Dragon Quest XI: Sugiarashi Toki o Motomete

Dragon Quest XI: latest details and screenshots, New Nintendo 2DS XL bundle, more

2 May 2017 Lite_Agent Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age, Square-Enix

Dragon Quest XI: Sugisarishi Toki o Motomete – New details and screens

Last week, Square-Enix updated the official website for Dragon Quest XI: Sugisarishi Toki o Motomete shared some more details and screenshots about the game.

First, we have some more details about the Skill Panels: that’s where you find all the skills for each character, arranged in panels (that come in various forms). To learn skills, you use the Skill Points earned by leveling up and then “unlock” the various cases in the panels. This also allows you to increase your stats, it seems.

Some of the skills you can unlock are based on weapons and the individual characteristics of each character, including the protagonist.

With such a system, players are free to choose which skills each character learns. You can try and get a wide variety of skills, to make your characters as versatile as possible, or you can aim for the strongest skills right from the getgo.

Here’s some of the skills found in the game:

Giga Slash (protagonist)
Slime Bow (Kamyu)
Magical Awakening (Veronica)
Melody of Fire (Senya)
Flute of Fascination (Silvia)
Vacuum Kick (Martina)
Aesthetic Enlightment (Rou)

Next, we have the Spell of Restoration, a password you can use to “save” your progress up to a certain point, and the continue your adventure from that point. Not everything is saved (such as the level, money, items, etc., which are replaced by pre-sets), and the story progression is also approximate, but at the very least, you will be able to keep playing on another platform if you want.

But there’s more: in its latest issue, Jump magazine shares details about two gameplay systems (which are linked)

Zones: when you enter those (during battles), your characters are enveloped in a blue aura, that temporarily enhance their abilities. They carry over to the next battle until they end;
Link: special techniques that characters can launch when inside a Zone. Those are quite powerful, andsurrounds your characters in a blue light and temporarily enhances their abilities. However, entering Zone also enables characters to use super powerful Link techniques where they attack together. The type of techniques you can use depends on the spells and special skills your characters know.

Here’s some examples of techniques:

Falcon Dance (Kamyu + protagonist): an incredibly fast chain attacker that pincers ennemies;
Rose Hurricane (Silvia + Rou + protagonist): a whirlwind attack;
Giga Burst (all party members): an incredibly powerful attack using a shining blade.

Finally, here’s some screenshots:

Source: Gematsu (1 / 2) / GamesTalk / 4Gamer

Dragon Quest XI: Sugisarishi Toki o Motomete – New Nintendo 2DS XL bundle

Last week, Nintendo announced the New Nintendo 2DS XL model, the 6th Nintendo 3DS model (after the Nintendo 3DS, the Nintendo 3DS XL, the Nintendo 2DS, the New Nintendo 3DS, and the New Nintendo 3DS XL). It will be released on July 13th in Japan, but two weeks later, on July 29th, a special bundle will be released.

This bundle includes a copy of Dragon Quest XI: Sugisarishi Toki o Motomete and a special model of New Nintendo 2DS XL featuring a Metal Slime. It will cost 24 278 Yen.

Here’s some pictures: