How do you feel like this going to impact on the art development for Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate & III: HD 2D Remake and as well chance of postpone these two games due to Akira Toriyama passed away?

[King Marth 64]

Since we know that both Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate & Dragon Quest III: HD 2D Remake are the remaining upcoming Dragon Quest games that were first announced at on May 26, 2021 (along with the Japanese only Dragon Quest X games, Dragon Quest Treasure, and the Dragon Quest Mobile game has already been released + Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince had come out recently). But since we have heard the sad news of Akira Toriyama had recently passed away on March 1, 2024, due to the Blood Damaged in the Brain he had got. As far as we know that this is going to make Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate technically the last new mainline entry to have Akira Toriyama do work on the Characters and Monster Designs for the franchise. And future new mainline entries like Dragon Quest 13 and so on won't have Akira Toriyama work on the new artworks and monsters. 

As far as we know nothing about what's in Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate as of right now such as what the Dragon Quest XII characters actually looks like and what the setting takes place in the Dragon Quest World. And we know that Dragon Quest III: HD 2D Remake has been shown with game footages and art assets looks very good in the process.

Do you think Akira Toriyama's passing could possibly put the upcoming Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate and as well as Dragon Quest III: HD 2D Remake in progress of development in the art assets and artworks to get these two games actually post pone the release date and Square Enix might have find an another artist to finish up with the rest of the Dragon Quest XII Characters and New Monsters with Akira Toriyama's style to get these artworks finished like say Toyotarou who worked on the art for Dragon Ball Super manga might have to work on the rest of the Dragon Quest Characters and Monster Designs for the Dragon Quest Franchise?

Edited March 10 by King Marth 64

[Fabulously Olivier]

He designated a successor so there will probably be a transition. I can't see them killing off Dragon Quest. Maybe a bit of a delay. Probably a respectful delay on any announcements if any were pending.

[Armchair General]

It shouldn't really affect the monster designs, too much. After all, they've been reusing the same hundred or so models for as long as the series been around.

 

As for the character design eventually losing the "Dragonball" vibe, it's too early to judge. I'd rather wait until the fourteenth or fifteenth game for that to kick in.