 So, the Dragon Quest 35th Anniversary event has come and gone. Square Enix held a live stream full of announcements and we even live reacted to it on the channel with some good turnout and lots of great reactions. It was overall a good showcase. During the live stream, Yuji Hori made 6 different game announcements. I really enjoyed some of these announcements and believe it or not, I didn't really care much for some of them too. Today I'm going to be ranking these 6 announcements in order of my least favorite to my favorite. Of course this is just my opinion, so it's okay if you disagree. Let me know in the comments what your ranking is too, I'd love to hear it. Let's begin. So at the bottom of my list is Dragon Quest 10 version 6. Now it may come as a bit of a surprise, but believe it or not, I'm not actually not very invested in Dragon Quest 10 at all. I haven't played it a little bit here and there, but I don't own a subscription. I'm just not interested in playing a Japanese MMO that will never be localized. This is the one Dragon Quest game I haven't beaten yet and it's because Square Enix hasn't localized it yet. This part of the conference really was not directed to me or other Western Dragon Quest fans. In the corner they even had a little disclaimer saying that they're not localized in DT10 which to me is sort of a message to people who are expecting it and wondering where the 10 was, not to get their hopes up or anything. So version 6 is the newest entry, the newest update to Dragon Quest 10, the newest story update. But being somebody who hasn't played much of 10, it really didn't mean anything to me. It's not something that got me excited at all and it doesn't seem like something I would see myself playing in the future unless they localized it which I don't really expect to happen because of the message that they gave us. So yeah, this is an announcement I just did not find very interesting and it's just something that wasn't really directed at me. So that's why it's at the bottom of my list. Alright the next game is Dragon Quest Keshi Keshi, the bejeweled Candy Crush Dragon Quest clone that they announced at the beginning of the conference. It's the first game they announced of the night. I'm not super interested in this but it looks like something I might play just to kill time. They didn't show any gameplay, they just showed a trailer with these cute little little eraser guys jumping around and fighting bad guys and it was very cute but it was just very silly and not something that I'm just not, it's not something I'm very interested in. I knew they would announce something like this, I knew going in that they would announce some sort of little mobile game that I just wouldn't care about. It wouldn't appeal to me at all and this is that game. It's just something I don't really see myself playing for a long period of time. It's just something that, you know, they kind of slapped the Dragon Quest label on and you know just got to get Deaky fans into the game but it's not something that I'm personally interested in. I only really care about the RPGs in the series. The spin-offs just don't really do it for me that much and they're nice for people who are into them but they're just not something that interests me a lot. I might try it out. If they are localizing it, they announced that they're localizing, I might try it out but it's not something I'm going to be playing like obsessively. That's just how it is for me. So that's why I'm ranking Dragon Quest Keshi Keshi as my second least favorite announcement of the night. Now up next is Dragon Quest X's offline version. That is the, this is the rumored game that the Dragon Quest X producer actually rumored several years ago. Basically, this is the entire story of Dragon Quest X without all the MMO multiplayer features. It's an offline version, single player that you can play by yourself. It has this cutesy kind of chibi looking art style. It looks a lot different than the original Dragon Quest X and it actually looks better I think. The environments look a lot nicer because the original Dragon Quest X had these very simple textures. It was a Wii MMO. It wasn't a very high-tech game. It's over 10 years old at this point. It's almost 10 years old at this point. And the new one, it looks nice. It has a nice little art style. It might get some taking, some getting used to. But I think people will enjoy this and I do think it's going to get localized. I think there's a higher chance of this getting localized than the online version. And I feel like this is basically made for Western fans. I do expect to see it come over. It's sort of to me, it's meant to like fill in the gap in Western players' collections because up until now we have Dragon Quest 1 to 9 and then we have 11. So this is like Square Enix's way of saying alright here is the way for you to experience Dragon Quest X story so you know the whole Dragon Quest story. If this comes out in the West, I will very likely play it. I will likely buy it and I'll likely play it. I'm not sure how great it will be but it looks very promising. I'm just worried that we didn't see any combat. They didn't really show any of that. They showed mostly exploration. They kind of just showed the story elements. But I do have high hopes for this. I hope it's a good way to experience Dragon Quest X story and so far it looks like the best way that Western players will be able to play in the foreseeable future. So I'm very optimistic about this and I'm looking forward to it. All right. So the next game I want to talk about after this is Dragon Quest Treasures. This is the Eric and Mia spinoff game. It's a prequel to Dragon Quest 11 starring Eric as a kid. When he was a kid, him and a sister, they would go off to this new world and they like look for treasure. They don't they didn't really tell us a lot about the game. They said that it's like an RPG, but it doesn't really play like a typical RPG. So to me, that's very curious. Now, this was originally supposed to be a Dragon Quest Monsters game, but they scrapped the monsters element of it and they turned it into something entirely new. So this is like a treasure