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Hello, and welcome to Episode 2 of this Doofy Doo Talk Through of Shiren the Wanderer: Mystery
Dungeon Part 2... for you. When we last left Shiren, I was getting ready to start my ascent
up... Table Mountain. One of the things that differentiates Shiren from other Roguelikes
are these warehouses. If you have an item you really really don't wanna lose, you can
put it in the warehouse and after you die it'll still be there. But, we are not gonna
use that because that is for weaklings. For the main game, you really don't need to use
the warehouse. For some of the postgame dungeons where you really have to grind a little bit,
uh, we will be using the warehouses. It is important to talk to everyone, a lot of them have useful
information, Spinning Senzo... not so much - although Hey! This is kind of fun! "Hey
little kid! Hey, check this out! Can you do this? Eh? Pretty Cool! Eh? What do you say
to that, Little Bie? I guess that makes your mom a Big B huh? Huhuhuh! Yeah... hey Little
Bie, I think I got something stuck in my teeth, take a look! BAM!" Oooh... did I just incinerate
a small child? I'll confess my sin to this missionary. Another new addition to the remake
is this rescue feature where you can actually, via password, rescue another wanderer and
they don't have to lose all their items. But we will not be using the rescue feature because
we are manly and womanly gamers, and if I die, I'll just start over. But I am professional
Rogue, so usually I don't die on the main game. And Shazaam! We're starting the actual
game. Already lots of loot on the ground. It's important to ID any unidentified magical
staves as soon as possible so you know what they do. I'm gonna mow through a few enemies,
oh I got two already, I'll test them out on this poor cosplayer. The Pine Staff... apparently
does nothing, that could be any one of three different staffs. The Oak Staff Hoho! is the
best staff of all... the one that makes all our problems go away... until later. As usual,
you wanna explore the entire floor layout. "Creepy Eh?" Tentacles! What is it with the
Japanese and tentacles? Only they would make some item that has tentacles come up and rip
all your clothes off. Ohho! Speaking of which, "Hello, purple-haired lady. You're not bad
looking yourself. Oh make me feel special, I will close my eyes for you. Uhhuh I'm totally
relaxed you're... you're gonna do something right? Hey, my eyes are closed, totally closed.
Oh... be gentle, be gentle. Oww! Noo!" I am blinded. And we learn our first real life
lesson from Shiren the Wanderer: Never trust a strange beautiful woman in the woods - I
just killed something, I don't know what it was. Well, I can see again, she didn't take
any money! So uh, let me just - Ooh! Oh wait! She took my friggin' kidney. *sigh* That's
okay, I've got another one. I can still filter my urea successfully. Wait! Did you just hear
that? Here, listen. Every time I take damage that other Mini Robber is taking some damage
too. That tells us that first uh mystery staff was the Staff of Pain Sharing which you can
imagine comes in handy if you want to hurt someone with really good defense. Now, an
Iron Shield on the second floor, let's put this bad bo - an Iron Shield plus two! Well,
we've already pretty much got all the items we need to finish the main game. I mean, this
is amazing luck. He's right, those tentacles do feel pretty good. "Come on tentacles come
out.. tentacles! Oh, there you are - oooh you like to watch don't you Mamel?" I think
we just solved the mystery of the *** Mamel. He likes to watch the unequip trap
rip the clothes off of people for his jollies - what a sick *** - this is a family show!
If you play this game a lot, you'll start to notice that these first few floors - there
really aren't a lot of options for the floor layouts so... you might actually uh... start
to memorize the different floors... as I have. I'll talk to this dog. Pants Weasel can speak
dog! "You hittin' on that dog Pants Weasel? A little interspecies romance?" To Sabu the
Savvy. "Yes Sabu," we already talked about monsters leveling up. "Cowabunga! I regret
nothing!" Hey, another dragon herb, that'll come in handy. Kanji the Patient - look at
that Chicken Hawk up there, he's like, "Excuse me Sir, I want to stab this gentleman over
here. Could you - could you guys wrap up your conversation please? Sir? Excuse Me?" Ooh!
And he actually got a hit in! Wow, a lucky little Mini - Aaaah! I meant to hit B. Yes,
yes, Katana+15 you already told me about that! You're wasting my valuable wandering time!
"Hey, hey dude, check this out! There's something in my mouth! *lauhs* BAM! Where's your Katana+15
now? *chuckles*" Seriously, I was kinda hoping he would drop that thing, but it's okay I've
got a Polearm+1, almost as good. Some people, when they start playing Shiren, play it like
a regular RPG they - they grind and get their level up high and... get some absurdly powerful
weapon and shield... and then they die and lose it and they cry and then they never play
again. That's - that's what I did the first time I played, but... if you stick it out,
and just uh go through the game with whatever the floor happens to give you, eventually
you're gonna make it through as you - as you power up your knowledge. For it is not the
character that gets more powerful in a Roguelike, but it is you, the player, and I really love
that the emphasis is on learning rather than materialism and mindless grinding... although
I do love loot. That Thrower NPC I just talked to was telling us about throwing staves and
they meat system which is pretty bizarre in Shiren. If you eat a piece of monster meat,
you will become whatever monster the meat is. If you throw monster meat, whatever you
hit with it will become that type of monster. So uh... you can - Hey! Speaking of materialism,
look at all this gold! I'm a thousandaire on floor three! So if you can imagine if you
had a pork chop - if you ate the pork chop you would become a pig in this game, and if
you threw the pork chop and hit someone in the face, they would become a pig, so pretty
bizarre, but you get used to it. Not unlike a romantic evening with Doofy Doo. That's
our first ranged enemy the Bowboy, dropped some arrows - arrows are the most useful item
in the game, because they're so easy to come by and they have a lot of... practical uses.
