E3 2009: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky announced

What’s an E3 without a Pokemon game announcement? It isn’t! Nintendo chose E3 2009 as the forum to announce yet another entry in the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon roguelike action-RPG series, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. If you’ve been following the Japanese Pokemon game releases, you’ll know that this latest entry is a complement to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness.

Like the other Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky turns players into pokemon. They then join rescue agencies and perform missions for other pokemon. This means dungeon crawling!

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky could be viewed as an enhanced and updated version of Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness. It features the same basic story, but also includes new special episodes, 19 possible pokemon to have as an avatar, the ability to trade with the other two Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers DS games, Wi-Fi internet missions and a game demo that can be sent to friends over local Wi-Fi.

It also features legendary pokemon from the DS game Pokemon Platinum. As you can see from the screenshot above, a girantina is joining a riolu and a pikachu on a dungeon crawling adventure. That fact alone could be motivation enough for some Pokemon fans to pick up this version of the game when it comes out in Fall 2009.

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