Pros
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Requires strategy and skill
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Colorful and lively
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but playable in small doses
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Slow to start
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Story-related party restrictions
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Gets repetitive
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Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon review
Requires strategy and skill
Colorful and lively
Huge
but playable in small doses
Slow to start
Story-related party restrictions
Gets repetitive
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The Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series has always felt a bit out-of-step with the rest of the Pokeverse. Its general lack of difficulty ruined the delicate balance that makes dungeon-crawlers worthwhile, making the games a bit of a chore to play. Tha꧂t’s why it was a pleasant surprise when I got my butt whooped early on in Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon because I wasn’t paying enough attention. With this game, the series has finally nailed the challenging rhythm that it needs, but without sacrificing the color and personality of Pokemon.
What do you do when you’ve been turned into a Pokemon and sent to a world without humans? Become an explorer and try to save the world from a mysterious plague that’s turning everybody into stone, that’s what. Delving into relatively short, randomly-generated dungeons with a group of three Pokemon is what you’ll be spe𒀰nding most of your time doing, but you’ll be up against some stiff opposition. Enemy Pokemon can easily out-level your party, and come with a full complement of nasty attacks that they don’t hesitate to use. They can poison you, put you to sleep, and some of them can even hurt you far before you’re able to see them.
To fight back against these foes, you’ve got to find magic stones that make you stronger, help you navigate better, and insulate you from status abnormalities. The trick is that these stones shatter quickly after you enter a room and they only ✅last for the duration of your current adventure, so you’ll have to gather them strategically in each dungeon as you go.
That means that every trip into a mystery dungeon is a balancing act betw♑een exploring for magic sto💜nes and getting through the dungeon without running out of important items like food, healing berries, and elixirs that recharge your moves. Standard issue for a dungeon-crawler, yes, but previous games in the series were so generous with supplies that strategy was almost unnecessary. You’ll also have to keep the standard Pokemon elemental system in mind, matching your party’s strengths against the enemy’s weaknesses, and boss fights are particularly tough, often requiring you to be loaded up on magic stones and equipped with your own nasty tricks to turn the tide of battle in your favor.
You really can catch ‘em all in Super Mystery Dungeon. That means every single Pokemon, ever (including🍃 every form of most multi-form Pokemon, like all 28 Unown symbols). If you’re looking to collect as many Pokemon as possible, check around town and at the tavern every day - you might meet somebody new who will join you in exchange for a friendly chat. Also make sure to stick around in a dungeon if you’re told there’s still something available after you’ve finished your quests. It’s usually a wandering travele💎r or a Pokemon in trouble who will join you once you find it.
| Genre | Action RPG |
| Description | Pokemon Mystery Dungeon returns, bringing randomly-generated dungeon crawling with your favourite Pokemon friends back to 3DS. |
| Platform | "3DS" |
| Release date | 1 January 1970 (US), 1 January 1970 (UK) |
