Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team

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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team

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 were released in the U.S. on September 18, 2006.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon starts with the player as a human who is turned into a Pokémon. A series of questions at the start of the game determines what Pokémon the player becomes.

When the player first discovers that they are a Pokémon, they will first meet their partner who also happens to be a Pokémon. The journey begins with the player going out to find a lost Caterpie. Once this first quest is done, the journey begins in earnest.

All Pokémon from Generations I, II, and III are available in this game; all may be battled and befriended as the player ventures across the land and into various dungeons.

The games have received adaptations in other formats through the anime episode Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Go-Getters out of the Gate! and the manga series Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Ginji's Rescue Team.

The game has been successful enough to have three sequels. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness were released on the Nintendo DS in 2007/2008, a third game to the pair was released in 2009, and a trio of games for the WiiWare was released on August 4th, 2009 in Japan.

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, as a human turned into a Pokémon.
• This world is suffering an imbalance in nature, with natural disasters occurring everywhere.
• The player and their partner form a rescue team after successfully rescuing Caterpie.
• Soon after, they rescue two Magnemite, one of which joins the team.
• Team Meanies steal the requests for help from the player's mailbox. The team rescues a Metapod who is stuck at Sinister Woods.
• A Jumpluff is stuck at Silent Chasm. Shiftry is asked to go. The team goes down to rescue Shiftry.
• After Zapdos kidnaps Shiftry, the player must fight it at the top of Mt. Thunder.
• The player consults Xatu for an explanation of their presence in this world as a Pokémon at Great Canyon.
• The player learns of the legend of Ninetales: one day, a human angered a Ninetales and was cursed, however, his/her Gardevoir took the curse upon herself to save her master. However, the human selfishly deserts the cursed Gardevoir. Ninetales 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.
• To escape their pursuers the team pass through Lapis Cave and then Mt. Blaze, where they encounter Moltres.
• The team enters Frosty Forest and is attacked by Articuno, who blames the player for bringing natural disasters to its forest. An Absol steps in and stops the fighting, then joins the rescue team.
• The player reaches Mt. Freeze and meets the Ninetales of the legend. The player discovers that while part of the legend is true, and the selfish human from the legend is alive, and it is not the player.
• The player returns to the town, and Gengar is discredited. Meanwhile Team A.C.T. goes to the Magma Caverns to defeat Groudon.
• Wynaut and Wobbuffet ask the player to go defeat the Mankey gang in the Uproar Forest. In return, they offer a peeled Chestnut, which is in turn used to convince the Mankey gang to help renovate the Rescue Team Base.
• Team A.C.T. is 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, Xatu announces that a falling star 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 his/her transformation: the player was destined to be the savior of the Pokémon world; the player decided to erase the memories of being a human in order to cleanse the heart and mind.
• The player goes to find Rayquaza in order to convince it to destroy the falling star.
• Rayquaza's Hyper Beam destroys the meteorite. However, the player ends up in the netherworld in the aftermath of the explosion; Gengar helps them return to the Pokémon world.
• As the Pokémon celebrate the end of the calamities, the player says farewell 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

• The players gains entrance to Luminous Cave
• After talking to Lombre and Whiscash, the player goes to Stormy Sea and defeats Kyogre.
• After getting mail about a new dungeon, the player talks to Lombre. Then Shiftry will let the player go to Buried Relic.
• After getting HM Surf in the Solar Cave, Spinda walks into Pokémon Square and collapses. The player and their partner take him back to their rescue base.
• Spinda reveals he was looking for the mirage Pokémon, but doesn't know what it is. He gives the player the Clear Wing, then leaves and stays in Pokémon Square for a while.
• The player's partner suggests that they go and speak to Xatu.
• Upon reaching the top of the Great Canyon, Xatu reveals that the player must first go to the three fields and face the Lords of those areas (the Legendary beasts).
• After clearing the Fiery Field and defeating Entei, Entei turns the Clear Wing into the Red Wing.
• After clearing the Lightning Field and defeating Raikou, Raikou turns the Red Wing into the Sunset Wing.
• After clearing the Northwind Field and defeating Suicune, Suicune turns the Sunset Wing into the Rainbow Wing, and Mt. Faraway is unlocked.
• Once the player clears Mt. Faraway and defeat the Mirage Pokémon, revealed to be Ho-Oh, the player can go back to the Fields and Mt. Faraway to recruit the legendary beasts and Ho-Oh (if their friend areas have been opened).
• If the player goes back to Pokémon Square and talk to Spinda, it will leave, encouraged to go exploring again.
• Medicham and Ekans go to the Wish Cave to try to grant wishes for themselves.
• Ekans is defeated and places a rescue request for Medicham, who is still stuck in the cave.
• After rescuing Medicham, the player is rewarded with the Wish Stone.
• Medicham and Ekans reveal that Gengar is trying to climb Mt. Freeze.
• Gengar asks the player to escort him up Mt. Freeze.
• Gengar reveals himself to be the selfish human in the legend of Ninetales, and is the master of Gardevoir.
• Ninetales gives Gengar the Nine Tail Crest, and sends him to Murky Cave.
• The player and Gengar go rescue Gardevoir. Gardevoir then offers to join the player's rescue team, but it has lost all its memory relating to Gengar.
• Once the player goes back and recruits Ho-Oh, a cutscene will be shown showing Blastoise and Charizard being KO'd by an incredibly strong Pokémon in an extremely tough dungeon.
• When the player goes through the dungeon, the Pokémon is revealed as Mewtwo.
• If the player has the friend area Cryptic Cave, Mewtwo will ask to join the player's rescue team second time through the dungeon if the player defeats Mewtwo.
• After recruiting all of the legendary birds, the player talks to Alakazam. The player then goes to Legendary Island and Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres will grant access to Silver Trench.
• After recruiting Lugia, Xatu will appear outside the Team base. After that, Blastoise will come and say that he saw a cave and saw "weird things". Xatu will then name the place Meteor Cave. Then, the player will gain access to it. The player may recruit Deoxys in the Meteor Cave.

