Do you remember the Pokemon games that you used to play? In those games you play as a trainer and catch pokemons. Well, not in this one. In Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, you play as the pokemon itself.

            The game starts with a personality test. The only thing that this personality test will determine is your starting character. The pokemons available for you starting pokemon are from the first generation until the third generation starting pokemons with a little additions like Pikachu, Eevee and Skitty. The only forth generation pokemon mentioned in the game is Lucario.

Once you’ve finished the personality test and get your pokemon, you can now choose another pokemon with different element to your pokemon as you partner in this game. It doesn’t really matter who you choose, really. In the game the element affinity still stands, fire weak against water, water weak against grass and so on. Therefore, you should choose a pokemon with the element that is stronger than the element your pokemon is weak to.

The game is basically a dungeon crawling turn-based game. You form a rescue team with your partner, receive request from other pokemons, finish the quests, get points to raise your rescue team status.

The game, however, has its own story compared to you usual pokemon games. The game is about a human (you) who lost his/her memory and only remember his/her name. You woke up to find out that you’ve become a pokemon. You and your partner (the pokemon that found you) then start a rescue team to help other pokemons while trying to find out why you’ve became a pokemon.

The story continues until it was revealed that there was a story of a human that betrayed his/her pokemon and was cursed into becoming a pokemon. The news traveled to the other pokemons and therefore force you to become a fugitive.

You and your partner then decided to travel as a fugitive and to your surprise, the world is actually being faced with a large meteor. The meteor was so big that it can destroy the world. Realizing that there is such a disaster coming, you and your friend then travel once more to find a way to save the world.

That is practically the story of the game. The game itself can’t end like the other pokemon games. After the story has ended, you can do the usual rescue stuff. However, the game still has some extra things like recruiting pokemons. Recruiting legendary pokemons.

To recruit a pokemons, first, you must have their habitat. You can get it by buying it or finishing quests. Certain habitat has certain pokemon, therefore before trying to recruit a pokemon, you must have its habitat first. Second, you must defeat the pokemon. However, it is not 100% success. Some pokemon has insanely low probability. For some legendary pokemon, you can only get its habitat by recruiting them.

Other feature in the game is that after finishing the story, you can then evolve you pokemon. Certain pokemon need certain item to evolve just like the usual pokemon game. The difference is that your pokemon can evolve anytime as long as the level requirement is met.

The dungeon is a randomly generated dungeon except for certain floors because of story. These dungeons have items scattered around the floor that you can collect. Some quest require you to get certain items from the dungeon. The pokemons also only appear in certain dungeons. You can’t possibly find a fire element pokemon in a water element dungeon.

Each dungeon has floors. Usually, the harder the dungeon, the stronger the pokemon and the higher or deeper the dungeon. Your character also has hunger, and can only move when it has energy. To replenish you “belly” you need to eat something like berries.

After the story ends, the only reason you still playing would probably to collect every pokemons and legendary pokemons. Therefore the game is very, very repetitive.

Author:

  • Yogi Udjaja
  • Livia Jesslyn Chandra