Feature: Shiren The Wanderer Devs On Preserving Series' "Difficulty" And "Uniqueness"

“I made sure to preserve what I believed to be valuable”.

Shiren the Wanderer is one of the longest-running roguelike series in the world. Debuting back in 1995 as the second entry in the Mystery Dungeon series, Mystery Dungeon 2: Shiren the Wanderer introduced the world to the young boy who would explore many procedurally-generated dungeons over the next few decades.

Amazingly, despite being such a long-running franchise, there are actually only five mainline games in the series, and twelve in total (counting mobile games and spin-offs), but Shiren has a loyal following. In the West, we were oblivious to these endless tower-climbing, dungeon-trawling adventures until 2008’s punishingly difficult Wii title, Shiren the Wanderer.

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