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* CriticalDissonance: The ''Mystery Dungeon'' games have historically underperformed with Western critics, who have often cited their [[ItsHardSoItSucks brutal difficulty]], bland graphics, and uninteresting combat. Western players, on the other hand, tend to side with the Japanese in their substantially more positive opinions of the games, leading to the franchise's CultClassic status.
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* CriticalDissonance: The ''Mystery Dungeon'' games have historically underperformed with Western critics, who have often cited their [[ItsHardSoItSucks brutal difficulty]], bland graphics, and uninteresting combat. Western players, on the other hand, tend to side with the Japanese in their substantially more positive opinions of the games, leading to the franchise's CultClassic status. This has since been alleviated with the popularization of the roguelike genre worldwide in the early to mid [=2010s=], with recent ''Mystery Dungeon'' games receiving overall favorable critic scores.
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* PlayTheGameSkipTheStory: This is generally how most ''Mystery Dungeon'' games are made. The storyline in roughly of ''Mystery Dungeon'' titles are typically an afterthought or kept short and concise, leaving players to focus primarily on the challenging gameplay. Ironically, the most popular ''Mystery Dungeon'' games, ''Pokémon Mystery Dungeon'', earned a reputation for the ''inverse'', being praised for excellent storylines while criticized for the gameplay.
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* NintendoHard: A very persistent element of the ''Mystery Dungeon'' games, and one of the main reasons the series has struggled to gain widespread appeal outside of Japan. Dungeon crawls are exhaustingly extensive, combat can get very brutal and challenging in later stages, dying is extremely punishing, and RandomNumberGod is always in play even when measures are taken to limit it.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: No one would be surprised if you believed that the ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' games were the first of their kind and that all the other ''Mystery Dungeon'' games that came after were playing FollowTheLeader.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: No one would be surprised It is very likely that if you believed bring up ''Mystery Dungeon'', most will assume that the ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' games were the first of their kind and you are talking about ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon''. There are even players who are unaware that all the other ''Mystery Dungeon'' games that came after were playing FollowTheLeader.is even a franchise outside of the ''PMD'' games.
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* CriticalDissonance: The ''Mystery Dungeon'' games have historically underperformed with Western critics, who have often cited their [[ItsHardSoItSucks brutal difficulty]], bland graphics, and uninteresting combat. Western players, on the other hand, tend to side with the Japanese in their substantially more positive opinions of the games, leading to the franchise's CultClassic status.
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* CriticalDissonance: The ''Mystery Dungeon'' games have historically underperformed with Western critics, who have often cited their [[ItsHardSoItSucks brutal difficulty]], bland graphics, and uninteresting combat. Western players, on the other hand, tend to side with the Japanese in their substantially more positive opinions of the games, leading to the franchise's CultClassic status.status.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: No one would be surprised if you believed that the ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeon'' games were the first of their kind and that all the other ''Mystery Dungeon'' games that came after were playing FollowTheLeader.
* CommonKnowledge: Quite a number of players incorrectly assume that ''Shiren the Wanderer'' started the series before being spun off into licensed games. The actual first ''Mystery Dungeon'' game was itself a SpinOff, of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'' specifically. The first ''Shiren the Wanderer'' game is even titled "Mystery Dungeon 2".
* CriticalDissonance: The ''Mystery Dungeon'' games have historically underperformed with Western critics, who have often cited their [[ItsHardSoItSucks brutal difficulty]], bland graphics, and uninteresting combat. Western players, on the other hand, tend to side with the Japanese in their substantially more positive opinions of the games, leading to the franchise's CultClassic status.
* CommonKnowledge: Quite a number of players incorrectly assume that ''Shiren the Wanderer'' started the series before being spun off into licensed games. The actual first ''Mystery Dungeon'' game was itself a SpinOff, of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIV'' specifically. The first ''Shiren the Wanderer'' game is even titled "Mystery Dungeon 2".
* CriticalDissonance: The ''Mystery Dungeon'' games have historically underperformed with Western critics, who have often cited their [[ItsHardSoItSucks brutal difficulty]], bland graphics, and uninteresting combat. Western players, on the other hand, tend to side with the Japanese in their substantially more positive opinions of the games, leading to the franchise's CultClassic status.
