Finished Shiren last night, or technically it’s called Mystery Dungeon. Neither are strong names, but Mystery Dungeon is especially bad for being bland and mostly inaccurate. I was dead for most of the morning because it’s an easy game to bleed away your night.
I said it before, but it really is a charming game. Early on you’re crushing everything in every level. By the end you’re scrabbling past foes because you know you only need to make it to the next staircase, xp be damned. It forces you to change play mechanics on the fly, and utilize every item. And then once it’s over, the whole game celebrates, a bar wench makes as blunt of a pass as an E rated game will let them get away with, and half a dozen more story-driven continuations, each with it’s own play twist, open up.
