Do you happen to recall when Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate was revealed? May 2021. That's five years ago this month. And it happened rather early, given what we can now plainly see was a very early stage of development, because visionary creator Yuji Horii and his peers wished to unveil the next mainline title in honor of Dragon Quest's 35th anniversary.
Half a decade later, and a 40th-anniversary livestream has been announced. Much like the 35th-anniversary livestream dropped the game's subtitle and such, there's a high chance that we'll finally get our first actual information on The Flames of Fate in all this time.
But let's be clear—there's a slim chance we won't.
On the latest episode of the KosoKoso broadcast, Yuji Horii let slip that a 40th anniversary stream is indeed imminent, as the epic franchise hits the four-decade mark on May 27. But that episode has since gone private. Perchance Horii-san was not expressly permitted to spill the beans on that ahead of any formal announcement from Square Enix.
Nonetheless, Gematsu caught wind of it all—because founder Sal Romano is lightning-fast as always!—and snagged the most important...
