Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time | 
| From: Nintendo
List Price: $34.99
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 850
Platform: Nintendo Ds
Genre: role_playing_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.6
MPN: DS-NTRPYFTE
Model: NTRPYFTE
UPC: 045496739669
EAN: 0045496739669
ASIN: B0014DHIL6
Release Date: April 20, 2008
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| Features:
| • | Rescue friends in trouble or send your own SOS messages through Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. | | • | 16 available playable Pokemon including several fourth-generation creatures, such as Chimarchar, Munchlax and Piplup and also several mainstays from previous Pokemon titles including Pikachu, Squirtle and Charmander | | • | Non-repeating dungeons and over 490 Pokemon ensure infinite exploration. | | • | Be on the lookout for familiar faces from Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl. |
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Product Description
You've been washed ashore on a beach and there's a Pokemon beside you who needs your help to find treasure. You've been transformed into a Pokemon. Your form is determined by a Pokemon personality test in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Of Time. Return to a fantastic land untouched by humans as you form a rescue team to solve the mystery of your transformation and find the lost treasure. Join hundreds of Pokemon in randomly-generated dungeons. Online compatibility enhances strategic exploration and battles. Explore long-lost dungeons or hunt down criminal Pokemon. The choice is yours in this open-ended game.
Amazon.com
Which Pokemon are you? Another amazing addition to the Pokemon series but this time you get to be the Pokemon! You are in control of your own adventure in the latest release of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time! For years you've captured, traded and battled with them; now it's time once again to become a Pokemon yourself! Join a guild and prepare for adventure as you return to a fantastic land untouched by humans. Hundreds of Pokemon, randomly-generated dungeons, and online compatibility enhance strategic exploration and battles. Head out to explore long-lost dungeons, or hunt down criminal Pokemon - the choice is yours in this epic game.
Randomly-generated dungeons
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Which Pokemon are you?
For years you've captured, traded and battled with them; now it's time once again to become a Pokemon yourself! Join a guild and prepare for adventure as you return to a fantastic land untouched by humans. Hundreds of Pokemon, randomly-generated dungeons, and online compatibility enhance strategic exploration and battles. Head out to explore long-lost dungeons, or hunt down criminal Pokemon - the choice is yours in this epic game.
Game Features:- Rescue friends in trouble or send your own SOS messages through Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
- Randomly-generated dungeons and over 490 Pokemon ensure infinite exploration and possibilities.
- Be on the lookout for familiar faces from Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl.
Pokemon 101
What are Pokemon? Pokemon come I all shapes and sizes. Each Pokemon has one or two types of moves (such as Grass, Fire or Water) which it uses in battle. Pokemon also develop their own personalities, likes and dislikes - just like humans do. Pokemon and humans have learned to live and work together in harmony to create a better life for all. Pokemon grow and evolve in different ways. When Pokemon travel with a Pokemon trainer, they gain experience from battling other Pokemon and other trainers. Pokemon can also gain experience by staying at the Pokemon daycare, but nothing beats first-hand battle experience. All Pokemon have one or two innate element types. Pokemon types reflect the strengths and weaknesses as well as the environments they originated from. For example Fire-type Pokemon are often found near hot environments, excel in fire-type moves and are weak against Water-type moves. If you know what type of Pokemon your opponent is using, it is usually a good strategy to use the opposing type. Gym leaders and trainers always use one or two Pokemon types. Like most creatures, Pokemon live in environments suited to their needs. A skilled Pokemon trainer will search everywhere for Pokemon and learn where to find different types. Some Pokemon are more elusive than others. You will need key items such as a fishing pole to catch some Pokemon.
Starting out in the game you find yourself transformed into a Pokemon! After taking a Pokemon personality test the form of your Pokemon will be revealed. Washed ashore on the beach a fellow Pokemon is beside you asking for your help in finding lost treasure. You can form rescue teams to discover the mystery around your transformation as you hunt for lost treasure along the way. Explore this fantastic land untouched by human hands as you join hundreds of Pokemon in randomly-generated dungeons.
Utilizing the Wi-fi connection feature enables players to rescue each other or send out your own SOS for help. With 16 available playable Pokemon including Chimarchar, Munchlax, Piplup as well as previous Pokemons including Pikachu, Squirtle, and Charmander the fun never stops! Keep a keen eye out for familiar faces from Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl as well. With over 490 Pokemon and non-repeating dungeons this game ensure infinite exploration. Explore long-lost dungeons or hunt down criminal Pokemon. The choice is yours in this open-ended game. For years you've captured, traded and battled with them; now it's time once again to become a Pokemon yourself! It's time to join the adventures of Treasure Town. Fans of the two previous Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games, Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team, will marvel at the greatly enhanced graphics, new story and grand adventure in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness. For Game Boy Advance owners, the fresh look and wireless aspects of these new Pokemon titles provide even more reasons to upgrade to Nintendo DS. And best of all for budget-conscious parents, Nintendo DS is also able to play the entire library of Game Boy Advance games. You can also save and share your Pokemon photos with friends via the Wii message board. You can challenge them to see who's captured the best Pokemon poses!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Son says it's "the best Pokemon game ever!" April 30, 2008
Tamara Johnson (Home, KS USA)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
I am definitely not the Pokemon fan in our house, but all the little boys are. We pre-ordered this & received it mid-week last week (thank you, Amazon). Everything else was immediately forgotten, because "my new game is here!"
He has played it quite a bit in the last week, and says it's the best Pokemon game yet. I can't give specifics, but it's definitely a 5-star rating from our household.
