The thirdnote installment to the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Spin-Off titles, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Keep Going! Blazing Adventure Squad, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Let's Go! Stormy Adventure Squad, and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Go For It! Light Adventure Squad released for WiiWare in 2009.
Straying from the usual Player Personality Quiz, this trio of games instead begins with an Opening Narration from the town elder, Slowking. He explains how the Pokémon of his town live peacefully and get along with each other. A resident of the town, Shuckle, ends up lost in a "mystery dungeon" and Slowking sends two volunteers in order to rescue him. Some time later, the town hears rumors of a piece of chocolate that is said to be extremely delicious. However, a major fight breaks out when the chocolate is brought back to town, prompting Slowking's Adventure Squad to find a solution to the tumult.
In a contrast to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers, the story of Adventure Squad is much shorter and light-hearted. These games also feature a new mechanic known as Pokémon towers, and the ability to transfer recruited Pokémon between different game versions.
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This installment provides examples of:
- Brutal Bonus Level: Final Island, Final Mountain, and Final Cave are the "ultimate" mystery dungeons of the postgame, comparable to Purity Forest and Zero Isle South. If you accepted the Wonder Mail for this dungeon, you get to face Arceus.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Blazing Squad is comprised of primarily red/orange/yellow/brown Pokémon, Stormy Squad is all blue, and Light Squad is all yellow save for the light blue Shinx and Pachirisu.
- Combination Attack: Exclusive to these games are dungeon tiles that allow your teammates to hop onto each other's backs, forming Pokémon towers. While in a Pokémon tower, team members can use up to four moves in a single turn at the cost of no Regenerating Health.
- Excuse Plot: Everyone in town is fighting over a piece of chocolate, so the solution is to go get some cookies that everybody can share.
- Fire, Ice, Lightning: Blazing Squad, Stormy Squad and Light Squad, with Water replacing Ice.
- This also extends to Arceus, whose type depends on the current game version it's in.
- Guide Dang It!: Several of the roaming Legendary Pokémon won't appear unless you reach the highest rank and have the Mystery Part or Secret Slab in your inventory, on top of finding out where they appear.
- Lighter and Softer: In Time/Darkness/Sky, the main plot is to find the Time Gears before the Bad Future arrives and the world goes to 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.
- MacGuffin Melee: The Amazing Chocolate your Adventure Squad brings back from a dungeon ends up being fought over by the town, much to Slowking's dismay.
- Nerf: All normal damaging moves that hit entire room (including Earthquake who hits allies) has been made less accurate in comparison to Explorers.
- New Work, Recycled Graphics: The Pokémon models are ported directly from My Pokémon Ranch and Pokémon Rumble.
- Palette Swap: 36 Pokémon have Shiny counterparts that can be discovered and recruited. Notably, they have one advantage over their normally-colored cousins: their Hunger Meter goes up to 200 instead of the typical 100.
- Recycled Soundtrack: All of the music that isn't new is lifted directly from Time/Darkness/Sky.
- Rule of Three: In addition to there being three versions, each team has three Pokémon in the starting roster who aren't the dominant type:
- Blazing Squad has Eevee, Teddiursa and Buneary.
- Stormy Squad has Phanpy, Wynaut and Riolu.
- Light Squad has Meowth, Psyduck and Togepi.
- Temporary Online Content: Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection could be used to access special Wonder Mail missions for Dialga and Arceus, in addition to a selection of rare roaming Pokémon through WiiConnect24.
- Version-Exclusive Content: On top of version-exclusive Pokémon and theming, each game also has a different name for the town and different residents of said town.
