Dragon Quest VII Reimagined is gracing the most recent cowl of Sport Informer, and it is one way or the other the very first time a Dragon Quest sport has achieved that. Due to the momentous event, we spoke to Dragon Quest sequence creator Yuji Horii, who nonetheless works carefully on the franchise, in regards to the mainline sequence’ historical past. You possibly can learn my full deep dive into that very historical past right here, however I point out all this as a result of Horii is 71 years outdated.
By now, many builders have retired or no less than stepped again to supply or seek the advice of on video games within the sequence they’re carefully hooked up to. However Horii continues to be deeply concerned within the creation of every new mainline Dragon Quest, together with the in-development Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Destiny. I shut out my 90-minute interview with Horii by attempting to politely ask why he is nonetheless engaged on Dragon Quest to this present day. I point out that fellow Japanese sport developer with a maybe related stage of stature within the business Hideo Kojima, who directed this 12 months’s Dying Stranding 2: On The Seaside, not too long ago acknowledged he’ll develop video games till he dies; he apparently even has a USB persist with sport concepts for his staff to make use of following his dying someday, as reported by VideoGamesChronicle.
Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii signing a duplicate of Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of a Forgotten Previous on Nintendo 3DS
I ask Horii if he feels the identical about sport improvement and why he continues to make Dragon Quest video games. Here is what he mentioned:
“You understand, lately, there’s been more and more extra areas the place I depend on different members to work on components of the Dragon Quest titles,” he tells me. “However I might nonetheless wish to preserve myself concerned to supervise all the pieces. I do take into account Dragon Quest to be my little one. I simply actually like it, and in that sense, I do suppose I’ll work on it till I die.
“I feel the subsequent objective for me is to witness the fiftieth Anniversary [2036].”
I hope he does witness that anniversary.
Dragon Quest VII Reimagined launches on February 5 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Collection X/S, Swap 2, Swap, and PC.
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