The game offers a highly flexible party-based dungeon crawling system allowing you to do battle as you see fit, and each character is enormously customisable.ĭungeon Travelers 2 draws considerable influence from venerable role-playing classic - and longstanding favourite of Japanese players - Wizardry, in that it allows characters to be “promoted” to more advanced classes at various level boundaries - in this case, level 15 and 30.
It has solid, complex character progressionĪs you might expect from a game by Sting, Dungeon Travelers 2 is rock solid from a mechanical perspective. Given that history, it’s kind of strange we got this in the west at all, particularly given that there’s a lot of text in the game and it probably would have been a considerable undertaking to localise. The aforementioned DLC does allow you to add 20 characters from To Heart 2 into your party, but honestly with the size of the playable squad in Dungeon Travelers 2 already, it’s not really necessary unless you’re particularly attached to those lovely ladies. The first Dungeon Travelers game, which never came west, was a spinoff from Aquaplus’ popular eroge To Heart 2, and was actually an expanded version of Final Dragon Chronicle: Guilty Requiem, a dungeon-crawling minigame from To Heart 2’s fandisc Manaka de Ikuno!! Dungeon Travelers featured To Heart 2 protagonist Takaki Kouno in the leading role, and many of the girls from To Heart 2 appeared as both playable characters and boss enemies.ĭungeon Travelers 2, meanwhile, does not require any knowledge of To Heart 2 or the previous Dungeon Travelers game to enjoy as it has an all-new cast of characters and a completely new setting it simply follows the same game format.
And I recommend doing so before prices go through the roof - because they most certainly will.ĭungeon Travelers 2 has a colourful heritage. Whatever the reasons, it doesn’t really matter the fact is, if you want this game now, you need to pick up a physical copy. The more recent Utawarerumono: ZAN and Utawarerumono: Prelude to the Fallen, meanwhile, are published in the west by NIS America and are still available for digital download.ĭungeon Travelers 2 is also an Aquaplus title in its native Japan, so it’s likely that something similar has happened here - and with it being a Vita title from several years back, it’s possible that neither Atlus nor NIS America saw renewing their publishing rights for it as a priority, what with the PlayStation Vita online store closing down in a few months. A while back the Utawarerumono: Mask of Deception and Mask of Truth visual novels were also delisted, with western publisher Atlus citing the expiration of the IP rights from original Japanese publisher Aquaplus as the reason. The specific reasons for this are, at the time of writing, unknown, but it’s not the first game that involved Atlus and NIS America to disappear from the PlayStation Store. Interestingly, though, its single piece of DLC is still available. Yes, sadly the most immediately pressing reason for acquiring a copy of this game if you don’t have one already is that at some point in the last week, it was quietly delisted from the North American and European PlayStation Store for Vita, meaning that you can no longer purchase a digital copy.
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