BTW the Mystery Dungeon games are known for having a metric boatload of postgame content. Easily twice over the amount of time spent on the main story.
I love how pokemon made official pokemon Isekai games. "I woke up as a amnesiac pokemon and started a rescue team" would 100% be the light novel title.
It actually got a manga though I believe its only one volume 1 one shot. Had it as a kid. It’s called Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Genji’s Rescue Team. Basically a recap manga of the whole game.
You reappear in the end of the game because your partner Pokemon's sorrow reaches you and you decide that you want to stay with them. So the powers that be granted you that wish. The post game also lets you unlock a quest that devells deeper into Guardivors story and gives context to Gangers actions in the end. It's actually really good I can recommend you giving it a try
In the wiki it says this: After meeting their partner and calling upon Rayquaza to destroy the meteor, the player leaves the Pokémon world, but decides to return when their partner pleads to Gardevoir.
@@zachtwilightwindwaker596 Yeah this was explained a bit more in gates' post game. There are places in the world where you can go to have wishes granted (apparently. idk why nobody used these before lol), and because the partner and hydreigon wished for the protag to be able to come back to the pokemon world they were able to choose to return. So considering this I guess the hill of the ancients is one of these places as well? or it at least has some of the same energy that gives those places their power. if that's the case then it explains why someone like xatu would stay there.
sadly enough I never got to learn that when I played it myself, but learning the story of Gengar and Gardevoir was just amazing. It brought closure to both characters about the actions of one. Makes you really do realize that Gardevoir would do anything to protect those it cares for.
I never thought about it but It's weird how Absol joins your team and then for the remaining cutscenes that Absol has a presence in it has no speaking lines.
It's because you can decide to ask Absol to return to his friend area before continuing. I guess it was just easier not to give him lines since players can decide to go without him
Although a tiny tidbit I noticed while playing PMD Rescue Team DX, when your team comes back to Pokemon Square with Absol, confronting everyone else and Gengar, apparently Gengar had a tiny bit of a surprised dialogue that he knew about the Absol somehow? I've always wondered about that..
I always loved the Alakazam and Shiftry scene because the world interacted with itself without ur interfering, made it feel so much alive and gave me this feeling of stuff being out there that i cant even imagine. Rescue Teams of unimaginary strenght and danger of unfathomable size.
The one thing I remember about the OG rescue teams was being at a gamestop and saw an ad for it playing on the TV. The clerk saw me and said "they're not very good" so I didn't get them. I will be forever salty at that employee because the mystery dungeon games have become some my favorite pokemon games.
They're all good but the 3rd and 4th generation of PMD drastically dropped their quality. I've never finished the third generation and the fourth, Super mystery dungeon, "aren't these supposed to be heroes, idols to look up to?" came as a question recently about it. They gave you school kids that basically stumbled their way to victory while the adults either did nothing or did everything and the story was a melting pot of ideas where their only selling point was that it was a logical order of events...in a straight line. They're all good games, but people who say that Super is the best have obviously not played the earlier games
@@ZackeroniAndCheese not exactly. Part of Gamestop is that the employees are supposed to know at least a LITTLE about the games even if it's just that they're popular in the store or not. Most of them are gamers. The clerk had probably seen the bad "reviews" of the game that didn't even play any of the story and couldn't finish the first dungeon XD If anything, the bad reviews were probably because it was a randomly generated map layout. rogue-lites and Rogue-likes were also very rare gaming genres back then
@@ZackeroniAndCheese think of it as a waiter/ress warning you not to get something in the restaurant. they just don't want to give you bad products (at least from their perspective)
I gotta say, I actually JUST replayed this game, and the best part was hoarding those friend areas. They mesmerized me when I was a kid, and they still manage to today. The art is so sick…
I'm so Mad and sad..because in The Remake while keeping The music ...you cant Walk Into The friend areas anymore ...Just a picture ..And you dont even get to See The full area in those Pictures .-.
Don't forget that Xatu can see the future! I've always understood that he knows Gengar overheard their conversation and knows what he would ultimately do with the information. However, he also knows that would push you and your partner to your limits during the fugitive arc, expose the truth to everyone, and help strengthen you in preparation to fight Groudon and Rayquaza.
@@butterduck6398i mean,I figured that Alakazam knew you didn't mean harm to anyone as he saw you jump into action to save shiftry. So he gave us the benefit of the doubt and let us go. He knew where we were if we did mean harm on purpose he could have easily swiped the floor with us. Alakazam had an IQ of 500 he,was testing us in a way
Dude, Zigzagoon's so powerful in this game, I don't understand it. It levels up really quickly, and is extremely powerful for no real reason whatsoever. Like, legit, its stats go wonk and its attack and special attack goes to like, 50 at the level 20's, with it's defensive stats sitting at like, 20. Was easily stronger than me and my partner, and did more damage in a single headbutt than a bullet seed, like wowa weewa. Based Teammate.
tbh, that also comes down to how typing in MSD games work, where normal type moves still effect ghost types, tho obviously don't do as much, but just taking that weakness away makes normal types in general so much more useful.
Very Important piece of imformation regarding the Ninetales Legend: It didnt cursed the Trainer randomly. It was moved by the sacrifices and took pity on the Guardevoir. It than asked its Trainer if he wants to save Guardevoir, but the Trainer ran in fear and left his Guardevoir behind. This angered Ninetails and it cursed the Trainer to "someday" get reborn as a Pokemon. So basicly it cursed him after his death to live the life of a Pokemon.
bit of context here for people that haven't played the game, there are major spoilers in the part of the story 100black towers is talking about, so it's hard to word this. Let's just say that with this story, nothing is as it seems and you will be very surprised at the actual outcome of this piece of the story that they are talking about
@@heather_foreather U mean ... in that comment? Well because the Pokemon of the Trainer was a Guardevoir. The Guardevoir u meet in ur Visions/Dreams. Or are u asking something else?
