After flinching in reaction to the talking pokemon, you ask them why they can talk, and it leads up to you realizing you are a pokemon yourself, whether by looking at your body, or checking a nearby pool of water to see your reflection. Guess what's next? You don't remember your name. If lucky, you still have your name in those unblocked memory banks, next to your vocabulary.
Next thing you know, after you become sane again and accept your new pokemon body, that one pokemon that found you when you were hallucinating, is wanting to form a team to beat up pokemon that are more wild than you apparently, rescue random pokemon who got lost, find random bad pokemon above the wild ones you face(since fighting in the wild is not considered illegal, to the point you're knocking each other out, but taking a berry where millions of the same thing are right next to every pokemon's house without permission is punishable to life in jail), and making memories. I think the last one is the reason you form a team, since you lost all the others.
With that, you have Pokemon Mystery Dungeon! Cue music:
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is a unique and special spin-off series in the pokemon franchise, because for one: You get to play as the pokemon themselves! Two: I think the first reason is enough. Many of the game mechanics differ from the main series, but in the end it gives it's own taste of an rpg that relates well to the pokemon name, but still gives it's unique attributes.
One interesting function of PMD is your belly. For once, you can worry about if you are starving yourself, because when you are exploring/rescuing/hunting/guiding in any dungeon/forest/sea/ocean/desert/canyon/tower/waterfall/jungle/plain/cliffside/crater/sky/ect., you want to have enough food to thoroughly complete your mission.
Another part of the mechanics is how you have a base attack now. It is like a weak form of struggle, but without recoil and you can use it whether or not you have PP left or no PP left for your moves.
What are the dungeons so conveniently placed in the title of the series? Well, they are like mazes, labyrinths even. All dungeons are between 3-99 floors(ascending or descending), and they take place in each forest, ocean, ect. After getting further and further into the plot line in each respective PMD game, more and more dungeons are available to explore. Dungeons continue to come up after the main plot line is completed, when certain criterias are completed.
PMD is fun in the fact you get to choose a pokemon to be, only lacking that you get a limited amount to choose from in each game, and even more by gender...but the quiz is fun though! Whether you take it seriously, or joke around, the nature determines the pokemon, literally! What makes it a bit easier is having all starters as a choice in each game, as well as pikachu. So if you had a favorite starter from the main series, you could easily choose it(If you decided to tweak the answers) as the pokemon you get to be, as well as other choices of course. Traveling partners are essential so you get a partner pokemon too! You also get a limited choice, but also limited by not being of the same type as the pokemon you start as.
Guess I went a bit out of order of things to know first to later on. Oh well, PMD is a bit out of order compared to the main series, but in all it's a fun game. Whether you play first gen. PMD, which is the Rescue Team era with Red and Blue Rescue Team, or the second gen. PMD, being the Explorers era with Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky! In Japan, it has some excluded PMD games, as well with a new one coming out later this month, called, "Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Magnagate and the Infinite Labyrinth".
(Look, they are connected!)
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