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Slowly but surely this game transformed into not just another Pokémon game, into something truly special. The Time Gears were interesting artifacts, but they were really just plot macguffins for a little bit. Who aside from Little Cup players remembers Munchlax? However I never found it too intrusive, and these new characters were integrated and written in a way that makes sense, as suppose to the game screaming “Hey! Look at all these new guys! Aren’t they cool!?”īut the game’s story overall was still pretty safe for the first few hours. Thinking about it, that might explain some of the random starter choices during the character quiz, like Shinx or Munchlax. I also need to remember that this game was riding off the heels of generation 4, which was extremely new at the time. I’ve always loved Wigglytuff ever since I was a kid, but I never imagined he would play the role of a creepy leader with untapped powers you never really got to see. The guildmaster Wigglytuff and his right-hand man Chatot have great chemistry as well. For example, there is a Bidoof in this game who is written exactly how I’d imagine a Bidoof to talk, with “by golly”s and “Oh geez”s appropriately placed in his dialog. Everyone talks in their own special little ways that feel realistic. And the number of members were small enough that you could feasibly remember them all and pick favorites.Īdmittedly the writing of most of the side-characters is very spot-on as well.
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It adds context to how important people in the guild are since not just anyone can join. Making it instead a small, selected group of individuals similar to something like a Boy Scout troop is a much more interesting dynamic. In the first Mystery Dungeon I remember your party was really the only guild members that had a place to stay. The only thing from the early game I really enjoyed was the guild. Overly optimistic characters I find unrealistic. Your partner is one of those guys who talks so much about friendship, getting along, and how everything is going to work out that it almost comes off as cringe-inducing. It started identical enough to the first game that I thought this one was just going to be no more than a glorified port. I’m not going to lie, the first couple hours of the game had me a bit worried. I picked Meowth as my partner since as you all know, I cannot go a single Pokémon game without picking a really weird team. Not my favorite starter, but I always like him in how different he is from other starters. In the first Mystery Dungeon, the game chose for me to be a Squirtle. It makes these games feel more real somehow. The fact that you’re not quite sure what you’re going to be chosen to play as, even something you do not typically like, is a feature I’ve always enjoyed.
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Now this feature has always been something I loved about these games. I loved that the quiz returned that decides what Pokémon you play as. And I wasn’t expecting much more from the story than the typical unchallenging romp you get from these companies who want to appeal primarily to kids. I can’t wait to figure out what they decided to do with the second screen. I was hoping the UI and controls would be a lot better since they’ve had a few years to figure stuff out and they’re on the DS now with more buttons. For example, I wish the controls were a bit easier to get used to, and I hated how you had to fumble around with menus to so much as see your partner’s health. My biggest problems with Red Rescue Team were the story, which I found quite boring and safe as far as RPGs go, and some quirks with the gameplay itself. It was kind of ahead of its time, actually. The most surprising thing about it to me is that it was technically a roguelike, since that genre really didn’t take off until maybe around 2011 or so. It wasn’t incredible, but I enjoyed it for what it is an interesting new way to play Pokemon that I considered sort of a light, kid-friendly version of something like Dungeons of Dredmor.
#POKEMON MYSTERY DUNGEON EXPLORERS OF SKY SERIES#
I loved the main series Pokémon games but my only exposure to Mystery Dungeon was when I did a Let’s Play of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team nearly two years ago. I’m not quite sure exactly what to expect going in. I lent her Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney and she let me borrow Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. Mid August of 2017 a cousin and I decided to have a game swap.