Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX was released on March 6th, and fans have been immensely enjoying the GBA/DS game remake on the Nintendo Switch. Of course, when it comes to remakes, comparisons are inevitable, especially with the beloved spin-off Pokémon series that is Mystery Dungeon.
Many gamers believe that a remake should add something new to its source material and become its own creation, while others believe remakes should exist to introduce a franchise or game to a newer, contemporary audience. (A good remake can potentially do both at once.) Regardless of personal opinions and nostalgia goggles, it is possible to analyze the new and altered elements of Rescue Team DX to which changes help the game and which ones hinder it, which is wh🦹at this list will at♊tempt to do.
10 Works: Expanded Team 𓆉of 8 Pokémon
One of the challenging parts of the original Mystery Dungeon game (apart from the 99 floor dungeons) was the limit of Pokémon the player could have on their team. For most of the franchise's history, Rescue teams would enter a dungeon with a maximum of ๊four team members, including the leader.
In Rescue Team: DX, the normal limit is 3 at once, but the number of team members can be temporarily increased by recruiti🎃ng defeated Pokémon in dungeons to join the team, for a maximum of eight (or even nine in some circumstances). This is a huge improvement for players who wanted to have maximum team strength in a dungeon without sacrificing their ability to recruit Pokémon.
9 Doesn't Work: The Art Style/Graphics ඣ
Part of the original Rescue Team duo's charm could be attributed to the in🔜tricate simplicity that is sprite artwork. When games are translated onto new consoles, there is often a pressure felt to improve graphics, sometimes by way of making a non-traditionally 3D franchise 3D. This can succeed or fail depending on the original series itself. The Pokémon main-series of RPG games work well not just because of its wide open maps, but also because of stell🍎ar art direction. Does Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, a repetitive rogue-like game with the majority of its screens taken up by walls, benefit from a 3D remake? That may be difficult to say with certainty, but the visual engagement can become dull quite quickly, especially with the lag that often accompanies 3D games.
8 Works: Shiny Po🌄kémon ꦺ
A very exciting element in the Rescue Team remake is the addition of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Shiny Pokémon, a feature once solely granted to the Shiny Celebi in Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky. Now, almost all Pokémon the player encounters in dungeons have a chance of being shiny. Acquiring and equipping the Friend Bow item will increase both the chance to recruit defeated Pokémon and encounter shiny Pokémonꦫ to recruit.
Th🌟is is clearly a popular decision, with shiny Pokémon at a much higher peak of popularity than they were during Red & Blue Rescue Team's release in 2005. Some players dedicate the entirety of their Pokémon gameplay to hunting for shinies, as well as dedicate entire YouTube channels to it.
7 Doesn't Work: Auto-Save 𒅌
There are bound to be features in both original games and remakes that divide fans, and the Auto-Save function in Rescue Team: DX may be one of those division lines. In previous titlesꩵ, the player could either manually save the game by accessing their bed oꦇr a rest point, or quicksave within a dungeon to turn the game off, with the quicksave being deleted upon returning.
Now with the Auto-Save feature, manually saving will exit the player out of the game and to the main menu, while Auto-Save continually creates saves of the game. This can be frustrating for players who🌳 reset their game after losing a valuable item or failing to recruit a legendary Pokémon. It is understandable why this change was made, but it can be interpreted as another way of restricting how the player plays theirꩲ game.
6 Works: Be🐭ing Able To Change Your Name
Variety is the spice of life, and🍷 nothing is spicier than not being limited in video games. For those who debate and fret over what to call their character or name their Pokémon, the stress has been eliminated thanks to Rescue Team: DX.
No longer will you come up with the perfect name an hour later when it's too late and not worth resetting over. The main character's name, the name of the player's partner, and the name of the 🦩Rescue team can all be changed in the main menu. For those who also 🐼enjoy nicknames or choose to legally change their name, this game is user-friendly and modern in an appreciable way.
5 Does𓂃n't Work: Lack Of New Content
There are many players who wouldn't buy a remake game if it had absolutely no new content at all. If the only differences were the graphi𓃲cs, music, and small updates to the mechanics, it might as well be considered a remastering. Of course, Rescue Team DX is not devoid of new content from its original game, but with , the lack of content will make itself known once the monotony starts to creep in.
Considering the average price of a new Switchꦿ game made by Nintendo, gamers have to consider carefully how they will spend their money, and sometimes nostalgia simply isn't a good enough reas🌌on to "Say yes to the Forretress."
4 ꦆ Works: Mega Evolution ♐
If there's anything nerds go wild for, it's alternate forms. This is undeniably true in Pokémon, where our favorite creatures have forms based on environment, held item, or emotional bond with their trainer. Mega Evolution is a truly popular mechanic, with many Pokémon fans still imagining which 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokémon should get a Mega Evolution ಌdespite Generation VI being long past in the timeline of the franchise.
Luckily, Nintendo has listened to fans' demands for Mega Evolution and have included it in this remake, with a few small changes. Because there🌱 are no humans in this game, Pokémon Mega Evolve using Empowerment Seeds, which can only beꦦ found after beating the main story of the game. Mega Evolving would admittedly make the main game a bit too easy, after all.
3 🦩 Doesn't Work: Lack of New Pokémon
Pokémon: Red and Blue Rescue Team were originally made during Generation III, where there were a total of 386 Pokémon (give or take a Munchlax). Now with the seri🌜es pushing 890 Pokémon that are unable to fit onto a single game, it admit𝐆tedly makes sense that there wouldn't be an absurd amount of new Pokémon added to the remake. But the actual number of Pokémon added from the original is a little over 30, with appearances from baby Pokémon such as Mime. Jr and Generation IV evolutions like Leafeon and Dusknoir. The decision makes sense, but we can't help but be a little mournful.
2 Works: Overhaul Of IQ Skills 🏅
The IQ Skills mechanic in the original games had the player's Pokémon gain skills as their intelligence increase🙈d, which was done by consuming Gummis. This mechanic has been simplified to Rare Qualities, which a Pokémon can obtain when eating a Rainbow Gummi or DX Gummi. These Rare Qualities can actually affect the entire team as opposed to one Pokémon, beneficial for Rare Qualities such as Brawl which increases a Pokémon's power when there are more enemies in the room.
It's e🗹asy to stuff one's face full of gummies in real life, but finding the number of gummies necess𓆉ary to unlock rare traits in a Pokémon was tedious, so the change is welcome.
1 ꧅ Doesn't Work: No Multiplayer🎃 At All
One of the best feelings of childhood is being a hero to your friends. To revive your friend's Rescue team so they could continue on in their mission felt like a superhero action, especially if they had fainted deep within a dungeon. The introduction of Wifi in the Mystery Dungeon series brought another way of helping friends out, as well as altru♏istically rescuing strangers to try and make their day better. The absence of simple multiplayer content that was present in games released in 2007 is very much felt, especially in☂ a game that focuses on friendship and teamwork.