@@nathanielbass771 I dont really think this needs a Spoiler Warning as the game is incredibly old and also nothing i wrote is an insane spoiler. Its like saying "U turn into a Pokemon" is a Spoiler. The Game is really open with this Story, i just wanted to bring attention to it since it wasnt overly detailed featured in the video. Revealing the identity of Guardevoirs Trainer would be a Spoiler in this context but thats a detail i left out precisely because of that.
If you do cover the Mystery Dungeon: Explorers titles I beg of you to cover the post-game! It's basically an entire extra storyline (not to mention that you're missing out on finishing Gengar's arc by not playing the post-game of this one).
Yeah, a big amount of story takes place after the credits. That "ending" feels more like the point where things really open up than the actual end of the game
YOOOO I ACTUALLY HAD THIS GUIDE AS A KID!! I loved the heck out of Blue Rescue Team as a kid! I actually never even needed the guide until the post-game since unlocking some of the secret Friend Areas (like Sky Blue Plains) and activating some of the post-story events was a little cryptic, so playing the game without any help and learning all this complicated hidden stuff I didn't know about was really cool to me!! I loved the cool Zapdos poster that came with the guide too, and the cool art on some of the pages. Thanks for the throwback!
Also a fun fact, you can make custom wondermail online that can do crazy things like give you insanely strong items and stuff. It was easily exploitable lmao
I really liked when you spiced up this series formula by playing Minish Cap so it's cool to see you tackle PMD here as a departure from just mainline Pokémon games. Like you, I played the game a fair bit as a kid but never beat it (I did however beat the recent Switch remake), so it's cool to learn of new stuff thanks to you guide-aided playthrough such as the 3:32 heal mechanic. 1:59 - Funny enough, Mudkip was who I ended up as when playing this game for the first time and I also selected Charmander as my partner Pokémon. My younger brother meanwhile keeps ending up as Machop, which is a Pokémon I'd have never considered for him. 8:23 - Much like how it's interesting to see how a team is built, it's interesting to see what Pokémon gets recruited to your team. Surprising to hear how you appreciated the rock throwing of your Zigzagoon ally. I remember getting frustrated that my allies would waste all my items, even when they had long distance moves available. 15:05 - Always nice to see when the guides have fun. It's not wrong either; I remember Mt Blaze being a lengthy trip. Interesting to hear the amount of times you fainted. The original PMD is certainly harder than it's remake. 17:32 - Whilst the Gengar-Gardevoir story is neat, it is also a shame that you aren't the cursed human. It would have been neat to have both a backstory and a flaw to your character and more personal involvement in it.
I remember getting really lucky and befriending Moltress after my second attempt at the mission. After that I swept through the post game and remember specifically always starving in the ruins in stage 100 and something. I absolutely loved that game. I'm lucky enough to still have my safe file
kecleon is the STRONGEST pokemon in all the mystery dungeon series and has the lowest possible recruitment rate of .01% so if you steal feom them be ready for the fight of your life
The Mystery Dungeon series were so underrated to me! I loved them along with the original Pokémon series too! I wish I heard more about these games as well.
I can trace the birth of my cynicism directly to the fact that this game was promoted with a single anime episode. I waited so long for them to start airing the rest of the series.
The guide states you can have Kecleon join your team if you're above level 90, but what it doesn't mention is that Kecleon's recruitment rate is at a level *below* zero, so you have to have a Friend Bow to even bring the chance slightly above zero, and even then it's only 0.1%!!
I was very fond of this game as a kid. I think it was the first Pokemon game I beat way back when. In the end, I became a level 100 Charizard with maximum IQ, so I could walk on anything with no issue and break through walls. Very fun.
I am HUGE Mystery Dungeon fan. I absolutely love these games, and think they are really underrated. I have played at least 1 game from each generation (gen 3-Rescue team blue, gen 4 - Darkness, gen 5 - Gates to infinity, gen 6 - Super MD, and the remake).
I loved mystery dungeon as a kid. I played rescue team blue and the remake. Both times I did the quiz I got skitty. Which Pokémon did u play as in blue cause istg. There was wayyy better options than skitty
@@thatgayflareon Skitty is really good, cute charm and attract are both busted because infatuation completely immobilises any enemy in the game for several turns which trivialises bosses, double slap does a ton of damage to a single target, sing and heal bell provide good utility, and you have a very diverse tm pool, including blizzard which is a room clear in the remakes and explorers. The only options that are arguably on par with skitty are charmander, because smokescreen is almost as strong as attract and once you evolve you get heat wave which is one of the few room clears in the original rescue team and is available at level one so you can use it in the level 1 dungeons, or treecko, pikachu and jolteon who have access to agility, which gives your entire party an extra turn per turn letting you all attack up to 4 times faster, and doesn't use up a turn when you cast it so you can always move or attack after you use agility, and they also have access to strong moves like bullet seed, pin missile (both ranged versions of double slap) and discharge (a room clear that doesn't exist in the gen 3 games, where you'll have to settle for thunderbolt which still hits every enemy next to you). Skitty's still one of the best (if not *the* best) options you can go for even in spite of this.
@@cobaltcorsair592 6 year old me did not know this lol. I did clear the game and I loved skitty but I always thought the other options were better lol. Learn something new everyday
This was one of the only guides I ever had, with red rescue team. Fantastic series, loves the MD games and always find myself going back to them. The stories are great and the gameplay was always fun. Excellent video
Oh damn, I’ve turned into a Pokémon! Better pick up this convenient guide about this exact situation that I conveniently have for this exact situation!
PMD deserves Post-Game coverage bc its extremely rich in story despite being “after” the main story. It really isnt the same if you don’t complete it, I highly recommend it!
