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Square Enix Considers Bringing Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime Games to the West
posted on by Rachel Mahoney
News site Siliconera interviewed Dragon Quest mobile producer Noriyoshi Fujimoto and executive producer Yū Miyake about the prospect of localizing Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime in the West.
“You know, it's funny, when we made Rocket Slime, we were targeting the game towards 8-, 9-, and 10-year-olds in Japan—but in the west, the average age of the person who bought Rocket Slime was 25! It seems like the grown-ups enjoyed the game and we were pleasantly surprised,” Fujimoto said to Siliconera.
“In terms of the Rocket Slime game… in Japan, there wasn't a lot of feedback saying they wanted iteration, but in the western regions, especially North America, there are a lot of requests to see another Rocket Slime game. We're curious to know, there are a lot of joking elements in it; did you enjoy the humor and the joke elements in it?
“In Japan, we actually have a total of three titles in the Rocket Slime series. The western version was the second game. Compared to, say, a game like Dragon Quest VII, it's less text to translate, so that's not an impossible amount… so if [Rocket Slime 1] or [Rocket Slime 3] might be a great candidate…?”
