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Order New Pokemon, Get Pokemon Guide
Posted by Brian Ashcraft at 12:40 AM on March 14, 2008
Ordering Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time or Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness early? Nintendo wants to give you stuff — namely a guide. Not just any guide, but a limited edition Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers Guide that contains tips, interviews and an original manga by Pokémon game art director Ken Sugimori. Yes, Nintendo want to bribe you. Hit the jump for the full press release!
March 13, 2008Nintendo News
Jump into the Next Pokémon Adventure Early and Get a Free Guide
Two new Pokémon® adventures for Nintendo DS™ are on the way, and Nintendo plans to reward fans for ordering early with guides to help them navigate the games. Starting March 16, fans who place an order for either Pokémon® Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time or Pokémon® Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness will receive a free, limited-edition Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers Guide*. The guide contains an exclusive collection of tips, interviews and an original manga by Ken Sugimori, main art director of Pokémon video games.
In these two new games, players journey through time and darkness as actual Pokémon as they attempt to find out why they've been turned into a Pokémon. Their epic quest leads them through countless, randomly generated dungeons, encountering more than 490 Pokémon. Players also have the option to send rescue alerts to their friends via e-mail or mobile text message when they are connected to Nintendo® Wi-Fi Connection. These two new Dungeon games give Pokémon fans another excuse to upgrade to Nintendo DS, which also plays all their favourite Game Boy® Advance games in single-player mode.
Pokémon games remain as popular as ever. Last year's release of Pokémon® Diamond Version and Pokémon® Pearl Version for Nintendo DS sold a combined 4.33 million copies to date in the United States alone.
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mackincheese
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
@T3kNi9e: I understand that opinion..I'm really not a fan of the last few generations of the game, but I think Gold was my favorite version, even over r/b/y.
mackincheese
Konatsu
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
The only randomly generated dungeon games I can remember playing. the. HELL. out of were Chocobo's Dungeon 2 and Azure Dreams. I've grown weary of the former and I lack a copy of the latter. The only other recent ones I've been thinking about lately are that Shiren the Wanderer (is that it?) for the DS that was supposed to be out around this time and then the new Chocobo's Dungeon for Wii.
The Pokémon versions kind of pass me by because I'm at an age where I don't have to buy everything related to the franchise... Still love my Minun cell phone charm, though...
Konatsu
sandwiches
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
Slightly off-topic... but only slightly...
Did anyone else notice how much slower the battle system moved along during combat in Diamond and Pearl compared to previous Pokemon titles?
I did a side-by-side comparison and difference was noticeable.
The amount of time between moves during battle seemed to take FOREVER!
sandwiches
hrabbit
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
the one for gba wasn't half bad :D.... not that I played it or anything >.> my little sister played it....... yea thats right....
hrabbit
Neo-Senku
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
@jasu78:
Simple. With the ds they can update the game, fix some problems and give us the nostalgia of experiencing the best games in the series in a revamped way. New material can be added just like in the first game remakes.
If you like the spin offs more power to you, but i personally prefer the main series of games.
Neo-Senku
Doomstink
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
When will they just get off their asses and start making a true 3D Pokemon game. I know I'm not the only one who wants one.
Doomstink
jasu78
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
@Neo-Senku: pull programmers off these stupid spin off and put them on... a GS remake
So how exactly is a remake better than a spinoff? A spinoff is at least new material, not something we've already played to death with slightly different sprites.
jasu78
Angryrider
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
Darn roguelikes. It was pure hell playing the game at later levels because it was sooo friggin' hard.
Angryrider
Wuffles
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
I'm totally buying into that. I LOVED the first Mysterious Dungeon games and I've long awaited its arrival in English.
And a free guide too! I hope they let me buy it from the USA though...this promotion won't be available in Britain no doubt.
Wuffles
SpishackCola
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
Woo, more roguelikes!
SpishackCola
HMTKSteve
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
Pokemon games are still great. I figure the next "real" Pokemon game will be on the DS in about 18 months, followed by a Wii-based RPG a year after that.
HMTKSteve
MantisDragon
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
I remember playing the original Pokemon when it first came out. I was sick for a week and asked my mother to take the $35 I had on my desk and get it for me. I think I was like 15 when the first one came out in the States. I played it all day the first day I had it and I was running around a 100F fever. I woke up that night hallucinating from a fever spike and little Pokemon were dancing around me. Ever since I've tried to stay away and have (with the exception of Sapphire). Nintendo ain't getting my money on this one, especially since they just got what I had to blow on Brawl.
MantisDragon
Lokno
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
@emag: That's fair, just thought the wording was funny since if they are computer generated then there actually could be an infinite supply of them.
Lokno
kupoporo
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
The first Pokemon Mystery Dungeon for the DS wasn't so bad; it was actually mildly entertaining. I don't know if I could play another game that was really similar, though ... the concept gets old very quickly.
kupoporo
emag
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
@Lokno: Some people don't like Rogue-likes. Some people don't like JRPGs.
emag
T3kNi9e
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
I think Pokemon games were ruined after Red/Blue/Yellow IMO. They started to add alot more pokemons with wierd ass names with more cities. Usually expansion is nice, but the original story and cities of Blue/Red/Yellow was perfection.
But maybe thats just me since im 20 y/o now and I played the old pokemon back when I was 11.
T3kNi9e
cocomo
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
Yeah a GS Remake would be fun. Though sometime soon I guess we should expect the third Sinnoh game before any GS remake.
I kinda wish they would revamp the game though now. Although the game itself is a lot bigger than the originals, I wish for something that looked like Animal Crossing.
cocomo
Kyle81
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
Wait there making two versions of the same game? Idiots who keep buying these games.......
Kyle81
Neo-Senku
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
That at well and goo... wait no it isn't. Pull programmers off these stupid spin offs and put them on something constructive, like a Pokemon GS Remake, then I'll accept your bribes.(though i wouldn't need one)
Neo-Senku
Lokno
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
Heh. Countless, random generated dungeons. The four words that made me give up on the first one.
Lokno
onidavin
Posted 10:52 PM 19/3/08
Darn cash-cow spinoffs. I would like a new real game again, having thoroughly played the hell out of Diamond/Pearl. Though I would imagine it takes a while to produce.
onidavin