Mystery Dungeon: Shiren The Wanderer (DS)

Woke up this morning to an email from 1:18am last night from my wife, telling me she’d sent me a rescue request. So I spent my lunchtime on a quest to rescue her from the marshes. Didn’t have any anti-drain armlets and my sword wasn’t plated so I rushed through the final coupe of floors,

I got to level twenty-eight today, by some way the best I’ve ever done. Things had got silly by that point. My weapon and shield had disappeared somehow – I missed any message because so much happened at once – and I was just using all my precious scrolls trying to stay alive. Eventually things

In normal games I didn’t do too well today, but I picked up loads of good stuff rescuing my wife a couple of times.

This lunchtime I got to level sixteen. I knew I was going to die around there because I’d rushed through a few levels before Mountaintop Top so I could reunite a lost girl with her parents. Consequently I was rather under-levelled and I left most of my good stuff in storage, then, basically, wandered off

My DS arrived back from repair yesterday, so I decided to play this, as it’s been waiting for me for weeks. I was slightly worried, I must admit. I very much enjoy roguelike games, but the only one I’ve tried from this developer was Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, which I found tedious in the extreme. Luckily,