Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Red Rescue Team and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team are a matched pair of Pokémon games for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS, respectively. These two games were developed by Chunsoft and were published by Nintendo. They were released in Japan on November 17, 2005, and, according to E3, will be released in the U.S. on September 18, 2006. Release dates in other countries have yet to be announced. A special episode based on the game was broadcast in the U.S. on September 8, 2006: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Go-Getters out of the Gate!.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon starts with yourself as a human who is turned into a Pokémon via a series of questions at the start of the game.

When you discover you are a Pokémon, you will first meet your partner who also happens to be a Pokémon. You will start your journey by going out to find a lost Caterpie. Once this first quest is done, your journey will start to unfold.

All Pokémon from Generations I, II, and III are available in this game, and you are able to battle and befriend all of them to join your team. You will travel across this new land and enter and fight in dungeon levels.

Gameplay

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is an adaptation of the Fushigi no Dungeon games for Pokémon. Like the main Pokémon RPGs, it has two gameplay modes; unlike the main RPGs, battle mode and dungeon mode are not distinct. It is a semi-turn-based game, with each step, attack, or item use being counted as a single turn.

The size of a party is limited to four in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, compared to six in the main RPGs; furthermore, players are only able to directly control one Pokémon: their own character (or, later in the game, any other befriended Pokémon). The player's teammates are essentially autonomous, with player control being limited to general strategy such as avoiding Pokémon battles or not moving and staying in one place.

Plot

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Main story

• The player wakes up one day in the Pokémon world, a human turned into a Pokémon.
• This world is suffering an imbalance in nature, with natural disasters occuring everywhere.
• The player and their partner form a rescue team after successfully rescuing Caterpie.
• Team Meanies steal the requests for help from the player's mailbox.
• The player consults Natu for an explanation of their presence in this world as a Pokémon.
• The player learns of the legend of Ninetales: one day, a human angered a Ninetales and was cursed, however, his Gardevoir took the curse upon itself to save its master. However, the human selfishly deserts the cursed Gardevoir. Ninetails prophesises that the selfish human would be reborn as a Pokémon, and when that happens, the balance of nature in the world would collapse.
• Gengar convinces the Pokémon that the player is the selfish human in the legend of Ninetales, and they decide to run them out of town.
• The player meets the Ninetales of the legend and discovers that while part of the legend is true, and even though the selfish human from the legend is alive, the player is not that human.
• The player returns to the town, and Gengar is discredited. Meanwhile Team A.C.T. goes to the Magma Caverns to defeat Groudon.
• Team A.C.T. is instead defeated, and a new team, comprised of Blastoise, Octillery and Golem, is formed to go rescue them.
• The new team is also defeated. The player goes to Magma Cavern themselves to rescue Team A.C.T.
• After defeating Groudon, Natu announces that a meteor is headed towards the planet, and that it is the meteor that is causing the imbalance in nature.
• Gardevoir reveals to the player, in a dream, the true reason for its transformation: the player was destined to be the saviour of the Pokémon world.
• The player goes to find Rayquaza in order to convince it to destroy the incoming meteor.
• The player ends up in the netherworld in the aftermath of the explosion; Gengar somehow helps them return to the Pokémon world.
• As the Pokémon celebrate the end of the calamities, the player says goodbye and leaves to return to the human world.
• After the credits roll, the player decides to remain in the Pokémon world, and reappears at the rescue base.

Epilogue

• Gengar reveals himself to be the selfish human in the legend of Ninetales, and is the master of Gardevoir.
• The player and Gengar go rescue Gardevoir.

Characters

Playable characters

• Bulbasaur
• Squirtle
• Charmander
• Pikachu
• Meowth*
• Psyduck*
• Machop*
• Cubone*
• Eevee*
• Chikorita
• Totodile
• Cyndaquil
• Treecko
• Mudkip
• Torchic
• Skitty*

*: These Pokémon may not be selected as your partner.

Non-player characters

• Gardevoir

Pokémon Square

• Kecleon Brothers
  • Kecleon (younger; Kecleon's ???; カクレオンしょうてん)
  • Kecleon (older; Kecleon's ???; カクレオンせんもんてん)
• Persian's Bank (ペルシアンぎんこう)
  • Persian
• Wigglytuff Club (プクリンのともだちサークル)
  • Wigglytuff
• Aunty Kangaskhan's Warehouse (ガルーラおばちゃんのそうこ)
  • Kangaskhan (Aunty Kangaskhan; ガルーラおばちゃん Garura-obachan)
• Gulpin's ??? (ゴクリンのれんけつてん)
  • Gulpin
• Makuhita's ??? (マクノシタくんれんじょ)
  • Makuhita
• Whiscash Pond (ナマズンのいけ)
  • Whiscash
  • Caterpie (キャタピーちゃん Caterpie-chan)
  • Metapod (トランセルくん Trancell-kun)
  • Jumpluff ×2
• Snubbull → Granbull
• Lombre
• Magnemite ×2

Pelipper Post Office

• Pelipper Post Office (ペリッパーれんらくじょ)
  • Pelipper
• Bellsprout
• Diglett (son)
• Dugtrio (father)

Rescue teams

• Team A.C.T. (チーム F.L.B. Team F.L.B.)
  • Alakazam
  • Charizard
  • Tyranitar
• Team Meanies (チーム　イジワルズ Team Ijiwarus)
  • Gengar
  • Ekans
  • Medicham
• Team ??? (チーム　テングス Team Tengus)
  • Shiftry
  • Nuzleaf ×2
• Team ??? (チーム　カラミツキ Team Karamitsuki)
  • Octillery
  • Tentacruel
  • Cradily
• Team ??? (チーム　ハイドロズ Team Hydros)
  • Blastoise
  • Feraligatr
  • Swampert
• Team ??? (チーム　ゴロゴロ Team Gorogoro)
  • Graveler ×2
  • Golem

Bosses

1. Skarmory
2. Team Meanies
3. Zapdos
4. Moltres
5. Articuno
6. Groudon
7. Rayquaza
8. Kyogre
9. Regirock
10. Regice
11. Registeel
12. Mew
13. Latios
14. Entei
15. Raikou
16. Suicune
17. Ho-oh
18. Jirachi
19. Lugia
20. Deoxys
21. Mewtwo

Friend areas

Meadow area

Beautiful meadow: Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, Venusaur, Chikorita, Bayleef, Meganium, Hoppip, Skiploom, Jumpluff, Taillow, Swellow, Roselia

Blue sky meadow: Jigglypuff, Wigglytuff, Lickitung, Chansey, Igglybuff, Girafarig, Snubbull, Granbull, Smeargle, Blissey, Ralts, Kirlia, Gardevoir

Sacred land: Raikou, Entei, Suicune

This is just an example of one of the friend areas, but this is likly to be the first you came across.

Trivia

This is the first game to date that allows the player to understand what Pokémon are saying.

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