Shiren briefly returned to consoles, but Chunsoft is developing the next core title for the Nintendo DS.

Atlus picked up Shiren the Wanderer, which is exciting and totally unexpected news. When I got the announcement something seemed out of place. The Nintendo Wi-Fi logo was missing from the Japanese box art.

Atlus made sure to keep some tricks up their sleeve for E3 week. One of those is Shiren the Wanderer 3 for Wii, which is currently slated for a 2010 release in North America.

Mystery Dungeon Shiren the Wanderer DS 2: Demon Castle in the Desert begins with a weary Shiren wandering in the desert. After Shiren collapses he is dragged away by guards and chained to the wall in a dungeon. Koppa is bound too so it looks like there isn’t any hope of escaping until a mysterious [...]

There are many more Nintendo Wi-Fi community features for Shiren’s second DS game and these are things you can’t experience from playing it at Tokyo Game Show (thanks for the tip crow!!). In addition to dungeon rescues introduced in the previous DS Shiren game, Mystery Dungeon Shiren the Wanderer DS 2: Demon Castle in the [...]

Tokyo Game Show isn’t the best place to sit down with Mystery Dungeon Shiren the Wanderer DS 2: Demon Castle in the Desert since it’s a mutable experience determined by random dungeons and even more random item drops. This could be the result of blind luck or a simplified demo, but the first stage in [...]

Wanderers pack your riceballs and get ready to set out on November 13. That’s when Sega will release Mystery Dungeon Shiren the Wanderer: Demon Castle in the Desert in Japan. The “sequel” isn’t a direct follow up and this isn’t a remake of the Nintendo 64 game. Fushigi no Dungeon Fuurai no Shiren DS 2: [...]

Sega hasn’t revealed much about Fushigi no Dungeon Fuurai no Shiren DS 2: Sabaku no Majou (Mystery Dungeon Shiren the Wanderer: Demon Castle in the Desert) on the main page. They don’t even have a release window on it, but Mystery Dungeon fans living in Japan won’t have to wait much longer to get their [...]

Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer is getting a DS sequel, and it is another remake. Interestingly, Chunsoft chose to remake the second Game Boy Shiren game instead of the proper Nintendo 64 sequel to Shiren the Wanderer.   I suppose the source material doesn’t matter too much because Fushigi no Dungeon Fuurai no Shiren DS [...]

Sega is adding a touch of class to their Mystery Dungeon Shiren the Wanderer 3: The Sleeping Princess in the Clockwork Palace commercial. The short advertisement has Shiren smacked, slashed and bonked on the head by rocks on beat to the opening notes of Symphony No. 5. Take a look in the video below.   [...]

Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer: The Sleeping Princess in the Clockwork Palace, as its called on Nintendo’s financial report, is about to come out in Japan. That means its time for Sega to start promoting it and they are starting with two videos on the official Shiren 3 page. One of them is the opening [...]

Justin sent over a link to Nintendo’s end of fiscal year 2008 report (thanks!!) that contains a handy calendar of upcoming releases in English. Oh, Daigasso! Band Brothers DX will come out in Japan on June 26. Disaster: Day of Crisis is scheduled for a release on July 3. Great.   Justin went a step [...]

After an initial delay, Fushigi no Dungeon Furai no Shiren 3: Karakuri Yashiki no Nemuri Hime (Mystery Dungeon Shiren the Wanderer 3: The Sleeping Princess in Karakuri Mansion) will come out in Japan on June 5th. You could casually purchase Shiren 3 after it comes out, but Sega has a tempting offer to attract reservations. [...]

Like some of you I’ve been playing Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer, but instead of trying my best to avoid Mini Robbers and Mamels I purposely died at the beginning of the journey to test out the online rescue system.   Once Shiren falls the game saves and you’re given the option to use up [...]