Square Enix Confirms Dragon Quest Wars For DSiWare

More top-notch RPG action coming to the DSi

by Damien McFerran Mon 18th May 2009

Famitsu magazine has revealed that Square Enix is to release Dragon Quest Wars on the Japanese DSiWare service some time in June.

The game appears to be a mixture of turn-based strategy and a traditional board game. Both local and online multiplayer modes are expected to feature.

Development duties are being handled by Intelligent Systems (Advance Wars, Fire Emblem) with Yuji Horii acting as the supervisor. Naturally, with this being DQ, Akira Toriyama will be doing the character designs and Koichi Sugiyama will be in charge for the music.

Dragon Quest Wars will retail for a very reasonable 500 DS points. There's no word on a western release as yet, but we would be very surprised if it didn't happen.

[source nintendoworldreport.com, via kotaku.com]

Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media's sites from an editorial perspective. He's also the editor of Time Extension, the network's newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming's past glories.

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PopeReal
Mon 18th May 2009

This will be my first download for my DSi

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TwilightV
Mon 18th May 2009

Do want... man do I need to get a DSi... XP

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Corbs
Mon 18th May 2009

I want this one for sure!

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sirgrim
Mon 18th May 2009

Pass. Where's my DSi(Wii)Ware dungeon crawler or space trader.

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cr00mz
Mon 18th May 2009

why cant wiiware get games like this?

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Makoto
Mon 18th May 2009

DSiWare is so slim still... once it gets support like the iphone then I'm upgrading. This looks like it would be one of those impulse buys when I have nothing to play.

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Objection
Mon 18th May 2009

An actual game on DSiware?! I like the price point on this one too.

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Metroid133
Mon 18th May 2009

Very nice! Also developed by Intelligent Systems! Hopefully a NA release comes this summer.

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Digiki
Mon 18th May 2009

New Dragon Quest is
Developed by Intelligent Systems is
Going to be available on DSiWare for 500 points is very worrying

Enix and Intelligent Systems haven't let me down before, although then again since I won't get this they won't be letting me down if it is a poor game.

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warioswoods
Mon 18th May 2009

You can never go wrong with a game developed by Intelligent Systems -- is this their first game published by Square rather than Nintendo? That seems rather odd to me.

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Hardy83
Mon 18th May 2009

Anything is better then that crap DSi has right now, though Real Soccor is a decent game.

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MegaMX4
Mon 18th May 2009

I didn't have any reason for upgrading to the new handheld....until now. Still, it would absolutely clinch it for me if VC for DSi were announced! Still have my fingers crossed.

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Stuffgamer1
Mon 18th May 2009

This looks pretty cool! It's nice to see more announcements for REAL games on DSiWare, even though it's hard to have to wait through so many "bleh" weeks to get to them (though today's release looks cool for a change).

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Pegasus
Mon 18th May 2009

Do want! Especially with Intelligent Systems being the developer.

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DarkLloyd
Mon 18th May 2009

this will probably be my first dsiware game still hoping for some kind of vc announcement soon for the dsi because thats what i was truly saving my points for