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| Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team (GBA) | 
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Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2190
Platform: Game Boy Advance
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 3 - 18 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: GA-AGBPB24E
Model: 45496737764
UPC: 045496737764
EAN: 0045496737764
ASIN: B000FW57CE
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review
One day you awake to find that you?ve been turned into a Pokemon and the land around you is being destroyed by natural disasters. It?s up to you to explore dungeons filled with wild monsters and uncover your true destiny and purpose in a game where you get to "be" a Pokemon. The lowdown:
Rather than being one of the core role-playing games in the Pokemon series this is a spin-off based on ChunSoft?s long running (in Japan at least) Mystery Dungeon series. The basic idea is that you enter a random generated dungeon and defeat all the wild Pokemon you find within it. Most of the standbys of the Pokemon world also make an appearance, including Technical Machines that enable you to lean new abilities, resistances and weakness to different elemental attacks. You can?t capture wild Pokemon but you can recruit them to your team, which adds something to your strategic options. Admittedly the game can get repetitive, but there?s generally enough to see and do until the "real" Pokemon sequels come out sometime next year. Most exciting moment:
The combat is a clever mix between real-time and turn-based combat, with wild Pokemon moving about the dungeon at the same time as you. You can have four Pokemon in your team at once, with the computer controlling the other three, and each can have four attacks or abilities each. If you?re sensible you?ll put together a varied team so you?ve got an attack ready for whatever enemy comes your way. Since you ask:
As with most Pokemon titles there are two versions of the game, in this case one for the DS and one for the GBA. They?re both essentially the same, except with different distributions of Pokemon in each. The DS does have a couple of extra options though, as well as an easier to use touch screen interface. The bottom line:
Not the deepest Pokemon game ever but you?ll still find yourself wanting to catch ?em all. - HARRISON DENT
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Something a little different June 10, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
"Well, just imagine you're lying there, and you wake up... and you're a Pokemon!"
"Hmm, sounds interesting..."
"And get this! The world is ending!"
That sums up how I think this game was pitched.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is an interesting game. Very enjoyable with many of our old favourites (I ended up Charmander, my very first starter when I forst played Pokemon Blue) and some newer ones scattered here and there (I got excited to see Absol later on in the game). However, while the gameplay is all neww and exciting, and it seems Pokemon live in a civilised society after all... it just seems that little bit, well, dark.
Basically, the world is being thrown into an apocalypse, something we don't learn until roughly the middle of the game. You, the protagonist, and your new friend must level up, fighting off bad guys and bullies and wild Pokemon who hate you for seemingly no reason, until eventually you can solve why this is all happening and put a stop to it.
Despite the chilling thought of the world ending if you screw up (which is, of course, not possible. It's a game, after all), this is a very enjoyable adventure, almost like a Pokemon episode gone wonderfully wrong, and not only are you the trainer - you're the Pokemon as well. Not just senseless violence anymore! Now you have a reason to fight!
Kids will love it because, well, it's Pokemon, right? Adults would probably love it, fan or not, since it's challenging.
Ok, so you don't catch and train Pokemon now. But you do recruit and train together.
It's a very spiritual type of game. There's purpose other than to be the best. You're part of a rescue team and you have responsibility. Think Spider-Man if he became an actual spider (or Spinarak as the case may be).
However the rescue missions can get repetitive and it can be very frustrating if your client faints while you're trying to guide them through a Pokemon infested cave. And if you faint, you lose a lot of your money and LOADS of items. Very frustrating if your last Blowback Orb was being kept just in case and you lost it due to fainting at the hands of a Ditto in the guise of Lairon.
Overall it's a fun game, kept me up all night at first. Now it just sits on my bookshelf while I go back to Pokemon Silver.
 Other Pokemon Games Better February 10, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon:Red Rescue Team is completely different to any other Pokemon game.Instead of being human,you are a pokemon.It is a gamble that has not really worked.
The graphics are amazing and probably the best ever on the Game Boy Advance.The pokemon look exactly how they should and the graphics are bright.The storyline is great and very intresting.You also get to understand the different Pokemons personality well.
The missions are very fun to do and the game is quite long,so you wont be finishing it in a day.Also,the choice to be any starter pokemon is great and also the choice to have Pikachu as your companion is good.I also like the quiz.
However,there are some problems.The movements in the dungeons are not smooth at all and it can really annoy you.Also,sometimes you cant move your pokemon at all and you have to wait a few seconds before it moves.It also is very repetitive and does not give you a sense of adventure.The game almost feels like you are working.
The quiz is SO annoying,as it repeats questions and gives you some really weird questions.Also,I would of liked to see some new pokemon,as all the pokemon have been used before.I would also like to see MORE pokemon and not the same pokemon in exactly the same place.
I would recommend it,but dont think it is like any previous Pokmemon games.
 Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is awseome December 30, 2006
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is very different to every other pokemon game, because in every other game you are a human who captures and battles with pokemon. In this you are a pokemon and make pokemon friends. You wake up one morning as a pokemon and then build a rescue team. Still pokemon join you if you have a place for them to live. What I like most about this game is that in the game all 300 and some thing pokemon appear. Also I always had to have torchic, treeko or mudkip at the start of my emerald and ruby. But in this, finally I get the chance to be totodile and cyndyquill. At the beginning you take a quiz deciding wich pokemon you are. Then you can choose a partner out of the Kanto, Johto and Hoenn starters. It is a very good game and you go against Zapdos (the first legendary you go against), quite early in the game. I would say that it's the best pokemon game ever.
Decent attempt December 21, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I don't see the point. I love the other pokemon games (especially crystal) so when someone bought this for me I was eager to play it. It starts of great and is loads of fun and has the third best storyline in any game ever (behind 2 zelda games). But it gets repetitive and is very hard to understand. It feels like a cross between minish cap and kingdom hearts. And it almost works. The graphics are decent for the GBA and so are the sounds. I think it could have done with more Pokemon but this just gets thumbs up from me.
I love this game! December 3, 2006
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Red is certainly a change from the original Pokemon games, and also as good. I love it to bits! The graphics are decent, and it's really cute seeing those tiny little sprites on screen. In a world where you are a Pokemon you actually get to see other Pokemon talk and interact with you and each other, their emotions and you can get people to join you on your adventure. This is a truely cute little game that Pokemon fans are sure to love!
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