About evolution here. About midway through the story, Lombre mentions how Pokemon are no longer evolving. And the first post-game scene shows Snubull wandering into a new cave that appeared at Whiscash's pond and evolved into Granbull. That cave is the one and only place you can evolve Pokemon in Red and Blue Rescue Team. Yeah, in Mystery Dungeon, evolution is always locked to post-game
I literally had that same guide book and I studied it for MONTHS before I was able to play the games that Christmas! I remember it like it was yesterday. I don't think I truly played as Nintendo intended though XD. I'm so glad to see you playing these game, I'm a major Mystery Dungeon stan :)
PaPaSea: I never beat PMD as a kid Also PaPaSea: I remember evolving in this game To be fair the post game being bigger than the main game is normal for the PMD series
That's pretty much true for any Mystery Dungeon game in the whole franchise. Shiren 5: here's this 35 floor main dungeon that you'll have to replay the first 12 floors of a couple of times to hit the second half. Finished with the main story? Great, here's 30 more dungeons, each with their own rules and stipulations, have fun. Even back in Torneko 1 and Shiren 1, you have the postgame 99f dungeon that wants to slap you into next week.
This is my most favorite pokemon game of all time. Thank you for this video I will cherish it. I plan on playing the remake on the switch on my channel soon actually!
On gengar posibly helping create the teleport gem he probably changed mind when he saw gardevoir again, also after the metorite is destroyed he clearly saved both you and your partner and only pretended that he was taking you else where and somehow "got lost"
When I was a kid I begged my mum to buy me this guide, I never had the game, but I read it over amd over as I liked it a lot, then after many years I got to play it and use it when I was playing it
I played this game recently and it quickly became my favorite just because of its story. Also, I do remember that Mt. Blaze was rumoured to be extremely difficult by townspokémon but I really didn't find it really difficult ... It was ... Average. We made it through more unscathed than we were supposed to. So when we were unexpectedly sent to the Sky Tower, I was like, ‘ Okay we have cleared the main dungeon in Magma Cavern so this one should be small and manageable right? ’ Boy, not only was it about 23-24 floors high ( let alone 9 more floors ) but I wiped out atleast 5-6 times. Sky Tower was the first huge roadblock for me after understanding the mechanics of this game. I am atleast thankful that Rayquaza didn't Hyper Beam any of my friends or me.
When you got my first, it was hard enough, but choosing my first partner brought back all sorts of emotions I didn’t know I still have. This game gives me ALL the emotions even now.
I love the Mystery Dungeon Series and I would love to see you covering other Games of the Series as well :D The Postgame is getting a bit grindy at times and especially in the first Games it's not very interesting either but the main stories are amazing :D
Thats the good thing about PMD, for me just grinding my rank up and challenging Dungeons like Purity Forest is soooooo much fun. Whenever i replay it i just spend days upon days grinding normal jobs and sometime complettly forgetting the story parts. This is good for me because after playing thorugh the story roughly 20 times some of the normal dialogs and story section get a bit dull so the gameplay keeps me on the line.
@@midnight1978 Well for me it is more about the daily work cycle. O stand up, check treasure town for news, catch some jobs, prepare, do the jobs and return home. Very nice game cycle
@@jordanthejq12 Not exactly the first, Pokemon Dash came to DS mid-Feb 2005, then Pokemon Trozei early March 2006. PMD BRT is the 3rd Pokemon DS game :) But PMD RRT is indeed the last Pokemon GBA game
IIRC, it was originally going to be developed just for the GBA, but then development lasted long enough that it was going to come out shortly after the DS. So they just made a DS version too.
"This is by far the longest dungeon in the game" 20:31 He clearly hasn't played the post-game lol, try purity forest, wish cave, or silver trench if you want longer ones
This game is the reason why I love absol because it ends up being incredibly powerful due to its move pool. The final boss is a joke when you have a hero or partner that can learn ice beam and you teach ice beam to absol as well and you can literally blow through its HP in like three to four turns
this makes me wanna play all the mystery dungeons again! i got red rescue team back in the day when i was 12 years old when it came out! thanks for the nostalgia hahaha love the vid! Ps not a pokemon watcher so funny how this got in my recommended
I played Mystery Dunegon Time. I cried, but most importantly, I learned that playing a fire type is the best option cause you get smoke screen that 100% stops the enemy (even legendaries) from landing any hits.
OMGGGG I HAD THIS GUIDE AS A KID (i still do, it's just in a pretty poor condition now). It's interesting that only the cover page is different, the european version doesn't have that glossy finish with bumpy effect, here in Europe it's a simple page. Anyway, bring back a lot of nostalgia, love the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon franchise, so thank you for this video !!
Back when these games were Hot Topic on the game spot forums I wrote a program in visual basic that allowed you to generate your own wonder codes for wondermail.. It was pretty fun learning how to do the bitwise operations to make the codes work. However when windows 7 came out the program stopped working correctly.
Blue Rescue Team is one of the very few guides I own. I remember referencing it constantly to find Pokémon. I spent a playthrough ranking up to Gold just to see what Team Alakazam says about it and was very disappointed that they failed to acknowledge me. And then I lost all of my items when playing as Mew for the first time (after spending hours finally getting it) and I cried and stopped that playthrough to start over.
I have this guide book and the ones for darkness and time as well as sky and lemme tell you they are thick! Super useful especially for red rescue team though because how you unlock some post game dungeons can be a bit obtuse.
I remembered back in the day where you could just create your own missions. I did the ruins and created only "find" missions at the highest levels and on "find" missions you only need to have it in your inventory. I cheesed so many ranks like that
I had a completely different guide as a kid that seems like it was way better. Full pokedex in the back, every dungeon had a floor guide with the floors each Pokémon would spawn and at what level and even a flow chart for the post game
I had that one, as well. Used it so much the spine glue started to fall apart, so I carefully peeled all the pages out and put them in page protectors in a binder. Still have it and crack it out every time I play through, just for fun. Blue Rescue is still one of my favorite pokemon games. I think if it had gen 4 included in it, and a couple extra dungeons, maybe a boss rush mode, it would be unbeatable.
W video, The Pokémon mystery dungeon games were some of my favorites games throughout my childhood! Also in the post game there’s a few dungeons that are 99 floors
brings back SO many memories. Absolutely a masterpiece. I loved this game so much I had like 150hours on my safe. So much story and emotions in the story. I got charmander
I will forever despise the sequel with the chatot and wigglytuff being money hungry pieces of grimer. Little me wished I could massacre them with discharge spam as Pikachu and make sure the establishment was now mine.
