Dragon Quest series producer leaves Square Enix after 13 years
Dragon Quest series producer Ryota Aomi has announced that he is leaving Square Enix after 13 years with the company.
Sharing news on Twitter (by using Gematsu), a longtime producer who first worked on Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and The Tower of Mirrors while at Genius Sonority, joined Square Enix in 2009. He was the lead producer for the Musou spin-offs. Dragon Quest Heroes and its continuation Dragon Quest Heroes 2 as lead producer, and also assists on a number of major Dragon Quest games. The Heroes duology has been re-released as a Switch pack, but only in Japan.
Aomi was incredibly grateful for his farewell message on social media. translated Ryuji in Noisy Pixelthe producer said that “Working on Dragon Quest has always been a dream of mine since I was in elementary school and every day seemed like a new fairy tale.”
Although he can’t tell where he went next, Aomi ends his message by thanking Yuuji Horii, Akira Toriyama, and the late Koichi Sugiyama.
In fact, today is the 35th anniversary of Dragon Quest III, first released on the Famicom in 1988. The game is getting an HD-2D remake, although we haven’t heard anything about it for a while. Quest for the Dragon XII is also in development, but like its pixel-perfect predecessor, is also out of action as of 2021.
How do you feel about the news of Aomi’s departure? Are you hoping we’ll hear about a Dragon Quest III remake soon? Let us know!
