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Mild Cartoon Violence: The monsters fight each other with tackles, lighting bolts, and fireballs, but nobody dies. They just ﾑfaint' and disappear. What if you woke up one day and found out you were a Pokémon? That's just what happens in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. Take a quiz to find out which Pokémon you'll be, then team up with a Pokémon buddy who communicates with you now that you're one of them. Together you both decide to form a rescue team to save Pokémon who are in danger. After setting up your rescue base, you receive rescue missions and venture inside dungeon mazes to save trapped Pokémon. These multilevel dungeons are randomly generated so you never go through the same one twice. The downside is that most of the caves and mazes aren't very interesting, just square rooms connected by corridors. Inside the dungeons are useful items to nab and enemy Pokémon to fight. Everything you do in a dungeon is turn-based. So if you make a move, the enemy Pokémon will make one move, too. This includes walking, using healing or other items, or attackingﾗthey all count as moves. You must make strategic decisions in the depths of the dungeons. After a successful rescue mission, you earn money, items, experience, and you might even learn a clue or two on why you were turned into a Pokémon in the first place. In the town near your base, you buy items and store your money and valuables. You can only take a few items with you down in the dungeon, and if you lose a battle while down there, you lose a lot of your items and all your money, but anything you store in town is safe. Sometimes, down in the dungeons, an enemy Pokémon will befriend you and join your rescue team. It only happens randomly, so don't expect to ﾑcatch ﾑem all.' There are two versions of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. Red Rescue Team is available for Game Boy Advance and Blue Rescue Team for the DS. Aside from some dual screen views on the DS, there isn't much difference between the two. With codes, you can trade items and missions between games, and if a player loses in a dungeon, they can send out an S.O.S. code for another player to rescue them so they won't lose all their items. Graphics are average and the music is grating. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon isn't for everyone, but still has a bit of addictive charm.  
Kids like Pokémon, and with animal rescue shows like "Go! Diego, Go!" so popular now, playing a game where you rescue Pokémon is doubly cool. Violence is pretty minimal, as players only attack Pokémon with tackles, lighting bolts, fireballs, and other silly moves. Nobody dies, they just faint and disappear. Reading skill is required as everything in the game is text based. Some kids might get bored of the repetitive nature of the gameplay and its departure from traditional Pokémon catching, plus the game gets pretty challenging later on with tougher and longer dungeons. Kids might also get frustrated with the brutal consequences of losing your items and money when you fail a mission. For these reasons, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is best for older Pokémon fans only.
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