Final Fantasy XII <\/em>game designer Hiroyuki Ito is in the director chair, with Hiroaki Kato producing, character designs from Ryoma Ito, and a soundtrack overseen by Nobuo Uematsu. It’s not just the talent, though, but the look and style that first drew me in.<\/p> <\/iframe><\/p>
The goal of\u00a0Dungeon Encounters\u00a0<\/em>is to chart the depths of a deadly dungeon. With 100 floors filled with monsters and hazards, that’s a daunting undertaking; but the dungeon, as it’s laid out on the screen, is just a bunch of squares.<\/p> It looks like picking and choosing a route will be very important as you wander around this sparse grid. Once a battle breaks out, it flips into a slimmed-down, refined version of the\u00a0Final Fantasy\u00a0<\/em>Active Time Battle system.<\/p> Add on some cool character designs and what looks like a wide variety of both party members and enemies, and it seems like a genuinely intriguing game. It might be easy to, at first glance, deride the sparseness of\u00a0Dungeon Encounters<\/em>. But this has all the right pieces to be a quiet gem, if everything clicks into place.<\/p> Dungeon Encounters\u00a0<\/em>looks like the kind of game that garners a small but fervent following, that gets discussed in reverence on niche-within-niche forums. You could tell me this was actually a previously released cult hit on the PlayStation Vita, and I’d believe you.<\/p> <\/p>
And the good news is, it’s not a long way off either. Square Enix announced that Dungeon Encounters\u00a0<\/em>is digitally coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam on Oct. 14, 2021. It’s already up on some of those platforms, where it looks like it will retail for $29.99 (currently a little less with the pre-order discount).<\/p> Between this and the also-recently announced\u00a0Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars<\/em><\/a>, I’m down for this month of strange, interesting Square Enix shadow-drops. We’ll see how\u00a0the explorers fare when\u00a0Dungeon Encounters\u00a0<\/em>launches in a few weeks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":808,"featured_media":287364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","gamurs_wordpress_blocks_hide_tags":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[316,336,19111,6550,19112,19114,19138,323,19126],"internal-label":[],"invoiceable_action":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[{"id":808,"display_name":"Eric Van Allen","user_login":"EricVanAllen","user_nicename":"ericvanallen"}],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nDungeon Encounters is a new, unique dungeon crawler from Square Enix<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n \n