?

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

The environments looked absolutely amazing but the Protagonist looks kinda like a dope fiend, doesn't he?

*they

 

[Jinzo Prime]

I wonder if the scrapped DQ 12 can be repurposed into a Final Fantasy game

 

[LordCBH]

Fuck all the way off, Square. Incompetent clowns.

 

[unfashionable]

hopefully you can change main character model with a mod on pc

 

[Puscifer]

*they

Your character is likely a mute and it makes sense since a Man or Woman could be playing the game to have NPCs refer to you as they/them. I was actually kinda disappointed that Nahobino was a confirmed make since he had a look that lent itself to being androgynous.

 

[LordCBH]

Zoomer Quest.

Clearly a bloke. Square: "their"

Oh fuck off.

 

[Hudo]

when did they start from scratch? Because waiting another 5 years is fucking crazy.

 

[jshackles]

So much for a darker edgier DQ. This looks fine, the protagonist looks stupid with that haircut though.

 

[Exentryk]

Protagonist looks like he hasn't slept since previous DQ12 showing.

 

[Judge Magister]

 

[Sethbacca]

Can we have one thread, just fucking one without woke whining. JFC.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

SE doesn't even know how to efficiently produce their 2 flagship IPs anymore, DQ and mainline FF. For shame.

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

So much for a darker edgier DQ. This looks fine, the protagonist looks stupid with that haircut though.

That shit would've killed the series.

I am glad it was rebooted.

 

[TintoConCasera]

What the hell is that character design lol.

 

[Hudo]

The restart explains why Square decided to change the series producer to Yosuke Saito a while back.

 

[Miles708]

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

 

[Baemono]

I wonder if they'll keep the open world sections with the bike

 

[hououinkyouma00]

Clearly a bloke. Square: "their"

Oh fuck off.

The use of "their" does not imply what you think it implies. You guys are literally looking for this shit now.

So much for a darker edgier DQ. This looks fine, the protagonist looks stupid with that haircut though.

That shit would've killed the series.

I am glad it was rebooted.

I don't know. I'm a DQ fan but I'm tired of the same formula over and over. I was looking forward to a bit of a different vibe.

 

[Hudo]

After watching the footage, I am excited. I want to play it.

 

[jshackles]

In motion, the traversal kind of reminds me of Visions of Mana.

GIIIIRIZLEY

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Your character is likely a mute and it makes sense since a Man or Woman could be playing the game to have NPCs refer to you as they/them. I was actually kinda disappointed that Nahobino was a confirmed make since he had a look that lent itself to being androgynous.

I'm hoping it means we get to create our own hero and choose their gender.

 

[Hudo]

In motion, the traversal kind of reminds me of Visions of Mana.

GIIIIRIZLEY

You are right. That's actually a good sign, then. The traversal was one of the things in Visions of Mana that worked well and felt satisfying.

 

[Fbh]

Mehhhhh.
I was looking forward to the darker tone. This just looks like more of the same but with really bad character designs.
And with it being Square and development having been restarted from scratch this isn't coming out untill like 2030.

 

[Cao Cao]

They really can't make games anymore.
PS1-PS2 Golden Age was PEAK.
And ALWAYS young protagonist, it gets so tiresome.

 

[DreamcastSkies]

I know people are low on the MC design, but in my opinion, he looks like he could have come from that scrapped dark DQ XII version. He has sort of a rugged/brute look to him other than being a bit trim.

 

[Magister]

The MC looks like a stoner.

 

[cash_longfellow]

I bet this was going to be fully action RPG and that's why they decided to scrap it, because they realized the flack they were going to catch. That plus seeing the success of turn based games again, including the remasters. I'll gladly take an ugly ass haircut over what this was probably going to be