Shiren the Wanderer 4: The Eye of God and the Devil's Navel

Shiren the Wanderer 4: The Eye of God and the Devil's Navel[lower-alpha 1] is a role-playing video game developed by Chunsoft and published by Spike. It is the fourth main entry in the Shiren the Wanderer series, which itself is a part of the larger Mystery Dungeon series. The game was originally released for the Nintendo DS in 2010; an expanded port was released for the PlayStation Portable in 2012 entitled Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 4 Plus: The Eye of God and the Devil's Navel[lower-alpha 2].

Shiren the Wanderer 4: The Eye of God and the Devil's Navel
PlayStation Portable cover art
Developer(s)Chunsoft
Publisher(s)
Director(s)Koichi Nakamura (DS)
Tokihiro Naito (PSP)
Producer(s)Shin-ichiro Tomi
Designer(s)Takashi Matsui
Fuyuhiko Koizumi
Programmer(s)Naomi Kaneda
Artist(s)Kaoru Hasegawa
Writer(s)Masato Kato
Composer(s)Hayato Matsuo
SeriesMystery Dungeon
Platform(s)Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable
ReleaseNintendo DS
  • JPN: February 25, 2010
PlayStation Portable
  • JPN: October 18, 2012
Genre(s)Role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

Shiren the Wanderer 4 is a role-playing video game in which the player explores dungeons that change each time they enter them and that are home to monsters.[1] The game has a day-and-night system; when it gets dark, the dungeons get more difficult to navigate, and the type of monsters that are encountered are stronger.[2] Dungeons consist of several rooms that are connected through narrow hallways; in some hallways, there are traps set up.[3] At some points in dungeons, the player can hide behind doors that they can attack through but that enemies cannot pass through.[4]

Plot

After Shiren and the talking weasel Koppa suffer a shipwreck, they are found by the inhabitants of an island, who think they are monsters; they are tied to a stake, but are saved by the game's heroine, Kamina. As a result, Kamina gets tied up herself by a jaguar priest who sends Shiren to find the Jaguar's Eye to prove that he is not a demon.[4]

Development

The game was developed by Chunsoft, and published by Spike.[2] It was originally released for the Nintendo DS in Japan on February 25, 2010;[5] an expanded version, Shiren the Wanderer 4 Plus, which includes three new dungeons and Twitter support, was released by Spike Chunsoft for the PlayStation Portable on October 18, 2012.[6] Tokihiro Naito was the director for this version, and was chosen for his work on role-playing games such as Hydlide.[7]

Reception

The Nintendo DS version was the 7th best selling video game in Japan during its debut week, with 41,000 copies sold.[9] Chunsoft's CEO, Koichi Nakamura, said that this was below expectations, something he attributed to scheduling issues, which had led to a lack of promotion for the game and the inability to create a pre-order bonus.[10] The PlayStation Portable version debuted in 15th place on Media Create's weekly list of the twenty best selling video games in Japan, with 6,368 copies sold;[11] on its second week, it had dropped off the chart.[12] By the end of 2012, it was the 416th best selling video game in Japan, with a total of 18,028 copies sold.[13]

Notes
  1. Known in Japan as Fushigi no Dungeon: Fūrai no Shiren 4: Kami no Hitomi to Akuma no Heso (Japanese: 不思議のダンジョン 風来 (ふうらい)のシレン4 神 (かみ)の眼 (ひとみ)と悪魔 (あくま)のヘソ, Hepburn: Fushigi no Danjon Fūrai no Shiren 4 Kami no Me to Akuma no Heso, lit. Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 4: Eye of God and the Devil's Navel).
  2. Known in Japan as Fushigi no Dungeon: Fūrai no Shiren 4 Plus: Kami no Hitomi to Akuma no Heso (Japanese: 不思議のダンジョン 風来 (ふうらい)のシレン4plus 神 (かみ)の眼 (ひとみ)と悪魔 (あくま)のヘソ, Hepburn: Fushigi no Danjon Fūrai no Shiren 4 Plus Kami no Me to Akuma no Heso, lit. Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 4 Plus: Eye of God and the Devil's Navel).

References
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