Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky

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…

50 18 April 2009

Role-playing (RPG) Turn-based strategy (TBS) Fantasy Kids

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Chunsoft, released 18 April 2009 on Wii U and Nintendo DS. The main story takes about 25 hrs to finish.

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What Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky is

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Chunsoft and released in 2009. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Wii U and Nintendo DS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky is an enhanced version of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness released for the Nintendo DS in 2009, developed by Chunsoft and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo. Referred to as the definitive edition to the aforementioned games, additional features include the addition of the missing Generation IV Pokémon, further character development for a few side characters in content known as Special Episodes, and a few quality of life improvement for options, items, and other gameplay and system related features.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy and 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 Sky is the 151st of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Rumble in 2009. Its critic score of 50 is 24 points below the series average of 74. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. Melee at 100.

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How it was received

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky holds a critic score of 50 out of 100. That places it above 5% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 17 points below the year average. Players rate it 67, 17 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 25 hrs.

What it launched against

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky launched on 18 April 2009, within three weeks of Plants vs. Zombies, Guitar Hero: Metallica, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena and Shin Megami Tensei: Persona. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Plants vs. Zombies, Guitar Hero: Metallica, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, Shin Megami Tensei: Persona.

Cheats and codes

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