Jin Fujisawa, The Director Of Dragon Quest IX, Leaves Square Enix

Inb4 Nintendo

Nah jk. Probs Sony

Perhaps they'll better manage their launch dates now.

Dragon Quest IX has to be one of my absolute favourite games of all time. The combination of a JRPG with custom characters with local multiplayer so you could team up with friends was totally epic. You could play through the whole story as a party, so much fun!

If he comes over to Nintendo hopefully we can see a game that does this again. It is the one type of game that I am really itching to get again.

Best luck to him. Takeshi Uchikawa seem to have done a fantastic job on DQXI - so everything is in good hands.

Just keep the September release date intact!

Aww I liked IX a lot...I wish there was a easy way to get all the dlc though.

@Danpal65 Isn't IX an MMO more than a JRPG though? (I do get so confused with the way Squeenix releases things....)

Dragon Quest IX was one of the most amazing gaming experiences I've ever had. The main story was good enough, but the post-game lasted for so long. I remember delving into Grottoes, trying to get the best equipment and fighting the post-game bosses. Good times.

@NEStalgia That's X, IX is the DS game with local four-player multiplayer (1-4 players).

@NEStalgia That would be X not IX. IX did have a very heavy DLC aspect though.

@NEStalgia X is the MMO one. IX is a wonderful game that supports local multiplayer, but works great as a single player game, too.

hope we see new JRPG for the Switch soon! Best luck to him

Man i really want a dragon quest IX remake, with all the online content and extra quests packed into the game, and the extra costumes too, they could still keep the online store for new content, just need a remake of this.

Maybe he wanted to go to a company that actually ships their games.

And to this day, aside from xenoblade, this is one of my favorite JRPGs of all time.
I wish I could still get the DLC though...

@QwertyQwerty There's a trick. Insert your DQ9 card into your 3DS and play it. It works!

@NEStalgia Well it's certainly more western, tons of side quests, you make your own party and you get to play dress up with them!

Then again, most RPG's coming out anywhere these days seems to be of the side quest driven variety.

@OorWullie "A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad" (Shigeru Miyamoto)

@smashboy2000 That quote is out of date because of updates. In fact, it was always out of date because during the pre-update days they just updated the ROM in new versions if they found an important bug.