Dragon Quest spin-off Dragon Quest Treasures is coming to Switch, and it's releasing later this year!
The upcoming Erik-starring game sees the Dragon Quest XI thief and his sister Miago on an adventure around Draconia to uncover treasure, befriend monsters, and expand your base. The monsters you can recruit all have different abilities, and you'll be able to help them out in battle too.
The game got a nice little gameplay trailer during today's Nintendo Direct Mini, showing off all of the various abilities and the lovely little treasures you'll be seeking out. Here's a brief summary of what you can expect from the game:
It’s a treasure hunter’s paradise! Two siblings’ treasure-hunting dreams become reality as they are whisked away to the magical and mysterious realm of Draconia. Erik and Mia, along with their cute companions Purrsula and Porcus, team up with a menagerie of skilled monsters to track down tantalizing treasure in this DRAGON QUEST series spin-off.
Dragon Quest Treasures is due to launch on 9th December on the Switch. We'll keep you updated with any more information we get on the game.
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I'd completely forgotten about this. VERY cool.
It looks... decent. There's shades of DQ Monsters in the gameplay, and I like that.
I still don’t understand what the gameplay is.
Seems a bit similar to Monster Hunters Stories and Dragon Quest Monsters. I think exploring the world looks fun, I can imagine it will be like quite a few open-world Switch games where the pop-in can get kinda hilarious.
It looks like it could be pretty fun and December tends to be pretty light on releases so it's a good time for it if they want to tempt me off the fence.
Glad we got this announcement! I'm sure DQ III HD remake will be announced in the fall so it won't steal the thunder of Live A Live.
I love dragon quest but I don't touch the spin offs... Hard pass. I don't like prequels at all, (lie- one exception) but especially when it looks like it just straight jumps off the rails. Like this one does. Continuity? Nah.
I'll give 'em credit: certainly not what I was expecting out of this game. It reminds me somewhat of those Pocket Editions of the more recent Final Fantasy games except this is it's own thing.
Gooraham is a fantastic name by the way, definitely what I'm nicknaming my next shiny Goomy/Grimer.
Did not expect a release so soon. Going to have to buy this one as it looks perfectly goofy.
Huh? The gameplay reminds me of DQ monsters... they should do a DQ monsters collection!
The successor to Dragon Quest Monsters I see, nice that Japan doesn't get to keep this to themselves this time. The reason I wasn't able to get all the Dragon Quest Monsters Joker games was cause Square Enix made the third game Japan exclusive only which still leave a bad taste in my mouth.
I still don't know what the game is?
I picked up the DS Monsters Joker games recently and I’ll keep my eye on this too.
It’s the 2D-HD DQ3 I’m anxiously awaiting though, it probably didn’t make sense to have it in the same Direct as Live-A-Live
I'm hoping that there's no over-arching story beyond "find treasure". It would be refreshing to have a game like this where there's no "great evil thing" to defeat.
I'm not really sure what the gameplay is, looks like there are some dq monsters elements in it, we will see
Man I really just want DQX offline and DQ3 hd-2D
I loved those 2 characters so i might give this a shot
I was never a big fan of the Monsters side series, despite my adoration of the rest of the series in general.
However, I might pick this one up, as I am longing for more Dragon Quest goodness. Still hoping they'd have brought over the mobile match 3 game, but still nothing about that one.
Oh and of course, the HD2D DQ3 port.
I thought XI felt like an rpg-themed walking simulator until the first credit roll, so I wasn't too excited when this got announced, but that trailer definitely got me a bit more interested.
Questions:
1. Is Switch the only console it's coming to?
2. Is it releasing physically?
My holiday game, get!
I was wondering if we were ever going to get a release date for this. Now to get one for the Dragon Quest 3 2D-HD remake.
Insta-buy! I'd forgotten about this too!
Can we please get some DQ Monsters games here?
This will tie me over until dragon quest offline comes over
Anyone else getting a bit of a f2p vibe? I really hope not.
It reminds me of the first Digimon World and also Monster Hunter Stories/Pokemon Legends Arceus with the mounts and stuff. As for the people asking for the gameplay, while every detail isn't perfectly clear it seems that it's some kind of action RPG (not turn based) with monster collecting elements.
Looks like an action-adventure game with optional monster allies and treasure-hunting. It's pretty modest visually, but Dragon Quest has yet to let me down, so count me in! With any luck, it'll be as charming and engaging as Builders.
At first I was like "is that Erik and Mia or just standard Dragon Quest characters?" But really great to see their story expand and it looks like a fun spin off.
Honestly the concept of dragon quest has always seemed fun. But I've never been keen on the theme music nor the Dragonball z rip off character designs. All the characters feel too Samey to me. Tho I guess they still look better than Sora from kingdom hearts lol. Who reminds me of a creepy porclein doll. Eww.
@Travisemo007 That's because Akira Toriyama did the characters of Dragon Quest.
Looks like a more refined Pokemon Legends Arceus with aspects of DQ Monsters and Monster Hunter Stories.
Looks great! Hoping for maybe a demo later down the line if possible.
I loved the Dragon Warrior (Quest) Monster games as a kid. It's a shame that the past couple of games have been japan exclusives. So I'm happy for any other games, that have that same premise.
@Travisemo007 well, it makes sense that the monster design in the DQ games are reminiscent of Dragon Ball Z considering that they both have the same artist, Akira Toriyama.
@Serpenterror @Mando44646
I forgot to mention but this game is not replacing the DQ monsters that was announced a while back, the producers already confirmed that in the DQ anniversary stream last year.
@iLikeUrAttitude Is that Monsters game coming West? Square screwed us out of the last several 3DS games
@Mando44646 No idea, all we know is that a traditional monsters game is coming™ and that Treasures is its own thing.
They censored Erik’s cleavage.
Love what SE is doing with the Switch, really. This one, Harvestella, Live A Live and Nier will very likely be day one for me!
I really like how this one looks, it seems to be a lot of fun!
@stache13 i mainly have issue with the characters. not the monsters lol. regardless that it makes sense, its a turn off for me.
would be wonderful if Square gave us the FF remasters too. Why is that so much to ask? I won't play anything on my phone
What a date to treasure until it releases.
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