Mystery Dungeon Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon discussion thread

unownzone said:

I want to play PSMD so bad, but I have to buy both an American 3DS and the game itself T-T
It's gonna take me a while to get into it
I hope it'll be as good as Explorers of Sky XD

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Diehl said:

Now, I'm thinking about the next step. What you guys think about Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon? Is it a good game? How is this compared to GTI?

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May said:

For sure, "Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon: Reviver Seed" is a good game but not good like the previous MD...
The osts are really good (maybe the best for a MD) but the gameplay is... broken (?) because in this game you have to use a lot of Reviver Seeds to stay alive (and the berries do nearly nothing...) so maybe it's the most difficult MD of the series
As for the plot... I think it's nice (but my favorite is still Explorers of Darkness/Time/Sky)

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...had some trouble to defeat Munna in the last time we face her. I had to play it again for awhile, maybe because of my leak of strategy. And the dungeon that leads to Munna battle itself was a bit of trouble to me (dammit Volcarona!).

Strangely, Kyurem was pretty easy.

Diehl said:

Thanks.

Is the plot cooler than GTI?

And, well, if it's harder than GTI maybe it would be a bit of pain for me (xD), as I... *spoiler alert*

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...had some trouble to defeat Munna in the last time we face her. I had to play it again for awhile, maybe because of my leak of strategy. And the dungeon that leads to Munna battle itself was a bit of trouble to me (dammit Volcarona!).

Strangely, Kyurem was pretty easy.

But I think maybe it could be a good buy, if I find a store selling it with a good discount.

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Whoever was in charge of PSMD's combat must have had nightmares about GtI, because the difficulty level of combat has been ramped up from disappointingly easy to almost Dark Souls levels of hard. You will die. You will die a lot. And leveling seems to be a much slower process than it used to be compared to earlier games. Type matchups don't seem to carry nearly as much weight as I think they should in a game like this, and your moves' damage doesn't appear to scale as much as the enemies' HP does as the game progresses (you'll notice this especially in postgame dungeons), even with the move experience mechanic brought over from GtI. Meanwhile, enemies start to do insane amounts of damage to your party in one turn, and will start to one shot you from full HP.

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1.) I don't care what anyone says- this game is TOUGH.

As I mentioned, I've played mystery dungeon games since the start, so I have a pretty good handle on how difficult they usually are. That said, right off the back this installment makes you work for every last EXP point and (P) you earn, to such an extent that I've had to turn off my game and walk away for a few hours to regain my composure.

Firstly, the average enemies are just plain harsh. In the previous games it was easy to out-level the grunts on each floor and take them down with a register attack. Now, however, I get the feeling that these Pokemon have discovered steroids. No longer am I losing to the occasional boss battle, but instead am going down to red health on nearly every enemy I run across. Even with two partners attacking along side you, it can sometimes take two or three turns just to defeat a single enemy. If this is the case right off the bat, then I can only shudder at the thought of higher-level resistance later.

Additionally, enemies evolve after nearly every KO they achieve, meaning that if one of your team faints during combat, YOU will now have to deal with something roughly twice as powerful as it was before. The chances of this happening? Higher than you might think, given that the new A.I.s for team members encourages them to wander after every item in every room and away from the relative safety of the group.

Also, Monster Houses and Traps appear almost immidiately during gameplay. Yup, you got it- those unusually strong enemies I was talking about? You could randomly find yourself surrounded by ten of them, ready to evolve as soon as your weakest link fails.

Now, normally these conditions wouldn't be too bad. After all, usually after failing a dungeon you lose only a bit of your held items and money, then you can keep trying again and again as you level up right? Heh, WRONG. because in this game, every time you fail you lose ALL of your belongings. That's right, every item that you bring to assist your survival can be lost forever as soon as you bite the dust. This on its own is extremely annoying, especially since certain items aren't easy to come by.

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Hikari said:

You know, Super is okay. They have more than one town and/or city you can go to. But I got stuck on a part, heh...

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May said:

The sotry is ok but I think that it's a little more difficult from the usual Dungeon series (I liked it but it was a little annoying to have only Reviver Seeds...)

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Hikari said:

Remember Reviser Seeds? Faint from laughter, lol.

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Hikari said:

Remember Reviser Seeds? Faint from laughter, lol.

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lxMattAranxl said:

I should get the game at some point. Seen some snapshots through Miiverse and thought it was pretty cool. Only played Blue Mystery Dungeon on Wii U, so don't know much of the series, sadly.

I blame Zapdos!! >_<

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May said:

The series is really good my favorite id for sure Explorers (because the story is awesome!!) but Super is ok too

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TintjeMadelintje101 said:

Ah yeah, that I agree with xD I love Explorers of Sky!! my fav PMD game xD

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May said:

My favorite is Explorers of Darkness (but Sky has those extra missions that are really cute and awesome!! )

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