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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time

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…

70 13 September 2007

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time is an adventure developed by Chunsoft, released 13 September 2007 on Nintendo DS.

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What Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time is

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time 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.
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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 Time is the 141st of 306 entries we hold in the Pokémon series. The next entry was Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness in 2007. Its critic score of 70 is 4 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 Time holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2007 averaged 64, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 60 votes.

What it launched against

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time 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

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Official trailer

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When did Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time come out?
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time was released on 13 September 2007 for Nintendo DS.

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