As well, this has always been one of my favorite RPG main character customizing gimmicks. I really enjoyed this as it was a new way for you to determine your starting Pokemon instead of outright picking one. How you answer the questions determines which of sixteen starting Pokemon you will be. The game starts with you having to take a personality test. The question is whether or not Pokemon Mystery Dungeon lives up to the original greatness of the line, or if it’s as stale as the Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald games proved to be.

It’s nice to see Game Freak taking a chance and letting Chunsoft give a new RPG point of view a try. Sure Pokemon has consistently added innovative and highly original spin offs to the series like Dash, Hey You Pikachu, Trozei, and Pokemon Channel, but the life and blood of Pokemon are the RPG’s. It’s that hope that new life will be breathed into the RPG branch of the franchise. This is why the one-two punch of Dungeon and Ranger have been a source of hopeful optimism for me over the past few months. It’s well known that I am probably the biggest Pokemaniac in our respective industry, but even I gave Emerald a “mere” 6.5 as the formulas had become too repetitive and the stories too similar for my tastes. It’s also quite a departure from the usual Pokemon style of RPG that has cluttered handhelds over the past decade. This marks the last Pokemon game that will be released for the Game Boy Advance. Now they’ve taken on the license of yet another major RPG chain by giving us a massive Pokemon dungeon crawl. They made the Torenko (Dragon Quest spinoff) dungeon hack for the SNES and PSX for example. This isn’t the first licensed dungeon hack they’ve done either. Chunsoft is best known for releasing dungeon hacks and only dungeon hacks.

Pokemon gba mystery dungeon