Nah I dig this

Wasnt a fan of the purple dumbass in DQ11

I think it’s just his face shape combined with his eyes. He has a kind of sister quality to him.

Also, I dug the purple. It popped. This design just feels so muted by comparison.

Seems like they drew back from the darker edge that the original version seemed to be hinting towards as well?

Unfortunately gotta say I’m less interested after this reveal lol. Doesn’t help the development was restarted. Will still be copping but they can take their time with it at this point.

I would have to agree, particularly with the title change as well. Still probably too early to say for sure but that’s how I’m feeling rn

I'm just a casual fan of DQ so this was cool to me but it seems reddit is mad (when arent they though)

He does look very young. Maybe he'll grow up like Ocarina Link or Clive in FF16. Do DQ games ever do that?

They kind’ve eluded to it.

Aside from the obvious name change, I think they’ve probably dropped the darker/mature tone & new battle system maybe.

We’ve been waiting so long & just got that. I get the disappointment.

Understandable

So is this Dragon Quests’s Versus XIII moment?

It sounds like they're definitely not going for the "Darker and more Mature" direction anymore.

Personally I am glad about that. Because I was just confused as to what that even entailed for DQ.

Imo, the games can already get pretty dark. And a lot of the stories being told were already quite mature imo. So it just made me think "What does 'mature' mean to them???"

Like.... was that them saying the game was going to have blood, profanity, death and s***scenes?? FF16 was the more "Mature" Final Fantasy game, and that's what they did. I just dont think that is the direction i would have wanted DQ to go in, if that's what they meant by "more mature"

Berserk but with DQ graphics

I’ll take it

that hairstyle is awful

look like a background goon in a mad max film

Yuji Hori talking about “That’s all I can say for now.” You ain’t said s***!

yeah he either need a bald fade or the toriyama no in between

Now that i rewatched some of the stream, DQ12 may not be AS far out as we expect.
Yuji Horii specifically says “i hope we can get the new Dragon Quest Monsters game(the one they announced too) out before DQ12”.

I’ can’t imagine they would show off a DQ Monsters YEEEEEEEARS ahead of release like a mainline game. So i have to imagine if he’s going “hopefully its out before 12” that would mean DQ12 isn’t, like , so far off we can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel

I think people are overreacting to the starting over or fresh start statement.

I’m sure that happened a long time ago, which is why we heard next to nothing.

I think it’ll be sooner than folks expect.

Purple dumbass

I love it

Yeah. I think ppl forget that even when we got that DQ12:The Flames Of Fate teaser, that was probably at least a year or 2 in production at that point. I’m quite sure, if things went smoothly, they were planning on having that out by late 2023/early 2024.
I would have to imagine that the current version of DQ12 likely started in like 2023. On top of that, even tho they “started over” i would guess that they're still using a lot of character designs and models, new monster designs/models, and environmental assets from the original iteration.
Theyre not just rebuilding every single asset from scratch.

Then on top of that, when they say “not coming soon”, or “its a while away”, thats subjective. They can’t guess the date that DQ fans have in mind. I saw one big JRPG youtuber predict that DQ12 will be their holiday 2026 DQ release. If their goal for DQ12 is Holiday 2027, they may just consider that a long wait for fans.

the art is fire not to sold on the ingame look yet lol but the world looks beautiful

No switch 2 upgrade square enix will never not be laughable