It never throws to much at you at once, with tutorials continuing all the way up to the six hour mark. Short cutscenes show events happening in other parts of the world, where the titular cute creatures are being mysteriously turned to stone.įrom the outset it seems aimed at newcomers. From here, you meet your partner for the first time and the game’s plot seems to unfurl in broken segments. You bump into Nuzleaf, who becomes you’re sort-of guardian, who takes you back to his home in Serene Village. Upon awakening in the middle of a forest as your Pokémon of choice, you’re attacked by a swarm of Beheeyem and chased through the woods.
After taking a ‘personality test’ to help match you with your ideal Poké-alter ego (one of the 20 starter Pokémon), you choose a partner and embark on a mission to help as many Pokémon as possible throughout the world. The story is about as simple as it gets: you are a human trapped within a Pokémon’s body, who just so happens to find themselves in a world inhabited by other Pokémon.
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I don’t know whether I should be ashamed of having never paid any attention to the series prior to now, with this one being the first in the series to really make it onto my radar and offer up a totally new system to master. Internationally it’s the seventh release in the Mystery Dungeon series, and the tenth title in Japan. From the original Blue to my most recent outing, Alpha Sapphire, this is how I have known the series to work.īut Super Mystery Dungeon… well, it’s an anomaly in my Pokémon career. For the whole of my game-playing existence, Pokémon has always followed the same formula: pick a gender, write your name, then choose a starter Pokémon before embarking on an adventure to conquer the Pokémon League.