My DS arrived back from repair yesterday, so I decided to play this, as it’s been waiting for me for weeks.

I was slightly worried, I must admit. I very much enjoy roguelike games, but the only one I’ve tried from this developer was Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, which I found tedious in the extreme. Luckily, this one is a lot better. It’s a proper roguelike, in that when you die you lose all your items and experience and get sent back to the beginning of the game. I like that. You can store items and weapons in special storage areas and people in towns remember you, but everything else is reset.

In my last run last night I was carrying around two really good weapons, just hoping to bump into a courier who could take one of them back to the warehouse, but died, thus losing them both. (I was really hungry and had no food, so I wasn’t being as careful as normal and ran into a couple of hard enemies who proceeded to kill me quickly.) My lovely Katana + 2 is now gone forever. I’ve got nothing in the warehouse in the starting town now, so it’s going to be hard getting started again. But good hard.

I played for about three hours, so it’s getting things right, even if it isn’t as deep as many PC-based roguelikes.