I don’t give a _flying FUCK_ what anyone says about Explorers of Sky, _THIS_ will _ALWAYS_ be the best Mystery Dungeon game. Well…except DX, I suppose. That’d be kinda the definitive way to play these games. But still, this story was just incredible. The Pokémon Square music? Amazing. Rescue Team? SO MUCH damn cooler than Exploration Team. Living in a house that looks like your head? Iconic. And the ending has made me cry ever since I first played it, and I can’t see it ever not doing so. So happy to see this video.
Kecleon is, as far as I know, completely unrecruitable. The value that determines how often it will ask to join your team is negative, meaning it will never ask. Though I do remember seeing a video on how to actually recurit it with the help of some items and an IQ skill...
In Red Rescue Team, the Fast Friend skill and Golden Mask do not exist. Fortunately, Kecleon’s recruitment rate is slightly higher at -33.9%. This makes it possible to recruit him with a player character at level 90+ and equipped with a friend bow, found in Mt. Faraway or Joyous Tower. This will raise the recruitment rate up to exactly 0.1%, the same boosted rate you would be dealing with in the Explorers games. It’s technically possible… Incidentally, this is also the same rate you can recruit Blastoise, Feraligatr, and Swampert - some of the few exceptions to the game’s prohibition on recruiting fully evolved Pokémon. Speedrunners interested in recruiting all the Pokémon bypass this nonsense by trekking Wish Cave and prompting Jirachi to grant them a wish for “Something Good”, which allows you to recruit a random Pokémon you haven’t got provided you are at the max rank. It’s still a pain, but considerably easier than the normal method.
I have a strong phobia with those dungeon Kecleon shops. Whenever I replay a dungeon game and see one I panic then nope the fuck out. Im both serious and not serious about the phobia thing.
I got to the end around 8 times, and I defeated Rayquaza 4 times. But every time I defeated him, I got so sad about the end of the story that I just turnt the console off 3 times. Non-stop crying for a 7 year all time and time again, until I decided to man up and see my beloved game end. I was the happiest kid in the world when I got to come back to play with Charmander, it was my favourite game, it is only beaten by the Sky version now
Man the only pokemon game that felt like an actual adventure was pokemon crystal but then i decided to play blue rescue team and skies and i got emotional at the ends
I remember seeing the first trailer for PMD on Serebii. It was completely in Japanese so I didn't understand a word, but Serebii said you could be a Pokemon! It was something I'd always dreamed about! I read everything I possibly could on this game and counted down the days until release... and I got it on release day from my local Gamestop, along with the official guide. I still have the game and the guide to this day and they are some of my personal treasures.
I remember having that manual as my bible. The part describing Steelix in Magma Cavern was wild to me because in Spanish it straight up calls it “little bastard”
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BTW the Mystery Dungeon games are known for having a metric boatload of postgame content. Easily twice over the amount of time spent on the main story.
As a kid I never felt like I beat this game because I couldn't get through most of that content. I'd bet it was the same case here
Purity forest was a nightmare
I got bored of the post-game because it took me ages to make any progress
The post game was where the real game began
I love how pokemon made official pokemon Isekai games. "I woke up as a amnesiac pokemon and started a rescue team" would 100% be the light novel title.
It actually got a manga though I believe its only one volume 1 one shot. Had it as a kid. It’s called Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Genji’s Rescue Team. Basically a recap manga of the whole game.
@@matthewfitzpatrick2225 I had that manga too lol
@@matthewfitzpatrick2225 It even had cartoon specials
NGL, zizagoon throwing rocks and being like the MVP of the team had me dying of laughter for some reason
Same
Zigzagoon got arms of a baseball pitcher
You reappear in the end of the game because your partner Pokemon's sorrow reaches you and you decide that you want to stay with them. So the powers that be granted you that wish.
The post game also lets you unlock a quest that devells deeper into Guardivors story and gives context to Gangers actions in the end. It's actually really good I can recommend you giving it a try
In the wiki it says this: After meeting their partner and calling upon Rayquaza to destroy the meteor, the player leaves the Pokémon world, but decides to return when their partner pleads to Gardevoir.
@@zachtwilightwindwaker596 Yeah this was explained a bit more in gates' post game. There are places in the world where you can go to have wishes granted (apparently. idk why nobody used these before lol), and because the partner and hydreigon wished for the protag to be able to come back to the pokemon world they were able to choose to return.
So considering this I guess the hill of the ancients is one of these places as well? or it at least has some of the same energy that gives those places their power. if that's the case then it explains why someone like xatu would stay there.
sadly enough I never got to learn that when I played it myself, but learning the story of Gengar and Gardevoir was just amazing. It brought closure to both characters about the actions of one. Makes you really do realize that Gardevoir would do anything to protect those it cares for.
In Explorers Dialga just brings us back after we fulfill our destiny
@@kshitizsatta9600 I think they changed it in Explorers of Sky so that it wasn't Dialga but Arceus
I will forever be salty about the remaster removing the ability to walk around in friend areas.
Honestly hated the remake
That there is the one and only reason I didn't buy the remake. That's unacceptable.
@@friman1531 agreed! And the nunce in the aout battle and auto travel .... hated it
I'm sorry... what?
Let's be honest, what's walking around gonna do for you? Nothing. It was always just a jpeg. Do you guys hate Mystery dungeon sky because of that too?
I never thought about it but It's weird how Absol joins your team and then for the remaining cutscenes that Absol has a presence in it has no speaking lines.
It's because you can decide to ask Absol to return to his friend area before continuing. I guess it was just easier not to give him lines since players can decide to go without him
Although a tiny tidbit I noticed while playing PMD Rescue Team DX, when your team comes back to Pokemon Square with Absol, confronting everyone else and Gengar, apparently Gengar had a tiny bit of a surprised dialogue that he knew about the Absol somehow? I've always wondered about that..
@@Intervee24 That line is actually new in the remake, if I’m not mistaken.
