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

Sometimes, just sometimes this game hates me. My wife died on level eight. I tried to rescue her three times and failed each time. I can’t fail to reach level eight three times in a row! But I did.

I died on level seventeen last night. That’s the furthest I’ve ever got. I’ll do that again, though, one day. I might even get as far as level eighteen! After that, my wife needed rescuing. She’d died on level three but had already found some cool stuff, so wanted reviving. She sent me a request

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,