History VideoGame / PokemonMysteryDungeon

''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon'' as a whole is notable from the main series for two reasons, one being that it's the first entries in the entire Pokémon franchise to place special emphasis on CharacterDevelopment and a compelling StoryArc (as opposed to the series's usual quest ToBeAMaster and to GottaCatchThemAll), typically involving humans who [[FishOutOfTemporalWater awaken in the Pokémon's world]] to discover that they've somehow been transformed into Pokémon themselves. They become best friends with another Pokémon, form an adventure team, and go on a QuestForIdentity over the course of many adventures, as clues about their MysteriousPast reveal that their ultimate destiny is nothing less than [[SaveTheWorldClimax saving the world]] from imminent destruction.

* [[OneManArmy One Mon Army]]: A single character is able to plow through dozens of enemies, especially if they are a lower level than him/her. By the time you reach level 80, the enemies are practically unable to so much as ''touch'' you.

* [[FireIceLightning Fire, Water, Lightning]]: Blazing Squad, Stormy Squad and Light Squad are comprised primarily of that respective type.

* ''[[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonGatesToInfinity Gates to Infinity]]'': The fourth installment in the series, released on the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS, with fully 3D graphics. Unlike previous installments, this game is a standalone title. It makes use of items called Magnagates, which are generated based on AugmentedReality minigames. It was released in Japan on November 23rd, 2012, while North America had their release on March 24, 2013, Europe on May 17, 2013, and Australia a day later on May 18.

* CastFromCalories: Your hunger stat drains throughout a dungeon, and drains faster when you use attacks, especially if you are using linked moves.

** Present in ''Super Mystery Dungeon'', both with the player character [[spoiler:and their partner, who turns out to have been an incarnation of Mew]].

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: And in another body, too! Averted with the [=WiiWare=] games, where you're just a random Pokémon from the village. [[spoiler:Also subverted with ''Explorers''; while you used to be human, you actually came from the future.]]

* ClimbingClimax: All four handheld ''Mystery Dungeon'' games end with a tower climb; the first one is the [[BubblyClouds Sky Tower]], the second is [[spoiler:Temporal Tower]], ''Gates to Infinity'' ends with [[spoiler:Glacier Palace - Great Spire]], and ''Super Mystery Dungeon'' ends with [[spoiler:the Tree of Life]].

* ContractualBossImmunity: Orb items explicitly cannot be used in boss battles due to "[[HandWave a strange power]]", although Seeds and StatusEffects still generally work.

* TheLoad: Almost any Pokémon in an escort mission. They're typically underleveled (escorts in ''Rescue Team'' in particular are always Level 1 even if they want to explore a high-level dungeon), with bad stats and moves, suicidally aggressive AI, and won't hesitate to waste every single one of your Reviver Seeds (remember, they kick in automatically) if given the chance. It's probably the number one reason many players AVOID escort missions entirely. Thank ''God'' they're no longer present in ''Gates to Infinity''.
** ''Explorers'' is the biggest offender, requiring you to face the Dark-type TrueFinalBoss with an underleveled Psychic-type in tow.

* DarkerAndEdgier: In general, the ''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon'' games are the darkest games in the ''Pokémon'' franchise. ''Blue and Red Rescue Team'' might be lighter but it has its moments too. Surprisingly, [[FinalDeath character deaths]], a roguelike standard, isn't in ''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon''.

The gameplay is what you would expect from a {{Roguelike}}, except with battle mechanics loosely resembling those of the main Pokémon series: All 700-plus individual species (which you can "recruit" to become members of your team), all [[ElementalRockPaperScissors 18 elemental types]], moves, abilities, and StandardStatusEffects from the main series show up in a manner better suited to the different nature of gameplay. The Pokémon themselves are represented faithfully with 8-directional walking and attacking sprites and dialogue portraits (an impressive feat in and of itself!).

** Pokémon with the Illuminate ability (like Staryu, Chinchou, or Volbeat) will "blink" if they take damage during a turn, causing a hostile Pokémon to spawn somewhere on the floor. This includes damage from hostile weather or StandardStatusEffects and also applies even if they're on your team.

