Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team
You, a regular human, find yourself trapped in the body of a Pokémon in a world inhabited by Pokémon. Without any other choice, you go on rescue missions through randomly generated dungeons with your…
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team is an adventure developed by Chunsoft, released 17 November 2005 on Wii U and Nintendo DS.
What Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team is
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team is an adventure game developed by Chunsoft and released in 2005. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo DS.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team 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. Mystery Dungeon differs from the mainline games in that the player character is a Pokémon rather than a trainer.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Pokémon series
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team is the 126th of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team in 2005. Its critic score of 65 is 9 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.
How it was received
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 24% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 2 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 70, across 86 votes.
What it launched against
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team launched on 17 November 2005, within three weeks of Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) and Star Wars: Battlefront II. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Mario Kart DS, Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005), Star Wars: Battlefront II.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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