 Incredibly Boring June 7, 2008
Sean A. Rhodes (Aurora, Colorado)
9 out of 13 found this review helpful
Pros:
+A Surprisingly Interesting Story
+Very Colorful
+Tons of Missions
Cons:
-Bland Dungeon Designs
-Repetitive Gameplay
-Very Stale and Boring Gameplay
-Far too easy
-Not too big on the graphics
-A Very slow story
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team(Or Red, depending on which version you had) was not exactly a great game. While it sold very well, it wasn't even close to touching the surface of what other traditional Pokemon games have done. Blue and Red Rescue Team weren't that exciting, they had boring gameplay, were incredibly repetitive and just all around bland. Sadly, Chunsoft didn't really a whole lot to improve a severely flawed game. In fact, it suffers from many of the same problems as the other Mystery Dungeon games.
Just like the previous one, you are a human that one day wakes up as a Pokemon. You get a partner based off the questions you answer at the beginning. Same basic principle as the first. Then you'll go on missions where you will hunt down outlaw Pokemon or rescue other Pokemon. It's simplistic stuff. The story actually isn't so bad. It's a very slow story, but for Pokemon you're actually getting something good. You won't see a trainer throughout the game. At all. This is all about the Pokemon.
On the other hand, the story and flow of gameplay is repetitive. Seeing the same cutscene before and after each mission over and over and over again gets very annoying when you just want to jump into your next mission. However, it's easily the gameplay that's the worst part of the game.
Just like the Rescue Team games, the gameplay is incredibly stale and boring. You go into a dungeon and explore floors that are randomly generated until you get to your objective. The floors are all very bland and boring. The biggest problem with the random generated floors is when you enter the next area and you're right next to the exit. It happens from time to time. Then again, most of it you'll want to get through quickly, anyway. The environments are so bland and devoid of details that one floor doesn't feel any different from another. It's like walking through an endless dungeon. They have their own themes, but no real design.
The combat is worse. When you approach a Pokemon, you'll engage them. There are no random battles, but that doesn't mean it'll play like an Action RPG. At first glance, combat really doesn't seem all that bad until you realize there's no strategy involved whatsoever. What makes the traditional games addictive, other than catching them all, is the surprising amount of depth that goes into each battle. This is exactly what the Mystery Dungeon series lacks. It quickly becomes a button mashing affair with no real thought or strategy. The game is also unbelievably easy. Even boss battles are an easy, button mashing affair to see who can get in the most attacks. Even though you're given a set of moves you can use, and there's a little bit of strategy here, you'll find that you never actually need it. There's hardly an incentive to pick moves over another. You'll go exploring with a party of four, and you can control their moves as well, but mostly, you'll find you need just one Pokemon to get much of the job done. Combat is just boring.
Much like the previous one, you can get wild Pokemon to join your rescue team. You can only have four in your party at a time, however, but nonetheless you can still get them to join.
What would a Pokemon game be without two versions? With this duo you have Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness. Much like all the duo's, the games don't have that many differences, but you'll need both to uncover and unlock everything. This means you'll either have to buy the other version or convince a friend to do so. Should the worst ever happen and you actually get taken down in a dungeon, you can send out a distress signal in hopes that a friend will come by and rescue you. Unfortunately, you're probably better off accepting your fate.
Pokemon has never been a game to push graphics and sound. Mystery Dungeon is no exception. It's a very colorful game, but hardly takes the DS to the standards it can accomplish. Much of it looks like it belongs on the Gameboy Advance rather than the DS. And with the boring design of the dungeons, there's really nothing here to look forward to in terms of graphics. As I said, however, Pokemon has never been a graphical powerhouse. It doesn't really sound great either. Much of the music is forgettable.
If you enjoyed Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team or Red Rescue Team, then chances are you'll like this one as well. It's essentially the same game. So if you did like Blue and Red Rescue Team, then you can very much disregard this review. If Blue and Red Rescue didn't do much for you, don't expect the latest release to turn you into a fan.
I am a big pokemon fan and, May 10, 2008
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time Was one of the best games I've played. In fact, as much as I love it, it's better than Super Smash Brothers Brawl in my opinion. It does have a interesting story line, during the main story and the after. I've completed the game, and yet I can't stop even though there's not THAT much to do. I suggest this game to any Pokemon fan that enjoyed the last Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. It would still be good even if they haven't played the previous one that was terrific as well. It is totally worth the money, and will have you want to play it 24/7 as it did for me. It is also challenging but not too hard. Which makes great games. If you're not sure to buy this game or not, keep in mind this review and remember how much I liked it to give it a big 5 out of 5 star. If you have this game, you might know what I'm talking about right now. It has many twists and turns that make the game even more fun during the main story. If you played the last one, you may know that the ending was a little sad. This is one of the sad endings too, but will have you happy at the beginning of the after story. It is also interesting because it is sorted out into chapters like a book. This game isn't too long, but it's not short. This is my review of the terrific game that was made April 20th.
too much reading May 6, 2008
T. Brown (London, Ontario, Canada)
7 out of 17 found this review helpful
My son, 7, really wanted the new Pokemon game. So he used his birthday money and purchased it. Unfortunately, ever since he's gotten it, he's been very frustrated with the amount of reading there is to play the game. Unless your child is a strong reader be prepared to play with them! Maybe better suited for older children.
Pokemon Explorers of Time Review July 3, 2008
Charry
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Love these rescue-type games! I feel like a hero when I have accomplished rescue jobs! Many graphics in the game are beautiful, and it is simple to learn!
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