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Chocobo's Dungeon 2

Chocobo's Dungeon 2 is a 1998 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation. It is the sequel to 1997's Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon.

Role-playing (RPG)StrategyAdventure

Time to beat: about 15 hours

Overview

Chocobo's Dungeon 2 is a 1998 role-playing video game developed and published by Square for the PlayStation. It is the sequel to 1997's Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon.

The player plays as Chocobo, navigating randomly-generated levels of mysterious dungeons to progress the story. The path to get through the maze is different every time a player goes through the same dungeon, but the same set of monsters will be encountered. Chocobo may have a partner character assisting him throughout the dungeon, which typically resolves in a boss fight. There are several partner characters, most of which will be recognizable to Final Fantasy veterans, including Cid; a young white mage girl, Shiroma; and Mog, a moogle. Though the game is an isometric 2D adventure, there are occasionally 3D cutscenes.

Chocobo's Dungeon 2 includes many characters, each of which has their own way to help Chocobo throughout the game, such as how Mrs. Bomb allows Chocobo to stay in her home.

Squaresoft announced Chocobo's Dungeon 2 in July 1998, alongside plans to release the game that December. Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon, the game's predecessor, had been released the previous year. Chocobo's Dungeon 2 became the first Mystery Dungeon title released outside Japan. IGN was surprised that the word "mysterious" was removed from the title, and wondered why the game was being released in America as the previous title had moderate sales in Japan, and the original had never been released at all outside Japan. They also noted that it seemed to generate the least amount of "fanfare" or press attention of Square's announcements at the 1999 Tokyo Game Show.

The game received average reviews. Chris Charla of NextGen was generally positive to the game, despite noting that the game does not bring anything new to the genre. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 33 out of 40.