Mackenzie and Funghi are making a combeack, at least in Japan

The Touch Detective series, featuring wide-eyed sleuth about town Mackenzie and her sentient mushroom companion Funghi, looks set to receive another installment.

Touch Detective Rising 3: Does Funghi Dream of Bananas? has been announced following a teaser site setup by Japanese publisher Success Corporation, which pointed towards the 30th May issue of Famitsu for more details. Beeworks will be handling development.

Touch Detective is a mystery adventure series entirely controlled through a touch screen. The original game and its sequel, Touch Detective 2 ½, both found release overseas on the DS, gathering some fans with their unique art style and quirky humour, but didn't take off as well as in Japan, where Funghi is an adored mascot and has his own puzzle game spin-off. Before you judge, just remember we find a bunch of teens and a freakish talking dog in a roaming hippy van to be a perfectly acceptable team for solving mysteries.

There is no word yet on whether Touch Detective 3 will see release outside Japan, or indeed if it'll be on 3DS - smartphones are another possibility. Would you like to see Mackenzie and Co. return to the case? Let us know below.

[source siliconera.com]