What's So Great About Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Blue/Red? - Why Spin-Offs Matter 

Pokemon emerald, black and white 2,Pokemon Platinum are also one of the best mainline games tho. Personally i prefer those games but yeah i respect your opinion.

Those are my two favorite pokemon games. Yet I always go back and run red rescue team again

Only mystery dungeon game I played is dx and I will never play a pmd game again from front to back. DX was the one that has good qol improvements and I still found it an insufferable mess, this is coming from a player that has done everything in the game except get Lucario and beat joyous tower, I even got a handful of shinies, like lickilicky and celebi, so I know exactly what I am talking about, and take it from me, PMD is not good. Unless you really want to dedicate yourself into a very long and grindy ride like I went into prepared for, the story is not worth it for actually playing this game. Just look up cutscenes if you want the story. I do recommend main series, but main series is definitely better played as a collective experience, transferring across different games, which is all best done on a single 3DS. My favorite is USUM, it has all of the qol fixes from previous games as well as new ones to make it the most convenient experience possible. The Pokemon variety is incredible from beginning to end, even without island scan which is crazy.

Only mystery dungeon game I played is dx and I will never play a pmd game again from front to back. DX was the one that has good qol improvements and I still found it bad, this is coming from a player that has done everything in the game except get Lucario and beat joyous tower, I even got a handful of shinies, like lickilicky and celebi, so I know exactly what I am talking about, and take it from me, PMD is not good. Unless you really want to dedicate yourself into a very long and grindy ride like I went into prepared for, the story is not worth it for actually playing this game. Just look up cutscenes if you want the story. I do recommend main series, but main series is definitely better played as a collective experience, transferring across different games, which is all best done on a single 3DS. My favorite is USUM, it has all of the qol fixes from previous games as well as new ones to make it the most convenient experience possible. The Pokemon variety is incredible from beginning to end, even without island scan which is crazy.

I though it was the same game..

@@I_AM_JUST_A_NARCISSIST They are different editions of the same game

​@@I_AM_JUST_A_NARCISSISThaven't you played any Pokémon mainline games? They usually release 2 editions of the games at the same time. It also applies in this series.

And what’s funny about that is the fact that in the mainline games, they want you to love your Pokémon, yet barely give any way for you to love them.

I agree; Mystery Dungeon gives the Pokemon character development and they get to interact with each other in meaningful way.

Specific ones, not remotely a lot, the rest besides the handful are just like main series.

​@@giggymuunPokemon refresh and amie give tons of loving interaction with them, there isn't even a friendship mechanic in pmd so why did you bring it up?

@@rpgfanatic9719 never said there was 💀

yup!!!

It’s soooo good!!!!

I just wish it wasn't so expensive

@@nascour5991 yeah the switch is expensive.

Name??

Almost every video i see talking about pmd never talk about those 2. (Didn't watch too many but its still annoying)

I liked Blue and Red more tbh

@@reller82 I see them praised everywhere

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I wish they didn't remove link moves but Ik why they did. Also not being guaranteed rewards for beating missions is lame but at least u always get new mons, even if they can only be recruited for a certain amount of time, with specific exceptions.

I haven't played those ones yet but they're on the list! Thanks for the suggestion and I'm glad you enjoyed the vid.

I actually skipped over Gates when it came out. How does it compare to the rest of the series? And thanks for watching!

What'sSoGreatAboutGaming It’s definitely the weakest in the series but the story and music does make up for it. The reason why gates was bad was simply due to the fact it was rushed because gen 6 was about to come out. All that being said it’s still worth playing through the main story and I did enjoy some of the base building aspects of paradise

Hm, base building eh? That sort of stuff always gets me hooked. Guess I'll have to give it a shot some time!

What'sSoGreatAboutGaming yea like the other guy. Gates main issue was that it was a rushed resulting is the Pokémon count being than 150. The starter selection also suffered from this. Hunger and gummies were removed and the story was ultimately lackluster. However, the side characters(excluding your partner) are really interesting and carry the story

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

@@WhatsSoGreatAboutGaming np man

@Dick Balls • 30 years ago Which Pokemon is that?

Along with Emerald i agree.

Oh, that's cool. What part are you on? I just emulated it on my phone tbh.

@@pugpartyproductions8805 well i think i'm just in the beginning of the game

@@codingjhames ah OK then. I've just recently made it to Pokémon Square.

Thanks. And it's no big deal to be a small channel; I'm proud of the videos I make and people seem to enjoy them. Quality over quantity, am I right? ;)

Huh, I've never really paid much attention to the rocks as weapons. Maybe I'll have to try them out whenever I get around to the other entries in the series! Ha ha.

@@WhatsSoGreatAboutGaming you should also take a peak at the seed and orb weapons. They were also very useful. Popping a pokemon with a status effecting seed can grant you enough time to do some heavy damage.

I actually hold the opinion that Gates had the worst gameplay because mainly i couldn't cancel running, items were too common and broken, unlike the two first games. The belly mechanic in my opinion, was very well done in rescue team then while explorers came with a lot of QoL changes, made the belly mechanic bad as a consequence, and later making it become removed, in gates to infinity. While the sticks and stones are a valid argument, i don't think that there were nearly as much iron thorns, silver spikes and gravelerrocks in the first game, and you couldn't rely on them, especially considering how silver spikes dont even appear until the last 2 dungeons in RT and iron thorns in the lapis cave(maybe earlier) in the transition to super, one mechanic i speficallly hated is the no heal weather thing, which imo didnt make any sense. And i don't see how it fixed any of the problems really, too. Ok back to the belly argument, the belly firstly goes down a lot faster in rt than explorers and the item storage is smaller which means you have to plan more And it makes belly good in RT until in explorers they ruined it. One last thing i want to mention is statuses. Certain stauses such as poison, were largely nerfed in the transition from rescue team to explorers, which i dont believe had any right to, especially burn status, which was already weak enough to be completely ignored and still suceed, was directly nerfed from 6 to 4 damage when it already was indirectly nerfed because... 1. the hp pool increases, due to the higher game finish level( which i usually consider 28 in Rescue team and 44 in explorers) 2. the HP regen percentage also increases, which nullifies the effect 3.Item storage increases from a 20 item to something like 40, which means you can stall a lot more, or cure it with less impact in your storage For poison, same story like 4 damage was balanced enough then they made it 2 which does like nothing. So far, i listed the problems with RT-> Explorers, so why does this matter? because gates didnt fix any of these, but came up with new ones such Normal attacks were nerfed hard in gates, and i thats not a good thing. You cant do multiple missions in one queue in gates. Items are incredibly easy to find and are broken. Max elixers are way too common, so it makes it not worry about pp. Move upgrades are BAD in my opinion, paired by the max elixers being common, it just makes you spam the same move over and over again and makes it difficult to change strategies. Weather no heal is a stupid mechanic. And i think that does it for the reasons i think gates is the worst

Grind is not an issue since it happens in all of the game in the series. PMD manages to make the gameplay of the main series better since you can obtain multiple rare TMs by exploring (Ice beam, psychic or earthquake for example was limited to 1 back then), MO are not longer annoying since you can forget then easily and you dont even had to worry to a Pokemon dont having that attack anyway, you can obtain all of the Pokemon by yourself without the need of events or trading and now all of the Pokemon are viable to complete the game thanks to its balanced stat system that allow to any Pokemon being powerful. Lesser attacks like growl and screech are also now more useful.