hunting game, though we don't really know much about the game because they didn't show us a lot of gameplay. They showed Eric and Mia with these monster companions, helping them traverse the land and look for treasure. It looks very nice. It has nice like so shaded kind of graphics. And it looks like some it looks like a good spin off. But I'm interested in hearing more. They didn't really show off a lot about it. And it does look like something I would try out. I'm not super hyped for it because, again, they didn't really sell me on it with some sort of crazy gameplay or anything like that. It was very basic what they showed. They showed a little bit of story, a little bit, tiny bit of gameplay, but not much more than that. But other than that, the idea of a Dragon Quest 11 pretty cool going back to this world, this lore, it's just something that I'm interested in and it's definitely something I would pick up. So when this comes over, I'll definitely give it a try. I'm very interested in this. And yeah, that's where I rank Dragon Quest treasures. Now, for second place, this one might be surprised you a little bit. My second place ranking in this Dragon Quest, 35th anniversary stream is Dragon Quest 12, The Flames of Fate, the newest entry in the Dragon Quest series. Now, you probably thought this might be number one. And let me explain what we got was a very short teaser trailer with only the logo shown, a man's voice and not much else. We were told that this is like the new different kind of Dragon Quest game, but we didn't really see any gameplay. We didn't see any characters, screenshots. We saw practically nothing. They barely told us anything about this game. And I couldn't help but come away away from this a little bit disappointed by the tease. I expected something I knew Dragon Quest 12 was going to get announced that night. But I didn't think they were going to tease us this much. I thought we were going to see a little more than what we saw. I thought we're going to see at least a screenshot or gameplay or character or something. But no, they didn't really show anything. The most we got was Yujihori talking about it afterwards, explaining a little bit about the game, talking about how it's like a more mature Dragon Quest about how you make choices. And to me, that's very intriguing, but I expected a little more. We don't know the console. We don't know how the main character looks like. We don't know what the gameplay is like. I really would have liked to see more. Just the fact that Dragon Quest 12 exists, though that that's enough for this to make its way to the second place in this list. And just the fact that we saw the logo, we heard these things about it. That's enough to make me excited. I'm super excited to find out more about Dragon Quest. I hope it shows up at another conference soon. Hopefully before the end of the year, I hope we see more gameplay. I'm like super excited for this. I'm beyond excited for Dragon Quest 12. But I really wish they had shown us more than what they shown. And I just hope to see more about from this from this game. Now, without out of the way, my number one choice for the night, of course, is Dragon Quest 3 HD 2D remake, the latest remake of Dragon Quest 3. To me, this is the best announcement of the night. This is absolutely the top pick. I've already talked about Dragon Quest 3 before in my top five Dragon Quest games video for newcomers. I told everyone about how this is a really good RPG. It's timeless. It's it's old. It's old. It came from the 80s. It's a 1988 game, but it felt it feels so much more ahead of its time than it really is. It just doesn't get old is there's so much replayability. It's so fun. There's so many different runs you could do. And just the idea of Dragon Quest 3, this classic game being brought into modern day with a new remake by the Octopath Traveler developers, making this making this beautiful game with amazing sprite work, amazing graphics, you know, great gameplay. Mechanics. I think this is absolutely the most exciting announcement of the night. Like there's nothing that comes close to this. This is so exciting. And I think more people should be more excited for this as well. This has potential to be the definitive version of one of the best games in the series. It's the same great game, but with a brand new look. And we saw plenty of gameplay footage for this also. It wasn't like the Dragon Quest 12 reveal where we just barely saw anything we have not much to go off of. We know that it's getting a worldwide release. Very likely coming out soon. We've seen the gameplay. The pixel art is amazing. The graphics are amazing, the lighting, the particle effects. It just looks so, so good. And I can't help but be extremely hyped for this. This is currently my most anticipated video game of the entire year. I nothing comes close. And it's crazy because this is a remake of a game I've already beaten. But the idea of just going back to Dragon Quest 3 with this new graphical style, the new music, is everybody getting into it, talking to friends about it. It just gets me so hyped up for this. So this absolutely is my favorite announcement of the night. Hands down. And I'm just really, really excited for this. So I hope they show off more of this very soon. I hope this comes out maybe this year or early next year. I want to get my hands on this as soon as possible. This game looks so awesome. And I think this absolutely was the best part of the night. So that's it. That's my ranking of the Dragon Quest 35th anniversary announcements. There were really just two games that interested me a lot. There were DQ12 and DQ3 Remake with DQ3 Remake being the game that to me stole the entire show. It was amazing. It looked amazing. It's so exciting that Dragon Quest 3 is being remade. I'm so unbelievably excited for this. And I think you should too. So yeah, that's that's my ranking. Do you agree with it? Do you have a different opinion? If you do, let me know in the comments. Tell me how you would rank the Dragon Quest 35th anniversary announcements. I would love to hear about that. So yeah, thanks for watching and I'll see you all next time. Bye.