Lonely_Dolphin on 06 December 2015
| uran10 said: As someone who has played every mystery dungeon game except for gates to infinity I can somewhat agree with you, except for the fact that some of the continents are actually supposed to represent past game areas. During post game when you go to the mystery dungeon, that is a dungeon in Time and Darkness which makes me thing that time and darkness took place on the grass continent. The Story is pretty good IMO, it did start off way too slow. I'm used to PMD games being slow but this one was crazy slow until getting around the 10th chapter. I can tell you most Pokemon in Past PMD games had no personality and couldn't even be interacted with in the old games outside of recruiting inside dungeons and playing as them or with them. I do kinda wish the old recruitment mechanic was there but I don't really mind it. The way I see it is that compared to past mystery dungeon games, it is about the same amount of Pokemon getting Characterized. Another thing is that, this is the first PMD game I beat before hitting lv 30. Heck I beat the first one's main story at around lv 40 and the full story of time and darkness at around 50 (damn you palkia!). I think the fact that they gave you team ACT (Alakazam, Charizard and Tyranitar) fairly early on is a way to help you through any of the tougher missions especially Alakazam, since the missions are available as soon as the continents are open. Personally, I wanted more from the game after playing time and darkness, the difficulty spikes and lack of ability to fully prepare for the final boss hurt as well. But I would say it did a good enough job with them. It is fair to criticize them but after playing the past games, its not that much different from them. |
That just means previous installments had the same problem, which makes it even worse that they didn't improve upon it in their successor. Also I don't see how the other continents being from past games excuses their irrelevance to the story. Surely the developers didn't think "Well, it was an issue in all the games so far, people are probably used to it by now so no need to fix."
