Line #7 Trivia/DragonQuestXI


1	* AllStarCast: The Japanese Switch version has an impressive cast, including Creator/MitsukiSaiga, Creator/MaayaUchida, Creator/SoraAmamiya, Creator/KoukiUchiyama, Creator/AmiKoshimizu, Creator/MasayaOnosaka, Creator/RikiyaKoyama, Creator/{{Mugihito}}, Creator/TakayaKuroda, Creator/InoriMinase, Creator/NorioWakamoto, Creator/RyuseiNakao, Creator/YuichiNakamura, Creator/AiKayano, Creator/AyakoKawasumi, Creator/TakahiroSakurai, Creator/KenyuuHoriuchi, Creator/KikukoInoue, Creator/KenichiOgata, Creator/MamiKoyama, Creator/NobuyukiHiyama, Creator/KentaMiyake, Creator/HoukoKuwashima, Creator/TomokazuSeki, Creator/ShigeruChiba, Creator/NobunagaShimazaki, Creator/NobunagaShimazaki, Creator/FumihikoTachiki, Creator/AkioOtsuka, Creator/AtsukoTanaka, Creator/YuiHorie, and Creator/MiyukiSawashiro.
2	* ColbertBump: The Switch version of the game saw a noticeable boost in interest among western gamers on sale sites such as Amazon after the Hero was introduced as a DLC fighter for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''.
3	* FakeNationality: Gunnar Cauthery is Icelandic-British and gives Erik a bit of an Icelandic accent as a result (fitting, given the character's [[spoiler:Viking piracy background]]); Mia's voice actor is the British Lauren Mote, and she emulates the slight Icelandic lilt.
4	* GameMod: There are a few for the PC version(s)[[note]]The original and Definitive Edition[[/note]]. Some of the more popular ones are one for the [[https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1521444556 Orchestra Overhaul Mod]] for the original that adds an orchestrated soundtrack, and [[https://www.nexusmods.com/dragonquestxisdefinitiveedition/mods/22 Project Rebuild]] for the Definitive Edition that seeks to revert the graphical downgrades it includes over the original.
5	* MemeAcknowledgement: Not in the usual in-joke sense of "meme", but still something that caught on and spread throughout the fandom: In the Switch version's Tickington quests,[[note]]unable to confirm whether or not it's in the 3DS version as well[[/note]] the ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'' quests involve a dungeon called the "Ruby Path of Doom". Far from just one of ''IX''[='s=] randomized grottoes, this is specifically the name of the infamous "Masayuki's Map" that spread through the playerbase because its 15th floor held nothing but Metal King Slimes.
6	* MilestoneCelebration: While not quite released for ''Dragon Quest's'' 30th anniversary, the amount of callbacks to the franchise as a whole, and its western release (especially for the Switch version) being 30 years after the original game, help cement it as this for the ''Dragon Quest'' franchise.
7	* NewbieBoom: ''XI'' is easily the most successful ''DQ'' title internationally since the original trilogy, and has brought in a large number of new players and newfound fans. "Hero" entering ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' as DLC certainly helped, with the Luminary being his default form. This helped propel the game into being [[https://twitter.com/DragonQuest/status/1208024503831257088 one of the most successful titles in franchise history]].
8	* NoDubForYou: Inverted with the game's initial release in Japan, which had no voice acting at all, while the western release a year later would include English voice acting. It would not be until the Nintendo Switch port in 2019 that the game would finally receive a Japanese voice track as well.
9	* NoExportForYou: Square-Enix elected not to release the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS version outside of Japan due to the decline in the system's popularity following the release of the Switch.
10	* RealLifeRelative: In the Switch release, Creator/AyumiTsunematsu voices Pang and her son Toma Saito voices the Luminary as a child.
11	* SignificantDoubleCasting: Both the Luminary and [[spoiler: Calasmos]] are voiced by Rasmus Hardiker in the English version, suggesting an innate duality between their respective roles as the harbingers of light and darkness.
12	** A lesser/more downplayed version: Prince Faris and Golden Boy are both voiced by Sacha Dhawan. Both characters are helped in one way or another by Sylvando.
13	* TroubledProduction: Not the game as a whole, but the Switch port specifically. Creator/SquareEnix claimed the reason that the port took so long is that the original game was built on an older version of Unreal Engine 4 that didn't support the Switch, and that they needed to update the game to a newer version of the engine, which was a significant undertaking. As a result of the Switch version coming out later, the developers chose to incorporate additional content to make up for the delay.
14	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: ''Dragon Quest XI'' was being considered as an open world title like ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]''. If one squints a bit, there are definite remnants of this idea in the final game.
15	** [[https://rpgamer.com/2020/09/dragon-quest-xis-shai-matheson-interview/ In an interview with Sylvando's voice actor]], he mentions how he originally auditioned for Prince Faris.

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