* ContractualBossImmunity: Orb items explicitly cannot be used in boss battles due to "[[HandWave a strange power]]", though Seeds and StandardStatusEffects still generally can.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]]. Standing next to lava incurs no penalties, but Pokémon that are flying/levitating over it will still get inflicted with a [[StandardStatusEffects Burn]] unless they're a Fire-type.

* CurbStompBattle: Boss battles can range from very easy to very difficult depending on the player's strategy and (for some cases) the boss's own AIRoulette; for example, combining a StandardStatusEffect such as Confusion with ElementalRockPaperScissors can result in defeating the boss without giving it a chance to even fight back.

* HungerCausesLethargy: The hunger seed has the [[StatusEffect effect]] of giving a poke`mon the "Hungry Pal" status, preventing them from moving. It has a different effect on the current leader, though.

* StandardStatusEffects: In addition to the ones from the main series (poison, burn, paralysis, sleep, freeze, confusion, etc.), there is also "fear" (Pokémon flees battle), "petrify" (full paralysis until struck by an enemy attack), "slow", "cringe" (lose one turn), and so on.

* UselessUsefulSpell: Like the main series, most StandardStatusEffects are equally effective against enemy Mons (and even bosses) as they are against you. Unlike the main series, there are numerous other skills that qualify....

''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon'' as a whole is notable from the main series for two reasons, one being that it's the first entries in the entire Pokémon franchise to place special emphasis on CharacterDevelopment and a compelling StoryArc (as opposed to the series's usual quest ToBeAMaster and to GottaCatchThemAll), typically involving humans who [[FishOutOfTemporalWater awaken in the Pokémon's world]] to discover that they've somehow been transformed into Pokémon themselves. They become best friends with another Pokémon, form an adventure team, and go on a QuestForIdentity over the course of many adventures, as clues about their MysteriousPast reveal that their ultimate destiny is nothing less than SaveTheWorldClimax from an imminent destruction.

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: More or less the benefit of evolving at Luminous Springs in ''Explorers of Time and Darkness''. Aside from a stat boost or two, you don't get to evolve until ''[[BraggingRightsReward absolutely everything is over]]''. You might as well not bother, unless you want to tackle the more challenging dungeons.

* BagOfSharing: All team members have access to the same inventory regardless of their location on the floor; Taken UpToEleven in Explores as the [[TimeTravel nature]] of the plot allows the storage system to outright ignore the law of causality with items able to be put in storage and then taken out [[MindScrew before they were even put there]].

** The Run Away ability [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere will cause Pokémon to flee if they take enough damage]]. While this is useful for the player if it's on a enemy, it also affects party members. You can't stop them from ditching you in the middle of combat once they reach that threshold until they heal enough.
** Pokémon with the Illuminate ability (like Staryu, Chinchou, or Volbeat) will "blink" if they take damage during a turn, causing a hostile Pokémon to spawn somewhere on the floor. This includes damage from hostile weather or StandardStatusEffects.

** ''Explorers of Sky'' thought that was not enough, as Destiny Tower is basically a souped version of Zero Isle South: on top of the usual, you cannot be rescued at all, IQ skills are disabled (no Reviver Seeds), it has the nasty Random and Grudge Traps, and traps won't be made visible unless you directly step on them.

** Ironically, the ultimate dungeon in ''Super'', Sacred Ruins, is only 39 floors long (as the only two 99 floor long dungeons don't have as harsh of restrictions); it makes up for the length by starting right away with enemies that can easily wipe you.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: Sure the world looks pretty and colorful but what about the natural disasters/distortions time that are [[HatePlague turning mons against each other]] or what about [[spoiler:the embodiment of nightmares who puts children into everlasting nightmares for his own amusement and is attempting to turn the world into a world of darkness?]]

* CursedWithAwesome: Your character is a human turned into a Pokémon. Why become a human when you can do things like shooting fire from your HANDS?

** ''Explorers'' is pretty easy up until you [[spoiler:make your way to the Hidden Land and Temporal Tower]]. Afterwards, it can get [[NintendoHard downright cruel]]. Before that, we have Quicksand Pit, which can be cruel with constant sandstorms caused by Hippopotas and ''Tyranitar''. If you're playing as a Normal-type Pokémon, Dark Hill will be living hell.

