Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX ポケモン不思議のダンジョン 救助隊DX | |
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Basic info
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Platform: | Nintendo Switch |
Category: | Dungeon crawler |
Players: | 1 |
Connectivity: | N/A |
Developer: | The Pokémon Company/Spike Chunsoft |
Publisher: | Nintendo/The Pokémon Company |
Part of: | Generation VIII side series |
Ratings
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CERO: | A |
ESRB: | E |
ACB: | G |
OFLC: | N/A |
PEGI: | 7 |
GRAC: | N/A |
GSRR: | N/A |
Release dates
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Japan: | March 6, 2020 |
North America: | March 6, 2020 |
Australia: | March 6, 2020 |
Europe: | March 6, 2020 |
South Korea: | N/A |
Hong Kong: | March 6, 2020 |
Taiwan: | March 6, 2020 |
Websites
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Japanese: | Official site |
English: | Official site Pokémon.com Nintendo.com |
Japanese boxart
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (Japanese: ポケモン不思議のダンジョン 救助隊DX Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX) is a Nintendo Switch title that is a part of the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series. It is the first remake in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series, being a remake of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team. Like the other Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games, it is an adaptation of the Mystery Dungeon games with Pokémon characters. It was released in Japan, North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand on March 6, 2020.
The game was announced on January 9, 2020 during a Pokémon Direct. A demo was released on January 9, 2020 for free on the Nintendo eShop. Progress in the demo can be transferred to the final game.
Plot
Blurb
You can meet and recruit Pokémon in a dungeon-crawling adventure within their world! Build a rescue team to take on mysterious, changing dungeons and strategically plan your moves as you venture forth to make the Pokémon world a safer place…and uncover your true purpose along the way.
As you recruit Pokémon, these trusty teammates will need somewhere to stay, so build camps to house, manage, and strengthen your Pokémon friends. Think hard about who is right for the job and how to approach each mysterious dungeon as you prepare a rescue team. You’ll move a single square at a time or use Auto mode to speed up movement until you engage other Pokémon in turn-based battles—but don’t forget about Pokémon strengths and weaknesses! This version adds gorgeous watercolor-inspired graphics, and more! Get comfortable in being a Pokémon, there’s a lot of work to do.
- Wake up in the world of Pokémon and uncover your true purpose
- Dungeon layouts will change each time you enter them, so you’ll likely not have the same adventure twice
- Build a rescue team to explore dungeons and engage in strategic turn-based combat
- Pokémon are available to meet and recruit
- This version adds gorgeous watercolor-inspired graphics, and more!
Features
New features
- Auto mode: Pressing the L Button will automatically move the player and their team until an enemy is approached or the button is pressed again.
- Using the A Button now selects the best move against an opponent.
- While the maximum amount for a team entering a Dungeon is 3, the player can now temporarily recruit defeated enemies until they have a party of 8. These enemies can be permanently recruited if they have not fainted when the Player escapes.
- New Rescue Ranks.
- Some new items, like the Bank Orb.
- The Makuhita Dojo has been revamped. Only one Pokémon can enter at a time, experience gained is boosted, and there is a time limit, depending on which ticket the player gives to Makuhita.
- Pokémon now have Rare Qualities, which provide an added bonus outside of their ability such as: Boosting the power of linked moves, increasing recruitment rate or EXP gain, or lowering prices of Kecleon Shops.
- Gummies can no longer be taken out of the Kangaskhan Storage. Instead, they are eaten at a rescue camp. Instead of providing IQ, they will provide random, but permanent stat boosts. Occasionally, they may also give its consumer a new Rare Quality.
- Persian gives a reward once every day after a transaction at Felicity Bank.
- The game now autosaves per turn in the Dungeon and the game can be loaded up from the Dungeon.
- The names of the player's main character, partner, and rescue team can be changed in the main menu.
- TMs can no longer be Recycled; instead of becoming used TMs, they are destroyed. Recycle now instead changes a Plain Seed to a different Seed or an Oran Berry.
- Friend Areas and the Wigglytuff Club are replaced by rescue team camps and Wigglytuff's Camp Corner, respectively.
- Shiny Pokémon can only be recruited using the Friend Bow.
- A shortcut from the Team Base to the Pelipper Post Office is created by Diglett early on in the game.
- The addition of newer cross-generational evolutionary forms of Generation I to III that were introduced in Generation IV (Mantyke, etc.) and VI (Sylveon), as well as Riolu and Lucario, the latter of which appeared in the original games as a cameo.
- Multiple Dungeons have a "Strong Foe" with a different highlight. These enemies are significantly stronger than the other enemies, are guaranteed to drop a Deluxe Box upon defeat, and have a chance of being Shiny.
- The accommodation size for the various Friend Camps along with the maximum jobs that can be accepted at a time will increase with the player's rank.
- Pokémon that were fully evolved, depending on what species it was, could not be recruited. Now, even fully evolved Pokémon can be recruited.
