The second game in the dark pokemon spin off series doesnt disapoint and provides a epic, unforgettable experience!
2:great gameplay and diverse characters and npcs with personality.
3:good replayibilty with good post features and secret awesome unlockibles that can only be obtained with certain items.
4:Epic and even touching soundtracks
CONS:1:repetitive gameplay.
2: bland and bad colours and art design in dungeons in general.
3:Horrible escort missions.
Hello everyone! Today i am going to talk about the squeal to my favourite spin off pokemon series ever made, pokemon mystery dungeon explores of time!Discliamer:Surprisingly this game were pokemon are playible and talk ISNT a game for young kids as the storyline is dark,with some moments that could upset young kids so be warned!
STORY
You wake up on a beach and have amnesia,you dont fell normal...you are woken up by someone asking if you are allright. You manage to strain your vision to make out what is talking to you...You see a pokemon talking too you but you can strangely understand what it is saying. After it calls you a pokemon you examine yourself and learn the unbelievable truth...You have somehow TRANSFORMED into a POKEMON! As you come to terms with this the friendly pokemon is attacked and robbed and you decide to help it. Afterwards you join the pokemon to become the best explorers in the world and uncover the mystery behind your transformnation.. The story of this game is deep, thought provoking and even kinda of touching near the end which almost no pokemon game has done before!
The gameplay is your general dungeon crawler with a Pokemon twist! Before you get into the game you have to answer some questions on a personality quiz to find out what Pokemon you are which is unique but a little annoying(I dont want to be a turtwig, i want to be a pipplup!)! Afterwards you choose yes,choose your friend pokemon
from a list(If only choosing your own pokemon was as simple).
You and your partner pokemon both have one or two types out of 24 which gives you advantage over certain types meaning you take little to no damage(eg water is resistant and super effective against fire types, while Steel types are immune to Poision types) OR a disadvantage against certain types(eg grass is weak and not very effective against fire types)!
Its kind of confusing but the best way to understand and remember it is too THINK logicialy about it(Water puts out Fire, Fire burns grass, ground doesnt conduct electricity etc.) and learn from doing it!
Each move has a type and limt to how much times that move can be used called PP(Power Points). Every time you use a move the PP goes down by 1 and when it reaches 0 it cant be used again unless refilled by a max elxer.
Every move has a different PP limt which can be increased with a ginseng, different POWER ratings and different attack ranges(from 1 tile to 2 tiles to a whole line to even the whole room)!
You search for the stairs in the mystery dungeons to proced which isnt an easy task because the layout is constantly changing meaning that walkthroughs are almost completely useless and that you must rely on yourself and your team(and some luck) to find the stairs! You also must look out for enemy pokemon who randomly spawn throughout the level who will try to kill you and your team! knock them out to gain experience points to level up and become stronger and learn new moves.
At the end of certain story dungeons you will have to face a boss which is a powerful pokemon/pokemons or even a legendary pokemon which will require lots of team work, strategy and reviever seeds!
On the off time when you are not exploring dungeons you can talk to some friendly faces, stock up on supplies from the shops limited supplies which is bought with poke, the games currency, store your poke in the bank before heading off, have the treasure chests you find opend or take job requests from the bulletin board.
job requests are how you progress the story half the time and include:1:rescue pokemon from dungeon on whatever floor(common).
2 Hunt the outlaw.
3 Bring a certain item to a pokemon.
4 extremely bad escort missions.
There is certain exclusive pokemon and items in this game that are not available in explorers of darkness for example Celebi can be recurited and played as only in this game while mewtwo can only be recurited and played as in darkness. However through a certain wondermail code you can get the other pokemon in the oposite game.
Final opinion:I heavily recommend this game to all pokemon fans, dungeon crawler fans and people who like good storys and who enjoy a good game but if you can buy the better(some how its possible)remake explores of sky go for that one instead.