Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time[lower-alpha 1] and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness[lower-alpha 2] 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.[1][2] A third version, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, was released for the same hardware in 2009.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness | |
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Developer(s) | Chunsoft |
Publisher(s) | |
Director(s) | Seiichiro Nagahata Hironori Ishigami |
Producer(s) | Koichi Nakamura Hiroaki Tsuru Hiroyuki Jinnai Kunimi Kawamura Hitoshi Yamagami |
Designer(s) | Hiroshi Nakamura Fujimi O-nishi Shinya Yada |
Programmer(s) | Yuji Fukuda |
Artist(s) | Fuyuhiko Koizumi |
Writer(s) | Shin-ichiro Tomie Emiko Tanaka |
Composer(s) | Arata Iiyoshi Hideki Sakamoto Keisuke Ito Ryoma Nakamura Kenichi Saito |
Series | Pokémon Mystery Dungeon |
Platform(s) | Nintendo DS |
Release | |
Genre(s) | Roguelike |
Mode(s) | Single player |
As a sequel to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team and Red Rescue Team, new features include the addition of Generation IV Pokémon, improved Wi-Fi functionality, and more touch-screen options. The games feature 491 of the 493 Pokémon, as Shaymin and Arceus were not officially revealed at the time of the game's launch.
In terms of gameplay and premise, the Explorers installments are largely similar to their Rescue Team predecessors, where a human-turned-Pokémon joins an Exploration Society and explores shifting dungeons, fighting hostile Pokémon through turn-based combat. The games received praise for their storyline, soundtrack, and Wi-Fi functionality, but were criticized for repetitive gameplay. The three games had accumulated worldwide sales in excess of 5.9 million copies as of 2010, then 6.37 million copies after 2010.[3]