* EasyLogistics: Zig-zagged in ''Red/Blue Rescue Team'' and ''Gates to Infinity'' with regard to the rest of the team, played straight in the others. See, each time the player starts recruiting a team, they wind up with dozens if not hundreds of Pokémon, all of whom are implied to spend their time doing nothing but exploring dungeons with the player or waiting to be called to help explore a dungeon. But all of these Pokémon would logically need food and shelter at the bare minimum, and only two games try to show that (in ''Red/Blue Rescue Team'', all members of the team are housed in Friend Areas, though no food is shown; in ''Gates To Infinity'', some idle members of the team can be found wandering around Paradise, though not all of them, and again, no food is shown). ''Super Mystery Dungeon'' and ''Explorers'' don't even bother with that.

* EscortMission: A frequent form other missions can take, not helped in any way by the client's [[GlassCannon lower level]] or the inability to give them tactical commands in case they get separated. The mission is an automatic failure if the escort faints at any time.

* ExpressiveHealthBar: When your belly is empty your health bar will start flashing.

** The second one just runs wild with it. In the ultimate challenges, you're reduced to Lv. 1, have all your IQ skills removed, cannot bring items, and the dungeons are 99 floors long with the highest trap density, and the latter floors are covered with enemies that can kill you indirectly with ease. Add this to the fact that there are only a handful of Pokémon that are effectively usable while at Lv. 1, and you'll realize that not only you won't be able to use your favorites in those challenges as those are effectively [[LuckBasedMission luck based missions]].

* FireBreathingDiner: Blast Seeds, if eaten. They can alternatively be thrown, causing them to explode on impact.

** Team ACT stands for Alakazam, Charizard, and Tyranitar. (The Japanese Version is Team FLB)

* GenderNeutralWriting: The main characters of the game can be of ambiguous gender, regardless of choice, so [=NPCs=] never use gendered pronouns when the HelloInsertNameHere would suffice.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Gengar]] in ''Red/Blue'', [[spoiler:Dusknoir]] in ''Sky'', and [[spoiler:Munna]] in ''Gates to Infinity''.

* HeroicMime: Played with. The player can read the [[InnerMonologue protagonist's thoughts]], but when they actually speaks to the other characters, all that occurs is a HyperactiveSprite and ParrotExposition from the other Pokémon.

** In Red/Blue, it's averted several times, actually: the hero speaks during the dream sequences, [[spoiler:at the end of the main story as well]], and after a level-up. (Though the dream sequences may be a borderline example.)

** ''Gates to Infinity'' averts this a lot of times, as the player does get a few lines of (non-soliloquy) dialogue, though it's mostly just short "what was that?" types of responses whenever an NPC introduces a new term. Even so, HyperactiveSprite and ParrotExposition still apply.

* HubLevel: Each game features one town in which you have several [=NPCs=] that offer various services, and they are often the only non-dungeon locations in the entire game. ''Super'' has the particularity of offering five different hubs.

* HyperactiveSprite: A variety of Pokémon don't have a distinct IdleAnimation.

** Averted a lot of times in ''Gates to Infinity'', as the player character talks directly much more compared to previous games.

* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: Most of the outdoor dungeons, and the towers.

** Also in ''Red/Blue'', the final postgame mission involves rescuing Gardevoir, who requests LaserGuidedAmnesia so she won't have to remember her human trainer.

* TheLoad: Almost any Pokémon in an escort mission. They're typically underleveled (escorts in ''Rescue Team'' especially are always Level 1, even if they want to explore a high-level dungeon), with bad stats and moves, suicidally aggressive AI, and won't hesitate to waste every single one of your Reviver Seeds (remember, they kick in automatically) if given the chance. It's probably the number one reason many players AVOID escort missions entirely. Thank ''God'' they're no longer present in ''Gates to Infinity''.

** The Lv.1/0 IQ/No items dungeons, especially in ''Time/Darkness/Sky''. The game might not spawn enough HP/PP recovery items, you might start in a trap-filled room (or worse, a Monster House), some enemies in the late floors are nigh unkillable... really, skill is required, but if the luck isn't on your side, you WON'T complete those dungeons. On the flip side, not being allowed to take items into a dungeon means you have (literally) nothing to lose for attempting to crawl them.

