Square Enix revealed during a press conference on June 3 a brand newDragon Questgame for mobiles,Dragon Quest Walk. The game will be launching in 2019 in Japan.Dragon Quest Walk’s concept is what if the real world turned into aDragon Questworld, with all its monsters appearing on the streets. The conference wasstreamed live, and the first trailer forDragon Quest Walkcan be found below.
Dragon Quest Walkbasically works with destinations points. You have multiple ones of these to go to IRL, and as you make your way up to them, you will fight multiple monsters from the series, find dungeons to explore with bosses to defeat, or trigger events. Events can be things like finding a treasure chest with items or getting a percentage of your party’s HP and MP recovered.
The battle system is turn-based like in traditional mainDragon Questgames. Real world landmarks such as Tokyo Tower are also seen in-game and can be related to events or quests.
Each player also has their own house, which can be customized with furniture and items. The house of other players can be visited too.
Lastly,Dragon Quest Walkhas an actual story which you progress through by going to story event destination points.
Dragon Quest Walkis developed by Colopl, a company already holding multiple popular mobage in Japan.
Needless to say,Dragon Quest Walkis free-to-play with microtransactions. The game has the traditionalDragon Questtrio, Horii as general director, Toriyama at character design, Sugiyama for the OST.
A Beta Test forDragon Quest Walkwill begin soon in Japan, with 20K players selected, half on Android, half on iOS.Registrations are open till June 5.
Dragon Questis like a religion in Japan so this game will definitely be a hit. I can’t see the game getting much attention outside Japan or even getting released overseas though. And with its striking resemblance withPokemon Go, most will simply stick with Nintendo.
