Well what do you know, Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age won't be heading West before April. Crazy, huh? Who saw that one coming?
Wall Street Journal reporter Takashi Mochizuki brings word from Square Enix's latest earnings conference, stating on Twitter that the publisher is eyeing fiscal year 2018 when it comes to the aforementioned RPG's release date. In other words, it's aiming past April.
Obviously this comes as no surprise at all. If Dragon Quest XI was launching within the next month or so, we definitely would have heard something by now. However, this does make us wonder when Square Enix will actually break its silence -- it's been months since it even briefly mentioned the title's Western localisation.
Hopefully we get a confirmed date in the near future, but until then, let us know if you're hyped for a brand new Dragon Quest game in the comments section below.
[source twitter.com]
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Not surprising, there are 72 hours in a Square Enix day, after all.
Probably trying to find a slot where it'll have a chance to be noticed.
Hopefully they're recording some fab British accented voice overs for its western release.
Why its taking so long to release this game in us
Just gimme it, I need it in my life.
@ApostateMage If the voice overs are as good as Journey Of The Cursed King we would be in for a real treat!But are we even getting voice overs?I thought this has no voice acting at all sadly.
This is my most anticipated game this year but I never even thought it would arrive here before April anyway,I thought most likely September/October.
@Wazeddie22 yea, the japanese version has no voice overs... fingers crossed s-e is spending the time and resources to give the game the voice acting it deserves. i think it would be a grave mistake to release the game in the west without voice acting. s-e knows they cannot get away with that in this day and age so hopefully they are working on it as we speak. there is no other reason why it would take so long to localize otherwise.
@Wazeddie22 I was really surprised when I found out that DQXI had no voice overs considering that VIII and the Heroes games had fantastic VO work. It's just wishful thinking on my part, I'm sure I'll enjoy it just as much with written text.
Ok guys let's keep the comments on track please. No where does the article mention a 3DS or Switch version. If you want to discuss those versions Nintendo Life is that way.
Thanks for understanding
They are probably doing voice overs. DQ is stupidly old school in Japan with no VO.
Sad news but hopefully it means English Voices will be included.
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