Dungeon tips

• If the player remains on one floor of a dungeon for too long, this will happen:
  • It will say "Something is stirring".
  • It will say "Something is approaching".
  • It will say "It's coming closer."
  • It will say "It's right near! It's gusting hard!" Then the player's character will faint.
• Pokémon with the Float terrain ability who try to cross magma will get burned (unless they are Template:Type2).
• Not all Pokémon are able to be directly recruited. Pokémon that cannot be are mostly final form Pokémon.

Characters

Playable characters

Non-player characters

• Gardevoir (Player's dreams). Eventually able to be recruited after helping out Gengar.
• Xatu (Hill of the Ancients)
• Ninetales (Mt. Freeze)
• Wynaut (Uproar Forest)
• Wobbuffet (Uproar Forest)

Plot-set friends

• Magnemite
• Absol

Pokémon Square

• Kecleon (younger)
• Kecleon (older)
• Persian
• Wigglytuff
• Kangaskhan (ガルーラおばちゃん Garura-obachan)
• Gulpin
• Snubbull → Granbull
• Lombre
• Magnemite ×2
• Jumpluff ×2
• Munchlax

Makuhita Dojo

• Makuhita

Whiscash Pond

• Whiscash
• Caterpie (キャタピーちゃん Caterpie-chan)
• Metapod (トランセルくん Trancell-kun)

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 Shifty (チーム　テングス Team Tengus)
  • Shiftry
  • Nuzleaf ×2
• Team Constrictor (チーム　カラミツキ Team Karamitsuki)
  • Octillery
  • Tentacruel
  • Cradily
• Team Hydro (チーム　ハイドロズ Team Hydros)
  • Blastoise
  • Feraligatr
  • Swampert
• Team Rumblerock (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. Mewtwo
21. Deoxys

Version-Exclusive Pokémon

Similar to the main series games, each version has its own version-exclusive Pokémon. They are:

Red 0137 Porygon Normal 0226 Mantine Water Flying 0311 Plusle Electric 0315 Roselia Grass Poison 0349 Feebas Water

Blue 0129 Magikarp Water 0131 Lapras Water Ice 0190 Aipom Normal 0233 Porygon2 Normal 0312 Minun Electric

Wondermail codes

Codes, such as these, may unlock the Pokémon on the opposite version.

Trivia

• This is the first game that allows the player to understand what some Pokémon are saying.
• This is the first game in the franchise to offer the same move to be learned more than once at one time without a glitch.
• The Generation IV Pokémon Munchlax is obtainable in this game through hacking, despite the fact that the game only contains Pokémon from the first three generations.
• If released, a legendary Pokémon may be fought and recruited again, with the exception of Latios and Latias, who instead ask the player if they can join.
• These are the only paired games to be released on separate handheld consoles to date. Despite this, they are still virtually identical.
• The original Japanese release of Blue Rescue Team would wipe data from all Game Boy Advance games in the Nintendo DS's second slot unless it was Red Rescue Team. This was fixed in all subsequent releases.

In other languages

• French: Pokémon Donjon Mystère : Équipe De Secours Rouge/Pokémon Donjon Mystère : Équipe De Secours Bleue
• Spanish: Pokémon Mundo Misterioso: Equipo de Rescate Rojo/Pokémon Mundo Misterioso: Equipo de Rescate Azul
• German: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Rot/Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Blau
• Italian: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Squadra Rossa/Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Squadra Blu

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