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Dragon Quest IX - Level 5 CEO on how he convinced Yuji Horii to bring it to Nintendo DS

by nintendaan
30 May 2016
GN Version 5.0

- Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino was also developing Professor Layton at that time, and Nintendo’s portable was experiencing great momentum
- Yuji Horii, the Dragon Quest creator, hesitated at first and questioned having a numbered Dragon Quest game on a handheld
- Hino kept pushing him to do it however
- Horii became a big fan of the tag mode in Dragon Quest IX, which would end up partially inspiring StreetPass support for the 3DS
- ;liked how it connected the game world and real world together
- Horii said his wish is just to ''have Dragon Quest be enjoyed by as many people as possible''

[Nintendo Everything]