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could do the remake and compare the two guides
That was lit 🔥 so another. Non main series games are way more interesting imo
Please play pokemon pmd sky it'd insanely fun and I have 200+ hours on it.
Pokemon conquest
Play explorers of sky ! The story is wonderful
I always loved the Alakazam and Shiftry scene because the world interacted with itself without ur interfering, made it feel so much alive and gave me this feeling of stuff being out there that i cant even imagine. Rescue Teams of unimaginary strenght and danger of unfathomable size.
The one thing I remember about the OG rescue teams was being at a gamestop and saw an ad for it playing on the TV. The clerk saw me and said "they're not very good" so I didn't get them. I will be forever salty at that employee because the mystery dungeon games have become some my favorite pokemon games.
They're all good but the 3rd and 4th generation of PMD drastically dropped their quality. I've never finished the third generation and the fourth, Super mystery dungeon, "aren't these supposed to be heroes, idols to look up to?" came as a question recently about it. They gave you school kids that basically stumbled their way to victory while the adults either did nothing or did everything and the story was a melting pot of ideas where their only selling point was that it was a logical order of events...in a straight line. They're all good games, but people who say that Super is the best have obviously not played the earlier games
What a strange clerk. It's literally their job to sell people games
@@ZackeroniAndCheese not exactly. Part of Gamestop is that the employees are supposed to know at least a LITTLE about the games even if it's just that they're popular in the store or not. Most of them are gamers. The clerk had probably seen the bad "reviews" of the game that didn't even play any of the story and couldn't finish the first dungeon XD If anything, the bad reviews were probably because it was a randomly generated map layout. rogue-lites and Rogue-likes were also very rare gaming genres back then
@@ZackeroniAndCheese think of it as a waiter/ress warning you not to get something in the restaurant. they just don't want to give you bad products (at least from their perspective)
But you didn't buy them. How is it the clerks fault when you're blindly listening to something a gamestop employee is saying
I gotta say, I actually JUST replayed this game, and the best part was hoarding those friend areas. They mesmerized me when I was a kid, and they still manage to today. The art is so sick…
I'm so Mad and sad..because in The Remake while keeping The music ...you cant Walk Into The friend areas anymore ...Just a picture ..And you dont even get to See The full area in those Pictures .-.
Never played the remakes, prolly never will
Don't forget that Xatu can see the future! I've always understood that he knows Gengar overheard their conversation and knows what he would ultimately do with the information. However, he also knows that would push you and your partner to your limits during the fugitive arc, expose the truth to everyone, and help strengthen you in preparation to fight Groudon and Rayquaza.
Love that summary
It's also why Alakazam, having a strong sense of justice, didn't immediately apprehend you.
@@butterduck6398i mean,I figured that Alakazam knew you didn't mean harm to anyone as he saw you jump into action to save shiftry. So he gave us the benefit of the doubt and let us go. He knew where we were if we did mean harm on purpose he could have easily swiped the floor with us. Alakazam had an IQ of 500 he,was testing us in a way
Dude, Zigzagoon's so powerful in this game, I don't understand it. It levels up really quickly, and is extremely powerful for no real reason whatsoever. Like, legit, its stats go wonk and its attack and special attack goes to like, 50 at the level 20's, with it's defensive stats sitting at like, 20. Was easily stronger than me and my partner, and did more damage in a single headbutt than a bullet seed, like wowa weewa. Based Teammate.
tbh, that also comes down to how typing in MSD games work, where normal type moves still effect ghost types, tho obviously don't do as much, but just taking that weakness away makes normal types in general so much more useful.
Very Important piece of imformation regarding the Ninetales Legend: It didnt cursed the Trainer randomly. It was moved by the sacrifices and took pity on the Guardevoir. It than asked its Trainer if he wants to save Guardevoir, but the Trainer ran in fear and left his Guardevoir behind. This angered Ninetails and it cursed the Trainer to "someday" get reborn as a Pokemon. So basicly it cursed him after his death to live the life of a Pokemon.
bit of context here for people that haven't played the game, there are major spoilers in the part of the story 100black towers is talking about, so it's hard to word this. Let's just say that with this story, nothing is as it seems and you will be very surprised at the actual outcome of this piece of the story that they are talking about
Why do you say it Guardevoir
@@heather_foreather U mean ... in that comment? Well because the Pokemon of the Trainer was a Guardevoir. The Guardevoir u meet in ur Visions/Dreams. Or are u asking something else?
@@nathanielbass771 I dont really think this needs a Spoiler Warning as the game is incredibly old and also nothing i wrote is an insane spoiler. Its like saying "U turn into a Pokemon" is a Spoiler. The Game is really open with this Story, i just wanted to bring attention to it since it wasnt overly detailed featured in the video. Revealing the identity of Guardevoirs Trainer would be a Spoiler in this context but thats a detail i left out precisely because of that.
Do you spell Guardevoir like that on purpose or what
If you do cover the Mystery Dungeon: Explorers titles I beg of you to cover the post-game! It's basically an entire extra storyline (not to mention that you're missing out on finishing Gengar's arc by not playing the post-game of this one).
Agreed!! The story is really only half finished when the credits roll!
Yeah, a big amount of story takes place after the credits. That "ending" feels more like the point where things really open up than the actual end of the game
YOOOO I ACTUALLY HAD THIS GUIDE AS A KID!! I loved the heck out of Blue Rescue Team as a kid! I actually never even needed the guide until the post-game since unlocking some of the secret Friend Areas (like Sky Blue Plains) and activating some of the post-story events was a little cryptic, so playing the game without any help and learning all this complicated hidden stuff I didn't know about was really cool to me!! I loved the cool Zapdos poster that came with the guide too, and the cool art on some of the pages. Thanks for the throwback!
Also a fun fact, you can make custom wondermail online that can do crazy things like give you insanely strong items and stuff. It was easily exploitable lmao
If I had this guide as a kid I might have actually finished the game instead of getting stuck and quitting lol
I still find it hilarious that shoplifting was allowed in a game that's all about helping people
you caught me off guard with the stun seeds 😂😂
Would someone say that you might be… stunned?
