mystery dungeon has truly never been this good. mina has described it as "a beautiful delicious cake you love every second of eating and once its gone you look around and realize you are in a whole cake factory". it is such a huge game, but wants so badly not to overwhelm you all at once with it; something previous shiren games sorely lacked. it does such a fantastic job tricking you into believing you understand the scope of the game, and only wants you to take from it as much as you like.
shiren's back to claim his rightful place at the top of roguelite tower. i was caught so completely by surprise. the core dungeon-crawling gameplay is so solid and great at easing you into its challenge (and offers tons of that good classic hard shit for the realheads who seek it). it is as hardcore as you want it to be, but also with a ton of the quality of life and assistive tools from the chocobo and pokemon mystery dungeons of the world.
the art style grew on me quickly in motion, the writing is shockingly fun and charming for a game with text i expected to just want to mash through, and that music... on top of everything else, the nationalist homophobic sack of shit who wrote the old soundtracks is dead so you can enjoy the entire package with little to no complication!! i love this game!! ahhhhh