* MarathonLevel: The 50- and 99- floor dungeons.

** Pokémon don't "kill" other Pokémon, they "get rid of" them. (Sometimes "for good"....)
** Also in situations where one would bring up death, they avoid actually mentioning it. Usually with lots of ellipsis and question marks. For example "Is he....?"

* NothingIsScarier: If you spend too much time on one floor, an "Unseen Force" will slowly start getting closer and then blow you out of the dungeon on the very last turn. The intentions and identity of the "Unseen Force" are never explained which leaves everything about it to the player's imagination.

* OneSteveLimit: Thanks to the SpeciesSurname, rarely does the player encounter more than one NPC of a given species. {{Lampshaded}} in ''Explorers'' after [[spoiler:Teddiursa]] evolves and finds others are having trouble telling them apart from their already evolved buddy.

* PlayerExclusiveMechanic: All Pokémon--playable and enemy--share the same set of mechanics. One advantage player characters have is the ability to collect items in their Bag.

** Appears in the first two games. Gender is also a factor; for instance, in the ''Explorers'' series, a Brave male becomes [[ShockAndAwe Pikachu]] while a Brave female ends up as [[PlayingWithFire Charmander]], and certain ones are only available to one gender.
** ''Adventure Squads'' averts this by letting the player pick their hero and partner from the starting roster for each squad, with preset genders for each character. ''Gates'' averts this, letting you outright pick your player and partner characters (and their gender in the Japanese versions.) ''Super'' plays with this; while the quiz is back, you can pick something else if you want.

* RankInflation: Mission can be ranked anywhere from E to A, followed by S and *1 through *9; although how far it goes depends on the game.

** The ones found outside dungeons are usually the ones with item storage access; the ones used as dungeon checkpoints don't.
** In ''Gates To Infinity'', Kangaskhan Storages and their mini versions Kangaskhan Rocks were all replaced by "Deposit Boxes", which also allow money to be deposited.

* ShopliftAndDie: You can occasionally find Kecleon running a DungeonShop. If you take an item from his shop without paying or destroy it, he'll attack you until you leave the floor.
* SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness: The ''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon'' series has gone up and down like a yoyo. The ''Rescue Team'' mixed both to a great effect, ''Explorers'' is more serious and dark, ''Adventure Squad'' played a big silly fun, and ''Gates to Infinity'' is set to be a lighter shade of seriousness than ''Explorers''.
* SpeciesSurname: Most [=NPCs=] are named after their respective Pokémon species (only the player and partner, plus recruited Mons, are assigned actual names).

* TreasureRoom: The last room in a dungeon is usually this. There are even some hidden stairs and doors that lead to a room full of riches.

** DragonHoard: ''Gates of Infinity'' introduces Detours that contain very rare Deluxe Boxes but are blocked by a door or some kind of fog. If you manage to open the door/remove the fog, you will find yourself beset by Braviary or some other fully evolved Pokémon that will just '''wreck your party''' if you enter into the detour at an insufficient level.
* UnidentifiedItems: Wild Pokémon in dungeons may drop Treasure Boxes when defeated; these boxes come in various colors but the only way to know (and use) what's inside them is to take them to a specialized Pokémon back in town after leaving the dungeon. Until then, they do occupy space in your inventory, but if the dungeon includes a floor with a SavePoint, you can transfer them to your item storage so you don't have to keep lugging them around.
* UniversalPoison: As in the main series. It blocks the usual HP regeneration while inflicting damage. It wears off when you find the stairs to the next floor, but whether your Pokémon will survive long enough to get there is another matter.

* ViewersAreGoldfish: Prepare for a ''lot'' of flashbacks whenever the player character recalls a previous event, even if the flashback was just from the ''previous cutscene''. It seems to happen more often in ''Explorers'' than ''Rescue Team''. ''Gates of Infinity'' is much better with flashbacks too.