I actually used that on my friend. It was hilarious😂
haha he got us good XD
I’m not sobbing uncontrollably because of the ending, YOU’RE sobbing uncontrollably because of the ending!
I really liked when you spiced up this series formula by playing Minish Cap so it's cool to see you tackle PMD here as a departure from just mainline Pokémon games. Like you, I played the game a fair bit as a kid but never beat it (I did however beat the recent Switch remake), so it's cool to learn of new stuff thanks to you guide-aided playthrough such as the 3:32 heal mechanic.
1:59 - Funny enough, Mudkip was who I ended up as when playing this game for the first time and I also selected Charmander as my partner Pokémon. My younger brother meanwhile keeps ending up as Machop, which is a Pokémon I'd have never considered for him.
8:23 - Much like how it's interesting to see how a team is built, it's interesting to see what Pokémon gets recruited to your team. Surprising to hear how you appreciated the rock throwing of your Zigzagoon ally. I remember getting frustrated that my allies would waste all my items, even when they had long distance moves available.
15:05 - Always nice to see when the guides have fun. It's not wrong either; I remember Mt Blaze being a lengthy trip. Interesting to hear the amount of times you fainted. The original PMD is certainly harder than it's remake.
17:32 - Whilst the Gengar-Gardevoir story is neat, it is also a shame that you aren't the cursed human. It would have been neat to have both a backstory and a flaw to your character and more personal involvement in it.
I had this guide as a kid and I liked reading it so much that it got so worn and torn. Seeing that book again sends me back!
Awesome!!! I love you branching out to play non main series games with guides. One of my fave RUclips series
You should definitely consider covering the postgame in a future video. Especially in Rescue Team, the postgame is where the real game begins.
I remember dying 30 times to rayquaza 💀
Storing all those revive seeds for that moment was a necessity
Only 30?
For me was the Moltres 😆
@@johnc6158not me hoarding every revive seed for my boss fights
I remember getting really lucky and befriending Moltress after my second attempt at the mission. After that I swept through the post game and remember specifically always starving in the ruins in stage 100 and something. I absolutely loved that game. I'm lucky enough to still have my safe file
kecleon is the STRONGEST pokemon in all the mystery dungeon series and has the lowest possible recruitment rate of .01% so if you steal feom them be ready for the fight of your life
The Mystery Dungeon series were so underrated to me! I loved them along with the original Pokémon series too! I wish I heard more about these games as well.
I can trace the birth of my cynicism directly to the fact that this game was promoted with a single anime episode. I waited so long for them to start airing the rest of the series.
The guide states you can have Kecleon join your team if you're above level 90, but what it doesn't mention is that Kecleon's recruitment rate is at a level *below* zero, so you have to have a Friend Bow to even bring the chance slightly above zero, and even then it's only 0.1%!!
Yea that’s wack I learned about negative recruit rate a month ago
Funny how the house in team
Red has more water accents and in blue it has a fireplace and everything
I was very fond of this game as a kid. I think it was the first Pokemon game I beat way back when. In the end, I became a level 100 Charizard with maximum IQ, so I could walk on anything with no issue and break through walls. Very fun.
missed opportunity to name this vid: Beating Pokemon Mystery Dungeon As Nintended
The conclusion to Gengar's character arc is in the post-game. All becomes sorta clear them.
I am HUGE Mystery Dungeon fan. I absolutely love these games, and think they are really underrated.
I have played at least 1 game from each generation (gen 3-Rescue team blue, gen 4 - Darkness, gen 5 - Gates to infinity, gen 6 - Super MD, and the remake).
I loved mystery dungeon as a kid. I played rescue team blue and the remake. Both times I did the quiz I got skitty. Which Pokémon did u play as in blue cause istg. There was wayyy better options than skitty
@@thatgayflareon Charmander for both
@@kennedysamarakody4925 nice
@@thatgayflareon Skitty is really good, cute charm and attract are both busted because infatuation completely immobilises any enemy in the game for several turns which trivialises bosses, double slap does a ton of damage to a single target, sing and heal bell provide good utility, and you have a very diverse tm pool, including blizzard which is a room clear in the remakes and explorers.
The only options that are arguably on par with skitty are charmander, because smokescreen is almost as strong as attract and once you evolve you get heat wave which is one of the few room clears in the original rescue team and is available at level one so you can use it in the level 1 dungeons, or treecko, pikachu and jolteon who have access to agility, which gives your entire party an extra turn per turn letting you all attack up to 4 times faster, and doesn't use up a turn when you cast it so you can always move or attack after you use agility, and they also have access to strong moves like bullet seed, pin missile (both ranged versions of double slap) and discharge (a room clear that doesn't exist in the gen 3 games, where you'll have to settle for thunderbolt which still hits every enemy next to you). Skitty's still one of the best (if not *the* best) options you can go for even in spite of this.
@@cobaltcorsair592 6 year old me did not know this lol. I did clear the game and I loved skitty but I always thought the other options were better lol. Learn something new everyday
This was one of the only guides I ever had, with red rescue team. Fantastic series, loves the MD games and always find myself going back to them. The stories are great and the gameplay was always fun. Excellent video
Oh damn, I’ve turned into a Pokémon! Better pick up this convenient guide about this exact situation that I conveniently have for this exact situation!
Nintetales didn’t just „punish the human anyway“ but because they abandoned gardevoir!!!
PMD deserves Post-Game coverage bc its extremely rich in story despite being “after” the main story. It really isnt the same if you don’t complete it, I highly recommend it!
