The game was revealed on Dragon Quest Day on Monday
The Japanese and English X (formerly Twitter) accounts for Square Enix's Dragon Quest posted a trailer on Monday for the Dragon Quest game “HD-2D” for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Steam and Windows.
English trailer Japanese trailer
The announcement of the trailer coincided with Dragon Quest Day, when the first Dragon Quest game launched in Japan on May 27, 1986.
In May 2021, Square Enix announced a “HD-2D” remake of the game Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation, with plans for a simultaneous worldwide release” on home consoles. ”. The teaser videos above do not mention Dragon Quest III but do feature the franchise's general logo.
The “HD-2D” art style evokes sprite-based art, but with 3D backgrounds, effects, and dynamic lighting, similar in style to Square Enix's previous Octopath Traveler game.
Chunsoft developed the third Dragon Quest game, and Enix published it for the Famicom in 1988. Since then, Enix/Square Enix has ported the first three games in the series to multiple platforms, including including Super Famicom, Game Boy Color, Wii and smartphones. The first three Dragon Quest games launched on Nintendo 3DS and PlayStation 4 in Japan in August 2017 and released on Switch in September 2019 worldwide.
Source: English and Japanese X/Twitter account
