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Good idea, bad idea

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The thing that enticed me was the cool concept of turning into a Pokemon and didn't have to be a trainer. Even though I really love the Red/Blue/Yellow/Gold/Silver/Diamond/Pearl games, I'm sorry to say that this one was too repetitive and overall boring. You wake up, you go outside to your buddy that says the same hello everyday, you get a help letter in your mailbox, you go to a maze dungeon, you go up the many flights of stairs, you talk to the pokemon, go back to the post office, they give you a prize for saving them, you get your buddy saying "we sure did well today, didn't we?" and go to sleep. It's boring. Anyway, I'll give you a list of why this one doesn't deserve the Pokemon brand name that we've come to love:

-The same sayings from the buddy pokemon, again and again every "day".

-You wake up and go to sleep before and after every mission, it gets tiring. Even if you don't complete any missions and you happen to wander into dungeon, when you come out, you still go to bed.

-Stairs in dungeons are often right there in the same room with you, no challenge to find them or reason to go through the entire maze, you can easily escape to the next level if you want. That may be a good or bad thing.

-When you meet the pokemon you are saving, you have to chase them around the screen and get them up against a wall so that your pokemon and that pokemon don't run circles around each other, just so you can click on them to talk to them. What an awful glitch, it's frustrating.

-When a pokemon joins your team in a dungeon, you have to protect over them otherwise they will get killed. Unlike the other PKMN games, if they die in this game before you reach the end of the dungeon, you lose them forever.

-When in a dungeon and your team-mates are under attack, you can't instantly move over to help them. The game demands that you wait your "turn" to move one space (that counts as an attack). This becomes a problem when you are toting a newly-joined pokemon that is lv1 who is four spaces away from you and is battling a lv15 pokemon. Your new member attacks, the cave pkmn attacks, you move 1 space. They will die by time you get there.

-You get two letters of "How To's" in your mailbox per day. You'd figure this would be cool and you'd learn everything within five days or so. Not so! They send you about 20 letters to tell you even the most basic things, some which after my 30th mission, I STILL don't know how to do. I wish they would've gave you a big lump of them in the beginning, a giant "HOW TO" that would tell you everything, instead of sporadically getting them in the mail every once in awhile. I feel I'm not playing as well as I could be. They become so backlogged too, I'm on my 20th mission and they just sent me one on "how to move your character". O_o

-The "Which Pokemon Are You" quiz was sorta cute, but I found myself often times not becoming a pokemon I liked. I ran through the quiz numerous times and gave any answer, but somehow kept getting Pikachu or Bulbasaur. I wanted to be something a little more exciting.

-So, what about the graphics? Well, the only thing that is 3D is the post office and the clouds. Big deal. The sprites are like the ones in Diamond/Pearl, and the dungeons are as graphically plain as the caves in Gold/Silver (unfortunately the sprites and dungeons are what you see the most of). Diamond/Pearl had more 3D graphics than this game did.

Overall, the dumbed-down and graphic-lacking simplicity of Mystery Dungeon appears like it was built for Game Boy Color. There is also very little of a plot to keep your interest and get you to pick up the game again. This game is a one-trick pony, when you've done one dungeon, you've done them all. If you still are interested in this game, please do yourself a favor and wait until it reaches the dollar bin at a used game store.

great game!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I think that every pokemon fan should have this game. In the game, you wake up one day as a pokemon, and another pokemon wants you and him to form a rescue team. together, you go into dungeons and save lost and hurt pokemon. Occasionally, a pokemon will offer to join your team. Its really fun, and you never know what's going to happen next. There are brand new items, that you can not find in other pokemon games. It is a unique game.

Twas ok

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: February 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It is pretty stupid because you cannot catch pokemon which is one of the biggest things in pokemon. The pokemon dont evolve either and my kids never play the game.

Pokemon

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Bought this for my 8 year old, she's bored with it and I got it for her less than a year ago. I guess with all the new Pokemon games lately this one isn't that great!

Fun, but gets old after a while...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: January 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Ok. So, I got this as a present, and I've been a Pokemon fan for a while and I was pretty excited. This has it's own Pros and Cons, so I'll go over both.

