Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity

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Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity
The weakest installment in the Mystery Dungeon franchise and a major step backward from Explorers of Time, Darkness, and Sky.
Platform(s): Nintendo 3DS Release Date: JP: November 23, 2012 NA: March 24, 2013 Developer(s): Spike Chunsoft Publisher(s): Nintendo Series: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Predecessor: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers Successor: Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity is an RPG released on the Nintendo 3DS in Japan on November 23, 2012, and in the US on March 24, 2013

Bad Qualities

1. Less starter Pokémon to choose from, comparing to Explorers having 19 starter Pokémon, in this game you can only choose between 5 starter Pokémon making it more of a downgrade.
2. No personality quiz, which is something the previous games had.
3. While the game transitioned to 3D, the graphics have not aged well, and it was later improved in Super Mystery Dungeon.
4. Only 144 different Pokémon are available (113 fifth-generation and 31 from the first four). That represents only 22% of all Pokémon at the time.
5. This game almost ruined the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon franchise because of how bad it was.
6. The game is far too easy making things like the Paradise facilities purposeless.
7. The overall gameplay is quite boring and downgraded when compared to previous games, as most of it is the same as them but more slower paced and less fun than them, and some features are sadly removed or straight up replaced by new mechanics that feel extremely gimmicky and poorly executed, which makes it a more drained out experience than what came before it previously.
8. Some characters were flanderized from previous characters and are rather unlikable at best.
9. The text speed is excruciatingly slow which makes the game painful to play.
   • However there was originally going to be a way to change text speed, according to unused text from the game. But it was later scrapped.
10. The dungeon floors look exactly the same, thankfully Super Mystery Dungeon fixed this.
11. Overall, the game felt like a unfinished demo that was released as a full game. That could be worked on more to feel complete

Good Qualities

1. More Pokémon from Generations 4 - 5 were added.
2. The Legendary battles have improved.
3. It was the first Pokémon Mystery Dungeon game to be in 3D, despite the graphics not aging well.
4. The anime trailer for the game is awesome and its animation improved from the previous Pokémon Mystery Dungeon anime specials and the main Pokémon anime series in general.
5. Awesome soundtrack.
6. The sequel Super Mystery Dungeon fixed many of the issues Gates had and saved the series for good. Thanks to the new Mystery Dungeon game from 2015, it caused the remake of the original 2005/2006 Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Rescue Team game to happen, just in time for the 15th anniversary of Mystery Dungeon's first game in Japan, five years later.

Reception

While the game wasn't well received. The game still sold very well, it sold over 1,370,000 copies worldwide.

Gaming magazine Famitsu gave Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity a score of 38 out of 40.

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