{"id":99051,"date":"2019-08-24T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/08\/director_of_dragon_quest_builders_series_leaves_square_enix"},"modified":"2019-08-24T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T14:15:00","slug":"director-of-dragon-quest-builders-series-leaves-square-enix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/24\/director-of-dragon-quest-builders-series-leaves-square-enix\/","title":{"rendered":"Director Of Dragon Quest Builders Series Leaves Square Enix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/77e6ff6ea89ce\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/77e6ff6ea89ce\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Dragon Quest Builders 2\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/77e6ff6ea89ce\/dragon-quest-builders-2.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/77e6ff6ea89ce\/dragon-quest-builders-2.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Dragon Quest Builders 2\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>With <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/dragon_quest_builders_2\">Dragon Quest Builders 2<\/a><\/strong> now available on the Switch, series director \u2013 Kazuya Niinou \u2013 has decided to move on from Square Enix. After &#8220;about seven years&#8221; at the company, he&#8217;s now looking forward to a &#8220;new development environment&#8221;, having worked on two Dragon Quest games in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Niinou is believed to already have plans in place \u2013 with more details about his future to be revealed next week. Despite moving on, he&#8217;ll reportedly continue to overlook Dragon Quest Builders 2 and will act as an external staffer for Square Enix. In saying this, there&#8217;s no guarantee there&#8217;ll be additional updates and DLC for the second game.<\/p>\n<p>The talented individual was previously the director of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/trauma_center_under_the_knife\">Trauma Center: Under the Knife<\/a><\/strong> on DS and the designer of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/etrian_odyssey\">Etrian Odyssey<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 which also started out its life on the DS \u2013 during his time at Atlus. In addition to the Builders series, Niinou was the assistant director of the 2013 MMO, <strong>Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you played either of the Dragon Quest Builders? How about the other titles Niinou worked on? Would you like to see the above series continue on without him? Construct a comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Dragon Quest Builders 2 now available on the Switch, series director \u2013 Kazuya Niinou \u2013 has decided to move on from Square Enix. After &#8220;about seven years&#8221; at the company, he&#8217;s now looking forward to a &#8220;new development environment&#8221;, having worked on two Dragon Quest games in a row. Niinou is believed to already [&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-99051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99051","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=99051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}