It's so cool to see you tackle Red Rescue Team, I love the Mystery Dungeon games so much!! Always nice to see them get some attention
I feel like Nintendo intended for you to have Magnemite and Absol as your permanent party members
About evolution here. About midway through the story, Lombre mentions how Pokemon are no longer evolving. And the first post-game scene shows Snubull wandering into a new cave that appeared at Whiscash's pond and evolved into Granbull. That cave is the one and only place you can evolve Pokemon in Red and Blue Rescue Team. Yeah, in Mystery Dungeon, evolution is always locked to post-game
I literally had that same guide book and I studied it for MONTHS before I was able to play the games that Christmas! I remember it like it was yesterday. I don't think I truly played as Nintendo intended though XD. I'm so glad to see you playing these game, I'm a major Mystery Dungeon stan :)
PaPaSea: I never beat PMD as a kid
Also PaPaSea: I remember evolving in this game
To be fair the post game being bigger than the main game is normal for the PMD series
That's pretty much true for any Mystery Dungeon game in the whole franchise.
Shiren 5: here's this 35 floor main dungeon that you'll have to replay the first 12 floors of a couple of times to hit the second half.
Finished with the main story? Great, here's 30 more dungeons, each with their own rules and stipulations, have fun.
Even back in Torneko 1 and Shiren 1, you have the postgame 99f dungeon that wants to slap you into next week.
This is my most favorite pokemon game of all time. Thank you for this video I will cherish it. I plan on playing the remake on the switch on my channel soon actually!
What if... the main series games are a pokemon's dream where they dream they're a human...
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS, I’M SO EXCITED
On gengar posibly helping create the teleport gem he probably changed mind when he saw gardevoir again, also after the metorite is destroyed he clearly saved both you and your partner and only pretended that he was taking you else where and somehow "got lost"
yayyy i'm so glad you're doing non main-series games! :D the ending to this game destroyed me as a kid omg
B and A to heal?! How'd I beat the game not knowing that as a kid lol
When I was a kid I begged my mum to buy me this guide, I never had the game, but I read it over amd over as I liked it a lot, then after many years I got to play it and use it when I was playing it
Glad you played it!
I played this game recently and it quickly became my favorite just because of its story.
Also, I do remember that Mt. Blaze was rumoured to be extremely difficult by townspokémon but I really didn't find it really difficult ... It was ... Average. We made it through more unscathed than we were supposed to.
So when we were unexpectedly sent to the Sky Tower, I was like, ‘ Okay we have cleared the main dungeon in Magma Cavern so this one should be small and manageable right? ’
Boy, not only was it about 23-24 floors high ( let alone 9 more floors ) but I wiped out atleast 5-6 times. Sky Tower was the first huge roadblock for me after understanding the mechanics of this game.
I am atleast thankful that Rayquaza didn't Hyper Beam any of my friends or me.
To be fair to Shiftry Mount Blaze isn't a good place for him to be.
That Skytower Theme SLAPS
When you got my first, it was hard enough, but choosing my first partner brought back all sorts of emotions I didn’t know I still have. This game gives me ALL the emotions even now.
Man, I got cubone when I first got the game, I loved that cubone so much and my partner was Pikachu. The ground electric combo was pretty nice.
Yes the mystery dungeon series is so good! You gotta do explorers of sky next!
Charmander's facial expressions though 🤣
“What’s the stun seed backwards?” 😂😂😂 bro you had me dying laughing so hard
I love the Mystery Dungeon Series and I would love to see you covering other Games of the Series as well :D
The Postgame is getting a bit grindy at times and especially in the first Games it's not very interesting either but the main stories are amazing :D
Thats the good thing about PMD, for me just grinding my rank up and challenging Dungeons like Purity Forest is soooooo much fun. Whenever i replay it i just spend days upon days grinding normal jobs and sometime complettly forgetting the story parts. This is good for me because after playing thorugh the story roughly 20 times some of the normal dialogs and story section get a bit dull so the gameplay keeps me on the line.
@@holschermarc That's true it can also be very calming to just grind at the side while you watch something!
@@midnight1978 Well for me it is more about the daily work cycle. O stand up, check treasure town for news, catch some jobs, prepare, do the jobs and return home. Very nice game cycle
I really like the author making small jokes to make it a bit more fun. Was a nice breath of fresh air
I literally did not know there was a GBA version. I assumed both were on the DS! That’s crazy.
I was the opposite lol, thought it was gba only 😂
Yep, last Pokemon game on a Gameboy and first Pokemon game on a DS, I do believe.
@@Hats502 same. So many hours on red rescue team
@@jordanthejq12 Not exactly the first, Pokemon Dash came to DS mid-Feb 2005, then Pokemon Trozei early March 2006. PMD BRT is the 3rd Pokemon DS game :) But PMD RRT is indeed the last Pokemon GBA game
IIRC, it was originally going to be developed just for the GBA, but then development lasted long enough that it was going to come out shortly after the DS. So they just made a DS version too.
"This is by far the longest dungeon in the game" 20:31
He clearly hasn't played the post-game lol, try purity forest, wish cave, or silver trench if you want longer ones
That was the guide saying that
@@PaPaSea oh lol, what did it say about the post-game? Seems really weird it wouldn't have more tips considering the post-game is so huge.
This game is the reason why I love absol because it ends up being incredibly powerful due to its move pool. The final boss is a joke when you have a hero or partner that can learn ice beam and you teach ice beam to absol as well and you can literally blow through its HP in like three to four turns
loved your narration all the way through
thanks for the great vid on one of my favorite games of all time
10/10 game, 10/10 story, 10/10 post game.
this makes me wanna play all the mystery dungeons again! i got red rescue team back in the day when i was 12 years old when it came out! thanks for the nostalgia hahaha love the vid!
Ps not a pokemon watcher so funny how this got in my recommended
I LOVE the MYSTERY DUNGEON GAMES
Nintendo, im pretty sure i know how to beat your games better then you
With EXTREME prejudice and force
I played Mystery Dunegon Time. I cried, but most importantly, I learned that playing a fire type is the best option cause you get smoke screen that 100% stops the enemy (even legendaries) from landing any hits.
OMGGGG I HAD THIS GUIDE AS A KID (i still do, it's just in a pretty poor condition now). It's interesting that only the cover page is different, the european version doesn't have that glossy finish with bumpy effect, here in Europe it's a simple page. Anyway, bring back a lot of nostalgia, love the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon franchise, so thank you for this video !!
