Review: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (Nintendo Switch)

Become a Pokémon and build your rescue team from the likes of Pikachu, Eevee, and Charmander to save the world through the ever-changing mystery dungeons

Pros:

• Beautiful hand-drawn graphic design.
• 2.1gb download size.
• Tutorials pop up as you play.
• Starter Pokemon-answer a handful of questions for a suggestion otherwise pick who you want and their initial partner.
• Fast text scroll button.
• Save and quit.
• Simple easy to learn controls.
• Town-hub world where you can freely explore, visit shops, take on jobs, go to dungeons etc.
• Buy/sell items you find.
• Turn-based combat but you can equip attacks to do more or attack from distance.
• Earn EXP, level up and increase stats and evolve and learn new powers(optional).
• Bullet board-jobs on offer.
• Camps-buy them so you can house your pokemon, each camp is unique to different pokemon types.
• Dungeons–fills in as you go.
• Dungeon movement-you move on a grid by grid basis and can set your team to act individually or you have some control.
• Can choose team loadout before you enter a dungeon.
• Choose where to go and what to do.
• Make friends with Pokemon in the dungeon and if you have a compatible camp they can join your team.
• Hunger-goes down as you play and can kill you, eat food/potions to replenish.
• Overall rescue rank and you earn points on the rank that can increase your job limit/teams and camp capacity.
• Link attack moves for combo attacks.
• Fun to play.
• The story unfolds as you play.

Cons:

• No touchscreen support.
• Slow-paced gameplay.
• Slow to sell items as it is done on a one by one basis.
• A lot to take in initially.
• Combat is drawn out and very RNG dependant.
• Difficulty spikes.
• Hunger mechanic is not fun.