Square Enix has announced the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate director Masahiro Sakurai will appear on the fourth Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age live stream, airing next week. It'll start at 9 PM JST on 26th September and run until 1 AM JST on 27th September, and is celebrating the launch of the game on Nintendo Switch.

The first part of the broadcast will feature Sakurai alongside the Dragon Quest series creator Yuji Horii, who will apparently have a "special" chat, and this will be followed by a second segment inviting the Japanese voice actors of Dragon Quest XI S and the series in general to countdown to the midnight launch. Links for this broadcast have not yet been shared.

Dragon Quest XI S for Switch launches on the same day here in the west. If you can't wait, you can download a demo of the game from the eShop right now and transfer your data across to the full game when it is released next week. Will you be making room for this epic RPG adventure? Tell us below.