Looks pretty bad
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Did they get the Dragon Ball Super guy to replace Toriyama or something? The whole look of the character designs are rough.
I mean I guess they have to move on at some point, but woof.
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They said him AND Sugiyama worked on it before they passed.
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The new Dragon Quest Monsters trailer was straight up this:
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lots of words and deeds around here already i see. allowing some latitude for the fact that this is silent emergency beta footage for a game i donât think will be out for five more years, i fully support unsettling lizard prince and toriyama-bike lady and dead-eyed dreamer protagonist (consistently pictured with a bow on his back, quite interestingâŚ). and particularly dragon hair
also teaser for new dragon quest monsters starring little bianca and little neraâŚ!
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They got my hopes up for a new Rocket Slime there for a moment, but new Monsters game with the DQV girls might be cool
Hoping with DQXII theyâre not just going to coast on pre-existing Sugiyama music for the whole game or something
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yeah iâm not remotely troubled by this teaser
i have every confidence
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frankly, iâm glad to see they dropped the whole âthis is going to be a dark and mature DQâ thing
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I was hoping for some full frontal. Fuck.
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Someone summarize this for me please Iâm at work and donât want watch it right now.
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some very-early-looking DQXII game footage and character reveals
a reveal of a new DQ Monsters game (no game footage)
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toriyama took these to the grave imo
we know he had it in him
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Not a lot to say except I like the idea of a weird lizard man and a robot mechanic girl as party members.
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Sounds like they got SaGa in my Dragon Quest
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donât know if thatâs common or not (both in general and in the japanese industry (and squenix more specifically)) for them to come out in their direct-style celebration video for the anniversary and be like âyeah, about the newest mainline game we had this idea but it didnât work out at all so we reshuffled the team and decided to restart development from scratchâ.
like, given how long itâs been since the teaser with the edgy logo dropped + no new info whatsoever since then i guess it was expected that they were in development hell but for them to say it like that caught me off guard a bit lol.
about the new teaser itself, the character design feel dragon ball super-y because they are a bit lanky in a kind of weird way (yuji horii does mention the game has âtoriyamaâs characters as alwaysâ so idk). backgrounds have that plastic, nintendo-hire-this-man look that iâm not a huge fan of. the little we see of the main guy moving in-game (?) it does seem like they are adopting kind of a modern third person action game approach to the camera. i like that one of the main guys is a lizard man and i like the robots and other high-tech stuff being in the setting.
really not much to say yet, yeah
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Wonder if theyâre keeping the switch to a more active battle system (did I just imagine that?) or are crawling back to the old standard like how they turned with DQ9
Maybe I did imagine that along with the firey grimdark original trailer
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they def talked about going in a more actiony direction with the combat for the dark 'n mature version. i wonder if final fantasy xvi scared them off the path they were on.
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Absolutely nobody is going to play a Dragon Quest cuz it has action combat. Keep it turn based forever.
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is that gonna mean 15 years between mainline dragon quest games?
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maybe just between the second to last one and the last one
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