Shiren the Wanderer for Wii Reviews by Gamers

It is not a good sign when the leading character is a carefree wanderer. All you do is go from here to there without a care. Story? Who needs a story? Who cares if the leading characters do the right thing or not if all they do is walk mindlessly from one place to another?
In Shiren the Wanderer, you play as the title character, and you and your Sensei are our to find a castle.
But all this is just an excuse for you to do some dungeon crawling (like many RPGs) This part of the game has you and your partner(s) wandering about, beating up monsters, gathering up money. It is also the part that many RPG players will enjoy. (I find some of the dungeons a little too large and repetitive for my tastes).
It would be even better if this game wasn’t stuck in last gen mode, but it is. The graphics are lacking, every conversation is text driven, there are almost no cut scenes to uncover, and the story is very bland. I really had no interest in finding out if Shiren and his Sensei find that castle or not.
Another big problem this game has is the archaic save system where the game determines when you can save your game. This can lead to major frustration when I get killed in a dungeon and get sent back to the last save point and have to go through a large part of the game a second time. Guys, the player should decide when the game gets saved, not the game makers.
Shiren the Wanderer is a game for those of us who enjoy an old school type of RPG, but the rest of us can look elsewhere. SKIP IT.

The best part of gamefly is to ensure that i dont spend $40 on games like this one. The worst part is that i got the game on a friday and moday is a holiday and no mail is going out so i couldnt mail this game back 20 minutes after i started playing it. The story line is non existant, the game controls are frustrating at best, and the weapons selction is also poor. i am at the best of my knowledge halfway through the game and there is still no fun to this game in sight.