Those that have played the previous Explorers of Time/Darkness will find hardly anything new here. The story remains the same, you're a character that suddenly arrives in the world of the Pokémon where you strangely enough have changed into one of them. You meet others in trouble by the arrival of bad Pokémon and after having helped a new friend you decide to start up an exploration team and rid the world of bad Pokémon instead of finding the reason why you ended up this this world. Weird brain twists must be part of being a Pokémon?

The box tells us there's plenty of new things present like new episodes, Pokémon and items. Well, we can easily counter those claims. The only two new Pokémon are interwoven in a personality test that determines your playable Pokémon, but for those two new ones, two other had to go. And to make things worse, these two were already present in the other games as NPCs. The new items are also nothing more than a variation on others and bring little additional.

Last up there's the new episodes which offer nothing interesting and become available only later in the game which makes you have to get through the already previously played part of the game. They're also nothing more than randomly generated dungeons which are more than boring. The Mystery Dungeon series has been showing off its dungeons that are never the same for quite some time, but the system fails more than once. By randomly generating, it happens that the entrance is almost right next to the exit and the boring graphical looks make all dungeons look alike.

Also the other graphical elements are all but great and one can even start to wonder whether you're playing a game from the Gameboy Advance era. The sound also only contains some monotonous bleeps and only brings forth more longing to the good Pokémon games from back in the days.