A prequel to Dragon Quest VIII, Young Yangus and the Mysterious Dungeon features Yangus in a RPG dungeon-crawl similar to its kin, Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon and Torneko's Great Adventure.
According to German GameFront, Square Enix has registered several new trademarks with the United States Patent Office, including "Dragon Quest Heroes", "Dragon Quest Swords", "Rocket Slime", and "The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors". A Dragon Quest theme is quite apparent; the games themselves are not. Perhaps "Rocket Slime" is really Slime Morimori in disguise, and "The Masked Queen and the Towers of Mirrors" an English subtitle for Dragon Quest Yangus. Then again, perhaps not.
Square Enix has unveiled another installment in the Dragon Quest series, Dragon Quest Yangus, which stars one of Dragon Quest VIII's main characters. The apparent prequel will feature the adventures of a young Yangus on its release in Japan sometime next year. Little other information is known at this time.
