Do you know the favored Puyo Puyo puzzle video games are literally spin-offs of a dungeon crawling RPG collection known as Mado Monogataru? It is true–and the most recent entry, Mado Monogatari: Fia And The Wondrous Academy, is getting an official English launch on Nintendo Swap, PS5, PS4, and Steam later this 12 months. Whereas we’re nonetheless ready for a closing launch date, preorders can be found for $50 at Amazon.
$50 | TBA 2025
Mado Monogatari: Fia and the Wondrous Academy is a top-down dungeon crawling RPG the place gamers discover randomly generated dungeons as Fia, and battle monsters–including the enduring Puyo blobs–collect treasure, and stage up Fia’s abilities. The opposite half of the sport is about in a magic academy that acts as a city hub the place gamers will chat with NPCs, play minigames, craft weapons, and extra. The sport will embrace English and French textual content choices with Japanese voice appearing.
The Mado Monogatari: Fia and the Wondrous Academy commonplace version is the one model of the sport introduced up to now, and the bodily version shall be accessible on Nintendo Swap, PS5, and PS4. Digital preorders are additionally accessible on the PlayStation Retailer, Swap eShop, and Steam.
Mado Monogatari is a long-running dungeon crawling RPG collection that began again on 1990 on the MSX and PC-98. The collection began as a first-person dungeon crawler akin to different basic RPGs like Wizardry and Shin Megami Tensei, however different entries have experimented with different types of dungeon crawling, together with Fia and the Wondrous Academy’s top-down Thriller Dungeon-style gameplay. Regardless of working for over thirty years, Fia and the Wondrous Academy is simply the second Mado Monogatari recreation to get an English localization. The earlier recreation within the collection, Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Nice Curry God, was additionally launched in North America on Vita in 2014 after which ported to PC in 2018. Like Fia and the Wondrous Academy, Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Nice Curry God can be a top-down roguelike thriller dungeon with randomized dungeons. If you wish to test it out, you may seize it for $20 on Steam.
