Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX

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8.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 317 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 244 out of 317
  2. Mixed: 35 out of 317
  3. Negative: 38 out of 317
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  1. Starfree
    Mar 6, 2020
    6
    10/10 story. The story is incredible. And most of the revisions are welcome ones but there is a lot of “quality of life improvements” that hurt the game more than help it. One in particular. WHO THOUGHT SHOWING THE ITEMS AND ENEMIES ON THE MINIMAP IN A DUNGEON CRAWLER WAS A GOOD IDEA!?!?! Seriously it almost ruins the gameplay. Almost. This is still a good game but honestly I think the 1510/10 story. The story is incredible. And most of the revisions are welcome ones but there is a lot of “quality of life improvements” that hurt the game more than help it. One in particular. WHO THOUGHT SHOWING THE ITEMS AND ENEMIES ON THE MINIMAP IN A DUNGEON CRAWLER WAS A GOOD IDEA!?!?! Seriously it almost ruins the gameplay. Almost. This is still a good game but honestly I think the 15 year old original Red Recuse is more enjoyable, and that’s not acceptable. But it’s still the same Mystery Dungeon story and gameplay we all know and love for the most part and I would recommend it to anyone who hasn’t played the originals. There are some new features I really like, like the rare qualities and the extra difficult Pokémon that show up with a warning maker. Red and Blue Recuse deserve a way better remake, but I’m still happy to play it.… Expand
  2. GabFire
    Aug 9, 2020
    6
    Depois da desgraça do "Sword and Shield", vai ser difícil voltar a gostar dessa franquia, melhor ir jogar "Temtem".
  3. stickY_Ger
    Mar 6, 2020
    6
    Lets get one thing out of the way that is surely on a lot of peoples minds.
    This is a Pokemon game. So it´s basically a must-have Switch game, right?
    Wrong. This game appeals to a very niche audience. It´s a Dungeon Crawler that is to easy in difficulty to appeal to most fans of the genre (excluding the endgame), and not a Pokemon game in the sense that you cannot 'catch' Pokemon at    Lets get one thing out of the way that is surely on a lot of peoples minds.
    This is a Pokemon game. So it´s basically a must-have Switch game, right?
    Wrong.
    This game appeals to a very niche audience. It´s a Dungeon Crawler that is to easy in difficulty to appeal to most fans of the genre (excluding the endgame), and not a Pokemon game in the sense that you cannot 'catch' Pokemon at your leisure. Whether or not a Pokemon decides to join your team is entirely random.
    So if it doesn´t appeal to either of those groups, who does this appeal to?
    Frankly, I don´t know. I play this game for the sake of nostalgia. It just feels good and kinda magical to play this game for me. As do all Pokemon games, which is a large part of the appeal for many people. While that is certainly good for me, I do not know what kind of people would be interrested in such a game, other than diehard Pokemon fans. And those allready picked up the game anyways, so no point talking about it. Luckily for all of us, there´s a free demo on the eShop that you can give a spin to see for yourself what the game is like.
    So, that out of the way, how does the remake hold up? What would make you pick up this instead of the GBA/DS original?
    The graphics. Heavily updated and quite beautifull.
    The gameplay. Basically untouched except for adding Lucario and Mega-Evolutions. Which is both a blessing and a curse. You will find small inconveniences at many places, which are a byproduct of outdated game-design. The only thing that was updated is the battle system, but not necessarily in a good way. The fact that your attacks get upgraded if you use them often enough seems fine at first, but then they also made it so that your teams attacks sometimes just fire twice, for no particular reason. Your enemies do not have this ability, or anything to make up for this disadvantage. All of this makes the game even easier than the original, removing basically any challenge from the game so long as you know what items to pack before you enter a dungeon.
    Why they chose to do this is beyond me. The difficulty was not an issue in the original, yet they chose to 'fix' this instead of acutally annoying quirks the original had.
    Oh yeah, and then there´s the engine. To summarize it in a word: Yikes!
    What went wrong here? Having half a second of input delay on every single button-press and even more in docked mode is just embarassing, and it feels miserable in comparison to the older games! This needs to be patched! Yesterday!
    Edit: Actually, they did fox this. But only in docked mode. The handheld experience still has terrible input-lag, which is why I didn´t realize they fixed anything until I got home.
    Still, that does not excuse handheld mode performing terrible in this regard.
    So... Is Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team DX worth your money? Is it a bad game after all?
