Nintendo’s cooking up something big again, yeah, you heard it here. Switch 2 is about to drop on June 5. Buckle up for some wild combo of games, from must-have stuff like Mario Kart World to the more "OMG, did it really?" kind of titles like Cyberpunk 2077. New gen means some oldies might come back shiny and fresh. Remember when we got the Zelda: Link’s Awakening and those Pokémon Yellow updates? Yeah, something like that. Hoping they’ll awake the beast—Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, where you, get this, turn into a Pokémon. Crazy, right? Or wait, maybe it’s just me.
This set of games is not your everyday walk in the park. They spill out from Spike Chunsoft’s Mystery Dungeon brood. Imagine shuffling through chaotic mazes, your trusty Pokémon-self of course, fighting the good fight, turn-based style. And yeah, saving some pocket monsters or running errands. Sometimes you’d bump into those big shots like Rayquaza. Not just art pieces on a box, mind you.
Let’s throw it back to 2005—Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red and Blue Rescue Teams. Almost 20 years ago, sheesh! Debuting on Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS, they broke the mold. Forget the "catch ’em all" script, you become one. A personality quiz decided your fate—felt like something out of a DeviantArt page throwback, huh?
The series hung around between 2005 and 2015 with a couple entries on DS and 3DS, and then poof, a remake hit in 2020. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX, embracing that original style but with a twist. If you didn’t vibe with your Pokémon match, you got choices now. Oh, and that artsy style? Beautiful chaos.
Critics had mixed feelings about Rescue Team DX, but who cares? Over a million copies gone like hotcakes. Nintendo just does what it does, like bringing Kirby Air Ride back after 22 years. Gaming’s nostalgia trip, right?
Since the last Mystery Dungeon outing, The Pokémon Company’s been busy—three mainline generations and a new Legends series. So many new Pokémon nobody knows what to do with them. I mean, who wouldn’t want to become the goofy apple Fuecoco or bongo-beating Grookey? Nintendo, being its mysterious self, could be holding out or might just surprise us at July’s Pokémon Presents with a new entry for Switch 2. Fingers crossed, eh?