News: DraQue Yangus

December 22, 2005, 03:05 AM

by chazumaru, via Squenix -
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Squenix opened a site for Dragon Quest Shounen Yangus to Fushigi no Dungeon, a new PS2 game revealed at JumpFesta 2006 and scheduled to come out sometime next year. The site has a trailer, which is quite impressive and deals better with character artist Toriyama's style than Dragon Quest VIII through better choices in colors and a miryad of new graphical effects. As the title suggests, Yangus' youth will serve as the subject of this sidestory, and the gameplay sticks to the traditional Fushigi no Dungeon gameplay: randomly generated dungeons, items to find and bring back to the surface, etc. Interestingly, ChunSoft - traditional Fushigi no Dungeon developer - isn't mentioned on the website, and this time only Armor Project appears in the credits. Nintendo recently released a Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon for both DS and GBA - it sold equally well on both systems for a cumulated 700,000 units sold. The Dragon Quest series actually already has a Fushigi-style spin-off series, Torneko no Daibouken.