Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX

Announced in the Pokémon Direct on January 9, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX is a Nintendo Switch remake of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red & Blue Rescue Team for the Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS.

Rescue Team DX puts you in the shoes of a human who has lost their memory and been mysteriously transformed into a Pokémon at a time when the Pokémon world has been experiencing an uptick in natural disasters. In response to the disasters, Pokémon have been forming Rescue Teams in order to help out those in need. You decide to join a Rescue Team to aid the cause, and to piece together your past and find out why you’ve been transformed.

Some confirmed changes in the remake include the ability to choose the Pokémon you play as if you don’t want to stick with whatever the game’s personality quiz assigns you, a streamlining of the IQ system, the ability to control any member of your team from the start of the game, the ability to have up to eight team members in a dungeon at once, and the addition of Mega Evolution from Pokémon X & Y.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX launches on March 6. A free demo is available to download now, with the ability to transfer your progress to the full game.

I have really fond memories of the original Rescue Team games, and I was disappointed when Pokémon’s seventh generation didn’t have a Mystery Dungeon spinoff, so I’m thrilled that this game is coming! I’m really looking forward to seeing what else gets changed to modernize the game or incorporate newer aspects of the Pokémon series!

So I bought the game and beat the main story a few days ago! Currently working on some of the postgame dungeons.

Coming from having played the original Red/Blue Rescue Team, this was a really nice return to form after being somewhat disappointed with Super Mystery Dungeon a few years back. The quality of life features added, particularly with the Gulpin Shop being a Move Tutor, the Makuhita Dojo giving ample experience, and your entire rescue team passively leveling as you do, really encourage building many, diverse teams, and making the dungeons themselves feel like challenges that you don’t have to spend hours grinding to prepare for.

I also really enjoy the inclusion of obtainable Shiny Pokemon, and is something I’m planning to work on eventually lol.

I’m glad you enjoyed it! Joe played around with the demo; he played the game as a kid and is excited to see it redone, but we’re a little hesitant to drop $60 on the game right after we bought two copies of New Horizons. Any idea roughly how many hours you’ve sunk into the game? Do you recommend it even at that price tag?

I know it’s Nintendo, but charging $60 for a remaster feels like a big ask.

I’ve clocked in 25.5 so far! Main story I finished around 20 I think, so I’d guess it’d probably be in the ball park of 15-25 for main game. There is a post-game story (idr how to access it lmao), and like 15ish bonus challenge dungeons that open up then too. I’ve only done 1 so far, but definitely planning on doing the others.

Overall I’d probably say it may be best to hold out for a sale. It definitely depends on how much you both think you’d play after the story is done. I clocked in an absurd amount of time into the original Rescue Team in 2006 (like 140 hours, lmao…). So I knew that I would be very into completing the postgame stuff, and Mystery Dungeon is my favorite Pokemon spin-off, so I didn’t mind the price tag. Though if dungeon crawling isn’t terribly appealing, and you don’t see yourself wanting to play a lot after the story is done, I wouldn’t jump on it at full price.

Another thing too is that this game doesn’t have the same level of multiplayer collab as New Horizons. Depending on how much you & Joe do multiplayer with each other, it may not be worth it to smack down a full $60 for that reason as well.

Thanks for the info! It’s mostly for him. I’m a little shit about multiplayer in most cases.