Square Enix has announced Dragon Quest Walk, a new smartphone entry in the titanically successful JRPG series. Very little has been revealed so far, but as you can see from the teaser trailer above, it’s a location-based game that puts monsters from the franchise into the real world, like Pokémon Go.
A Pokémon Go-style Dragon Quest game draws near
Dragon Quest Walk will be released this year in Japan for iOS and Android. It’s not clear whether it’ll come to other regions — the Dragon Quest series has a mixed history when it comes to localization, and the nature of this particular game might keep it confined to Japan.
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