Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate

Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate[lower-alpha 2] is a roguelike role-playing video game developed by Chunsoft. It is the fifth main entry in the Shiren the Wanderer series, which is a subset of the larger Mystery Dungeon series. It was originally released for the Nintendo DS in 2010 in Japan.

Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate
Cover art featuring Shiren
Developer(s)Chunsoft[lower-alpha 1]
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Hideyuki Shinozake (Vita)
Producer(s)Frank "Bo" deWindt II (Vita)
Yasuhiro Iizuka
Designer(s)Asuka Honda
Ryota Kawasaki
Seiichiro Nagahata
Programmer(s)Masayasu Yamamoto
Hiroaki Sakabe
Toru Sadamasa
Artist(s)Kaoru Hasegawa
Writer(s)Masato Kato
Composer(s)Hayato Matsuo
SeriesMystery Dungeon
Platform(s)
ReleaseDS
  • JP: December 9, 2010
Vita
  • JP: June 4, 2015
  • NA/EU: July 26, 2016
NS, Win
  • WW: December 2, 2020
  • JP: December 3, 2020
Genre(s)Roguelike, role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

An expanded version[lower-alpha 3] was released for the PlayStation Vita in 2015 in Japan and in 2016 in North America and Europe. A further expanded version for Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows, featuring additional dungeons, was released in 2020.[1]

Gameplay

The Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate is a roguelike role-playing video game in which the player traverses randomized dungeons and fights monsters.[2][3] In dungeons, the player can find treasures, as well as items and equipment that they can collect and use.[2] If the player dies, they lose their items, their level resets to one, the dungeons change, and the monsters change positions.[4] The game has a day-and-night system; as the in-game sun sets, the player character's vision decreases, making it impossible to see enemies that are too far away. At some points in dungeons, the player needs to solve puzzles.[5]

Plot

The story is set between the events of Shiren the Wanderer DS2 and Shiren the Wanderer 3, and follows Shiren,[5] a wanderer and silent protagonist, who is accompanied by Koppa, a talking ferret.[3] The two are climbing the Tower of Fortune, as they have heard legends of a god that can change their fate.[5][6] The story begins as Oyu, a young girl from a small town, suffers from an illness and Jirokichi, her childhood friend, goes forth towards the tower to change her fate. They are guided through the tower by Tao, a girl in a panda suit,[6] and encounter other characters thorough the story: Okon and Koharu; Gen; and Kojirouta. Shiren and Jirokichi eventually climb the tower to fight against the ruler of fate himself, Reeva.

Development

The game was originally released in Japan by Chunsoft for the Nintendo DS on December 9, 2010. Pre-ordered copies of the game were bundled with a soundtrack CD and a booklet about the series' history.[7] As a crossover promotion, a Nonary Game bracelet from Chunsoft's Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors was included as an in-game item.[8]

PlayStation Vita port

In commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the Shiren the Wanderer series, a PlayStation Vita version, Shiren the Wanderer 5 Plus, which includes additional dungeons and the ability to look around using the right stick, was announced in December 2014.[9] It was released by Spike Chunsoft on June 4, 2015 in Japan,[10] and by Aksys Games on July 26, 2016 in North America and Europe.[3]

Nintendo Switch and Steam ports

In August 2019, during an event promoting Steam China at The International 2019 Dota 2 Tournament held in Shanghai, a Microsoft Windows version was implied to be in development, although no official announcement had been made at the time.[11] Later, on March 26, 2020, a Nintendo Switch version was announced, featuring new dungeons.[12] A localization of the Nintendo Switch version was announced on June 23, 2020, as well as confirmation of the Microsoft Windows version.[1] It was released worldwide on December 2, 2020. More details were shared to the ports; they would feature three brand new dungeons, a livestream display and the game being translated in both traditional and simplified Chinese, making it the first Shiren the Wanderer game to have an official Chinese translation.[13][14] An english physical release, held by Limited Run Games, would later be released in January 12, 2021[15]

Reception

The game was well received by critics on PlayStation Vita and Nintendo Switch, according to review aggregator Metacritic,[18][16] where it was the sixth-best reviewed PlayStation Vita game of 2016.[31]

Sales

The Nintendo DS version sold 65,137 copies by the end of 2011 and an additional 16,573 copies sold from the Chunsoft Selection edition of the same game by the end of 2012. Granting a total of 81,710 copies sold in Japan.[32][33] The PlayStation Vita version debuted on second place on Media Create's weekly list of best-selling video games in Japan, with 16,224 copies sold;[34] on its second week, it sank to ninth place with 6,060 copies,[35] and on its third it sank to thirteenth place with 3,553 copies sold.[36] By the end of 2015, it was the 168th best selling game of the year in Japan with 25,681 copies.[37] The Nintendo Switch version debuted on twelfth place on Famitsu's weekly list of best-selling video games in Japan, with 19,594 copies sold, and sixth place in Japan's Top 20 best-selling games on the Nintendo eShop of December 2020.[38][39] According to Steam Spy, the Steam release has sold over 20,000 copies.[40]

Notes
  1. Subsequent releases developed by Spike Chunsoft
  2. Known in Japan as Fushigi no Dungeon: Fūrai no Shiren 5: Fortune Tower to Unmei no Dice (Japanese: 不思議のダンジョン 風来 (ふうらい)のシレン5 フォーチュンタワーと運命 (うんめい)のダイス, Hepburn: Fushigi no Danjon Fūrai no Shiren 5 Fōchun Tawā to Unmei no Daisu, lit. Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 5: Fortune Tower and the Dice of Fate).
  3. Known in Japan as Fushigi no Dungeon: Fūrai no Shiren 5 Plus: Fortune Tower to Unmei no Dice (Japanese: 不思議のダンジョン 風来 (ふうらい)のシレン5plus フォーチュンタワーと運命 (うんめい)のダイス, Hepburn: Fushigi no Danjon Fūrai no Shiren 5 Plus Fōchun Tawā to Unmei no Daisu, lit. Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 5 Plus: Fortune Tower and the Dice of Fate).

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