PMD3: Explorers of the Sky

[Haruhi]

Welcome to the PMD3: Explorers of the Sky edition of TPP News! This special report is brought to you by TPP! In this episode, I will post information on one of Japan's latest games: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of the Sky. This game was released in Japan on April 18th, 2009.

[Haruhi]

On January 10th, 2009, Serebii.net received the first details from CoroCoro, revealing that the featured starter Pokémon would include Pokémon new to the series along with starters from previous installments. These include the following: Phanpy, Vulpix, Riolu, Shinx, and Eevee, returning to the starting lineup from Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team and Blue Rescue Team. Every starter Pokémon from the previous games can now be a partner as well, bringing the total of starting Pokémon to 21, only 19 of which are available to the player, since Meowth and Munchlax can only be selected as partners. Additionally, those Pokémon selected as partners will have a fixed gender. On January 11th, 2009, according to Serebii, low resolution pictures of the game were found, confirming the information to be true. The game appears to be a continuation of the storyline of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness or it may be another version of the same game with more content. On January 13th, 2009, Serebii managed to get a higher resolution of one of the pictures shown by blueskY and Filb on January 11th, 2009. The picture shows Dusknoir and Grovyle being cornered by four Sableye.

Bulbapedia's Article: bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Explorers_of_the_Sky
Serebii's Article: serebii.net/dungeonsky/

This game sold 141,771 on the first day the game was released.