{"id":129266,"date":"2022-10-27T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-140037"},"modified":"2022-10-27T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T23:05:00","slug":"dragon-quest-x-offline-switch-eshop-demo-goes-live-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/10\/27\/dragon-quest-x-offline-switch-eshop-demo-goes-live-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Quest X Offline Switch eShop Demo Goes Live In Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a3e04183c5fae\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a3e04183c5fae\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Dragon Quest X Offline\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/93594c81ffae3\/dragon-quest-x-offline.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTM3Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"537\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/93594c81ffae3\/dragon-quest-x-offline.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Quest X Offline\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Square Enix<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last month, Square Enix rolled out <strong>Dragon Quest X: Rise of the Five Tribes Offline<\/strong> for the Nintendo Switch. The downside for fans of this epic role-playing series is that there&#8217;s been no mention of the game being localised.<\/p>\n<p>If you are still eager to see what this offline version of the MMO <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/dragon_quest_x\">Dragon Quest X<\/a><\/strong> is like on Switch and happen to have access to a Japanese Nintendo account, you&#8217;re in luck. As spotted by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gematsu.com\/2022\/10\/dragon-quest-x-offline-demo-now-available-in-japan\">Gematsu<\/a>, Square Enix has now made a playable demo available via the eShop.<\/p>\n<p>This demo apparently has an estimated playtime of three to five hours and allows save data to be carried over to the full game. Just keep in mind it&#8217;s all in Japanese.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"CQWYUPKAftM\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Will you be checking out the Japanese demo? Would you like to see this game and even the online version one day localised? <em>Leave a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Square Enix Last month, Square Enix rolled out Dragon Quest X: Rise of the Five Tribes Offline for the Nintendo Switch. The downside for fans of this epic role-playing series is that there&#8217;s been no mention of the game being localised. If you are still eager to see what this offline version of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}