Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX is a very different game than you may be used to if you have played Pokémon games before. The Mystery Dungeon concept is known and ensures that players always have to deal with randomly generated dungeons. Together with some more complex systems and various boss battles, it provides some variation. However, that is not enough to prevent the game from becoming repetitive. Even then, it’s fun to make your rescue team stronger with new Pokémon or by training your own Pokémon, and figuring out the story, but it doesn’t make too much of an impression. That makes Pokémon Mystery Dungeon a nice snack, but not much more than that.
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At the end of last year, the new ‘real’ Pokémon game for the Nintendo Switch was released with Pokémon Sword and Shield. That predicate does not make the other titles that the Pocket Monsters have as subject ‘less real’. It just illustrates that for many, Sword and Shield was the game that was most looked forward to. In addition, you can see that game as a more serious game than the other options. After all, Let’s Go Pickachu and Eevee was technically a new game, but reused the time-honored Kanto adventure that many gamers had already played several times. Meanwhile, a third Pokémon game has also appeared for the Switch, and that game is also slightly different. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX lets gamers play as the Pokémon itself, without involving any people.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX is, to some extent, a remake of the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue / Red Rescue Team that once appeared for the Nintendo DS and GameBoy Advance. Although the game offers a similar course and similar mechanics, but in a version that has been thoroughly updated. This of course applies to the graphics and new features such as the possibility to help your friends online with your team, but also to the range of Pokémon in the game. We are secretly especially fond of the first 151 Pokémon, but in this game you will also meet the later known Ledyba, Tyranitar and many others. To make it completely confusing, newer Pokémon were already included in the later Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games, but Rescue Team DX is no remake of those titles. So the addition of those later Pokémon in this game is new. Do you still follow? Well done.
Where you play as a young Pokémon trainer in most Pokémon games, you play as Pokémon in this game. At least not entirely. The story is that you are a human who has turned into a Pokémon for unclear reasons. Funnily enough, the game lets you take a test to determine what kind of Pokémon you are. You can follow the suggestion that you get from your answers, but that is not mandatory. You also immediately choose a partner. In our case, we chose to play as Charmander, choosing Pikachu as a partner. This formed the basis of what later became the Rescue Team Pikamander.
That Rescue Team is what this game is all about. Pokémon’s life is not always about roses. The bugs you encounter in the game are constantly in trouble and must then be rescued by specialized Pokémon who have set up teams for that. The best known and best team is led by Alakazam and further consists of Charizard and Tyranitar. Of course you start at the bottom of the ladder. By accepting and completing chores, you slowly build the rank of your Rescue Team, which also gives you access to more challenging tasks and ultimately meddles in the mysteries associated with the story. In it you have to deal with strange phenomena in nature that have made all kinds of strong and even legendary Pokémon restless. You will of course notice how it all works.
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