Here's another new enemy - I'll throw my worthless Cudgel at him. Bam! A Chintala. Now I'll demonstrate
how not to fight a ranged enemy - walking straight at this Bowboy taking arrow to the
face, but since I have an iron shield so early, it really doesn't matter. More delicious arrows,
I want them all. That Chintala looks like a... chubby cat with its arms chopped off.
If you can imagine that in real life, it's horrifying. Already, too many items! Once
you have twenty items, you gotta make some room. I'll eat this healing item, increase
my max health a bit. Here we come to the Snaky, half-man, half-cobra. If I didn't have a shield
at this point, which happens in a lot of runs, that Snaky would probably kill me in two or
three hits. But, I am well-nigh invulnerable with my Iron Shield of Majesty. Well-nigh
the Invulnerable Guy! This floor is done! And already we are at the second village!
I'll talk to this ginder dude. "Hey strong ginger man. That woman came on to me too.
Yes - Chubby Man? Woah! Kill her?! That's a little extreme... she just blinded me and
stole my kidney... innocent little children though, who aren't impressed when you spin
around in front of them... those... those deserve to be incinerated on sight." I'll
go into this store, "Did you just spank that Pumpkin Man? Uh, should you really say that?
He's standing right there. Hello Shopboy. No, my name is Doofy Doo. Alright, I will
humor you. My name is Shiren. Uhhuh..." And we meet one of the main characters you can
adventure with, Pekeji, your kid brother. A Pekeji is what happens when... the Michelin
Man gets drunk and has sex with a pumpkin. Look at him down there, his man *** jiggling
back and forth. The store system in Roguelikes is... kind of strange. It took me a long time
to learn how to sell things. I kept talking to the shopkeeper like, "Huh? I wanna sell
stuff, but he- he doesn't ask me if I wanna sell anything!" You actually just put things
on the ground and pick them up, and talk to him. Can you imagine if in Target you had
like, boxes of cereal and pots and pans just randomly spread across the floor. Just throw
something on the ground, "How much will you give me for this?" That's the way it works
in this game. A couple Pain sharing staffs as I was talking about... mystery staff - I
might buy that Medicinal Herb. The Shopkeeper is, like Tom Nook, the most powerful character
in this game universe, you do not wanna mess with him. The Sheriff is a little stronger
but, the Shopkeeper is the guy you see the most... he will rock your world. It is possible
to steal things, and I will demonstrate that later, but right now... I kinda wanna live
so... I will abide by the law. Head into the blacksmith, "Logan! Is that you?" I'll go
ahead and give my Polearm+1 to this Wolverine-ish blacksmith. In a modern game, this would be
a thirty second CG cutscene, but BAM! Already my Polearm+1 is ready and has become a Polearm+2.
Head up to the top of this town, this is where a bonus stage opens up later - talk to my
sweetie, the Smith's Apprentice. "That rock you're looking at... I'm not gonna say what
it's shaped like, but I think we all know. It's not a vagenis either... a big stone dildonicus."
Talk to the Fortuneteller - speaking of fortunes, a lot of people when they first come to Shiren,
they assume the game is luck-based mainly because they uh... die a few times to things
that seem unfair. But, if you learn every time you die, eventually you'll realize that
nothing - almost nothing - can happen to you that you can't prepare for in advance. Go
to the bar, talk to Pecs. "Yeah, I was surprised too. I don't know, and I don't care... Woah!
Gettin' kinda heavy Pecs... rescued a baby from a hawk. Uhhuh...Well, there are a lot
of Shirens running about there so... *chuckles* Are you saying I look like a pumpkin? No,
I do not get that. I... just established that I am not stupid. Yes, I would mind... Awww,
now I feel bad. Yeah... I-I'll do that. Boy's dumber than a bag of hammers." Talk to this
barkeep, and he does not give us a riceball, but he tells us about the most hated enemy
in the game, the Rice Changer. The thing about Roguelikes is, no item is safe, you can have
a glorious sword you spent four hours crafting and BAM! in one second it's a riceball...
it's heartbreaking when it happens. We'll meet the Rice Changer next time on Shiren
the Wanderer. "Hey, strike a pose Sexy Blinding Lady. I'll talk to you later too." Shiren's
got a Pants Weasel, he'll spin around in place, he won't tell you his plan. He got a fresh
Dragon Herb hangin' from his mouth, he's a Wanderer. He found a Polearm+1 sittin' on
the ground on Old Cedar Road. He likes the feel of tentacles, and he's comin' for you,
yeah he's comin' for you. All the NPC's like Little Bie better run, better run... outrun
my flamebreath. "I-I'm totally relaxed... you're, you're gonna do something right?"