I like to imagine that somewhere, deep inside Square, someone was making a fully fledged JRPG. A big wig walked over and saw it on the screen and thought "You know, if we just scoop the characters, story, setting, music, art, and voice acting out, we'd have a really popular Visual Novel on our hands!"

So they did. They got one of those serrated spoons you get for scooping out pumpkin guts and SPLOOOSH... out it came.

But what to do with the shell? Pumpkin seeds are delicious, and it's insides can be made into pies, but what of the big, hard, kinda ugly left overs?

Dungeon Encounters is like carving a little face on a gourd, sticking a candle inside and going "There you go, fill in some squares"

It's good, basically.