Yoom-taah! To kick off season 4 of the podcast, we choose you: Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Blue Rescue Team! Joined again by our expert guest on the sub-genre with Helen, we revisit nostalgia and fresh experiences for a 20+ year old spinoff roguelike…lite…game? Hopefully the listeners don’t also brand us as fugitives, focing us to traverse the Great Canyon of JRPG menu systems to the high peaks of Friendship Mountain, while eating jelly bean-based IQ boosters we find on the dirty ground. Can we overcome Team Meanies’ quest for world domination? Can we find our lost sense of gratitude in the depths of murky caverns? Were we the true meanies after all? Time to take charge of our destiny and find out!

• 3:03 - Game stats
• 5:59 - One sentence description
• 6:56 - Is PMD a roguelike?
• 12:20 - Our experiences with Pokemon growing up
• 23:00 - Gameplay mechanics
• 36:40 - The personality quiz
• 44:30 - Saving Caterpie, Thunderwave Cave, Mt Steel
• 49:00 - Friend areas
• 52:00 - Team ACT, the dream, Team Meanies, Silent Chasm, Mt Thunder
• 1:11:15 - The Ninetales legend, Gengar’s muckraking, the hunt begins!
• 1:16:58 - Mt Blaze, Frosty Forest, Mt Freeze
• 1:24:00 - Return to town
• 1:27:50 - Magma Cavern, Sky Tower
• 1:30:10 - Postgame content
• 1:55:55 - Rankings & final thoughts
• 2:07:37 - Similar games & show wind-down

Next episode: Monster Train 2

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Intro music: Pokemon Theme Saxy Style - The 8-Bit Big Band featuring Grace Kelly and Leo P

Outro music: Blue Rescue Team OST - Sky Tower