Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team
Speaking of prolific handheld Pokémon spinoffs, here’s the most prolific of them all. Japanese developer Chunsoft, developers of the first five Dragon Quest games (sensing a pattern here), have been importing pocket monsters into its roguelike series since 2005. Rather than showing off the pixel graphics of the original pair of Game Boy/DS games, here we present the charming hand-drawn visuals of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, the recent remake for the Switch
Instead of catching Pokémon, the Mystery Dungeon series casts you as a human transformed into a pocket monster, teaming up with another Pokémon in a Pokémon-populated world to solve Pokémon crimes. It’s a fun twist on the formula, even if the roguelike grid-based battles aren’t for everybody.
