

Shiren can use an Escape Scroll to leave the tower with his items/equipment intact, and Undo Grass allows Shiren to escape when brought to the brink of his HP meter. Of course, there are several systems in place to make dungeon traversal a bit more lenient on the player. Collapse in the tower, however, and you'll be brought back the the base village at level 1, losing all your items. The goal is to collect items and equipment to survive in the tower, find the staircase to the next floor, and repeat until you get to the top. Most of the main game takes place in a linear sequence of tower floors. It is, without a doubt, one of the best looking games on the system. The colors especially look great on the OLED Vita screen, and the spritework scales quite well when played on a PlayStation TV. The sprite art-style used is as fantastic as it is nostalgic. This means the player controls Shiren in a turn-based fashion on a grid through randomly-generated dungeon floors. Shiren the Wanderer is a roguelike RPG in the Mystery Dungeon mold. In order to save Oyu, her sweetheart, Jirokichi, vows to climb the Tower of Fortune to meet with the God of Fate, Reeva. Within a few days, she is expected to pass on from this world. Here, they learn of the plight of Oyu, a young woman who has been stricken with an incurable disease. Shiren and his talking ferret companion, Koppa, happen onto the small but peaceful Inori village.

The narrative of Shiren 5 is fairly basic in scope.
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Luckily, Shiren games are not especially story focused and each stands on its own, so you don't have to be familiar with the series to jump in here. The game received an enhanced port for PlayStation Vita last year, and Aksys Games decided to give the series another localized entry with this one.

This title actually originally released on Nintendo DS in 2010, known as Shiren the Wanderer 5 in Japan. That brings us to Shiren The Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate. Of the main Shiren series, only two titles had previously received official English localizations: the 2006 Nintendo DS remake of the first Shiren Super Famicon game, and Shiren the Wanderer 3 on Nintendo Wii, originally released in 2008. Mystery Dungeon has also been further spun off featuring several other franchises as well, notably Pokémon, Chocobo's Dungeon, and last year's Etrian Mystery Dungeon. Shiren is a part of the larger Mystery Dungeon series, which originally worked as a spin-off to Dragon Quest. The Shiren the Wanderer series has had a spotty history of localization over its lifetime, not to mention a somewhat complex history in general.
