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The DS' topscreen is used to display stats such as health and the level you've so far achieved the latter is increased via experience points gained in battle. One exception though are the linked moves – these see you combine with the other members of your group for more powerful attacks. But the combat is pretty fast, and so most of the time you're better off setting up your tactics beforehand rather than trying to be clever halfway through. Your fighting moves (as well as other commands, such as throw, items, and team formation) are selectable mid-scrap using small buttons on the touchscreen. All the action happens in real-time with your buddy automatically following on behind, you just have to walk up to other Pokémon for a brawl to kick off. Perhaps not surprisingly considering Blue Rescue Team is a role-playing game at heart, it's pretty combat-focused. Then it's off into the woods to start your rescue plan – which in a move reminiscent of US foreign policy consists of attacking all the wild Pokémon you come across. (You start out as a duo, but by the end of the game you'll have four in the gang). Playable on Nintendo's E3 stand last month, a session with the game started off with the usual customisation options as you get to choose which type of Pokémon you want to be, as well as naming and choosing your buddy. Pokémonland is being ravaged by natural disasters, and it's down to you to buddy up with another little critter and form a rescue team. Unlike Kafka's The Metamorphosis however (in which the hero is transformed into a giant insect but no one notices), in Blue Rescue Team your new status is a call to action. Yes, this time it's an all-animal affair, as in a plot twist surely inspired by gloomy Austrian writer Franz Kafka, you wake up one day to find you've actually become a Pokémon. What would the RSPCA say?Īt least in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team – a game where you get to be a Pokémon for the first time – human ringmaster Ash is nowhere to be seen.

Who'd want to be a Pokémon? Rudely captured from your natural habitat by some stuck-up teenager, you're only released from your subsequent captivity when he wants you to fight one of your own kind.