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TV personality Shoko Nakagawa posted an update on X about her progress in “Torneko’s Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon – A Bit Fancier Remaster,” but the screenshot she attached turned out to be so “despair-inducing” that it became a hot topic on a thread on 5ch’s Geisports Sokuho+ board. In the thread, users overlaid the posted photo with their own pet cats, gushing “that’s totally my Torneko!”, while others shared “been there” stories about losing hours of progress in an instant in Mystery Dungeon-style games. Some brought up an old incident where she had claimed an iPhone update wiped her Dragon Quest III save data, and the thread drew over 40 replies.
Mon, 9/21, 7:35 PM
TV personality Shoko Nakagawa updated her X account to share her progress playing the newly released game “Torneko’s Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon – A Bit Fancier Remaster.”
“Torneko’s Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon – A Bit Fancier Remaster” is a remastered version of “Torneko’s Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon,” originally released for the Super Famicom in 1993, and is now available on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch. The biggest appeal of the “Mystery Dungeon” format is that the dungeon layout, the monsters that appear, and the items you find all change completely with every attempt, so the adventure stays fresh no matter how many times you dive in.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
(∪^ω^) 🔔♪ Ding-dong, ding-dong♪ (a copypasta template regulars post as the second reply in a thread)
The sync rate's way too high, lol
Hey, don't go stealing my cat!
Stealing's a basic technique in the Mystery Dungeon series, so it's totally fine
I mean, giving a Switch 2 as a birth gift, what is that, lol
I wouldn't send a gaming console to someone who's about to be run ragged taking care of a baby.
She's already not sleeping enough as it is — if she's got time to game, she'd rather just sleep.
After I updated my iPhone, a bunch of stuff got wiped out… nooo
My Dragon Quest III save, right before I was about to beat Baramos, is gone too. I could cry.
Square Enix's response:
No bugs causing save data to be lost have been confirmed at this time.
Normally, an OS update should not cause save data to be lost.
So Square Enix was lying?
I'm Asuka all the way (likely referencing 'Asuka Ken!', a Mystery Dungeon spin-off)
I mean, that cat wasn't even your cat, remember
Apparently the cats are currently living in a room on the second floor!
Huh? Wait, isn't she supposed to have a Switch 2 — why's she using her phone?
Because it's even more convenient than the Switch.
Same reason people buy a big fancy camera for great shots and still end up only ever using their phone.
I kept going down floor after floor but that Scroll of Return never showed up again — all that time, down the drain.
lol
Honestly, once you start listing the rage-inducing 'been there' moments from Shiren and Torneko, there's no end to it, lol
Honestly, in the Mystery Dungeon series, the whole appeal kind of comes down to the thrill of theft.
The moment you swipe some ridiculously expensive, powerful item you could never afford, for free — that's pure dopamine.
From early game onward I'm basically just playing the whole thing thinking about how to combine items I've picked up to pull off the next heist.
To be safe, I'd always check the floor's shop first, then steal with a Scroll of Attraction from the stairwell room and head down immediately.
The idea of stealing actually goes all the way back to the original Torneko, but it got scrapped for not fitting Torneko's character as a merchant.
Stealing caught on in Shiren instead, and later got 'reverse-imported' back into the Torneko games.
Lied again?
Probably got flamed online, found it a hassle, and just deleted the post itself.
Then acted like it never happened, and here we are.
THIS is what a real dead-end looks like.
You get sent back to level 1 even without dying, lol
I loved how the music arrangement changed depending on the floor, so maybe I'll pick it up.
It's on Steam too. The hardcore players who've squeezed everything out of Shiren had complaints, but it did get a patch eventually.
Yangus was built easy-mode for the soft generation, way too forgiving
Square Enix's whole business these days is just remasters and remakes
Background and Talking Points
“Torneko’s Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon” is an RPG released in 1993 for the Super Famicom by Chunsoft (now Spike Chunsoft). Its defining feature is that the terrain and enemy placement change randomly every time you descend, and running out of strength sends you back to level 1. This system was later carried over into titles like “Shiren the Wanderer,” and “Mystery Dungeon” became established as a genre name in its own right. In the thread, opinions were split between those asking “is there really a point to releasing this remaster now?” and others reacting with weary resignation that Square Enix has been churning out remasters and remakes nonstop in recent years. Some replies also noted that the “stealing” mechanic was originally rejected for not fitting Torneko’s character, and instead took root first in the later “Shiren the Wanderer” — though it’s worth noting this account comes from fan lore rather than an official statement from the developers.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread “Shoko Nakagawa’s ‘Torneko’s Great Adventure’ Screenshot of Despair Shocks the Internet: ‘We’ve All Been There’.”
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