Andriasang: The next Square Enix Game Archives event happens next week. Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon will arrive on the retro download service on the 25th, priced at the usual ¥600.
Surprise! Four brand new Chocobo games are available for your enjoyment right now -- exclusively to registrants at the Square Enix Members website. They are, of course, the four adorable web games released in May of last year to promote the Japanese release of Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon.
Now you can read the instructions and understand the nuanced control schemes involved in keeping Jail Bird on top of a stick so he can catch apples in Chocobo's Balancing Act, deftly avoid ice in Chocobo's Snowboard Glide, fly on borrowed wings in Chocobo Flight, and goof off in class in Chocobo's Classmate. Not that you couldn't have figured out how to play those.
After rumours that the title would launch in North America on July 1 emerged earlier on this month, Square Enix has now confirmed that Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Dungeon will in fact arrive Stateside exactly a week later, on July 08.
Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon: Tokiwasure no Meikyuu was released at the end of last year over in Japan on Nintendo's Wii to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first Mystery Dungeon game on PSone that featured the yellow bird from the Final Fantasy series. Cubed³'s Adam Riley caught up with developer h.a.n.d., the team behind the DS Chocobo game as well, to talk about the project in more detail and discuss possibilities for the future…
