Dragon Quest Treasure

We’re back to Nintendo, so you already know this shit is cute. This new spinoff on Dragon Quest’s 36-year-old role-playing game franchise zeroes in on blue-haired siblings Erik and Mia’s globe-trotting trek for treasure.

“With the vast world of Draconia to explore and tons of tantalizing treasure to find, Erik, Mia, and their cute companions will need some help,” the game’s Nintendo page says. “The team soon befriends and recruits a veritable variety of well-mannered monsters. By making use of these monsters’ magical visions of hidden treasure and their unique treasure-hunting abilities, our heroes will race over open fields, scale cliffs with a single bound, and glide over gaping chasms.”

With its bubblegum approach to combat and item collection (the trailer shows a popsicle-colored “Iconic!” bounce on the screen when you pick up an expensive statue), this feels like the closest I’ll be to collecting seashells on the beach this winter. Good, clean fun. Cute wins again.

Release date: December 9

Compatible with: Switch