#mystery dungeon
#mystery dungeon
by Omar(@siegarettes)
While the original Dragon Quest games have largely come to dominate the legacy of developer Chunsoft, the Mystery Dungeon series has provided a quiet historical counter-point. First conceived as a Dragon Quest spinoff, the Mystery Dungeon games arguably did for the roguelike genre what Dragon Quest did for the RPG. It took a complex, systems heavy western genre and stripped it down to its core appeal, creating a surprisingly fully formed console roguelike. In some ways, it feels like the culture of games has just now caught up with the work Chunsoft did on the Mystery Dungeon games. When the original Shiren the Wanderer game finally reached US shores with an port for the Nintendo DS, it still felt modern, despite its Super Famicom roots. Even now entries in the series still quietly sneak out, feeling perfectly at home with the current popularity of indie roguelikes. Spike Chunsoft is not ignorant to this either, if their work on One Way Heroics is anything to go by.