Pokemon Mystery Dungeon review for Nintendo DS

The newest games in the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series, Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness, will be out in July on the Nintendo DS, continuing the dungeon exploring adventures. We've got our review of Explorers of Time and Darkness well ahead of the release date in this issue of HGZine - it's a challenging and fun game that's not just for the youngest players. Find out all about Explorers of Time and Darkness, the newest in the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series of games, in our full review now!

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Pokemon Mystery Dungeon review for Nintendo DS
Rogue was a 1980 computer game which was so influential it spawned a phrase still used in gaming today. The term ‘Roguelike' applies to any game which is essentially a dungeon crawl of an RPG with several random elements.

The Mystery Dungeon series has always been Roguelike, and there's little change here. You take your monster through a series of dungeons, whose various floors are randomly generated. Though this should add variety, in Explorers of Time and Darkness everything still looks pretty samey. It also plays similar to its forebears – Red and Blue Rescue Team. It's been barely eighteen months since those two hit the UK shelves, and considering how similarly this duo play, you could be forgiven for thinking you'd bought the same game twice.