Back when these games were Hot Topic on the game spot forums I wrote a program in visual basic that allowed you to generate your own wonder codes for wondermail.. It was pretty fun learning how to do the bitwise operations to make the codes work. However when windows 7 came out the program stopped working correctly.
I remember getting jump scared by a ghost-type Pokemon popping out of a wall
Dunno why I didnt expect that
Blue Rescue Team is one of the very few guides I own. I remember referencing it constantly to find Pokémon. I spent a playthrough ranking up to Gold just to see what Team Alakazam says about it and was very disappointed that they failed to acknowledge me. And then I lost all of my items when playing as Mew for the first time (after spending hours finally getting it) and I cried and stopped that playthrough to start over.
I have this guide book and the ones for darkness and time as well as sky and lemme tell you they are thick! Super useful especially for red rescue team though because how you unlock some post game dungeons can be a bit obtuse.
I remembered back in the day where you could just create your own missions. I did the ruins and created only "find" missions at the highest levels and on "find" missions you only need to have it in your inventory. I cheesed so many ranks like that
this also got a Switch Remaster, and its really good.
I had a completely different guide as a kid that seems like it was way better. Full pokedex in the back, every dungeon had a floor guide with the floors each Pokémon would spawn and at what level and even a flow chart for the post game
I had that one, as well. Used it so much the spine glue started to fall apart, so I carefully peeled all the pages out and put them in page protectors in a binder. Still have it and crack it out every time I play through, just for fun. Blue Rescue is still one of my favorite pokemon games. I think if it had gen 4 included in it, and a couple extra dungeons, maybe a boss rush mode, it would be unbeatable.
@@TetrisPhantom whats the guide name?
@@yeosef5984 i think it was the official nintendo power guide, had white borders on the cover
W video, The Pokémon mystery dungeon games were some of my favorites games throughout my childhood! Also in the post game there’s a few dungeons that are 99 floors
brings back SO many memories. Absolutely a masterpiece. I loved this game so much I had like 150hours on my safe. So much story and emotions in the story. I got charmander
I've played and replayed the PMD games dozens of times, and I never knew you could link more than two moves together until watching this video :O
I will forever despise the sequel with the chatot and wigglytuff being money hungry pieces of grimer. Little me wished I could massacre them with discharge spam as Pikachu and make sure the establishment was now mine.
Yea I remember playing that and saw I earned 1000 poke with a single mission only for those greedy goblins to steal 9/10 of it
9:40
The size of that enkans
I don’t give a _flying FUCK_ what anyone says about Explorers of Sky, _THIS_ will _ALWAYS_ be the best Mystery Dungeon game. Well…except DX, I suppose. That’d be kinda the definitive way to play these games. But still, this story was just incredible. The Pokémon Square music? Amazing. Rescue Team? SO MUCH damn cooler than Exploration Team. Living in a house that looks like your head? Iconic. And the ending has made me cry ever since I first played it, and I can’t see it ever not doing so. So happy to see this video.
Gb and DS hand superior Pokemon looks. Old school sprites just are bomb
Kecleon is, as far as I know, completely unrecruitable. The value that determines how often it will ask to join your team is negative, meaning it will never ask.
Though I do remember seeing a video on how to actually recurit it with the help of some items and an IQ skill...
In Red Rescue Team, the Fast Friend skill and Golden Mask do not exist. Fortunately, Kecleon’s recruitment rate is slightly higher at -33.9%. This makes it possible to recruit him with a player character at level 90+ and equipped with a friend bow, found in Mt. Faraway or Joyous Tower. This will raise the recruitment rate up to exactly 0.1%, the same boosted rate you would be dealing with in the Explorers games. It’s technically possible…
Incidentally, this is also the same rate you can recruit Blastoise, Feraligatr, and Swampert - some of the few exceptions to the game’s prohibition on recruiting fully evolved Pokémon.
Speedrunners interested in recruiting all the Pokémon bypass this nonsense by trekking Wish Cave and prompting Jirachi to grant them a wish for “Something Good”, which allows you to recruit a random Pokémon you haven’t got provided you are at the max rank. It’s still a pain, but considerably easier than the normal method.
Them removing the fried areas in the new version was the most blatant back stab I've ever seen!
Aw. I fixed the spelling error and lost the like from Papasea 😭
I was in my late 20's when Pokemon Mystery Dungeon came out here, and I too loved the idea of playing as a Pokemon! Great games...
I have a strong phobia with those dungeon Kecleon shops. Whenever I replay a dungeon game and see one I panic then nope the fuck out.
Im both serious and not serious about the phobia thing.
I understand those Kecleon are scary!
I got to the end around 8 times, and I defeated Rayquaza 4 times. But every time I defeated him, I got so sad about the end of the story that I just turnt the console off 3 times. Non-stop crying for a 7 year all time and time again, until I decided to man up and see my beloved game end. I was the happiest kid in the world when I got to come back to play with Charmander, it was my favourite game, it is only beaten by the Sky version now
The stun seed backwards joke is honestly one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen on RUclips. Good stuff dude 😂
Man the only pokemon game that felt like an actual adventure was pokemon crystal but then i decided to play blue rescue team and skies and i got emotional at the ends
I remember getting both when they came out as a kid. I loved them so much
21:47 GO TEAM SKY!
Lmao I laughed at 7:18 I see what you're doing there
Is that supposed to be sexual?
21:47 As a fan of MandJTV, I approve
Hey... really quick...
Ray-quah-zuh
I remember seeing the first trailer for PMD on Serebii. It was completely in Japanese so I didn't understand a word, but Serebii said you could be a Pokemon! It was something I'd always dreamed about! I read everything I possibly could on this game and counted down the days until release... and I got it on release day from my local Gamestop, along with the official guide. I still have the game and the guide to this day and they are some of my personal treasures.
21:49 Mikey would probably like this!
oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god, this is the video i didn't know i wanted but love it
I remember having that manual as my bible. The part describing Steelix in Magma Cavern was wild to me because in Spanish it straight up calls it “little bastard”