Nintendo announced during its live-streamed Nintendo Direct presentation on Thursday that the Nintendo 3DS port of Square Enix’s Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King game will launch in North America in 2017.
The 3DS port of Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King includes a new story scenario and two new party members: a female thief named Gelda, and Morrie from the Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road arcade game.
Square Enix first released Dragon Quest VIII: Sora to Umi to Daichi to Norowareshi Himegimi (Dragon Quest VIII: The Sky, the Ocean, the Earth, and the Cursed Princess) for the PlayStation 2 in Japan in 2004, and then in North America in 2005, with the title Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King.
Nintendo also revealed that players who pre-purchase Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past on the 3DS eShop will receive a Dragon Quest VII 3DS home menu theme.