During boss fights having backup is invaluable either as a second attacker or dedicated healer.
SHIREN THE WANDERER FULL
You can either take full control over them or set up AI commands. Joining Shiren on his journey are two allies who will follow him into the dungeons. Fortunately you will not have to go alone. I cannot talk about any of the boss fights for obvious spoiler reasons. Since you are going to have to fight them after braving through their dungeon, you'll have to balance out being prepared for both the normal enemies you'll face and the final fight at the end. I enjoyed the boss fights as a challenge waiting for you. Moving on boss fights mark the end of every dungeon, a unique foe is waiting for you and other then being immune to certain items each fight plays out differently. In STW the only way you are going to find the good stuff is to survive long enough to reach the later dungeons.
You could stumble on a powerful weapon on the first map of the game or nothing it gave the game a greater sense of excitement. One of the selling points of Shiren DS was the fact that you could find anything at anytime. However one complaint I do have is the fact that items seem to be set on a dungeon by dungeon basis. To be honest I prefer this way to one long dungeon as it allows the designers to be more creative in the dungeon styles and gives the player a greater sense of accomplishment and allows them to see their progress.
SHIREN THE WANDERER SERIES
The designers at Chunsoft have realized that not a lot of people like getting killed repeatedly and have made several changes to the formula.įirst I want to talk about the dungeons this style was used in the Izuma series (rogue like on the DS). To say that these games are not made for novice gamers is an understatement, as death takes away all those sweet items you have accumulated over your play through. The variety of ways to fail in Shiren is staggering, you can have your weapons weaken, permanently destroyed, experience levels lost, beaten up by a shopkeeper among many other ways. You will die in STW and most often it will probably be your fault. These are titles that have a huge difficulty curve made up by very explicit game mechanics and randomize dungeons lots and lots of randomize dungeons. A sequel in a sense to the Nintendo DS game, STW is our second taste of the series that was once a Japanese exclusive.įor those that missed the first one, the Shiren series is from the rogue like sub genre of RPGS. There are two types of difficult games in my opinion, games that are hard because of challenging the player with specific mechanics and games that are hard because of imbalanced decisions, Shiren The Wanderer (or STW) for the Nintendo Wii sticks with the former.
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