Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon
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Developer(s)	Spike Chunsoft
Publisher(s)	The Pokémon Company
Distributor(s)	Nintendo
Director(s)	Seiichiro Nagahata Hironori Ishigami
Producer(s)	Koichi Nakamura
Designer(s)	Kunimi Kawamura
Programmer(s)	Takuya Kanai
Writer(s)	Shin-ichiro Tomie
Composer(s)	Keisuke Ito Yasuhiro Kawagoe Noriko Murakami
Series	Pokémon Mystery Dungeon
Platform(s)	Nintendo 3DS
Release	JP: September 17, 2015 NA: November 20, 2015 EU: February 19, 2016 AU: February 20, 2016
Genre(s)	Roguelike
Mode(s)	Single-player

Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon (Japanese: ポケモン超不思議のダンジョン, Hepburn: Pokémon Chō Fushigi no Danjon^?) is a roguelike video game in the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series developed by Spike Chunsoft and published by The Pokémon Company for the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. Like its predecessors, players control a human who has awoken as a Pokémon in a world filled entirely by the series' eponymous creatures, and must travel through random-generated dungeons completing missions and battling enemies to unravel the story. The game was released in Japan on September 17, 2015, in North America on November 20, 2015, in Europe on February 19, 2016, and in Australia on February 20, 2016.

Like its predecessor, Super Mystery Dungeon is a dungeon-crawling rogue-like role-playing game featuring 3D characters and environments. Players assume the role of one of 20 Pokémon (which include all 18 starting Pokémon from all six main series generations, along with Pikachu and Riolu), who are joined by a partner, also chosen out one of the same 20 Pokémon, who accompany them in their journey through procedurally-generated dungeons filled with enemies and traps as they help stop a major crisis and save the Pokémon world. The game features all 720 currently released Pokémon as of 2015.

One day, the player's starter wakes up by a waterfall with no memory of who they are. They then express shock at being a Pokémon after looking at his reflection, believing himself to be a human. They then gets chased by several Beheeyem. After encountering a friendly Nuzleaf, they run from the Beheeyem and ends up at Serene Village, where they end up staying at Nuzleaf's house. They then meet the partner outside. After going to school, learning new skills, and getting a rivalry with Pancham and Shelmet, they meet Ampharos, who claims to be known as the Dashing Wanderer. Meanwhile, three Lanturn and a Dewgong discover that the Big Boss of the Northern Seas, Wailord, has been turned to stone. After Ampharos runs off, the player and partner discover that Ampharos had dropped an item. After school, they bring it to Kecleon, the shopkeeper, who tells them that the item is a Connection Orb, an item showing the relationship between Pokémon that is usually carried by shopkeepers and Exploration Teams. The duo then asks Raticate and the partner's adopted father, Carracosta, about Ampharos, and it told that Ampharos was heading toward Poliwrath River, territory of three Poliwrath brothers. After fighting the Poliwrath and their lackey, Poliwag, the duo are assisted in taking out the last Poliwrath by Ampharos. After returning to the village, Ampharos invites the player and his partner to the Exploration Society. He gives them Junior Exploration Badges, Expedition Gadgets, and lets them keep his Connection Orb. The next day, the player and his partner begin their adventure with the Exploration Society. For their first mission, Ampharos sends them to rescue a Sylveon lost in Forboding Forest.