{"id":131784,"date":"2023-02-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-145009"},"modified":"2023-02-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T12:00:00","slug":"dragon-quest-series-producer-leaves-square-enix-after-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/10\/dragon-quest-series-producer-leaves-square-enix-after-13-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Quest Series Producer Leaves Square Enix After 13 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dragon Quest series producer Ryota Aomi has announced that he has left Square Enix after working with the company for 13 years.<\/p>\n

Sharing the news on Twitter<\/a> (via Gematsu<\/a>), the long-time producer \u2014 who first worked on Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors<\/a> while he was working at Genius Sonority \u2014 joined Square Enix in 2009. He was the lead producer on the musou spin-offs Dragon Quest Heroes<\/a> and its sequel, Dragon Quest Heroes II<\/a> as lead producer, while also helping out on a number of mainline Dragon Quest titles. The Heroes duology has been rereleased as a package<\/a> on Switch, but in Japan only.<\/p>\n

Aomi was incredibly thankful is his parting message on social media. Translated by Ryuji over at Noisy Pixel<\/a>, the producer said that “Working on Dragon Quest has always been a dream of mine since I was in elementary school, and every day felt like a new tale.”<\/p>\n