![]() IQ skills are learned through feeding individual characters items called gummis, and they allow your team members to do such things as avoiding giving an enemy a status it already has. The game includes a concept known as IQ, which governs your companions’ behavior. Your teammates won’t generally move into place on their own during a fight either, which leads to many annoying situations where you have to waste a turn during battle just so that you’re not the only one of your group actually attacking the enemy. Your teammates tend to get lined up behind you, which leaves the main character as the one who nearly always takes the first hit from enemies. This helps keep some of the nasty surprises out of the random battle system. Even moving a square (dungeons are grid-based) takes a turn, so if you start a floor within sight of several enemies, you don’t need to worry about them running up to you – they can’t move until you do, and they can only move one square for every square you move. ![]() While you’re in a dungeon, everything you do aside from working with the menu is turn-based. It’s important to note that the bosses in this game are just as vulnerable to statuses as other enemies – getting to the boss fights can be more challenging than actually fighting them. Items come in standard RPG flavors – health restoration, status correction, temporary buffs, status infliction, etc. During each day, you go into town to prepare for your adventure by getting items from the store or your storage, after which you go to a dungeon and proceed through its randomly-generated levels, where enemies appear at random, even after you begin walking around on a floor. In the sequel, Pokémon who join your team are transported to the exit right away, but in this game, you have to lead them through however much of the dungeon is left, making sure to keep them alive. In this game, teams are limited to only three members, with a fourth slot that can be filled if someone in the dungeon you’re tackling feels like joining you or if your mission in the dungeon is to rescue someone. The most significant changes were to the mechanic of recruiting new team members. This is where I most felt disappointed by having already played the sequel, because the improvements were really worthwhile changes. (I wonder if any of the Pokémon like short pants?)Īlthough it’s quite different from the standard Pokémon games, Mystery Dungeon’s gameplay is fairly similar to its successor, although a few notable additions were made in that successor to improve on this game’s flaws. ![]() It won’t change the way you think about writing in video games, but it may at least improve your opinion of writing in Pokémon games. The different perspective provided thereby allows for much deeper characterization in your team than the standard entries in the series, which helps players feel much more connected to their Pokémon. In the Mystery Dungeon games, players take the role of a Pokémon who treks through dungeons with its friends, rather than playing as a human who catches Pokémon in the wild. The two Rescue Team games share the same story, and it’s much more complex than most of the series’ stories, involving ancient legends, curses, mystery, and a character arc where you start out as a stranger who is seen as a coward but ends up as a well-known (and loved) local who has touched the lives of many members of the community. Red is a late Game Boy Advance game, and Blue is an early DS game, and the difference between the two is limited to the second screen provided by the DS. ![]() ![]() Unlike the other generations, though, these two are on two different systems. Like every other Pokémon game, Blue Rescue Team has a sibling, Red Rescue Team. It’s difficult to be impartial, and more difficult still to give a score that compares the game to its contemporaries rather than games that have come later. Have you ever played a game’s sequel first and thought “I like this – I should go back and play the original?” Were you disappointed? Did you then have to review the original that you were disappointed in? Because that’s what I’m about to do. ![]()
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