General Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

[Nebbles]

I need to replay the PMD games again to prep for Super PMD.

[TheDreamingHawk]

Tomorrow (September 18th) is the 9 Year anniversary of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team in the west, with the 10 year anniversary of the series coming this November. To celebrate I planned a retrospective series covering all five games in the series and my memories with each one. Thanks to the help of my many friends, I finally got this thing out. Here's part one of my PMD Retrospective! I'm not an expert on video editing but I still tried my best and that's what counts.

(Spoilers for Rescue Team and Ginji's Rescue Team but those are so old they really don't need to be tagged IMO)

Happy (Slightly early) 9th Birthday, English Rescue Team!

[K-NiGhT]

New poll!

[mikey]

woah, I've never played GTI but only 5 options?  Is this even a mystery dungeon game?

[K-NiGhT]

woah, I've never played GTI but only 5 options?  Is this even a mystery dungeon game?

yuuuuup. gameplay is shit but the story and soundtrack are super good

[Bespinben]

I was having a conversation on Reddit about plot holes in Explorers of T/D/S, and the subject of the Personality Test came up (specifically, how it would actually take place according to the in-game narrative). We concluded that since Darkrai was responsible for the Player's transformation, it was HE who interviewed you (complete with Freudian psychoanalysis and Rorschach inkblot tests, of course!):

[Altissimo]

I just consider it a narrative device that they attempted to make a little more "in-universe" just for the sake of immersion. I always ignored it as part of the plot, even in MD1.

I have a lot of theories and headcanons about the MD games lmao and this is the entire reason I'm writing a retelling-of-MD1-and-2 fanfic that hopes to make some sense of the more nonsensical parts and also tie the two games together - an attempt to make the protag and partner of MD1 move to the MD2 world with a reasonable explanation, because when I first played MD2 I had the same starter/partner combo and tried to think of them as the same characters and I want to find a way to reconcile that now.

As for the relevance of the partner's humanity to MD2: There's the dimensional scream!1 That's totally something they couldn't have given to a Poké-player. Totally.

In all actuality it never bothered me though. I'm too busy trying to figure out how to justify the Time-Travel-Physics-Lite that goes on in those games. I actually think I found an explanation that makes it work by using the concept of free will as a crucial part of the time travel logic.

[K-NiGhT]

I just consider it a narrative device that they attempted to make a little more "in-universe" just for the sake of immersion. I always ignored it as part of the plot, even in MD1.

I have a lot of theories and headcanons about the MD games lmao and this is the entire reason I'm writing a retelling-of-MD1-and-2 fanfic that hopes to make some sense of the more nonsensical parts and also tie the two games together - an attempt to make the protag and partner of MD1 move to the MD2 world with a reasonable explanation, because when I first played MD2 I had the same starter/partner combo and tried to think of them as the same characters and I want to find a way to reconcile that now.

As for the relevance of the partner's humanity to MD2: There's the dimensional scream!1 That's totally something they couldn't have given to a Poké-player. Totally.

In all actuality it never bothered me though. I'm too busy trying to figure out how to justify the Time-Travel-Physics-Lite that goes on in those games. I actually think I found an explanation that makes it work by using the concept of free will as a crucial part of the time travel logic.

I've actually had a theory on the PMD timeline for a while, but some details in PSMD may change it for me.

[Altissimo]

PSMD might cause me to have to rewrite my entire fanfic premise based on whether I like it or not lmao
(my fanfic doesn't include GtI since I never played it so)

[InsigTurtle]

https://twitter.com/PMD2_Bot

The twitter bot I mentioned a month or so ago is finished.

Except for the occasional spacing problem. I'm fixing that right now.

[Latios212]

I 3D-printed FOUND A TIME GEAR!

Who wants to go to Temporal Tower?

Spoiler

[close]

(it ain't perfect, but working on on it)

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

Meeeeeee!!!

[mastersuperfan]

I never played GTI (I was extremely turned off by the lack of Pokémon), and for some reason I never played Red and Blue either. Maybe I'll get to them someday...

But Explorers just has too much nostalgia for me. The OST is amazing, the story is beautiful, and the gameplay is addictive... There isn't a single thing about the game I don't like.

No, wait, there is one thing. The dialogue is so kid-friendly at times that it just gets too cheesy. "Prepare to disappear!" Really?

Either way, I'm hyped for the new one. I'm *definitely* getting it.

[TheDreamingHawk]

http://gonintendo.com/stories/244677-full-list-of-datamined-wii-u-vc-wii-download-games-for-eshop

THE LEGEND RETURNS (Eventually, probably not long after Japan gets it. Maybe it'll be out here when PSMD launches?)

[Oronoco]

I 3D-printed FOUND A TIME GEAR!

Who wants to go to Temporal Tower?

Spoiler

[close]

(it ain't perfect, but working on on it)

I just saw this! And I can't figure it out...but it's making my heart race! But why? Why should it stir me up so much? Why is my pulse beating all of a sudden?

Seriously though, that's incredible.