Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team (????????????? ????? Pokemon Fushigi no Danjon Ao no Kyujotai?

) and Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team (???????????? ? ????? Pokemon Fushigi no Danjon Aka no Kyujotai?) are a matched pair of Pokmon games for the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, respectively. These two games we re developed by Chunsoft and published by Nintendo. It was the last Pokmon-themed video game to be released on the Game Boy Advance. The two versions are mostly identical, with the Blue version taking advantage of the dual-screen features an d increased graphical capabilities of the Nintendo DS. The game has six Pokmon ex clusive to each version. Similar to other Chunsoft 'Mystery dungeon' titles, the gameplay revolves around randomly changing dungeons which need to be explored by the player and their pa rtner Pokmon using turn based moves. The story focuses on the player who has been turned into a Pokmon and has developed amnesia who later joins a rescue team wit h a partner Pokmon while finding out who they are. The game received mixed review s, being criticized for the repetitive nature of the changing dungeons but prais ed for its addictive nature. As of July 25, 2007, Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Re scue Team had sold 3.08 million copies worldwide. Sequels, Pokmon Mystery Dungeon : Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness were released in Japan on Septembe r 13, 2007, and were released in North America on April 20, 2008. They featured Generation IV Pokmon, improved Wi-Fi features, and more touch-screen options. The player starts out as a human who turned into a Pokmon, which can be one of si xteen Pokmon (Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander, Cyndaquil, Totodile, Chikorita, Tr eecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Pikachu, Eevee, Machop, Cubone, Psyduck, Meowth, and Ski tty) and is determined by a personality quiz taken at the beginning of the game. [1] The player chooses a partner Pokmon which is one of ten Pokmon (which excludes the last six stated above and the Pokmon of the same type).[1] The game is missi on-based with many jobs, which can be found on the bulletin board, requested by mail, or initiated through story events, and include rescuing Pokmon, delivering items, or escorting clients.[1] If the player successfully completes a job, they receive a reward, and Rescue Points, which increase a team's rank.[1] These jobs take part in dungeons, of which the layout is randomized.[1] The obje ctive is to either finish a job, or go through all the floors to find the exit.[ 1] In the dungeon, there are wild Pokmon that battle with the player's team.[1] T hese battles are turn-based, and take place in the dungeon map.[1] Pokmon fight u sing the four moves they know, by using a standard 'A button' attack,[1] or thro wing rocks and other items.[2] While going through the dungeon, the player gets hungry, and has to eat food either found in the dungeon, or bought in advance.[1 ] The player will fail if either the main character or partner are defeated. Howev er, subliminary allies can be lost, at which point they will return to the base. Plot The player wakes up one day finding that they have been transformed into a Pokmon ,[1] without any memory of their past. In a world devastated by many natural dis asters that have only begun to happen quite recently [1] the player and a newly made friend join forces and form a rescue team. The team meets other rescue team s, including a top-ranked rescue team consisting of Alakazam, Charizard and Tyra nitar, named Team ACT. The team makes enemies unwittingly with another rescue te am, Team Meanies, consisting of Gengar, Ekans, and Medicham, who seek world domi nation under the disguise of a rescue team. Not far into the storyline, the play er is told of a legend about a Ninetales laying a curse on a human who had delib erately grabbed Ninetales's tail. Ninetales predicted that the human would event ually be reborn as a Pokmon, and that the natural balance of the world would be u pset. In the quest to discover the player's lost memory and purpose as a Pokmon, the team quests to where fortune-teller Xatu resides. Xatu is quick to realize t hat the player was once a human, and tells that the player's human-to-Pokmon tran

