Pokemon MD Explorers of Sky vs Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island

[t3gk]

as you can guess, some persons like me really liked these pokemon series and now in PC and Steam there's just these games, so my question is what can I expect different? it is way more difficult? Thanks and have a nice day!

[Aepoh]

It may look familiar to you as a PMD fan but there’s no guarantee you’ll enjoy Shiren if you liked PMD. They are very very different games. Shiren is focused on being a roguelike/lite while PMD is more focused on being a sort of RPG adventure. In every dungeon in Shiren your level is reset back to 1 when you enter, while for PMD that sort of stuff only happens in dungeons like Zero Isle.

In PMD the focus is on team management and item planning, with a little bit of resource management.

In Shiren the focus is on item usage and resource management. You can get allies but they’re not much more than glorified meatshields and you don’t have much control over their AI.

In Shiren you’re not a pokemon. You don’t have moves. In fact the on thing Shiren can do withour items is a basic attack. So all of the emphasis is placed on smart item usage.

Yes it is significantly harder. In fact it’s likely to be one of the hardest games you will ever play. Your decision making and cognizances of the rules and systems will be tested thoroughly.

[t3gk]

Originally posted by Aepoh:

It may look familiar to you as a PMD fan but there’s no guarantee you’ll enjoy Shiren if you liked PMD. They are very very different games. Shiren is focused on being a roguelike/lite while PMD is more focused on being a sort of RPG adventure. In every dungeon in Shiren your level is reset back to 1 when you enter, while for PMD that sort of stuff only happens in dungeons like Zero Isle.

In PMD the focus is on team management and item planning, with a little bit of resource management.

In Shiren the focus is on item usage and resource management. You can get allies but they’re not much more than glorified meatshields and you don’t have much control over their AI.

In Shiren you’re not a pokemon. You don’t have moves. In fact the on thing Shiren can do withour items is a basic attack. So all of the emphasis is placed on smart item usage.

Yes it is significantly harder. In fact it’s likely to be one of the hardest games you will ever play. Your decision making and cognizances of the rules and systems will be tested thoroughly.

oh mama I gonna enjoy it so, thanks!