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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Training Future Hardcore Gamers 16 October 2009 at 12:19 pm by Endymarbel

pokemonboxDon’t laugh at that kid playing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. He’s in serious training.

Right now, the hardest of the hardcore are embroiled in the brutally difficult but extremely fun Demon’s Souls, a new role-playing game for the PlayStation 3. But as we speak the next generation of hardcore gamers are currently crawling their own dungeons, scrounging for loot and fighting for their lives. And they’re probably doing it with Bulbasaur by their sides.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky, released this week, is at its core a roguelike — a riff on the punishing dungeon hacking computer game Rogue. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is aimed squarely at kids, so it’s nowhere near as difficult. In the original game, when you died, that was it: Game over. Start from scratch. This kindler, gentler Rogue like keeps the negative consequences to a minimum. Bite the dust in a dungeon and you’ll lose an item or two, but that’s about it.

The nifty thing about this game is the way it serves as a beginner’s entry point into a niche gaming genre. It’s now possible for young Western gamers to follow the lineage of Mystery Dungeon backwards — through Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo’s Dungeon for Wii and the woefully under-appreciated remake Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer for Nintendo DS. Make it to Shiren and you’re just about ready to tackle thorny but awesome hardcore classics like Nethack.

This edition (the third dip for this generation of the series) features new playable Pokémon, a bunch of new side stories, dungeons and enhancements to the game’s various online features. You may not be ready to tackle Dwarf Fortress immediately after playing it, but at the very least, you’ll be ready for the new wave of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games planned for WiiWare.

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+ A Bit More Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Coming In October [Release Date] By boambWabPaike 29 July 2009 at 10:40 am and have No Comments

Get ready to pay full price for a little more content, as Nintendo confirms an October release date for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky.

You Pokémon fans know the drill. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky combines the best-selling DS titles Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness, adds an additional five starter Pokémon and some “Special Episodes” that explore the background stories to some of those titles’ more interesting characters, and repackages them as a new game you can pay full price for. It’s pretty much a given now that any successful Pokémon title that comes out in two parts will be smushed together and re-released somewhere down the line.

In this case, somewhere down the line is Monday, October 12th, so you guys have until then to get the previous versions out of your mind in order to make this one feel fresh and new.

+ "New" Pokemon Game Announced [Pokemon] By blaha 13 January 2009 at 11:30 pm and have No Comments

Nintendo have announced a new Pokemon game for the DS! As you read this, millions of people across the planet are so excited they’re vibrating on the spot. Why not join them!

Or you could come around and realise it’s yet another tiny, incremental update to a previous Pokemon game. That might best prepare you for what’s in store, since that’s exactly what this is. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky is the follow-up to last year’s Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorer of Darkness.

It boasts five new Pokemon, a new storyline and some guild-based episodes. That’s it. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky will be out in Spring this year in Japan, with your guess as good as yours regarding a Western release.

Nintendo Japan Announces Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky [1UP]



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