- In Super Mystery Dungeon, the Primal Reversions of Groudon and Kyogre could not be used by the player. These forms can be accessed by eating the Empowerment Seed.
- Smeargle now allows the player to select from one of his 15 unique flag designs—or the player's original flag design— and can be called as many times per day as the player likes. In the originals, he would simply cycle through his flags one at a time when he was asked to change it.
- Locked doors are now unlocked through Invitations rather than Keys. Unlocking these rooms gives the player multiple helpful items along with a random Pokémon with a Rare Quality. This is the only way to recruit Riolu.
- Linked moves that run out of PP do not automatically unlink the entire set anymore and will simply use the moves with remaining PP.
- Evolutionary items have been replaced with Evolution Crystals which are consumed whenever a Pokémon with evolution requirements outside of level wishes to evolve.
- There will be a daily exploration bonus with a highlighted mark beside one of the maps. The bonus will provide the player with extra Poké earned along with a higher probability of treasure boxes being dropped.
- It is now possible to recruit defeated enemies that are up to two tiles away from the leader, so long as the leader dealt the finishing blow.
Returning features
- As in Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, the player can rescue themselves if they are defeated in a dungeon, in addition to rescuing other players.
- As in Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon, Pokémon can experience Mega Evolution.
- Offensive attacks will now have their own experience gain like in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity and Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon. As an added bonus, any move may occasionally be done twice in a row.
- Moves from later generations, such as Foul Play and Charge Beam, are in the game.
- The pool of TMs has been changed to match that of Pokémon Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, and Ultra Moon.
- Treasure Boxes return, but are opened automatically upon leaving the dungeon.
- Pokémon with two Abilities no longer have both simultaneously.
- Players can switch leaders by pushing +. Unlike the original games, it can be done at any time in any dungeon (except for the first trip to Tiny Woods at the start of the game).
- Gigantic Pokémon from Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon return.
- The Toolbox's size will increase with the player's rank, similarly to games after the original Red and Blue Rescue Team.
- It is possible to recruit new members through completing missions with "a special reward" at the bottom.
- Starving Pokémon from Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon can be found within Dungeons. These Pokémon will always have a random Rare Quality given to them.
- Gulpin's Link Shop now links moves for free and acts as the game's move tutor, similarly to Hawlucha's Slam School
- Newer traps such as the Random Trap and the Hunger Trap are now in the game.
Characters
Playable characters
The player is able to choose one of the 16 returning Pokémon from the original game as their starter and partner Pokémon. However, the partner cannot be the same type as the player. The player may, as in the prior Nintendo DS titles, choose the player Pokémon using a quiz, or as in the WiiWare and Nintendo 3DS titles, choose a Pokémon themselves. Unlike the original games, the player character choices are not restricted by the player's selected gender and the partner is not restricted to starter Pokémon anymore.
Non-player characters
- Gardevoir (Player's dreams) Eventually able to be recruited after helping out Gengar.
- Xatu (Hill of the Ancients) Stares into the sun all day, and can see into the future.
- Ninetales (Mt. Freeze)
- Wynaut (Uproar Forest)
- Wobbuffet (Uproar Forest)
- Mankey (Uproar Forest) Helps build Team Base. Goes on strike, prompting the player to find Chestnuts.
- Munchlax (Pokémon Square) Gives out the Munch Belt in exchange for food items.
- Butterfree (Tiny Woods) Sends the player on their first quest to rescue Caterpie.
- Spinda (Pokémon Square) Sends the player out to find the mirage Pokémon, Ho-Oh.
Automatic recruits
Pokémon Square
- Kecleon brothers
- Persian
- Wigglytuff
- Kangaskhan
- Gulpin
- Snubbull → Granbull
- Lombre
- Magnemite ×2
- Jumpluff ×2
Makuhita Dojo
Whiscash Pond
Pelipper Post Office
- Pelipper Post Office
- Bellsprout
- Diglett (son)
- Dugtrio (father)
Rescue teams
- Team A.C.T.
- Team Meanies
- Team Shifty
- Team Constrictor
- Team Hydro
- Team Rumblerock
- Team ???
- An unnamed rescue team, called in by the Helper Orb, consisting of 3 random final-form versions of the game's starter Pokémon.
Bosses
- Skarmory
- Team Meanies
- Zapdos
- Moltres
- Articuno
- Mankey ×3
- Groudon
- Rayquaza
- Kyogre
- Regirock
- Regice
- Registeel
- Latios
- Entei
- Raikou
- Suicune
- Ho-Oh
- Jirachi
- Lugia
- Mewtwo
- Deoxys
Gallery
Artwork
Logos and boxarts
Trivia
- This is the first remake of a Pokémon game outside of the core series.
- The box-art for this game is a combination of the box art of the two games it is based on, featuring the same Pokémon and setting, albeit with a new art style.
- The "Mystery Dungeon" text font for the logo is based on the European design used for previous games, even for the North American release.
In other languages
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