Square-Enix producer Shinji Hashimoto announced today that the first title in the Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon (Chocobo no Fushigina Dungeon) series would be the next title headed to the Japanese PlayStation Network. Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon was never released abroad, but curiously it’s sequel made it’s way stateside in 1999. The game is a rogue-like dungeon crawler in the vein of Rogue and Adventure that pits chocobo-hero “Poulet” (French for chicken) against many fiends, but not without an array of job crystals at his disposal. Poulet can change jobs based on his most urgent need, especially when getting KO’d is permanent! Despite being a spinoff of a mascot character, the game was very successful in Japan and sold over one-million units and garnered it’s own fanbase. Since then, Chocobo’s Dungeon 2 (PS1) and Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo’s Dungon (Wii) have been met with moderate success.

A release date has not been set yet, however PSN-bound PS1 games have shown up on the network within one to two months after the initial announcement. There is also no confirmation of an overseas release, and not every Square-Enix PS1 game has made it to the North American PSN. (Vagrant Story is available for PAL regions, but still not NA!) Since this may involve a translation being that it was never brought abroad in the first place, the outlook is slim to none.

Via: Square-Enix Members Japan – Twitter

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