Start your Blue Rescue Team adventure
Understand the original personality quiz, your first rescue, Pokémon Square and saving before setting off on the Nintendo DS adventure.
Original Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team for Nintendo DS. First released in Japan on 17 November 2005; North America on 18 September 2006, Australia on 28 September 2006 and Europe on 10 November 2006. Red Rescue Team is the paired Game Boy Advance game. Explorers of Time, Darkness and Sky have their own stories and rules.
Answer the personality quiz
Blue Rescue Team assigns the hero using a personality questionnaire and its male/female answer. The original hero pool contains sixteen species, with some outcomes restricted by that answer. You then choose a partner from ten possible species, excluding a shared type. The starter and partner reference lists every outcome.
Help Caterpie in Tiny Woods
Your partner joins the first rescue after Butterfree asks for help. Move carefully through Tiny Woods and reach Caterpie. The rescue introduces the idea that your team’s job is to help Pokémon in trouble, while the wider story explores why you became a Pokémon.
Build a preparation routine
Visit Pokémon Square before a difficult departure. Kecleon sells supplies, Kangaskhan stores items and Felicity Bank keeps money. Think about the next trip: carry the things you expect to use and store valuable extras. The dungeon basics guide explains food, move PP, recruits and evolution.
Save at the base; quicksave in a dungeon
Your bed saves normal progress at the rescue team base. A dungeon quicksave suspends the current adventure and is consumed when you resume it. The cartridge has one adventure save file, so check an existing save before choosing Delete Save Data.
Choose a manageable first goal
Use the rescue mission guide to check the mailbox, bulletin board and active jobs. One prepared trip teaches more than several rushed retries. After returning, restock what ran low and note which enemy, item or positioning problem made the journey difficult.
Give your first session one goal: learn the dungeon rhythm, complete a rescue and return to prepare again.