![]() Which is good, because you probably won’t get it from the music. Those of you who were used to Sword and Shield holding your hand like a fussy mother might be a bit taken aback by a game that’ll kill you in a couple of hits if you’re not careful, but those who enjoy a more robust challenge will find something to appreciate in the gameplay. Yet even despite all this, Mystery Dungeon still has some real challenges within, encouraging some proper thought about strategy and build. If a boss was proving impossible in the previous release, now you can go back home and swap round TMs, teammates, and tactics until you come up with a winning combo, making the whole endeavor a bit less grind-focused. Most problems get solved straight away by giving all the starters a wide range of moves types, as well as encouraging players to customize themselves and their team more extensively than before. It’s not perfectly level-any Pokemon with a long-distance, decently-powerful attack is still a legendary in all but name-but it’s a lot better than it was. Overall, it's a little more balanced and fairer. As part of the remake remit, the whole thing has been tinkered with to make it a little easier. The original Mystery Dungeon games were famously difficult, to an often frustrating extent, with late-game dungeons that often felt a bit more dependent on luck than skill in a lot of cases. Between expeditions you come home, stock up on supplies and catch up with your friends, then decide where you're headed next before journeying out into wilderness with a couple of party members at your back. All your missions take place in the titular Mystery Dungeons procedurally-generated labyrinths which you explore while fighting off other Pokemon, hoarding equipment and completing mission objectives. ![]() It's turn-based battling, yes, but redesigned for grid-tile movement and long-term roguelike exploration. Like Mew and Mewtwo, or Mimikyu and every nightmare you ever had as a child. The actual meat-and-potatoes gameplay is a distant cousin of standard Pokemon combat, similar, yet very different. ![]() | Joel Franey/USgamer, Spike Chunsoft/Nintendo/The Pokemon Company It's a shock to be transformed, sure, but think positively! You could've been a Magikarp. It hand-waves something about Pokemon going wild because of the disasters, then quickly shuffles you along in the hope you won't bring it up again. The actual plot isn’t complicated in the slightest the game can barely be bothered to explain half its ideas, including why there are dungeons full of enemies in the first place. ![]() Now trapped in a strange world and a stranger body, it's up to you to work out what’s happened and how it relates to a series of strange natural disasters around the world. Maybe too invested.įor those of you who don't know, Mystery Dungeon is a Pokemon spin-off in which you play the world's only human, who is turned into a Pokemon as the game starts and sent to a land inhabited exclusively by the little critters. I loved the originals-in fact, I consider Blue Rescue Team to be the best Pokemon game ever-so consider me invested. It's a remake of the first generation of Mystery Dungeon with all-new visuals and a bit more Nintendo polish. So the announcement of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX (an apocalyptically bad title, by the way) is a big deal for me. It presented a world free of humans yet filled with humanity in which Pokemon made their own simple civilization and lived in placid, Winnie the Pooh harmony with each other. They were these weird, heartfelt, scrappy, unbalanced, and earnest games that felt like the first fresh idea in Pokemon in a long time. It sounds patronizing, but the original Mystery Dungeon games were beautiful in a messy sort of way. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team. This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247.
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