Update [Fri 9th Aug, 2024 02:05 BST]:
Following last week’s announcement, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team is now available to Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscribers. To access this game, you’ll need to have the Game Boy Advance app installed on your system. Nintendo has also released a new video.
“The Pokémon™ Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team game takes place in a world where there are no humans, only Pokémon. You (originally a human) wake up one day to find yourself in this curious world, and that … you’re now a Pokémon! How and why did this happen? Unravel the mystery when this title joins the Game Boy™ Advance – Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack library!”
Original story [Fri 2nd Aug, 2024 02:05 BST]:
Nintendo has announced it’s bringing Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team to the Game Boy Advance Switch Online + Expansion Pack library next week on 9th August 2024. Japan will receive the same game on its own service.
Here’s a bit more about this 2005/2006 release (via Nintendo’s PR) and some screenshots from Nintendo’s Japanese website:
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team – All of a sudden, you’ve found yourself in a new world, one where you’re now a Pokémon yourself and can speak and interact with other Pokémon. The adventure begins when you and your partner Pokémon set out on rescue missions in a world ravaged by natural disasters. But what is your true purpose and destiny in this Pokémon world? That’s the real mystery!
As the hero of this journey, you’ll begin the game by taking a personality quiz, with the results determining which Pokémon you will become out of several options, including Pikachu, Eevee, Charmander, Totodile and Chikorita – just to name a few. From there you’ll select your partner Pokémon before being whisked to a world full of Pokémon to befriend and dungeons to explore. Form your rescue team, take on mysterious changing dungeons and engage in strategic, turn-based battles in this game originally available on the Game Boy Advance system.
This upcoming release is the first Pokémon game to join the GBA library, but there have been other additions to the Game Boy Color and Nintendo 64 collections including Pokémon Trading Card Game, Pokémon Snap, Pokémon Puzzle League, Pokémon Stadium and Pokémon Stadium 2.
