{"id":94959,"date":"2019-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/dragon_quest_xi_s_definitive_edition_gallops_onto_nintendo_switch_this_september"},"modified":"2019-06-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T00:00:00","slug":"dragon-quest-xi-s-definitive-edition-gallops-onto-nintendo-switch-this-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/12\/dragon-quest-xi-s-definitive-edition-gallops-onto-nintendo-switch-this-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Quest XI S: Definitive Edition Gallops Onto Nintendo Switch This September"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/30d774fdfdcd0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/30d774fdfdcd0\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"The wait intensifies!\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/30d774fdfdcd0\/the-wait-intensifies.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/30d774fdfdcd0\/the-wait-intensifies.900x.jpg\" alt=\"The wait intensifies!\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\">The wait intensifies!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At Square Enix Live yesterday, Dragon Quest fans were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/this_fall_the_luminary_rides_again_in_dragon_quest_xi_s_definitive_edition\">presented<\/a> with a brief trailer reinforcing the fact <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/dragon_quest_xi_s_echoes_of_an_elusive_age_-_definitive_edition\">Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age &#8211; Definitive Edition<\/a><\/strong> was coming to the Switch this Fall. It was at this moment there was a collective sigh, with everyone assuming there wouldn&#8217;t be a release date reveal anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, Nintendo&#8217;s E3 2019 Direct presentation pulled through in the end. Shortly after Dragon Quest&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/dragon_quests_the_hero_revealed_as_the_next_smash_bros_ultimate_dlc_character\">The Hero<\/a>&#8216; was unveiled as one of the DLC fighters coming to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong>, we received the <em>smashing<\/em> news Dragon Quest XI S would <em>finally<\/em> arrive on the Switch this September. Yep, after waiting many years for its arrival, it appears we&#8217;ll finally get our hands on this epic role-playing title on 27th September.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some information about what the Switch version of the game will offer, directly from Nintendo&#8217;s PR:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Nintendo Switch version boasts all the sprawling content of the original game along with newly added character-specific stories, fully orchestrated field and battle music, additional monsters to ride, side-quests to journey into past <em>DRAGON QUEST<\/em> worlds, and the ability to change between HD and retro-inspired 16-bit visuals. Additional enhancements include the ability to speed up battle sequences and the choice of a Japanese or English voice track.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And we also have this lovely trailer to share:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O0K942h4BDE?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>So, if you want to get to know &#8216;The Hero&#8217; who will be in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate a little bit better, it might be worth checking this one out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Will you be picking this up on release? Tell us down in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wait intensifies! At Square Enix Live yesterday, Dragon Quest fans were presented with a brief trailer reinforcing the fact Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age &#8211; Definitive Edition was coming to the Switch this Fall. It was at this moment there was a collective sigh, with everyone assuming there wouldn&#8217;t be [&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-94959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94959","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=94959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}