History YMMV / PokemonMysteryDungeon

** The X-Ray specs mean that you'll never be surprised in dungeons where visibility is at a premium (essentially all the time mid-to-late game.) It tells you exactly where all the enemies and items are on the floor which drops massive hints as to what might be in there. A ton of treasure but no visible Pokémon? That's a monster house. A bunch of items with only a single enemy in the middle? That's an item shop. A yellow dot on the map when you and your partner are together? That's the Pokémon you need to rescue, deliver an item to, escort your guest to. This essentially blows side missions wide open and makes escort missions more bearable.

--> '''Wren:''' [[BodyguardingABadass Why did you need me to escort you again?]]

** Silver Wind. Like in the main series games, it has a chance of increasing all of your stats. In these games, it also hits all enemies in a room, and it has a separate chance of boosting your stats ''for each enemy it hits'' in the same turn. Add the fact that the increased speed grants you extra turns to use it again if there are any enemies left, and it can snowball from there. [[https://clips.twitch.tv/AmazonianVictoriousDinosaurImGlitch This clip]] demonstrates how broken it can be when an ''[[EscortMission escort]]'' Venomoth uses it to nearly clear a big swarm of enemies.

** Silver Wind. Like in the main series games, it has a chance of increasing all of your stats. In these games, it also hits all enemies in a room, and it has a separate chance of boosting your stats ''for each enemy it hits'' in the same turn. Add the fact that the increased speed grants you extra turns to use it again if there are any enemies left, and it can snowball from there. [[https://clips.twitch.tv/AmazonianVictoriousDinosaurImGlitch This clip]] demonstrates how broken it can be when an ''[EscortMission escort]]'' Venomoth uses it to nearly clear a big swarm of enemies.

** [[spoiler:Sky Tower]] in ''Red/Blue Rescue Team'' can be pretty rough going, too. Stupid ghost-types and their dumb attacking through walls on earlier floors, Idiotic Aerodactyl and their moronic Supersonics and Agilities further up... and let's not get into the post-game dungeons.

* TierInducedScrappy: Pretty much ''any'' EscortMission you do will include this. You can't assign tactics to them if they get separated, and in ''Red/Blue Rescue Team'' the escorted Pokémon was almost always at Level 1, making it easy for enemy Pokémon to KO them. To put it nicely, these are the guys who tend to waste all your Heal Seeds and Reviver Seeds for doing annoyingly stupid things like wandering off and walking into lava/fire. ''Explorers'' was just a little bit nicer in the levels department, but your clients are still under-leveled.

* TheWoobie: The Partner in every ending.

* SignatureScene: The ending of ''Explorers'' where [[spoiler:the hero dies]] is widely considered the saddest moment in the whole series by many fans. Unlike the ending to ''Rescue Team'', [[spoiler:the hero isn't simply returning to their own world; they're being erased from existence.]]

* FakeDifficulty: Since the beginning of the series, in some later dungeons, it's possible to run into Monster Houses, which house tons of very powerful enemies that are hard to dispatch without being killed. Overcoming one wastes a lot of resources. You're probably better off resetting if you encounter one, because it's ridiculously frustrating to take on and not fun. That is, unless you have a move that hits all enemies surrounding you, or better still, all enemies in a room, in which case monster houses become laughably easy [[PinataEnemy sources of experience points]] to defeat.

*** ''Super'' has an unusual take on this, as while the age of their ''pokemon'' form is speculated to be an older child, the intro heavily implies that the protagonist was older as a human and aged down.

** Multi-Hit attacks (Bullet Seed, Fury Swipes/Attack, Pin Missile). Due to the damage calculation in the ''Mystery Dungeon'' games being much different than the mainstream titles, these moves now hit as hard as most other attacks ''each individual hit''. Bullet Seed in earlier games, in particular, had the advantage in that, as it deals damage in a straight line, it could potentially KO multiple Pokémon in the same turn. This is made worse for the fact that the [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Same-type_attack_bonus STAB bonus]] from the mainstream titles is also implemented in the Mystery Dungeon games, meaning with the right Pokémon (A Treecko with Bullet Seed and the Concentrator skill for instance), this can be quite lethal.

* EightPointEight:
** The fans were not happy about some review scores, particularly the 3/10 Game Informer gave ''Blue Rescue Team''.
** Of particular note is IGN's 4.9 rating of ''Explorers of Sky'', even lower than their score of ''Explorers of Time/Darkness''. It's certainly not helped by Explorers of Sky being seen as the best installment in the series by many PMD fans.

* PopularWithFurries: While ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' already has a good following in the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom, this series receives heavy attention from it due to the Pokémon being the viewpoint characters rather than the humans.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids:
** The very existence of [[NightmareFuel/PokemonMysteryDungeon this page]].
** Regarding this trope in general, some fans feel that ''Mystery Dungeon'' spinoff series tried too hard to be DarkerAndEdgier without adding aspects of [[{{Gorn}} explicit violence]], [[ObligatorySwearing swear words]] and other adult things in order to appeal to young players.

* FakeDifficulty: Since the beginning of the series, in some later dungeons, it's possible to run into Monster Houses, which house tons of very powerful enemies that are hard to dispatch without being killed. Overcoming one wastes a lot of resources. You're probably better off resetting if you encounter one, because it's ridiculously frustrating to take on and not fun.

** Any enemy with moves that hit an entire room. Nidoqueen with Earth Power and Ledian with Silver Wind WILL make you tear your hair out.