Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team

aka: Pokémon Donjon Mystère: Equipe de Secours Rouge, Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon: Aka no Kyūjotai, Pokémon Mundo misterioso: Equipo de rescate rojo, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Squadra Rossa, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Team Rot
Moby ID: 24495
Game Boy Advance Specs
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Breaking the conventions of prior Pokémon games, you play as a human who has suddenly been transformed into a Pokémon, but before you could come to grips with this startling revelation, a Butterfree needs help! Its baby Caterpie has fallen into a dungeon and cannot get out!

You and other Pokémon you befriend along the way must brave randomly created dungeons to help out other Pokémon who find themselves in need of rescuing or just need something delivered.

Unlike previous Pokémon games, the battles take place on the map (though they are still turn based), and although you may only directly control the Pokémon that represents you in the game, you can give your companions vague battle orders, such as use more special attacks or conserve items.

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  • ポケモン不思議のダンジョン 赤の救助隊 - Japanese spelling

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Average score: 70% (based on 16 ratings)

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Average score: 3.6 out of 5 (based on 16 ratings with 1 reviews)

First game to make me cry

The Good
Story is relatively simple imo, which is pretty commonplace for Pokemon games. May be a downside to some, but I'm personally fine with keeping it simple, gives more focus to the gameplay, which is fantastic. Moving and attacking in 8 directions, many locations to explore, boatloads of Pokemon to recruit, and a plethora of missions to complete.

The Bad
Difficulty can be pretty bad once you hit a certain point of the game and you don't know to be prepared. I won't spoil anything, but there is a section of the game where you are away from your base for an extended period of time going through dungeon after dungeon. As a kid this caught me off guard and I struggled through this section, fainting quite often.

Also, the fact that you need to fight through a dungeon each attempt at a Legendary kind of sucks, no save scumming to be had here.

Also monsters houses are the worst.

The Bottom Line
A fairly simple story that can still latch onto you emotionally while also providing great gameplay that is a refreshing change up from just playing the standard Pokemon RPG. A large amount of things to do and collect, which will keep you busy for a very long time.

The 5 stars might be a tiny bit biased.

Game Boy Advance · by tabor62gb (97) · 2024

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Game added by Pat Cdr.

Wii U added by Harmony♡.

Additional contributors: gamewarrior, Michael Cassidy.

Game added October 15, 2006. Last modified January 20, 2024.