Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate

It is like Azure Dreams, no city building/dating little monster raising. But It took me a while to find a fun mystery dungeon. Azure dreams is the goat. Shiren is good too. the genre is mystery dungeon as both are just that. Go here the place is random you are lvl 1 find item. Azure dreams is a bit easier with the location and items. It has monster raising and training focus. and there is dating, goofy skits, town customization, with a simpler mystery dungeon than shiren to balance it. The flaws with the azure dreams ps1 series were there, like no eggs or even random items in the hunter store the rust trap problem, floor 2 always having Ghosh. The Gameboy version fixed the rust with an oil so you can use other items and not get them too weak. Shiren, is a more punishing push your luck while exploring. So items are the main focus. You can get monsters, they level up and evolve, but they are more temporary allies that can simply run off. Your not just locked into 1 tower they are spread out. there are more types of traps, fake items. You also encounter npcs to recruit, but the do their own thing too. It could be argued that both games take place in different countries of the same w…

I really like dungeon crawlers, but this was a bit too much. The game is brutally difficult and has a horrible, clunky UI. It's chock full of tutorials---so many in fact that it is hard to keep things straight, and they don't seem to really help you learn the game. Runs take too long to get going and get interesting,

if you dont like the main campaign/mission, shiren 5 offers mini games and interesting dungeons.

shiren the wanderer : the tower of fortune and the dice of fate and oh man is this the consequences of my action resulting in me wiping and costing me a good run?! a solid game, some fantastic mechanics but not for the faint of heart!

This game is an extremely enjoyable and addictive roguelike, There is a ton of gameplay elements.

It's Shiren the Wanderer, the game that introduced me to the roguelike genre on the Nintendo DS. It's probably best described as a J-roguelike. It does for roguelikes what JRPGs do for RPGs: more streamlined and character-driven than its Western counterparts, but still a really good time. As the fifth installment in the series, it's as polished and charming as ever. It's also a great entry point, with no prior knowledge required.