DANDY DUNGEON Legend of Brave Yamada

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  • Summary: Yamada-kun (Age 36) is a game programmer who hates his job. Alone in his apartment, he toils to create his own game: an RPG, where he is the hero, Brave Yamada! Are you ready for a story-driven, romantic comedy roguelite-RPG?

    A tale of naked bravery, complete at last! Only the dark lord    Yamada-kun (Age 36) is a game programmer who hates his job. Alone in his apartment, he toils to create his own game: an RPG, where he is the hero, Brave Yamada! Are you ready for a story-driven, romantic comedy roguelite-RPG?

    A tale of naked bravery, complete at last!

    Only the dark lord stands between one middle aged-man and his quest for true love!
    Become Yamada-kun, a 36 year old programmer at a major games company who hates his job, as he transforms himself into the star of his own delusional dungeon-delving video game! And don't forget your quest for the love of your charming neighbour, Maria! Will love conquer all?

    [What is Dandy Dungeon?]

    * A rogue-like with simple mechanics and hard-core depth!
    * Oodles of content: more than 90 dungeon types, over 560 weapons & armour and 260+ monsters
    * Experience a unique harmony of chip-tunes and humming?! Over 140 tracks!
    * Heaven's Door: a 99 floor, post-game challenge dungeon!
    * Collaborations galore! Meet RPG composer Nobuo Uematsu and Touhou Project's Zun too!

    GAME SYSTEM
    Dungeon crawling is simply a matter of tracing a single path through each floor, but it's not as simple as all that! We crammed every inch of the game's 5x5 grid-based roguelike dungeons with variety!

    But, truth be told, Dandy Dungeon's simplistic exterior belies a game with many hidden depths. Winning or losing is all down to the player. You'll need to know all about the magic-reflecting Magic Barrier, the inescapable wrath of Thunderall, the all-powerful draw of the Magnet, the penetrating attack of the spear, the all-powerful blow of the axe and the like in order to conquer the game's dungeons.

    HUMMING MUSIC
    Middle-aged man music...? Middle-aged jingles?!
    Yamada's world is full of weird and wonderful sounds, from the start of a dungeon, the discovery of a danger zone, levelling up and Yamada's mysterious shouts of 'Arabesque!'.
    Wundabaraba baba scat tunes for the boss monsters, the Indian programming genius' tune, and let's not forget that song from the Mysterious Hard Labor Zone Who on earth greenlit all these oddball tunes?
    The comic-prince of chiptunes, Keichi Sugiyama joins forces with Enka BOSSA's founder and singer, Caorinho Fujiwara to create an audio experience you won't find elsewhere! And mystery singer Nagasa Bonus, whose smooth voice flows over the chiptunes of the English version's theme song: "Retrograde life".

    STORY
    36 year old Yamada-kun is a programmer at a major games company who hates his job. Deep into every night, alone in his apartment, he works on his own game: a delusional dungeon delving RPG where he is the hero; Brave Yamada!
    Then, one day, he falls in love at first sight with his new neighbor Maria-chan and in an effort to nurture these feelings, adds Princess Maria into his delusional dungeon game!
    Will Yamada-kun and Maria-chan find love?
    Is destiny pre-programmed, or randomly generated? Is love a bug or a feature?    … Expand
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Destructoid
    Nov 27, 2017
    95
    From top to bottom I have nothing but love for this game. Its premise is simple and addictive, its world is vibrant and full of charm, and it offers you the opportunity to get rid of what is the most annoying aspect of free-to-play games for an arguably reasonable price.
  2. Edge Magazine
    Mar 31, 2017
    90
    You'd have to be a bumbling turdbag not to at least give Yamada the chance to win your heart. [April 2017, p.123]
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  3. CD-Action
    Apr 5, 2017
    90
    Why would anybody need Fire Emblem Heroes when we’ve got this unique gem? [04/2017, p.53]
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  4. Multiplayer.it
    Feb 17, 2017
    87
    Dandy Dungeon is much more than a simple roguelike with a retro style: it's a sort of japanese parodistic comedy about life, work, love and the RPG genre, inside an amusing roguelike.

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Awards & Rankings

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#5 Best iOS Game of 2017
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#71 Most Shared iOS Game of 2017