#Pokemon dungeon review series#

First, there will be a Mass Outbreak of Eevee throughout Paldea and Kitakami. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have a couple of events to Celebrate Eevee Day.

#Pokemon dungeon review series#

By this point, Eevee's place as a core mascot for the series would be hard to deny. Starting in Generation XI, Ash had at least one female travel companion catch an Eevee- Serena, Lana, and Chloe. Vergil, the Vertress Conference winner, used a team of Eevee and the rest of its line. May hatched an Egg into an Eevee and made it into a Glaceon in Diamond and Pearl. Sakura of the Kimono Girls also became a recurring character with her Eevee, which evolved into Espeon. Gary caught an Eevee by the end of Ash's Orange Archipelago journey, which evolved into the Umbreon featured in the Johto Journeys opening theme. IAsh's friends and even traveling partners started regularly using the Eevee line. This wasn't much, but it was a sign the game developers were starting to understand how much Eevee meant to fans. By the third generation, they were popular enough to become starter choices for the GameCube games ( Colosseum and XD: Gale of Darkness), the Mystery Dungeon series, and Pokémon Conquest. By then, it and its evolutionary family had been placed on important NPC teams, like Blue's and the Kimono Girls' these placements were reflected by their anime counterparts. Luckily, Eevee's potential to become a mascot on the level of Pikachu started to be recognized by the second Generation. There may yet come a day when Eevee's popularity makes it a fighter in a future Smash Bros. These positions might have been reversed if the anime writers and game developers had better foresight. Therefore, Jigglypuff, a recurring wild Pokémon, received a spot on Smash's playable roster, while Eevee has been a Pokéball summon since Smash 4. In the case of Pokémon, the anime is used as a benchmark for how beloved each collectible monster is. This platform fighter relies on a game franchise's most popular characters to represent it as fighters and, occasionally, Pokéball summons. painted a good picture of how mainstream audiences (were expected to) measure individual Pokémon's popularity. Meanwhile, Eevee and its brethren were relegated to Pokémon of the week without any unique involvement in Ash's journey. (Pikachu, the starters, Psyduck, Vulpix, Meowth, etc.). Even when the anime started, most of the advertising and merchandise was centered around a handful of Pokémon, especially those owned by Team Rocket and Ash and Co. It wasn't represented much more than the other 150 Pokémon at the time. I only wish that there was some kind of difficulty slider so I could get thrown straight into fuzzy hell with Pikachu from the beginning.When Pokémon was in its early years, nobody knew how popular Eevee would become.

Still, I understand why it's structured this way and I don't totally begrudge Spike Chunsoft for trying to make their games less byzantine. Rescue Team DX is aiming to both satisfy longtime players and those newcomers, but by front-loading a lot of tutorials, players really have to paw away for a few hours to get to the level of challenge I want from these things. The only drawback of this is that the first few hours will seem like amateur hour to a veteran. Whereas other Mystery Dungeon games are very clear in their intent to straight-up destroy you, Rescue Team DX is determined to help you understand every possible mechanic right up front. There are so many systems put in place to help players maximize efficiency and stay on top of everything, so you don't just end up getting boned early on. There are also camps that you can fill with a ton of different Pokémon - potential partners that you can raise and take on your journeys with you. Right off the bat, you're introduced to a bank to put your cash in, a storage facility for your excess items, and a dojo to grind levels away at. It seems daunting, but the best thing about Rescue Team DX is that it prepares you for everything.