* WalkOnWater: All Water-type Pokémon can cross bodies of water during dungeon crawls. Other species have (or can learn) this ability as well (and a similar rule applies to Fire-type Pokémon crossing lava).
** And then it takes it to its logical extreme, with the IQ ability Absolute Mover, it not only allows any typed Pokémon to cross any terrain type normally not crossable unless you're a flying, fire, or water type, but it also allows you to move through the walls.
** Any Flying-Type or any Pokémon with the ability Levitate can cross lava and water as well.
*** Although if you cross lava without being protected from burns in some manner...
* WalletOfHolding: Your inventory space may be limited, but your money stash (not counting the bank) sure is not. Note that as of ''Gates to Infinity'' your wallet is limited to 9,999 Pokés, making the Deposit Box a necessity.
* WaterfallIntoTheAbyss: The second games has the floating island where Fogbound Lake is located.

* LighterAndSofter: In ''Time/Darkness/Sky'', the main plot is to [[spoiler: find the time gears before the BadFuture arrives and the world is put into hell]]. In ''Adventure Squad'', the main plot is finding some cookies in a dungeon so your town will stop fighting over a piece of chocolate.

* ''[[VideoGame/PokemonSuperMysteryDungeon Super Mystery Dungeon]]'': The fifth installment of the series, released for the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS on September 17, 2015 in Japan, November 20, 2015 in North America, February 19, 2016 in Europe, and February 20, a day later, in Australia. The choices for the two PlayerCharacters are the starters from all 6 gens from the main games plus [[SeriesMascot Pikachu]] and [[BreakoutCharacter Riolu]].

** If you run out of PP for a move, the game prevents you from selecting or using it; but if an AI Pokémon (partner, recruits, and opponents alike) run out of PP, they may continue attempting to use that move, wasting their turn. The "PP Checker" skill prevents this, but the ''Rescue Team'' games don't equip it by default (it must be learned).

* BigDamnHeroes: In ''Gates to Infinity'', when the Pawniard brothers summon two Galvantula and two Venipede to fight you, your partner, Dunsparce and Emolga, a surprise visit from Virizion, Gurdurr and the Timburr brothers initiates to gang up on them.

* DifficultySpike: ''Explorers'' is pretty easy up until you [[spoiler:make your way to the Hidden Land and Temporal Tower]]. Afterwards, it can get [[NintendoHard downright cruel]].
** Before that, we have Quicksand Pit, which can be cruel with constant sandstorms caused by Hippopotas and ''Tyranitar''. If you're playing as a Normal-type Pokémon, Dark Hill will be living hell.

** In ''Gates to Infinity'' [[spoiler: the spike starts with Glacier Palace's Eastern Spire, and it keeps on spiking upwards until you reach Kyurem.]]

* FakeDifficulty: In the first game, after a certain point the enemies in the dungeons just won't be able to damage your characters enough (since you can raise your stats with gummies very fast), so the game fills the dungeons with traps and present enemies that instead of going for direct damage, will try to use OHKO moves or poison you so you'll have to rush to the stairs.

* FixedDamageAttack: Quite a few attacks, even more than those of the main series (Dragon Rage, Night Shade, etc.).

* HubLevel: Pokémon Square, Treasure Town, and Post Town. Each is frequently the only non-dungeon location in their respective game.

%%* SuspendSave: Inside dungeons.

* SequelDifficultySpike: In a variety of ways, but notably with regard to [[RandomEncounters Monster Houses]]: The first Monster Houses in the ''Rescue Team'' games would be seen in late-game dungeons like Uproar Forest or the Magma Cavern, but in the ''Explorers'' games they can occur as early as Amp Plains halfway through the StoryArc.
** ''Explorers of Sky'' spikes even earlier than ''Time/Darkness'' thanks to the special episodes and the change of bosses at Amp Plains.

* SuspendSave: Inside dungeons.

* FriendlyFireproof: Many (but ''not all'') moves that target an entire room will conveniently damage only opposing Pokémon. On the other hand, moves that inflict damage on a "straight line of sight" will damage the first thing they hit, friend or foe alike.

* ''[[VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers Explorers of Time and Darkness]]'', another pair of games with minor differences between them, released in 2008 and featuring Pokémon from the fourth generation, a tighter StoryArc, and many tweaks to the underlying gameplay. An UpdatedRerelease, ''Explorers of Sky'', was released in 2009 with additional features, including bonus chapters focusing on side characters. The ''Explorers'' games have become somewhat notorious for the ''sheer amount'' of frightening situations that managed to [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar sneak past the radar]].

