Dylanrockin
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Why is it that the 1st and 2nd generation of Mystery Dungeon, i.e. Red Rescue Team/Explorers of Sky generations, are so critically panned? The first 2 generations were masterpieces of Pokemon story-telling and even story-telling in general. The first generation, admittedly, had a ridiculously high learning curve and stupidly high difficulty. But, for me, even though Gates to Infinity is the black sheep and is terrible no matter how you look at it, these are the kinds of games that I feel deserve more than what critics gave them.
I guess that's why they're considered cult-classics and have a strong following, as opposed to the critical audience.
I'm not ruling out Super Mystery Dungeon, because this game was amazing in every right, I was mostly speaking in general for the entire Mystery Dungeon series as to why it doesn't receive nearly as much praise as it should.
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It is by far my, personal, favorite Pokemon game. I remember watching a Gametrailers review of the Explorers series and them just ragging on it because of it's repetitive dungeon crawling and cinematic "cutscenes". Like... what? It made it out to be like those were criminally terrible and that ultimately brought the game down. Something like that, it was a stupidly short and mundane review from a, literal, decade ago.
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MD series I can understand low scores in the 70s, but not what sites were giving it. In fact, everyone I know who played it loved it. Game review scores have gotten to the point imo that they are worthless (like sites would give high scores for the sake of revenue) and the only one I find semi reliable is Metacritic. Though critics gave FE Rev, which the Fandom recognizes as the worst FE game of all time, basically an 88.
I want to point that out to say this. It is not that the MD are bashed on, but that the whole review system is broke as a whole and that is one of the consequences.
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