After the series riffed on Pokemon Go and Minecraft, former Dragon Quest producer says he left Square Enix after growing frustrated with "safe" spinoff proposals that were "copying others"

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The former producer of the Dragon Quest series has spoken about why he left Square Enix, claiming it was down to the company making "copycat" games with the franchise.

Dragon Quest is the reason we're playing JRPGs today. Pre-dating Final Fantasy, the series established so many of the tropes found in the genre, and still to this day the series is (very slowly) putting out entries that people fall in love with, to the point where even the Switch version of the Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake remake was the second best selling game in Japan in 2024 (combined with the PS5 edition it beats out Super Mario Party Jamboree and becomes number 1).

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