Dragon Quest 12 Creator Yuji Horii 'Can't Say Anything' Specific, But Wants You To Know He's 'Putting Lots of Work Into' The Secretive Sequel

Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has confirmed Dragon Quest 12: The Flames of Fate has not been canceled.

Dragon Quest 12 was announced arsenic portion of the series' 35th day solemnisation backmost successful 2021, signalling the archetypal mainline introduction since 2017's Dragon Quest 11: Echoes of an Elusive Age. It's been beauteous quiescent ever since, however; the past we heard astir Dragon Quest 12 was successful February, erstwhile Horii broke his soundlessness to accidental the improvement squad astatine Square Enix is “working hard” and accusation astir the crippled volition beryllium released “little by little."

And helium wasn't wrong. Since past it's been implicit vigor silence, but successful a caller interrogation with Gamereactor, Horii has erstwhile again popped up to reassure fans everything is inactive connected track.

All we person of Dragon Quest 12 is this logo, released successful 2021.

"Yes, indeed, I can't accidental anything, I apologize," helium said. "I americium making it, putting tons of enactment into it... I tin lone accidental that the adjacent enactment volition beryllium large too, [I'm] moving truly hard. Please look guardant to it is the lone happening I tin say."

While possibly not rather arsenic reassuring arsenic a trailer oregon adjacent immoderate screenshots, this should astatine slightest travel arsenic a alleviation to fans who'd disquieted Dragon Quest 12 mightiness person been canceled amid restructuring astatine Square Enix and a deficiency up updates.

In May 2024 Horii noted the deaths of Dragon Quest quality decorator Akira Toriyama and composer Koichi Sugiyama. The series’ pb shaper Yu Miyake had by that constituent already stepped down from his presumption to pb Square Enix’s mobile crippled division.

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