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• POKEMON RESCUE TEAM DX REVIEW FULL

One of the more noteworthy additions to the game is the auto mode. The ability to pick whoever you want to be at the start is very much appreciated, and little things like having a shortcut to the post office is a big time-saver. There are a fair few quality of life changes made to DX and a lot of them are great. It’s a shame, but it does admittedly speed up some of the team building. Rather than having an explorable area to roam around, you now just have a menu with a unique piece of art. Unfortunately, these Friend Camps are the replacement for the friend areas found in the original releases, and frankly they aren’t an improvement. You’ll end up spending most of your Poke on building Friend Camps for potential recruits, as there isn’t much need to be buying items from the shop. When you’re not going through dungeons rescuing Pokemon, you’ll be trying to boost your team or looking around the town square. As said before, this doesn’t really happen until later in the game, but when it does happen you’ll need to start paying more attention. When you’re not just mindlessly wandering from floor to floor, the combat gets a chance to shine and you’ll actually find yourself using items that you find. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is at its best when it tries to actually challenge you. There can be some strategy involved, such as selecting your own moves, keeping an eye on your hunger and the typical type advantages but to be blunt it mostly consists of tapping A until one of you falls down. You get to move your Pokemon on a grid-like structure, but you and your party attack in turns against the enemy. As someone who’s found it difficult to put down since, I implore you to push past some of the repetition.Ĭombat is a mixture of turn-based and real-time common to Mystery Dungeon games. It’s just whether or not you have the patience to get through a lot of easy fights and endless walls of text in the first few hours. There was no better feeling than getting through a dungeon with a team of 8 Pokemon I’d picked up along the way and a bunch of side-missions checked off my list. The RPG mechanics become more intricate, the items become much more useful, the enemies become harder and you’ll find yourself actually getting quite invested in building up your team. However, the further you get into Mystery Dungeon the more and more it picks up. Initially, I found myself wondering whether it was nostalgia-blindness that made me love the original game as a kid. That changes soon enough and you’ll be treasuring everything you pick up. “Why should I need health pick-ups if the game is so darn easy?” I initially asked.

You’ll also be trying to collect as much loot as possible, although it will initially seem like there’s not much of worth around. If you’re on a story mission, you’ll mostly just be trying to get to the end, but side missions have you helping hurt Pokemon or bringing them items. That’s not to say that a whole lot changes, as it mostly just affects what traps and items you’ll run into but it’s better than a set path.

You’ll never run into the same stuff twice, which makes things a lot more replayable. The whole ‘mystery’ part of the subtitle comes from how each floor is randomised. You’ll spend most of your time in the game going through dungeons and fighting other Pokemon. Having a more stylised Pokemon adventure is a nice change of pace from the norm, although it is a shame that the 3D models don’t express as much as they could. The whole game is presented in a dreamy, art-book style, and there are times when it looks really gorgeous. In fact, one of the highlights of the game is consistently charming writing. Like Link’s Awakening before it, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon also makes some big graphical changes in its jump to a more powerful console. There’s a surprising amount of depth to this story and even a decade later, it’s really cool to see events unfold from a Pokemon’s point of view.

POKEMON RESCUE TEAM DX REVIEW FULL

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon puts you in the role of a human turned into a Pokemon, and you and your partner form a titular rescue team to help out a world full of natural disasters. Although I had played through the original Red Rescue game as a child, I clearly didn’t remember much of the plot going into the remake.

Right off the bat, the storyline is the first thing that surprised me.