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The X-Eye seed's effects are described as making one cross-eyed. It's actually a hallucinogen.

* EscortMission: A frequent form other missions can take, not helped in any way by the client's [[GlassCannon lower level]] or the inability to give them tactical commands in case they get separated.

* GenderNeutralWriting: The main characters of the game can be of ambiguous gender, so [=NPCs=] never use gendered pronouns when the HelloInsertNameHere would suffice.

* HatePlague: According to the characters, it is the natural disasters/distortions in time that are turning mons hostile.

* KidHero: Every player and partner are completely unevolved. They still somehow manage to defeat Legendaries and can [[CurbstompBattle curbstomp some of them,]] [[RandomNumberGod if the RNG is nice to them.]] Super Mystery Dungeon makes this a plot point.

* PlotHole: It is never explained how the Mons know what a "human" is when there aren't any humans around. (Though the Ruins friend zone in the ''Rescue Team'' games seems to hint at a case of HumanitysWake.) In ''Gates,'' the partner claims that humans show up in Fairy Tales. Still does little to clear this up.

* QuestForIdentity: The player in both games.
* RandomEncounters: While the dungeons generally rely on wandering opponents inside dungeons, later dungeons occasionally toss in "monster houses" where a [[ZergRush swarm of Pokémon]] drop in on the player for a surprise attack. OhCrap indeed.

* TreasureRoom: The last room in a dungeon is usually this. There are even some hidden stairs that lead to a room full of riches.

* VideoGameTime: Venturing through a Dungeon is one day. But the plot doesn't progress until you take a mission that is relevant to the story.

** HyperactiveSprite: A variety of other Pokémon don't have a distinct IdleAnimation.

--> '''Armaldo:''' [The boss of a dungeon] probably won't listen to what you have to say. You'll likely be attacked often.
--> '''Igglybuff:''' Dungeon bosses don't have much patience, do they?

* LuckBasedMission: The Lv.1/0 IQ/No items dungeons, especially in ''Time/Darkness/Sky''. The game might not spawn enough HP/PP recovery items, you might start in a trap-filled room (or worse, a Monster House), some enemies in the late floors are nigh unkillable... really, skill is required, but if the luck isn't on your side, you WON'T complete those dungeons. On the flip side, not being allowed to take items into a dungeon means you have (literally) nothing to lose for attempting to crawl them.

* PlotHole: It is never explained how the Mons know what a "human" is when there aren't any humans around. (Though the Ruins friend zone in the ''Rescue Team'' games seems to hint at a case of HumanitysWake.)
** In ''Gates,'' the partner claims that humans show up in Fairy Tales. Still does little to clear this up.

** Averted in ''Super Mystery Dungeon'' - If there's a story mission available, you're forced to do it.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: And in another body, too! Averted with the WiiWare games, where you're just a random Pokémon from the village. [[spoiler:Also subverted with ''Explorers''; while you used to be human, you actually came from the future.]]

* [[OneManArmy One Mon Army]]: A single character is able to plow through dozens of enemies, especially if they are a lower level than him/her.
** By the time you reach level 80, the enemies are practically unable to so much as ''touch'' you.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The Wigglytuff in ''Explorers'' and ''Rescue Team''. They're separate Wigglytuff.

* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: You're only allowed to bring 4 (3 in ''Super Mystery Dungeon'') Pokémon into dungeons, with some restricting you to just the player and partner due to story reasons. This is further complicated by the size category system preventing the player from taking more than one Pokémon considered "large" (such as Onix), which also reduces the maximum party size to 3 when one is in the party.

* TrappedInAnotherWorld: And in another body, too!

* ''[[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokemon_Mystery_Dungeon_(WiiWare) Adventure Squad]]'': A third installment released [[NoExportForYou only in Japan]] for UsefulNotes/WiiWare in 2009, comprising three versions with elementally-themed starter Pokémon (Fire, Water, and Electric), with [[VideoGame3DLeap 3D graphics]], and a LighterAndSofter story involving Arceus. These games do not have a page here at the moment, which is why the external link is given. [[invoked]]