Developer Spike Chunsoft
Publisher Reef Entertainment
Format Switch
Release Out now
There may be no finer setting for a mystery dungeon game than a place called Serpentcoil Island. It speaks to the procedural pain and pleasure of Spike Chunsoft’s series. Going in, you instinctively anticipate something possessed of sleek formal elegance, distinguished by its twists and turns. Yet you know it’s equally capable of constricting in an instant and choking the life out of you – either steadily or swiftly, depending on its mood and whether you wriggle or accept defeat and submit to its crushing embrace.
Such is the Faustian bargain you strike with the developer upon entry: yes, it can be cruel and capricious, sometimes viciously so,