sformation is tied together with the natural disasters. This conversation is eav esdropped upon by Team Meanies' Gengar, who reveals the player's secret to the t ownsfolk and says that eliminating the human-turned-Pokmon in the legend would br ing everything back to normal. They are then confronted by Alakazam, who says the Pokmon held a town meeting on what they must do to save the world: they must find and kill the player, and any one who sides with them. As they give the team one night to get away, the two le ave Pokmon Square as fugitives and make their way to the northeasternmost part of the world in an effort to elude the teams that are now hunting them down. Along the way, they encounter the legendary birds Moltres and Articuno who feel the e ffects of the disasters in their respective areas. They befriend an Absol who se eks to find the true cause of the natural disasters. The trio reaches the top of Mt. Freeze only to be cornered by Team ACT. They get ready to finish the player and partner off, but are stopped by Ninetales, who reveals that the player is n ot the human in the legend, but reveals that the world is in greater danger caus ed by the awakening of Groudon. Team ACT proceeds to try and stop Groudon, while the team heads home to clear all remaining suspicion at Pokmon Square and Gengar was blamed for starting it and their plans foiled again. After a few days, the player and the partner worry that Team ACT has not come back from their mission to quell Groudon. Asking to rescue the missing Team ACT, Lombre refuses to let t hem go, saying there are plenty of tougher Pokmon than them. Shiftry convinces th ree of the best Pokmon, Blastoise, Octillery, and Golem to form a special rescue team and rescue Team ACT. After a few days, the special team returns defeated. After being discouraged by Gengar, the player and partner are able to get everyo ne's spirits back up, and volunteer to rescue Team ACT themselves. When the team reaches Magma Cavern, they find Charizard and Tyranitar defeated, with Alakazam but is quickly defeated. The team takes matters fighting against Groudon alone into their own hands and defeat Groudon. They return to town as heroes, but thei r celebration is short-lived as grave news arrives from Xatu. A huge meteor, rev ealed to be the true cause of the natural disasters, is heading for the world, t hreatening to destroy it. The only way to stop it is to ask for help from the sk y guardian Rayquaza. It is less than cooperative, but after a battle Rayquaza ag rees to use its Hyper Beam to destroy the meteor. The team reawakens on the grou nd, surrounded by their supporters, where they find that the world is safe once again. However, the player must return to being a human and leave the Pokmon worl d behind. Once the credits roll, the player returns to the rescue team base in P okmon form, and surprises everybody. Afterward, it is revealed that a shard of th e destroyed meteor opens a secret cave under Whiscash Pond, enabling evolution a nd a little bit later, revealed that another shard hit Latias's wing, and then t he team rescues her at Pitfall Valley. Development First revealed August 2005,[3] the Japanese release date was announced in Septem ber.[4] More details were released later that month, showing information about t he gameplay and plot.[1] In November, Nintendo announced a bug in Blue Rescue Te am version, when connecting to the Game Boy Advance slot to link up with Red Res cue Team. If the user had any other game besides Red Rescue Team, it would erase any game files the game has. Nintendo started shipment of replacement DS cards on December 8.[5] At E3 2006, Nintendo announced the English release of the game s,[6] and revealed the release date later that month.[7] Reception The game has received mixed to positive reviews. IGN rated the game a "Passable" 6.5, feeling that the DS version could have been better, if it did not have to be made for Game Boy Advance. They stated that "For a game that encourages team play, it's amazing that Chunsoft missed the boat when it comes to exploring dung eons and finishing missions with a friend".[8] The game has been criticized for

its visuals, with reviewers stating that the DS version does not improve graphic ally on the GBA version.[8] GameSpot gave it a 5.2, stating that "No matter how much you claim to love Pokmon, you should probably skip Pokmon Mystery Dungeon", s tating that "Chunsoft's dungeon hack game wasn't that good to begin with, and th e injection of Pokmon elements hasn't done a thing to change that".[2] 1UP gave t he games an A-, saying "you may realize the game isn't "perfect," but somehow it 's addictive".[9] GameSpy gave it a 4/5, stating "It may confuse some and frustr ate others, but its addictive nature should keep you hooked until you learn to a ppreciate the art of the dungeon crawl".[10] Nintendo Power gave the game an 80/ 100, saying that "Mystery Dungeon is not perfect, but its robust and original as pects form a game more solid than many expected".[11] Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the game a 7.2/10, stating that "storing and retrieving items is too much o f a hassle", and also did not like that when the player faints, they lose all of their valuable items.[12] As of July 25, 2007, Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team has sold 3.08 milli on copies worldwide.[13] Sequels Main article: Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time (????????????? ????? Pokmon Fushigi no D anjon Toki no Tankentai?, lit. "Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Time Exploration Team") a nd Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness (????????????? ????? Pokmon Fushi gi no Danjon Yami no Tankentai?, lit. "Pokmon Mystery Dungeon: Darkness Explorati on Team") are a matched pair of Pokmon games for the Nintendo DS. The two games w ere released in Japan on September 13, 2007, and were released in North America on April 20, 2008.[14] New features include the addition of Generation IV Pokmon, improved Wi-Fi features, and more touch-screen options.