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Mystery Accessory: Koppa the Adorable Wiimote Stand
We didn't realize until about five minutes ago how badly we needed a Wiimote stand, but now we're pretty sure we're going to die of hypo-standia without one. Specifically, the promotional Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 3 Wiimote stand seen here (in concept art), in the shape of Shiren's weasel companion Koppa.Thanks to Sega, the novelty Wiimote stand will be the Wii's version of the novelty stylus, and we could not be more okay with that. What we could be more okay with, however, is the method of obtaining one of these. It's a limited-edition preorder gift for the game (due Febuary 28th), and we're not about to spend the $60+ on an unusable Japanese disc just to get one of these Wiimote stands to serve a function that we didn't know existed.But we thought about it. [Via GAME Watch]
Mystery Gallery: Shiren the Wanderer
Sega has posted some new screens of their Roguelike remake, Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer DS, and they look ... pretty. Even though we probably can't handle the actual game, we appreciate the Japan-centric setting (or really any setting that isn't Generic Medieval RPG Land). While the graphics look pretty much identical to the Super Famicom game (the backgrounds are completely identical), we think we can see subtle improvements in color and sprite definition. Or maybe we're imagining things.Chances are you won't be concentrating too much on the nice graphics, anyway, instead focusing entirely on staving off yet another death. We're curious to see how American gamers react to such an anachronistically hardcore game when it arrives in February.%Gallery-11488%[Via GamesPress]
Shiren's mysterious tote bag
Sega is selling a "DX Pack" of Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 3 from their SegaDirect online store, like they are for NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams (and also Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity). While the included swag doesn't approach the elfin cuteness of the NiGHTS figurine or the spinniness of the keychain, it's much more, uh, spacious.Along with a telephone card (whose design has yet to be shown) the DX Pack of Shiren 3 will include this handsome tote bag. Buying video games just wasn't enough like donating to PBS. DX Packs will either come with the telephone card (8,680 yen, or $79) or without (8,000 yen, or $73). This isn't the first time Sega has handed these things out -- the same bag was packed in with copies of Shiren the Wanderer DS.[Via Famitsu]
Mystery Dungeon site opens, travelers begin descending into it
Sega has opened the promotional site for Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer, providing further comfort for those of us as yet unsure it'll really come out. The page confirms the February release that has been previously announced. And, to soothe our worry a bit more, there are some English screenshots! That's encouraging.The website outlines some of the new DS-specific features in the RPG remake, including what may be one of the weirdest uses of the DS's Internet capabilities yet. When you die (which you will, frequently), you can "summon another player to revive you via Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection." We suggest buying this game in pairs and coordinating a buddy system for optimal chance of rescue.[Via GoNintendo]
A supernatural advantage in Shiren the Wanderer 3
You're likely to need all the help you can get in Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 3, whether it comes from enchanted weapons, scrolls, or -- for the first time -- talismans called o-fuda. While o-fuda are used in Shinto tradition to ward off harm from a home or family, their effects are a little more direct within the Mystery Dungeon. Shiren uses o-fuda to afflict status ailments on monsters.Another advantage new to this entry: other characters. It's rare in a roguelike to have someone around who not only isn't a monster, but will in fact help you kill monsters. Not that any of this matters. Only the most dedicated, and luckiest, players will do anything in the game besides die. We have to keep telling ourselves that before we get sucked in to basically the hardest RPG on the Wii.
Shiren the Wanderer DS coming to the U.S., for real this time
Soon after we spotted Shiren the Wanderer DS on GameStop's online store, it disappeared. We thought that maybe GameStop was trying to make us look like lying jerks, or that maybe one of their employees was trying to will a localized version into existence.Well, that fictional employee's totally-made-up plan worked, because Sega announced that Shiren the Wanderer DS will be released in America in 2008. This is the same kind of Mysterious Dungeon gameplay seen in Izuna and the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games, only more brutal. It seems like the perfect handheld game to occupy thousands and thousands of hours. Or, in our case, fifteen agonizingly frustrating minutes.
TGS07: Mysterious Trailer: Shiren the Wanderer 3
A monster randomly dropped this trailer after we killed it, and we had to carry it around for a while until we found a Scroll of Trailer Identify. We were afraid it was going to be something useless like a trailer for Super Glove Ball, but we lucked out! A +3 Video of Shiren the Wanderer!It was then a matter of posting it before we died and had to go find another one.
Plenty of Sega screens to go around
Sega is releasing a lot of potentially awesome stuff in the near future (in Japan), including NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams, Ghost Squad, and Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer 3. They showed these products (and some stuff for other systems or whatever) to some lucky Japanese gamers at a consumer conference, and sent some new screens out to the rest of us poor folks.We're happy just to stare at some screens, however, as they are all filled with excellence! Except for this one from NiGHTS. The screens from Shiren the Wanderer are old, but still nice-looking. NiGHTS is actually looking good, and Ghost Squad's got ninjas and bikini girls in it. The only thing that could have made this bounty of screens any more exciting would have been new Mibri & Tebri content. Next time, maybe.
