Julius Posted yesterday at 12:39 AM Posted yesterday at 12:39 AM 28 minutes ago, Dcubed said: At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up being a PS6 launch title. Insane how long this game is taking to be made. Crazy mismanagement. It's hard to not feel a little discouraged, but at the same time, it feels like every team outside of those working on Final Fantasy titles and Team Asano projects in S-E have been seriously struggling post-COVID. It's wild that we've seen multiple AAA Final Fantasy titles and HD-2D projects from Team Asano, yet the likes of Kingdom Hearts, NieR, the rest of Dragon Quest outside of these HD-2D Remakes (even including the spin-offs for DQ, there's been a weird drop in quality! Remember when that new Dragon Quest Monsters ft. Erik and Mia became whatever the heck Treasures was?!), and so on, have been totally MIA for a good while now. Like you say, it is down to management, so hopefully the S-E reshuffling last year helps them all a bit. Horii isn't exactly the most spry fellow these days, either, and yet seems pretty involved with the HD-2D Remakes and the tweaks and additions being made to the writing there, so I wouldn't be shocked if his attention is split. I think the Switch 2 Direct is going to be a good way to gauge where this game's at. Totally MIA? Yeah, 2027/2028 around the launch of next-gen (gross that we're already thinking about this...) seems pretty plausible, I'd have to agree. They can take as long as they want with this, XI is one of my favourite games of all-time so I'm happy to wait as long as needs be, and in the meantime Dragon Quest seems to be making more of a name for itself in the West with these HD-2D Remakes if the reception to III was anything to go by. My biggest concern when it comes to XII at this point honestly is that the HD-2D Remakes end up such a massive success that after I & II they end up greenlighting remakes of IV, V, and VI, potentially further splitting the attention of Horii and some of the other DQ creatives.
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