Square-Enix making Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon for Wii

Is this the sequel to 1999's Chocobo's Dungeon 2 on the PlayStation?At Square-Enix Party’s pre-conference meeting yesterday, Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon for Wii was announced. Ten years ago the first Chocobo’s Dungeon game was released by Square in Japan, with a sequel also making it to America in 1999. According to the game’s producer Yuki Yokoyama, it will not just be a dungeon-crawler as it has been in the previous version.

Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales for DSThe trailer shown to the press feature a similar art style (but with superior 3D engine) to that of the recently released Chocobo Tales on the Nintendo DS. IGN described it as: “Gameplay will feature the same random dungeon, turn-based battles that the original brought to the PlayStation ten years ago, in a bigger, bolder production for Wii gamers. The adventure follows Chocobo on a quest to recover memories lost by villagers by a mysterious force, and the game footage showed these “memories” personified as shiny sparkly objects that will be collected throughout the gameplay.”

Mr. Yokoyama hinted at something in Chocobo’s Dungeon on Wii for fans of the DS Chocobo Tales game, but didn’t reveal what that could be.