Pkmn:Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is the sixth entry into the Mystery Dungeon franchise and the fifth series to be a crossover with another series, Pokémon. It is the most popular series in the franchise; previous crossovers had difficulty on bringing the Mystery Dungeon franchise outside of Japan.
About
The Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series is published by Nintendo and co-developed by The Pokémon Company. It is currently the most popular sub-series worldwide. Tsunekazu Ishihara has worked previously with Chunsoft. One of the company's work was Tetris 2 + Bombliss, where Ishihara was the game's producer and met Nakamura, who was the game's director. Prior to the development of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Team, Ishihara has played a few games from the Mystery Dungeon series, namely Torneko no Daibōken: Fushigi no Dungeon, and was impressed with the genre's depth and quality. The game's development started after Nagahata and Tomie approached Ishihara and agreed with working on an easier version of the genre for the mainline Pokémon fans.[1] During the development of Red and Blue Rescue Team, Kouji Maruta, one of the programmers for these two games, who also previously contributed to EarthBound and Shiren the Wanderer 2, stated the company went through bad business performance, as employees from Chunsoft would leave the company progressively due to this issue. The game's success not only helped giving more popularity in the franchise, it also helped Chunsoft from failure.[2]
Regional Releases
As of now, only Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blazing, Stormy, and Light Adventure Squad do not have an official translation or port in the west.
Game | Japan | North America | Europe | Australia | South Korea | Hong Kong | Taiwan |
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Red & Blue Rescue Team | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
Gold Rescue Team (Demo) | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Explorers of Time & Darkness | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
Explorers of Sky | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Adventure Squad | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Gates to Infinity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Super Mystery Dungeon | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Remakes | |||||||
Rescue Team DX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Translations
Games
Game | English | Brazilian Portuguese |
Chinese | Korean | Russian | Vietnamese | Hungarian | |||||||
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Exist? | Ref. | Exist? | Ref. | Exist? | Ref. | Exist? | Ref. | Exist? | Ref. | Exist? | Ref. | Exist? | Ref. | |
Red Rescue Team | ✓ | Nintendo | Unfinished | [n 1] | Unofficial | [Citation needed] | Unfinished | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
Blue Rescue Team | ✓ | Nintendo | ✗ | ✗ | Unofficial | [Citation needed] | ✓ | Nintendo | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Rescue Team DX | ✓ | Nintendo | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Explorers of Time | ✓ | Nintendo | ✗ | ✗ | Unofficial | [Citation needed] | ✓ | Nintendo | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Explorers of Darkness | ✓ | Nintendo | ✗ | ✗ | Unofficial | [Citation needed] | ✓ | Nintendo | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Explorers of Sky | ✓ | Nintendo | WIP | [n 2] | Unofficial | [Citation needed] | Unofficial | [Citation needed] | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Unofficial | [n 3] |
Adventure Squad | Unofficial | [n 4] | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Gates to Infinity | ✓ | Nintendo | ✗ | ✗ | Unofficial | [Citation needed] | Unfinished | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | |
Super Mystery Dungeon | ✓ | Nintendo | ✗ | ✗ | Unofficial | [Citation needed] | Unfinished | WIP | WIP | ✗ | ✗ |
- ↑ Incomplete abandoned translation by the group TransFac, released on May 9, 2007. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG7zdNcSvQs YouTube video showcasing the translation
- ↑ Work in progress translation by dede6giu at https://hacks.skytemple.org/h/exploradores Sky Temple's website and https://projectPokémon.org/home/forums/topic/58614-pok%C3%A9mon-mystery-dungeon-exploradores-dos-c%C3%A9us-translation-of-eos-to-pt-br/ Project Pokémon. Known as "Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Exploradores dos Céus".
- ↑ Translation made by HUNdebLeonidasX, published at https://hacks.skytemple.org/h/magyar%C3%ADt%C3%A1s Sky Temple's website on July 13, 2022 as "mostly finished".
- ↑ Translation made by Specialagentape, published at https://projectPokémon.org/home/files/file/4136-Pokémon-mystery-dungeon-adventure-squad-series-wii-translations/ Project Pokémon on April 28, 2020.
Manga
Manga | English | |
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Exist? | Ref. | |
Ginji's Rescue Team | ✓ | |
Explorers Guide Manga | ✓ | |
Blazing Exploration Team | Unofficial | [m 1] |
Go For It! Novice Investigation Team! | Unofficial | [m 2] |
- ↑ "Pokemon Mystery Dungeon - Explorers of Flame" on https://jb2448.info/index.php?/category/1565
- ↑ "Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon - Go! Expedition Society Juniors!" by an anonymous translator, posted on Imgur at https://imgur.com/a/CoFnSzV
In Other Languages
See Also
References
- ↑ Satoru Iwata. Iwata Asks : Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity : An Impossible Combination. Retrieved on September 2, 2021.
- ↑ ほぼ日の学生採用企画 (ja). 1101.com (January 31, 2020). Retrieved on September 2, 2021. "『ポケモン不思議のダンジョン』とかも作りかけていたけど、おそらくこれも売れないだろうし、先行きの見通しがない状況だったと思うんです。でも、なんとその後、その『ポケモン不思議のダンジョン』が大ヒット。あんなにたくさんの人が辞める必要はなかったんじゃないかな、と思いますけど。で、ぼくも他の人と同じように別の開発会社に転職してテレビゲームの開発を続けるかどうかを考えはじめました。でも、その前にそうとう泣きましたよ。"