Square Enix has issued an apology for the smartphone access outage that hit the official site for “Torneko’s Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon — A Slightly Nice Remaster” starting the evening of September 11. The site has since been restored. However, this apology only addresses the site outage — it makes no mention of the game’s design choices or bugs. On 5ch, comments like “That’s not what you should be apologizing for” piled up, as the gap between the apology fans actually wanted and the one they got became the talk of the thread.
[Apology for Official Site Access Outage]
From the evening of Friday, September 11, 2026, the official site for “Torneko’s Great Adventure: Mystery Dungeon — A Slightly Nice Remaster” became inaccessible, primarily for users on smartphones.
The issue has now been resolved, and the site can be viewed as normal.
Source: x.com / Original post here
Well, it's a 'Slightly Nice' apology, after all… (riffing on the game's 'Slightly Nice Remaster' subtitle)
Classic old trick — apologize for the trivial stuff to smooth things over.
FF7: A Slightly Incomprehensible Remaster
That's not it, that's not it at all.
Lies, exaggeration, misleading claims — distortion, bias, fabrication (riffing on a famous Japanese catchphrase about deceptive advertising)
Looking forward to the Hero edition.
>We focused above all on the controls and pacing to make sure they felt great!
Sure, what a coincidence.
I kept seeing this around and was curious what it was — good to know, thanks.
Square Enix: 'From quantity to quality.'
Well, 'quality' and 'improved productivity' can mean a lot of different things.
Guess they upgraded the quality of scamming customers.
For reference:
Square Enix announces 'Three Years of Reset' plan following steep profit decline — May 13, 2024
https://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1591065.html
And here's a bunch of their big talk ↓
I'll get some other company's game instead of a Square Enix one.
Going by the trend of the last few DQM titles, the player base drops off a cliff about a month after release.
If you want to enjoy it while it's got momentum, buying early is actually the smart move.
That game gets way more grindy and boring once the population thins out.
It's 'as intended.'
This is third- or fourth-rate work, though.
You're still holding out hope for those?
Is 'slightly' really the right word for this…?
The demo for that one is mostly fine, but it's weird how it switches between 3D and 2D movement when you use a special move.
Also the mini-medal-type collectible is annoying, since it's mostly just junk items.
Background and Key Points
The apology Square Enix issued this time concerns the smartphone access outage on the official site that began the evening of September 11 — it is not an apology for the design or bugs in the remaster itself. Skimming just the thread title without noticing this distinction makes it easy to misread as “they apologized for the game’s content,” but the actual announcement only reports the site outage being fixed and says nothing about gameplay issues. What became the focus of the thread was the mismatch between the apology users wanted (an explanation addressing things like controls or textures in the game) and the apology that actually arrived (the site outage) — a disconnect that spawned ironic jabs like “a slightly nice apology.” Note that the “Three Years of Reset” plan announced in 2024 and comments about AI-assisted debugging are points raised within the thread itself, not facts officially confirmed by Square Enix.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “[Good News] Square Enix Officially Apologizes Over Torneko: “We deeply apologize.”“
