[Meta Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[Dragonstrike]

True that it kinda is the shortest MysteryDungeon-Game feat. Pokemon, but that doesn't impede the enjoyment too much! It has such neat retro-3D-graphics, and you can make a Pokemon Tower by stacking your party members to gain some unique advantages. How do you feel about this scrapped mechanic, out of curiosity?

If you're intent on being a completionist, then having all 3 games linked (since they have cross-save functionality) actually gives them a similar amount of dungeons to a typical pmd game (a little over 40).  Definitely not short in that case.

It's honestly a little weird going back to playing a gen 4 pmd game since I haven't done so in awhile, but it does bring back some good memories.  The graphics are actually shared with the models from the Pokemon Rumble series and My Pokemon Ranch, too.  Must have been a wiiware era thing, I guess.

As for the towers, that mechanic was actually carried over from My Pokemon Ranch, too.  I can kinda see why it didn't come back, tbh.  Really only works well with the toy pokemon models.  Mechanically, it's an...interesting way to implement Linked moves.  And also the last time we'd see that mechanic until Rescue Team DX brought it back.  I've not faced many enemy towers yet nor experimented with the mechanic much myself, but I do know I'm gonna carry rocks and spikes just in case I need to disassemble a tower.  All in all, a fun and unique thing to toy around with , but I'm not particularly bothered that it never came back.

Music's also great (when it isn't super slow and laggy).  Though I did notice they borrowed some assets from EoS in that department...