This review was originally published in February 2016. We're updating and republishing it to mark the game's arrival in the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack GBA library . It's also worth noting that a 2020 Switch remake of Red/Blue Rescue Team exists: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX .
As well as the regular series of Pokémon RPGs, a number of spin-off games have appeared over the years. Developed by Chunsoft, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team arrived on the Game Boy Advance in 2006 and (like a number of the studio's titles) integrates the roguelike dungeon-crawling of the Mystery Dungeon series into the Pocket Monster world as you battle against numerous enemy Pokémon. You move around a randomly generated floor, searching for the stairs that will lead you to the next randomly generated floor where the search begins for the next, and so on until you've completed your mission.
Repetition is an issue throughout the game, but the variety of Pokémon (Generations I-III) you encounter, a range of different moves, and an interesting story help maintain interest in the proceedings. This game was also available as Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team . Multiple versions of Pokémon titles is something that has been happening since the beginning, but what was unusual about this instance was that the Blue version was released on the DS.
Compared to that, this single-screen edition has five unique Pokémon (likewise, Blue has its own exclusives) an.