Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky Coming October 12

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Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky Coming October 12



If you're ready for yet another Pokemon game to tide you over until whenever those Gold/Silver remakes come to the West, look to October 12 for the release of the latest Mystery Dungeon game, Explorers of Sky.

The Pokemon series really is the king of repackaging. From Red/Blue to Yellow and Diamond/Pearl to Platinum, Pokemon games are remade and recycled time and time again. Now it's time for the dungeon crawler subseries Pokemon Mystery Dungeon to get its turn as the last two Mystery Dungeon titles, Explorers of Time and Darkness, are packaged into one game with all sorts of neat stuff thrown in to make it seem like the version to have when it drops October 12.

In addition to the content from Time and Darkness, Explorers of Sky adds five new starter Pokemon that you can play as, bringing the official roster up to 19 different playable 'Mon. If you're out of the loop in regards to this series, yes, here you play as the Pokemon as opposed to the trainers. You team up with another Pokemon and explore mysterious dungeons roguelike-style in order to save the world. It's kind of like Nethack, except super cute and not as excruciating.

Explorers of Sky also adds new Special Episodes that Nintendo promises will "reveal secrets about certain characters in the Mystery Dungeon world." Apparently one of these episodes features everyone's favorite bucktoothed, ubiquitous and completely useless and trash-tier Pokemon, Bidoof [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bidoof.jpg]. So you fans of inferior Pokemon have a treat in store for yourselves.

Special Episodes will come built into the Explorers of Sky experience, but additional content will be available the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, over which you can access "special missions" and help out friends who might need a hand on a particularly tricky level of a dungeon.

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Flying-Emu

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... eh.

The games never really interested me that much. I mean, they were fun for about two hours, but were just too samey for my tastes afterwards.

Don't dis on the Bidoof. He'll HM-Slave you into the ground.
 

Deathsong17

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Why Bidoof? He's so hated he can actually stop Pokemon trades.
Flying-Emu said:
... eh.

The games never really interested me that much. I mean, they were fun for about two hours, but were just too samey for my tastes afterwards.

Don't dis on the Bidoof. He'll HM-Slave you into the ground.
Not to mention junk-pokemon so you can get free legendarys. Go usefull uslessness!
 

RomanLegacy

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These arent exactly bad games, but there isn't really reason to own more than one copy, as opposed to the main seires, which you can never have enough copies...
 

Amnestic

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I never got into the Mystery Dungeon series, they just never really "worked" for me. I don't think I'm really missing out on much though.

Bidoof is terrible guys. There are better HM-slaves out there I'm sure.
 

Erana

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Amnestic said:
I never got into the Mystery Dungeon series, they just never really "worked" for me. I don't think I'm really missing out on much though.

Bidoof is terrible guys. There are better HM-slaves out there I'm sure.
Kingler is a traditional one... That, and tropius.

And really, Roguelikes are hit/miss. Its perfectly reasonable for you to not want to put yourself through that kind of abuse.
 

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Keane Ng said:
The Pokemon series really is the king of repackaging.
Don't know if it's the undisputed king - The Final Fantasy series could give it a run for it's money. The two series' are competing very hard for that title.

Mystery Dungeon is a spin-off series with sequels, but just think... Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A Dark Lord is a spin-off of a spin-off with sequels!
 

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coxafloppin said:
Can these games connect to the mainstream pokemon games?
One of the Mystery Dungeon games could connect too Diamond/Pearl/Platinum so you could get a Manaphy Egg, and in another one I think you could connect to get Darkrai, but that's as far as it goes I think.
 

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When I read the title, I thought it said "Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Exploders of Sky Coming October 12"...

I liked the first one in the series well enough, though I don't think I'd be picking this one up.
 

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If I can play as Cubone again I'll consider it.

EDIT: I can't. Fuck. Still looks interesting though, at least there are no more bloody special event Pokemon.
 

Pendragon9

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Makes me wonder how people can still stomach this series. I could never see what's so good about it.
 

scarfaceguns

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Man this game is so cool i played it in Japanese i cant wait till it comes out but i cant wait even more for hg/ss thanks for the info man