    Not really, but it´s not a masterpiece either. The story is what holds this game together, but it seems to be entirely unchanged from the original. If you still have a GBA, DS Lite or 3DS laying around, you might just as well buy the original for less than half the price.
    And if you only have a Switch? Keep your eyes out for a discount. I allready saw it 20% off online. If it ever hits 30$ instead of 60, I´d say definitly go for it. And until then...
    You decide.    … Expand
  4. DarkFireUmad
    Mar 19, 2020
    6
    Es el mismo juego que en 14 años no han metido nada relevante nuevo, muchas mecánicas cambiadas que algunas "mejoran" otras empeoran estrepitosamente, es muy fácil pero te pone en muchas más situaciones injustas que el original.
  5. BlackFang
    Mar 29, 2022
    5
    The game itself is definitely good, but I do feel a bit rip off. It felt like they pull a pokemon brilliant diamond treatment, added a few things but the story, gameplay and everything else feels the same as the original 3DS counterpart.
  6. MrsPandora
    Mar 16, 2020
    5
    This game, while I’m glad ones of my favorite games got a remake, it doesn’t feel good too play and is very clunky, with a price tag I think is pretty unacceptable for a spin off Pokémon game, I think Let’s Go is so far the best Pokémon Game on the switch that’s not a port of a Wii U game, all of the Pokémon games have never been worthy of a 50-60 dollar price tag, but the one thingThis game, while I’m glad ones of my favorite games got a remake, it doesn’t feel good too play and is very clunky, with a price tag I think is pretty unacceptable for a spin off Pokémon game, I think Let’s Go is so far the best Pokémon Game on the switch that’s not a port of a Wii U game, all of the Pokémon games have never been worthy of a 50-60 dollar price tag, but the one thing compared too the other switch games of Pokémon , this one is good plot/story wise, I wouldn’t recommend this game as it feels very incomplete too play and is often frustrating, not fun like most of the Mystery dungeon games on handhelds… Expand
  7. PinkGoliath
    May 10, 2020
    5
    When I picked up this game, I remembered as a kid enjoying this game a lot even though I couldn’t beat it, I thought now I could come back and finish the game. Coming back to it, I was disappointed with it. The graphics are pretty and stylized but felt the resolution for some backdrops should’ve been clearer and not so blurry. The gameplay got tedious and repetitive and exploring theWhen I picked up this game, I remembered as a kid enjoying this game a lot even though I couldn’t beat it, I thought now I could come back and finish the game. Coming back to it, I was disappointed with it. The graphics are pretty and stylized but felt the resolution for some backdrops should’ve been clearer and not so blurry. The gameplay got tedious and repetitive and exploring the dungeons is clunky, what’s worse is these dungeons are the main core gameplay. Also the game has some pretty bad designs that are tedious, Why can’t you buy multiple items at the store? Why must you go through each result rewards with each quest you do? Why is it unskippable when you are greeted by your partner and Pelipper delivers the mail? The story in my opinion was not engaging at all and towards the end felt I was just trudging my way toward the end just to finish it. Also, the section where you’re cast off from the main hub halts the pacing and momentum of the game. Some moments were appreciated and brought a smile to my face and the idle animations(specifically Bulbasaur) give more life to the Pokémon. Also evolution should've been throughout the game rather than given as post game since you can just skip the second evolutions, it would’ve given me a sense of growth/progression. The game was just meh to me. Play Time: 21 hrs.… Expand
  8. Nudie
    Aug 30, 2020
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Big fan of the mystery dungeon series and have been playing it since GBA days! This game however is hard to play, reason being is that the frames for whatever reason are extremely delayed and there is noticible lag when opening tour inventory, which I thought could be my television but was not when I brought in a much faster monitor (same issues). The graphics could of also been better, as I feel as though it was a similar issue that Pokémon Sword/Shield has with lazy graphical design game looks like it’s a 3ds game ported over to the switch). It also has some annoying aspects such as the the lack of evolution until endgame. I feel as though the game has lost its charm by trying to go onto the switch without an effort of innovation. I would avoid this and wait until Pokémon company starts to acknowledge that they’re fan base is noticing all the shortcuts.… Expand
  9. skitty
    Mar 20, 2023
    3
    Short, boring, easy and annoying.
    Finally do some new age pokemon games, not retro GBA remakes.
  10. teylamade
    Oct 7, 2020
    3
    I am a big fan of the main Pokemon games and unfortunately I cannot recommend this one. The graphics are nice but they game is extremely slow, dull and monotonous. I also loved the old PS1 Digimon games that were similar to this but those at least had a more fleshed out battle system.
