Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team
First pair of entries in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon spin-off series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team[lower-alpha 1] and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team[lower-alpha 2] are a matched pair of Pokémon video games for the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, respectively. The games were developed by Chunsoft and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo. Red Rescue Team was the last Pokémon game released for the Game Boy Advance. The two versions are mostly identical, with Blue Rescue Team taking advantage of the dual-screen features and increased graphical and sound capabilities of the Nintendo DS. The game has six Pokémon exclusive to each version.
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Developer(s) | Chunsoft |
Publisher(s) | |
Director(s) | Seiichiro Nagahata |
Producer(s) | Koichi Nakamura Hiroaki Tsuru Atsushi Sugimoto Kunimi Kawamura Hitoshi Yamagami |
Designer(s) | Hiroshi Nakamura Fujimi O-nishi Yoshihito Takaishi |
Programmer(s) | Masayasu Yamamoto |
Artist(s) | Fuyuhiko Koizumi |
Writer(s) | Shin-ichiro Tomie Emiko Tanaka |
Composer(s) | Arata Iiyoshi Atsuhiro Ishizuna |
Series | Pokémon Mystery Dungeon |
Platform(s) | Game Boy Advance (Red) Nintendo DS (Blue) |
Release | (Blue Rescue Team) |
Genre(s) | Roguelike |
Similar to the other Mystery Dungeon titles, the roguelike gameplay revolves around randomly changing dungeons which need to be explored by the player and their partner Pokémon using turn-based moves. The story focuses on the player who has been turned into a Pokémon and has developed amnesia who later joins a rescue team with a partner Pokémon while finding out who they are. As of July 25, 2007, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team had sold 3.08 million copies worldwide. Two sequels, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness, were released in Japan on September 13, 2007, and in North America on April 20, 2008. They featured Generation IV Pokémon, improved Wi-Fi features, and more touchscreen options.
The games received moderately positive reviews, with praise for their originality, while their gameplay and visuals were criticized. By 2007, the two games had accumulated lifetime sales of over 5.25 million copies. Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team were released on the European Wii U Virtual Console on February 11, 2016 and on the Japanese Wii U Virtual Console on March 23, 2016. They were released on the North American Wii U Virtual Console on June 23, 2016.
An updated remake of the games titled Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX was released on March 6, 2020. The remake has mechanics that were introduced in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates To Infinity such as moves leveling up by use.