Shiren the Wanderer: Difference between revisions

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The series so far:

** Shiren journeys to the Golden City on Table Mountain, where the Golden Condor resides.

** Natane Village keeps getting invaded by Onis, so the townfolk beseech Shiren to build them a fortress.

* ''Shiren the Wanderer 3: The Sleeping Princess of Karakuri Mansion'' (2008, [[Wii]])

** Shiren encounters the Dragon's Maw and a seemingly quaint village. {{spoiler|The villagers transform into monsters at night}}.

* ''Shiren the Wanderer GB2: The Bedeviled Castle'' (2000, [[Game Boy|GBC]]) (2008, [[Nintendo DS]])

* ''Shiren the Wanderer [[Gaiden Game|Gaiden]]: The Swordswoman Asuka!'' (2002, [[Dreamcast]], [[PC]])

** Asuka, from "Shiren 2", and Koppa have their own little adventure in Tenrin County, where they encounter ninjas and some sort of plant demon. Also, there's a massive post-game. This is notable for being the only Shiren game where he isn't the player avatar.

 

 

For the first in the series, there is a SNES version (which was never released outside of Japan) and a DS version. [http://agtp.romhack.net/project.php?id=shiren Aeon Genesis has been kind enough to provide a translation patch for the SNES version.] The lone Wii installment was most recent ''Shiren'' to be released outside Japan; [[No Export for You|don't hold your breath for more]]. Meanwhile, ''Shiren 5'' had a December 2010 release, less than a year after the previous game. It was the first ''Shiren'' in a while to be published directly by Chunsoft themselves.

[[Masato Kato]] is the scenario writer for the third game and was also involved in the fourth.

 

* [[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.}}

* [[Excuse Plot]]: All you need to know is that you have to get through 30 levels of dungeon to finish the first game. Complete mastery of the game is another matter...

* [[Fire-Breathing Diner]]: Dragon Herbs will let you breath fire. Also, Dragon meats will allow you to turn into a dragon and breath fire on command.

* [[Fusion Dance]]: In the third game: Kotodama + Kodama = Kotodamakodama.

* [[Fighting Your Friend]]: Asuka in the third game.

* [[Goddamned Bats]]: Where to start? We have undead Radishes that throw status-inflicting herbs at you, those annoying archers/tanks that move away from you while firing projectiles, reapers that move twice as fast and hit hard, skeleton mages that throw all sorts of random effects at you...

** On a much larger scale, the entirety of Shiren 3 outside of Japan. There is literally no guide to this game on ''any'' website, and the only resource available only describes some of the equipment. Especially frustrating when fighting a [[Puzzle Boss]].

* [[Hammerspace]]: The treasures of Karakuri Palace's Treasury. [[Lampshaded]] by Sensei:

* [[Have a Nice Death]]: The game records your stats and what you had equipped at the time of your death, as well as the cause of death.

** You can also earn "achievements" for dying in unique or stupid ways.

* [[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.

* [[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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