Mystery Dumgeons: Did A Wizard Do It?

[DaggerWolf]

I couldn't spot this elsewhere, please correct me if it is.

I'm assuming here that some have played the PMD games, and will know the main concept is forests, with floors stacked one above the other with stairs. The games give little explanation for their existence. PMD itself goes for the inferrence of 'A wizard did it', whereas PMD2 tells you 'because Mystery Dungeons' (thanks NP).

So, I'm stumped. Anyone else have an concept as to why, or how, these structures exist? Have they always existed, or do they exist solely as the plot calls? And WHY does a Pokemon feel the need to join you after you punch it to fainting?

 

[-Flaming Charizard-]

I know... It's weird. Just walking in a forest and suddenly seeing stairs?
I mean, you can't even see that outside.

Pokemon + Logic = FAIL.

 

[Pikachufanboy]

I can only try to answer the last thing. It says in the game that they gain respect for you. Well, you are stronger, and if they go with you (assuming you take them along at all), they can take part of your experience. It is like the experience shares, they don't do anything but still get better.

As far as the dungeons go, no one ingame knows either. They all say they don't know how they came about, only understanding the effects of them. I mean the stairs disapearing after you take them makes as much sense as keys disapearing after use. Gets even worse when you see a character say "I'm going back down the mountain to get this".

 

[Mijzelffan]

Even in the games it's stated how its weird (in the first at least). There just isn't an explanation.

 

[Volkner582]

This is a series where a Charmander can jump THROUGH A WATERFALL and still live. Don't try to introduce logic to PMD.

 

[The Outrage]

This is a series where a Charmander can jump THROUGH A WATERFALL and still live. Don't try to introduce logic to PMD.

Its tail flame is an indicator of its life force, thus how brightly it burns is the dependent variable, not the other way around. It's Pokedex entries clearly state this.

You can physically put its tail flame out, but it won't die because its life isn't dependent on it.

 

[Fudgenuggets]

I know... It's weird. Just walking in a forest and suddenly seeing stairs?
I mean, you can't even see that outside.

Pokemon + Logic = FAIL.

They have stairs on mountains in the main series games too. >_>

 

[Magnagarde]

Its tail flame is an indicator of its life force, thus how brightly it burns is the dependent variable, not the other way around. It's Pokedex entries clearly state this.

You can physically put its tail flame out, but it won't die because its life isn't dependent on it.

Exactly, it will probably light right up again as soon as possible.

 

[Infinity Mk-II]

Other games in the Mystery Dungeon series also lampshade the workings of the dungeons... it's quite of a running gag through the series.

Like, in Shiren the Wanderer, there are "floors" even though you are travelling all over the place and sometimes stairs. And you get back to the first town basically "becouse a god did it".

But I'd rather have that than permanent death or huge labirynth floors...

 

[Falconwing]

Yes, because the main games make total sense too. /sarcasm.

Stairs in a forest isn't as odd as swimming up a water fall.

 

[Yamato-san]

Other games in the Mystery Dungeon series also lampshade the workings of the dungeons... it's quite of a running gag through the series.

Like, in Shiren the Wanderer, there are "floors" even though you are travelling all over the place and sometimes stairs. And you get back to the first town basically "becouse a god did it".

But I'd rather have that than permanent death or huge labirynth floors...

^this. Seriously, would most people even be asking such a thing had the Fushigi no Dungeon franchise (hell, dungeon-crawlers in general) just had more of a foundation in the west by the time these games were released? The fact of the matter is, "stairs" and "floors" are just a common convention of the genre. Though they're odd when you really think about it, they exist entirely for the purpose of gameplay and are probably no different from landmasses that apparently float in the air in most platformer games (and god knows those've been well-established within our culture as early as Super Mario Bros.).

 

[coolcatkim22]

Its tail flame is an indicator of its life force, thus how brightly it burns is the dependent variable, not the other way around. It's Pokedex entries clearly state this.

You can physically put its tail flame out, but it won't die because its life isn't dependent on it.

Only in the anime is that false (sometimes).

 

[Dewgong Reign]

Escher must have summoned the Unown =D