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The flagship RPG series of Chunsoft, the Japanese publisher/developer who are most famous worldwide for ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]''. ''[[Shiren the Wanderer]]'' features [[roguelike]] gameplay, which is set against a fantasy version of feudal Japan. Most of the games have you control Shiren, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a wandering adventurer]] who wears a distinct 'kasa' hat. Only two games in the series have been released to Western audiences.
The series so far:
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[[Masato Kato]] is the scenario writer for the third game and was also involved in the fourth.
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* [[Action Bomb]]: Spike Bombs and their higher-level forms. If a Spike Bomb's health goes low enough, it explodes. Items adjacent to it are destroyed, and if you're next to it you'll be knocked down to 1 HP, unless you have a Blast Shield equipped. It doesn't even give you experience points if it blows up. In the case of regular Spike Bombs, they stop moving when they're down to 23 HP or less (out of 50), and they go boom at 10 HP or less.
* [[Aerith and Bob]]: In the third game, one of the villagers' names is Catherine. {{spoiler|Justified because her father was a foreigner. In the [[Tournament Arc]] it is also revealed that Eagle's name was Johnny, and he has a friend named Carl.}}
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* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: After Sensei lectures Koppa not to take any treasure from the Karakuri Treasury lest they become corrupted {{spoiler|like Jurouta and the Hyottoko Gang}}, it is revealed at the end that ''both'' Sensei and Asuka took a bunch of treasure.
* [[It's All Upstairs From Here]]: Subverted except for the final part of the main dungeon, where you're trying to scale Table Mountain.
* [[Import Gaming]]: The only way you'll get to play any of the games besides the first and third if you're not Japanese. But it is surprisingly easier to import this particular game, as even if you understand Japanese, it's mostly just trial and error; and most of the games are on the region-free DS. (And there are translations on [https://web.archive.org/web/20130404075752/http://shiren.wetpaint.com/ this website].)
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: In the first game, there are two swords and a shield that must be upgraded to their maximum possible level before you can upgrade them AGAIN to create the better equipment. Only one of the swords is derived from a common weapon, and that one is the [[Penultimate Weapon]]. Also, there is a special pot that can combine items together to get a new item that has the properties of all the items put into it.
** The best possible weapon in the first game is a {{spoiler|[[Long List|[gold] [dragon] [crit] [sickle] [homing] [x3] [cyclops] [drain] [meat] [*] [air] [kigny] [unbreakable dig]]] Kabra Reborn+99.}} The best possible shield is a {{spoiler|[gold] [dragon] [hide] [spiked] [evade] [*] [walrus] [prism] [gaze] [kigny] Stormward+99.}} It takes some doing to get all that, and there's nothing you can do to stop it from being turned into a riceball or thrown into an unreachable place, during or after the process of making it.
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