Short review and double post
I've got Mysterious Dungeon - Team of Red today. So I'll write a review like I said I will.
I've only finished two maps however, so it'll be a short review, and I'll try to avoid as much spoilers as possible (even though a spoiler of the first hour or so might not be big).
Opening sequence: One of the downsides of the game. You can't skip the opening animation like you can with other games, which is very annoying. This adds to the frustration of resetting the game to get the main character Pokemon you want to get.
Main character: A questionnaire consited of about 6 questions (6~8, but most cases was 6). The questionnaire finds out your Nature, then you tell it your gender, to determine what Pokemon you become. Of course since its a questionnaire, you have to try a few times if you have a specific Pokemon you want to become.
Since I wanted a Squirtle, I tried the questionnaire 10 times (which took like 20 minutes -_-). On the 11th try, the questionnaire said my Nature was Jolly, and since I'm male, I'm a Squirtle. Yay :)
Then, I chose Chikorita to be my partner, the name of her being "Chikoree" (チコリィ ).
The game started with me (the Squirtle), lying in the middle of a forest. Then, chikorita wakes him up, and asks him who he is. At this point, I entered the name for my Squirtle, as "Lok" (ロク ). However, Lok protests he is actually human, but of course, Chikoree doesn't believe him because he obviously looks like a Squirtle.
Suddenly, as Lok and Chikoree are talking, a Butterfree mother comes to us distressed, saying her baby Caterpie fell in a fissure after an earthquake, and confused, angered wild Pokemon are trying to attack her baby.
The first quest is to, of course, save the baby Caterpie. It wasn't that hard, although the pidgeys where quite hard to defeat since they avoided my normal attack (punches) with ease. However they where easily dispateched by my Tackle.
- In this game, pressing A does the normal attack. This normal attack uses no PP, but is weak comapred to attacks with PP, and you only gain small amounts of EXP defeating Pokemon this way.
Attacks with PP are powerful, and you gain more EXP defeating enemy Pokemon with it. However, the number of uses are limited due to its PP constraints.
After I saved the Caterpie, the mother Butterfree gave us a few berries, and was very happy. That gave Chikoree an idea, to form her own Rescue Team, with Lok being the leader, since according to her: "Hey, you arn't half as bad as I imagined! Maybe... if you have no where to go... why don't you become the leader for our Rescue Team?!"
Afterwards, Lok is led to Chikoree's house, which is also the new HQ. Then, you think of a name for the Rescue Team. It took me half a hour to think of a team name -_-;
But I decided it to be "Alpha Numbers" (but because of a 5 word limit in th game, Alpha Number -> αナンバー ).
Then, the game shifts to that night, in the main characters dream...
and now I'm tired typing, and I might spoil some parts, so I'll stop typing.
So thats the story for the first 30 minutes (if you are a fast gamer).
As for the game system, its actually quite fun. Its like a generic Mysterious Dungeon game, one movement = one turn.
And the attack linking system is great. You can link 2 of your Pokemons moves togather to create a combo. I linked Tail Whip and Tackle together, and my Lok can do 20+ damage with ease :)
Altough it is fun, as I said, the downside is with the opening sequence you can't skip.
Still, I highly recommend it.
![[PokeCommunity.com] Mysterious Dungeon!](https://www.pokemon.co.jp/card/images/index_0701_image02.jpg "[PokeCommunity.com] Mysterious Dungeon!")
Snazzy little coin and card if you ask me the japanese cards are way better made.