PROS
-AMAZING story line. For the Pokemon company, I was impressed. Usually the story lines of their movies and other games are a bore, but PMD is a different situation. Very exciting, plus humorous. I found myself laughing in my chair at one point, and my parents looked at me weird.
-The personality test was a great feature. Based on the answers you chose, the game chooses the best Pokemon you'd be. This can be a bad thing sometimes, because you may end up with a Pokemon you really don't like, but you can always turn off the power.
-As I said before, FUNNY!
-Once the story plot is over, there's TONS more to do.

CONS

-Graphics aren't the best, but they don't majorly suck or anything. Still, disappoint there.
-Dungeons are practically all the same...and they get extremely boring.
-Lastly, after you finished the game once, you lose interest in the game.

Challenging and a Lot of Fun!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is my favorite Pokemon game set so far (coming from a 26-year-old female gamer who owns at least one copy of nearly every Pokemon video game that has ever been made). It is FAR more of a challenge than the normal games (like Diamond/Pearl). Pokemon moves in these games have more to them than just type, power, and PP. They also have a range, which adds a whole new element to playing the game and building good teams. Damage from attacks also works a bit differently. Ground attacks will not hit flying types (just not for as much damage), so imunities don't mean as much as they do in the normal games. Terrain and weather were improved for these games, as well. There is a wealth of items to use, and they are pretty plentiful in dungeons.

In short, this is a game that will take a while to complete, and finishing the game's initial storyline is only the beginning. You certainly won't finish every task in a week using that super-powerful starter you probably used to beat Diamond/Pearl. This game will require more training, thought, and strategy to complete every task.

I definately recommend getting a guide to use while playing the game, but it's difficult to say which guide is better to buy. Personally, I like the Nintendo Power guide better because it gives information about the items commonly found in each dungeon (while the Prima guide wastes that space stating the blatently obvious about the dungeon's Pokemon), gives more information about the starters, gives MUCH more info about Friend Areas, and it's Pokedex is better written and less redundant. However, Prima's guide is the only one with information about TM compatibility (and a poster in the back, if you care about such things). Neither one gives dungeon Pokemon levels or in-depth dungeon item appearance statistics.

If you are looking for an easy Pokemon game, this is not the best choice for you. If you beat Diamond in a week or less and dream of something that might actually challenge you a bit, give this a try. (If you have a DS, I recommend Blue over Red, as the second screen makes a great place to keep your level map, and there are a few more wireless features in Blue that are not in Red.)

Pokemon mystery dungeon.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 16, 2007
Author: Amazon User

All right, well, all I can say for this game is, WOW. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is awesome. If you expect a classic pokemon game like red/green/blue, Silver/gold/crystal, ruby/sapphire/emrald, pearl/diamond then this isn't for you. Unless you are ready for a change. I mean this is really different. This time you are the pokemon. There are no trainers. There are sixteen different pokemon: Torchic, Mudkip, Treecko, Skitty, Pikachu, Cydaquil, Tododile, Chikorita, Eevee, Squirtle, Charmander, Meowth, Bulbasaur, Machop, Psyduck, and Cubone. Thanks to gamefaqs for that. I've played the game seven times. I'm on my Eighth. But now it's starting to get old. If you only like games that never get old, don't get this. But this is great the first few times you play. Also note that you can only evolve after you beat the game. And if you like umbreon eevee and other pokemon that evolve through happiness evolve through an IQ of four stars. You get IQ by eating gummis. Gummis are a food item. Oh and eevee evolves into umbreon and espeon using the item Lunar ribbon for umbreon. And Solar ribbon for espeon. (I'm pretty sure) I know that eevee evolves into umbreon using the Lunar ribbon but not so sure about espeon. Jolteon, Vaporeon, and Flareon are aqquired the same way as the classic games. But anyway, I hope I helped. I won't tell any plot details! And ignore any who do. I hate spoilers. Thanks for reading!

sTILL HAVE NOT GOT WHAT WAS ORDERED

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: December 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

i ORDERED THIS ON nOV 30 AND TO DATE IT HAS NOT BEEN SHIPPED I WILL CHARGE IT BACK ON MY CREDITCARD IF I DO NOT GET ANY INFO FROM SALER

Obsessed

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Purchased this product for my son. He has been obsessed with playing the game since he recieved it. My son has indicated that this is the best of all the Pokemon DS games. As a parent, I'm not thrilled with his every possible waking moment is spent playing this game. So it depends who is rating this game, the player (5 star), the parent (1 star).

WOW

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: July 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have no clue about video games but my son asked for this and he loves it.

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