First introduced within the Japanese model of the September 2023 Nintendo Direct, Spike Chunsoft has confirmed that Shiren the Wanderer: The Thriller Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island is coming to the West, with a bodily launch set for twenty seventh February 2024.
The trailer above touches on the historical past of this roguelike Thriller Dungeon aspect sequence, which started in 1995 with Thriller Dungeon 2. Shiren the Warrior. As you’d count on, it seems that STWTMGOSI (yep, everybody’s going to be calling it that) will ship the sequence’ conventional dungeon-crawling whereas introducing some new quality-of-life options similar to “two varieties of reside search shows that can be utilized for various functions or the power to trace your individual steps on the mini-map.”
This is a narrative abstract from the sport’s official web site, plus some character artwork together with Koppa (“one of many final ‘speaking ferrets'”), Asuka (“A wandering swordswoman who’s previous mates with Shiren and Koppa.”), and Suzuna (a “cheerful innkeeper”):
Just a few months after their earlier journey in Tsukikage Village…
Shiren the Wanderer and Koppa, his speaking ferret associate, acquired a imaginative and prescient of a distant land and a lady in misery. It led them to the mysterious Serpentcoil Island.
However they don’t seem to be alone. Rumors communicate of misplaced pirate gold hidden away throughout the depths of Serpentcoil Island, and a strong monster at its highest mountain peak stated to carry an beautiful treasure in its stomach. Adventurers and warriors have flocked from everywhere in the realm, anticipating an opportunity at fortune.
What’s the connection between the thriller woman and the monster? What’s the reality behind the secrets and techniques and treasures scattered all through the island? A brand new journey for Shiren and Koppa begins!
The final recreation within the sequence, the amusingly titled Shiren the Wanderer: The Tower of Fortune and the Cube of Destiny (breathe) was a 2010, Japan-only DS title earlier than coming to PSP worldwide just a few years later, and ultimately to Change in 2020. We loved our time with that recreation — should you benefit from the repetition inherent to a dungeon-crawler of this nature, the winner of our Most Lengthy-Winded Recreation Title 2020 award suits the invoice properly.