Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness
Embark on a journey after you get turned into a Pokémon as a result of a freak accident, causing you to lose your memory as well as contact with and knowledge of your previous adventuring partner, with whom…
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness is an adventure developed by Chunsoft, released 13 September 2007 on Nintendo DS.
What Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness is
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness is an adventure game developed by Chunsoft and released in 2007. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness are a matched pair of Pokémon games developed by Chunsoft and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS. The two games were released in Japan in September 2007, and in North America and Europe in 2008. A third version, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, was released for the same hardware in 2009.
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. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.
Where it sits in the Pokémon series
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness is the 142nd of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Battrio in 2007. Its critic score of 55 is 19 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: Explorers of Darkness holds a critic score of 55 out of 100. That places it above 11% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 9 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness launched on 13 September 2007, within three weeks of Halo 3, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Rome: Total War - Collection and Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Halo 3, Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII, Rome: Total War - Collection, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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