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I literally just finished PMD Blue a few hours ago for the first time in many years. I did forget how the first is kind of cozy, even if it's a bit jankier than later ones and a lot harder.

>Kangaskhan Rocks don't access storage in dungeon rest zones.

>Awkward to feed stuff to your partner. Have to throw gummies at your best friend to make them smarter.

>Final dungeon is 25 fucking floors, a rest zone, and 9 more for a total of 34 floors, with dragons and stuff that will wreck your shit if you don't play carefully. PMD2's final dungeon was 24 floors with a rest zone around the half point I think, for comparison.

>Awkward friend zone system which makes managing the team a pain. Though it is kinda neat to see them in a local habitat and you could unlock some places with it like Silver Trench.

>Moltres and Articuno. Especially climbing Mt. Blaze for your first time not being sure what to prepare for.

>Mew

It still did have a feel I don't think the more story centric PMD games afterwards captured, though. 2 and Super are still good though. There were absolutely no other PMD games released.

The best spinoffs are always the weird ones.

>>15611022

Madou Monogatari and Metal Gear Rising are the first that come to my mind.

heroes of might and magic is a turn based strategy game based on the might and magic rpgs, it draws heavily from another tbs named kings bounty. same company. my copy of the first homm even came with kings bounty.

there is also warlords: battlecry. an rts adaptation of warlords, normally a turn based strategy game.

one of the only games i know of with a playable fairy faction starting from the second game.

Hyrule Warriors is unironically a great game, both as a Zelda game and a musuo.

>>15611335

Mystery Dungeon is kinda cheating though, since it is its own franchise that does cross-overs.

If we're counting them then I would include the Etrian Odyssey and Chocobo cross-overs too.

there are a couple of disgaea (strategy rpg) spinoff games that play sort of like ghosts n goblins.

in the second game theres an easy mode called baby mode that gives you an extended health meter represented by diapers.

I like Acid, it got me into card-based games for better or worse.

>>15611572

Prinny is a cool dood.

Crash Team Racing. Jak X. If Naughty Dog had only made Unkarted instead of The Last of Us, maybe things would have been different.

>>15611326

>he doesn't like Sonic Spinball

>he doesn't like Tails' Adventure

>he doesn't like Sonic R's soundtrack at least

>he doesn't like Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing

>>15611339

The only way I could make Battle bearable was by finding a mission at the beginning of the game that made it easy to grind, then grinding until I was completely maxed out and pretending it wasn't an RPG. Sonic has much better spinoffs than this, including Sonic the Fighters.

>>15611359

They're entire spinoff series. Might as well say Mario Kart isn't a spinoff since it has a series as well.

>>15611541

If Mystery Dungeon is cheating since it's merely a Pokemon entry in an existing series, then Hyrule Warriors is cheating for the same reason.

The Dragon Quest series has great spinoffs. Slime MoriMori and DQ Monsters are both top tier series on their own.

>>15612912

>The Dragon Quest series has great spinoffs.

I have enjoyed the spin offs a lot more than the recent rather dull mainline entry. Dragon Quest Builders and Heroes II are fucking majestic.

Shin Megami Tensei, from Dating Sim (Persona) to ARPG (Devil Summoner) to SRPG (Devil Survivor) to heck, traditional JRPG with Digital Devil Saga