  11. xaurax
    Mar 7, 2020
    2
    No me ha gustado nada. Más de lo mismo. A vender cuánto antes. Me reservo el dinero para otros juegos
  12. Royo
    Mar 28, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's sad to say that all my excitement for this games was seemingly met with distaste...
    Though the game focuses on the nostalgia of the original game, the reasons why the original game stuck with me so much are not fully present in this one, causing the remake to to the original an injustice in my opinion. An example of this would be friend areas. They no longer have explore-able friend areas as before where the Pokemon you recruited are free to move around as are you. Instead, you have a picture with a pixelated Pokemon which you can click on.... I find that to be a poor attempt on a switch considering they could manage it on a gameboy...
    The game story feels rushed, the controls are not as smooth, they got rid of the normal attack without use of PP, corridors can get quite frustrating not being able to switch places with your team-mate and lets not discuss the situation hunger...
    Being that this game got boring after completion in the original due to the repetitive mechanics, for this remake to have no extra content and having its better components taken from it, the game kind of digs its own grave.
    My point is that developers could have done one of 2 things, Kept every aspect the same as the original and then tweaked the annoying mechanics of the original to make the fans of the original happy, which they kind of did but also didn't, we will get to that later or they could have revamped the game, kept the story the same but added more to it, post story, and made the situation less repetitive, the artwork I'll praise, its good.

    But no, they chose option 3 because they wanted to put even more people off the mystery dungeon series. They kept most things the same, tweaked mechanics but for some reason got rid of aspects that made the game unique, the reason why people liked this game, if they truly made this for fans to experience nostalgia, then they would not have done that, but they did...    … Expand
  13. Approximat
    Mar 7, 2020
    1
    I was very happy about the game.
    The game play is really inconsistent. On the one hand you have the typical Dungeon Crawler including Rogue Like (if you die you lose your inventory + money), but then you have so many support features like the automatic running through the dungeons, the automatic execution of the strongest attack against the opponent and the team size of up to 8 Pokemon,    I was very happy about the game.
    The game play is really inconsistent. On the one hand you have the typical Dungeon Crawler including Rogue Like (if you die you lose your inventory + money), but then you have so many support features like the automatic running through the dungeons, the automatic execution of the strongest attack against the opponent and the team size of up to 8 Pokemon, so every opponent is easy to defeat.
    That would still be okay, but the game runs so slow (input lag, general lags, ...) on the console in handheld mode, that's not cool.    … Expand
  14. GenkiYokota
    Jan 27, 2022
    0
    Horrendous remasters and a terrible job on the visual representation.
    The original games were better at everything.
  15. KastusDiea
    Feb 4, 2021
    0
    Very sad, not playable without friends (as a casual gamer it’s sometimes hard to win a dungeon)
    Always the same gameplay, nearly no variation.
  16. Raxior
    Oct 5, 2022
    0
    Significantly worse than the original took away any value of visiting friend areas, made it so all you party memebers waste your throwables without your consent, the only tjing of value added was mega evolutions and it was not worth the price we paid
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 75 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 75
  2. Mixed: 39 out of 75
  3. Negative: 5 out of 75
  1. RPG Fan
    Aug 8, 2022
    84
    All told, even with the quirky middling difficulty making this one hard to write home about, I still think Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX is a fun game to play through. The postgame can be somewhat monotonous, but the main story keeps things going. Seriously, the plot is simple, but the dialogue between all of these Pokémon makes for a great experience. The mix of mature themes — life and death, protection and abandonment — with the childlike wonder of all things Pokémon keep the mind focused on the purpose of the quest, even when the quest itself is a heavy strain (or a simple frolic) for some players. If you’ve yet to try Mystery Dungeon games but want a better understanding, this might be a great starting place! If you’ve played other Pokémon Mystery Dungeon entries and appreciated their balance of challenge and storytelling, you’re likely to enjoy this remake of the one that started it all.
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  2. Nintendo Force Magazine
    May 1, 2020
    80
    I'm reticent to recommend this experience to anyone who hasn't already explored a few other Mystery Dungeons in the past. [Issue #46 – May/June 2020, p. 64]
  3. PLAY! Zine
    Apr 19, 2020
    70
    Rescue Team DX may be a remake, but it does not improve the original formula in almost any way. While the graphics and HUD had an obvious overhaul, the game is a repetitive yet somewhat charming and conflicted experience, that offers quality at the expense of some pretty weird and lazy solutions. Yet if you are a fan, you should not miss this one.
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