Dragon Quest XI

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Dragon Quest XI: In Search of Departed Time
Developers	Square Enix Armor Project
Publishers	Square Enix
Designers	Yuji Horii Akira Toriyama
Genre	Role-playing
Platforms
Release dates	JP2016
Ratings
Predecessor	Dragon Quest X
Successor	'
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Dragon Quest XI: In Search of Departed Time is the eleventh official Dragon Quest game. The game is currently under development and will be released for the Nintendo 3DS and the Playstation 4 game consoles as well on Nintendo's upcoming game hardware the Nintendo NX. The game was first revealed during a livestream on July 28, 2015.

Gameplay

Dragon Quest XI has the same gameplay elements from the previous Dragon Quest games in the series, in which the players explore and fight against monsters, including the ability to explore high areas. The Nintendo 3DS shows a different style than the Playstation 4 version. The game's battle system still uses the series traditional tun-based battle system.

Graphics

Dragon Quest XI shows several styles for the Nintendo 3DS and the Playstation 4. The Nintendo 3DS version shows super deformed graphics which is shown on the top screen and 16-bit styled sprites on the bottom of the screen. However, the split scene between 3D and 2D graphics is not entirely shown in the game, which revealed that it is only like that for the opening stages and after the opening stages, the players can decide which style to play. But the players can switch between its 3D and 2D styles at any time during the game. The Playstation 4 version of the game shows an entire 3D style layout with a clear appearance of the area and the monsters. The players has a lot of freedom to walk through many part of the game which the players can even walk through ropes.

Battle style

Dragon Quest XI is still using it's tradional turn-based battle system, which the player and monsters can attack by turns. The player can switch the battle style graphics of the Nintendo 3DS version from 3D to 2D, which the battle system can be toggled after encountering a monster when the players are walking through the field. The Playstation 4 version shows a much more wider version of the battle system rather than the Nintendo 3DS version, but it's still unknown if it can switch between 3D and 2D graphics.

Pre-released information

Development

The news about Dragon Quest XI was revealed by its creator Yuji Horii, when saying that he won't release Dragon Quest XI for smartphones. In April 2014, Horii teased that he is working on the next Dragon Quest title. In July 2015, they announced through a Japanese magazine Shonen Jump that they will release a new Dragon Quest title during a livestream on Tuesday, July 28th. After the announcement in Shonen Jump, there were been rumours that the newly titled game is in fact Dragon Quest XI. A Wall Street Journal Japan reporter received a letter of invitation from Square Enix containing that there will be "a new title from main Dragon Quest series." which the letter fully revealed "a new title from the main Dragon Quest series for the first time in three years." During the livestream on July 28, 2015, the revealed gameplay footage of Dragon Quest XI, revealing that it will be released for the Nintendo 3DS and Playstation 4. They also said that the Playstation 4 version uses the Unreal Engine 4 game engine to create a high quality game. They also considered to release the game on the upcoming Nintendo NX console.

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Names, etymology and in other regions

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