![]() ![]() The dungeons are levels in his game, created to work through his stress and personal issues, while occasionally being suborned by Empire Corp. The entirety of Dandy Dungeon takes place in Yamada’s apartment. five minutes into the game, but he’s determined to “channel this suck into videogame!” ![]() His life may suck, even before he is summarily and insultingly fired from Empire Corp. But he’s got a dream: to have the freedom and the courage to sit around in his underwear all day long, programming his vision of a perfect video game. By anyone’s measure, he’s a loser, and almost everyone in the game will say as much to his face on at least one occasion. He’s thirty-six, overweight, starting to lose his hair, with questionable hygiene, and living in a one-room apartment of unfortunate bachelorhood. ![]() The titular character, Yamada-kun, is a game programmer who works for a subsidiary of the Empire Corporation, a monolithic business that seems to own and operate everything in Tokyo, but he’d be the first to admit that his life’s a mess. It also succeeds at being an incredibly meta experience that constantly pokes fun at itself, its genre, its creators, and more Japanese cultural touchstones than could be easily fit into the space of a single review. an easy to play smartphone title with simple controls and simpler narrative that provides fun gameplay well beyond the time it takes to complete its nominal main quest line. Dandy Dungeon succeeds at being a game of its original milieu, i.e. This was a game from the same creative minds behind such oddities as Chulip, Chibi-Robo, and Moon: RPG Remix Adventure, so even though I was wary (and still am) of anything with a DMM Games logo, I figured this would be an interesting experience. So when I heard that Dandy Dungeon: The Legend of Brave Yamada had had its sequel material included as a post-release update to the base game, I grabbed it. There had been enough of that this year as it was. ![]() In the dire summer of 2020, I had a need for something simple, something silly to play and enjoy without a heavy plot or pressing motivation. ![]()
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