I've been wondering: Who is your favorite Pokemon Mystery Dungeon character?
...I see what your game is, L. Deducing the probability of me being Kira based on my answer. Not bad, but I'm already ten steps ahead of you.
If I tell him my favorite character is Dusknoir, it's obviously going to link me to Kira. Not only is he a cunning, detective-like figure chasing after himself, but he is part of a species of grim reapers which can be connected to the shinigami.
But,
It would be befitting Light to pick Dusknoir since in the expanded story of Explorers of Sky, he grew willing to take great risks in order to make the world into a better and safer place. And even before his redemption arc, he is shown to be genuinely concerned about fellow Pokemon who are in immediate danger.
Of course, he could always play it safe and say Grovyle, who is a well-written and widely beloved character in the community. Not to mention a true seeker of justice.
No, it's too obvious. I have no choice. I'll just be outright. He can't possibly connect my liking for Dusknoir to Kira if I just present the facts.
I think my favorite would have to be Dusknoir! His development in Special Episode 5 was a fascinating choice and made me appreciate his character as a whole.
I see. I'm personally rather fond of Celebi.
!?
What the hell... Who would care about Celebi? Is this a threat? She is one of the characters who contributes to foiling Dusknoir's plans... Is he that confident in his ability to stop Kira? What is your angle, L...
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon!? I love these games! My favorite is Munna!
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Misa, what are you doing?! Munna seeks to rid the world of rotten Pokemon! You're blatantly making a connection to Kira!
Besides, Gates to Infinity is hardly worth of the Mystery Dungeon title... It's naive message about trying to better the world just through hope... I suppose it is just like Misa to like this game.
Still! Munna is an incredibly incriminating choice. Dammit, Misa...
So I’ve been going through a bit of another rough period lately and have turned back to my DS system, one of the few gaming consoles that doesn’t seem to terribly hurt my hand (yay!!)
I picked up PMD Sky again, and seeing as I had reset my file at some point but didn’t make a new one, I inserted Ingo and Akari into it — Cyndaquil for Ingo (hero), and Eevee for Akari (partner)!
I think it’s very fitting since Hero character has total amnesia except for remembering their name, and Partner character is someone with an outgoing personality who’s just joining a guild.
I’ve been getting really attached to it, and so I’ve been thinking about a little AU with some adjustments to it. Hence these doodles I’ve been working on for the last few days (mostly warmups/practice to try and tighten linework with my non-dominant hand, so no hatching or handwritten words for this one ^^;).
Okay so I know this is a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon blog, but lately I've been getting super into Torneko's Great Adventure, like it's so good???
It's also the first ever mystery dungeon game, released on the snes in 1993!! The game is a spinoff of the Dragon Quest series and stars a merchant named Torneko (Taloon in the US) from Dragon Quest 4. It acts as both a kind of a backstory for how he got his start as a merchant, as well as an explanation for how he got his wares (you can kind of think of it as if it were a pmd game that had you play as Kecleon!)
As you progress through the game, you gradually build up a home/shop/town using the goods you find in the dungeon! The game is semi-permadeath - whereas you always start at level 1 with a new dungeon each time, you get to keep half of the money you gathered in the dungeon upon losing. And there are items you can find that allow you to keep all of it like a safe, or an escape orb outside scroll that allows you to leave with not only all of your money, but your items as well that you can then sell! And once you get the 5th or 6th town expansion, you can build a vault that allows you to store 10 items to later take with you to give you an edge at the start of a new run as a bit of a risk-reward system!
So the thing that sticks out to me with the game is how it’s nearly identical to pokemon mystery dungeon. Like, I realized pmd is just Torneko with a pokemon coat of paint? Almost every mechanic from pmd (minus the pokemon and and their moves) are present. The seeds and orbs from pmd were a reworking of torneko’s herbs and scrolls respectively (blast seeds came from fire herbs, petrify orbs came from Numb scrolls, etc etc etc), a lot of the IQ skills came from effects on equipment, instead of sticky items there were cursed items, bread was turned into apples with moldy bread being grimy food, the arrows were turned into thorns, even the wands in super mystery dungeon are there almost exactly!
The main difference is Torneko is balanced to be more of a permadeath roguelike, and pmd is not. Sure pmd has some more roguelike-y dungeons where you start at a low level and can't bring in items, but not all of the 300+ character options are viable for those. Torneko is balanced with only one character in mind, and it’s honestly one of the best balanced roguelikes I’ve ever played. It’s so consistent in how it gets harder as you get better. It hits that sweet spot of letting you feel like you’re improving at it each run by learning how to approach it more strategically, while the luck based elements add flavor to that. Almost every enemy requires a different strategy and learning how they work is really enjoyable and rewarding ^.^ and every section of the dungeon from early on in the run to late is fun and engaging in it’s own regard.
Idk it’s just really good and fun and I love It ^.^ it’s maybe on of my favorite roguelikes of all time, and almost certainly my favorite snes game.
yeah sorry about your boyfriend he walked into a monster house room in PMD. yeah he did see all the items on the map but he still walked into the room anyway. no he's not surviving this. sorry
I played Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky for the first time a little while ago and was reminded of how very wholesome the PMD series is. So here are some completely self-indulgent drawings of my rescue team. Shout-out to anyone else that has played the game with this specific combo!
Day 2 of Hero and Partner week! I was going to do a lil gardening scene for the Flower prompt but then I realised... there's not a single opposable thumb in this team...