The Newest Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon...Introducing the BLM Chocobo!?

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New Details on Chocobo's Dungeon Wii
Final Fantasy's job system to be integrated into the game.

By Yoshi Sato, 08/08/2007

The latest issue of Weekly Famitsu has revealed new details on Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon: Labyrinth of Forgotten Time for the Wii.

The game will star both Final Fantasy icons Chocobo and Cid as they enter into The City of Forgotten Time, where the people have lost their memories. Through the creation of The Labyrinth of Memories by a young boy named Raphael, the two will help bring back memories of these people. The game will have randomly generated dungeons of two types. One in which players will need to explore The Labyrinth of Memories and collect people's memories, and the other is a more traditional dungeon where a boss fight awaits players at the end.

One of the new features in the game is the job system, allowing your Chocobo to choose from various classes such as white mage and black mage. For those familiar with Final Fantasy, each class have their unique abilities such as casting spells and so forth. You can also increase the job level and become proficient in that class. There will be around 10 different classes in which players can choose from.

Players will be able to use the Wiimote either in horizontal or vertical position, although the latter is the recommended method of playing the game. The nunchuk is not needed so you can essentially play the game with one hand as well.

Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon: Labyrinth of Forgotten Time is slated for a winter release in Japan.

I found these scans from Akayuki and look closely at the images:



THUNDAGABURIZAGAKEARUGAZARA (okay, just Thunder & Blizzard) CHOCOBO!! IN THE FACE!! IN THE FACEEEEEE!! I don't have a Wii, and I was gonna' get one but...the ability to nuke things with a chocobo is happiness.

According to what I read of the article, the basics of "Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon" will remain the same but...that the jobs from the FF series will be added. The images above show the BLM Bird, the WHM Bird and the Knight Bird in action.

Hurray!!