(I haven't played GTI)

I really enjoyed it. It's not the best PMD game by any means (EOS and RT are better) but I had fun with it. Some QOL stuff was pretty sweet, like not having to replay a dungeon a thousand times to recruit someone and the possibilty of linking movements without paying a fee to a NPC. Moreover, being able to rescue yourself is great without relying on strangers on the internet.

The storyline was OK; it served its purpose, and I didn't expect that plot twist at the end.

I originally just wrote a review where I said this was boring, but I think its worth giving a quick two cents on it.

This game was very close to being the Fire Emblem Conquest of the series, being a game with a bullshit story and amazing gameplay that's so good you play it anyways. Unfortunately the speed stat exists, and it sucks. This game is Pokemon MISStery Dungeon. I played as Riolu and Snivy last time, two faster pokemon. I could only imagine the herculean task of playing a slow starter.

The story also makes me irrationally mad just because its like, pretty close to being good. Unfortunately, the execution is just poor because halfway through they just swap out the entire cast. The previous games didn't have any crazy deep casts or anything but at least they didn't just fuck off after a while. I end up not really giving a shit about the expedition society, and by the time we combine the casts, we're just left with Espurr, so what was the point?

The game always felt like it was trying to be the best game in the series and it kinda just crumbled under its own weight. We didn't need to connect all the previous games and explore other continents. It just continues to contribute to the feeling of aimlessness. If they narrowed the scope of the story and increased the hit rates in dungeons I might actually say this game is just as good as the first two games, but it just isn't.

The start is super slow, but it really picks up. The plot can best be described as a coming of age story featuring Pokémon and some really, really weird shit going on in the final act. Anyway, the game looks good, and I enjoyed its take on the PMD job and recruitment system, for as different as it is. The characters are enjoyable and the partner is one of the best in the franchise, in my opinion. I even liked the ending twist, even if it wasn’t foreshadowed very well. All in all, if you haven’t played a PMD game before, this isn’t a bad place to start.

Overall okay enough for me to actually finish it, but this is by far the weakest entry in the series.

In the beginning, you have to go through a tutorial that spans multiple hours until you actually get to play the game normally. Once through that, the story is promising at times, but always ends up with some kind of weird twist. On the rare occasion it does get exciting, it quickly rolls over to a different strand, you never really receive a satisfying answer to any of the questions brought up.

The gameplay is lacking as well, with no reason to re-visit dungeons (aside from orb missions where you'd usually only have to go a single time once you have ~3 to accept there). Aside from a few exceptions, no dungeon feels as unique or interesting as in other PMD titles, not to mention almost all of them are less than 10 stages long, often with at least one "pause" inbetween, meaning you can ignore hunger and move management 90% of the time, even in the late game. At the same time, enemies can either do no damage at all, or one-hit you, there is barely an inbetween.

Given I was able to recruit level 50+ partners when I was just about level 15, I had no reason to do more of those after finishing the main story either, there's no extra incentive to complete the orb missions. Finally, other than a small number of additional dungeons, there is absolutely no post-game content.

The music is nice and there were a handful of well played jokes that gave me good laughs.

Definitivamente un juego muy divisivo para los fans de MD. Personalmente, aunque no es el mejor, es un segundo cercano, la historia está muy bien en comparación a la entrega anterior los personajes se hacen agradables y se les ve la personalidad.
Loa diferentes pueblos, las misiones y los métodos de reclutamiento expanden el mundo de una manera distinta e interesante.
Finalmente, aunque se tomaron decisiones raras en cuanto al gameplay y ciertas escenas del final, overall es un buen juego y un mejor inicio para aquellos que les interese probar estos juegos.

Often overlooked, but Super Mystery Dungeon is a nice step in the right direction in many ways. It has a lot of quality of life improvements, not to mention the dungeons are shorter and often have halfway checkpoints to make them easier to digest in comparison to some of the 20 floor dungeons in previous entries. Story is as touching as always despite some hit and miss twists. It's still a mystery dungeon game so it's prone to get repetitive (let's be honest, most of you only like Explorers because you grew up with it and the story is good), and this game isn't old enough to have the nostalgic edge Explorers will always have, but I still greatly appreciate what they were trying to accomplish with this entry. It's a shame it gets completely overshadowed by its predecessors in the eyes of many.

Extremely underrated. Plays amazingly and gives you so many mechanics to juggle and fight the steep challenges it throws you. I don’t think the plot is quite on the level of Explorers, but it’s enjoyable and the world building is a love letter to the series as a whole. 9 years since the last truly new PMD story. That upsets me. Imo, this is how you do legacy content. Build your own story, but sprinkle references in as a bonus. They don’t inhibit it or take control of the plot ever. That’s why this is good.

While not nearly as good as the Explorers or even the Rescue Team games I think Super is pretty underrated. Sure it has its flaws like removing the A-button attack and it really limits how often you can do side stuff.

Yet I found the story to be up there with those other games. It had some neat twists and honestly I didn’t mind the overly long tutorial section since there was a lot of plot stuff happening during that time. Gameplay is fun adding looplets and emeras adds some strategy each time you head into a dungeon. I really appreciated how easy it is to get new Pokémon on your team as well! I will say though dang this game can be challenging when it wants to, I genuinely had to reload my save multiple times cause I got knocked out and refused to lose all my items and money.

If you’re a Mystery Dungeon fan then this one is worth checking out!