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I didn't even know...

...okay I just spent 3 whole hours researching the source for that, and the only fairly easily accessible place I could find that reported that (without having to search the Japanese side of the web [which I did later]), was Serebii.net (on it's twitter page and random forum posts -_-)(https://twitter.com/serebiinet/status/268643265836888064). Everywhere else was really obscure off-shoot sites that I bet most Pokémon fans don't read (google "Pokemon no Fushigi no Dungeon: Magnagate to Mugendai no Meikyuu (3DS, Nintendo): 10 / 10 / 9 / 9 – (38/40)" and see what I mean). Being that I regularly research reviews on this game to get to the heart of why the fandom itself isn't fond of it (the whole series always had mixed reviews from reviewers since Blue/Red Rescue Team, that's not new), this comes as a huge shock that I have never encountered this exceptionally uplifting information before.

What disappoints me more is that I can't even find scans of the Famitsu magazine for that particular week. There are SEVERAL articles of pre-release screenshots of the PMD 3DS from Famitsu, but review score pictures from ISSUE #1249 (circa Nov. 14, 2012) are nowhere to be found on the site, or fan scans! I'd really love to know WHY those reviewers gave PMD 3DS a near perfect score. Contrast that with Pokémon Black/White, where with easy google of "pokemon black white famitsu review", the famous 40/40 score (with picture proof!) comes up immediately.

It's such a strange feeling. The more I look into it, the more it seems like the game was doing better off in Japan alone before it hit the North American/Worldwide market, and the more I feel like some invisible hand was trying to set up this game to fail upon global release (lack of gender in non-Japanese version, lack of publication of the few favorable reviews [while IGN's 4.5/10 comes instantly]).

All in all though, I found this excursion amusing. It's really refreshing reading people's thoughts on the game from Oct. 2012 - Feb. 2013. There's just a warmer air overall. More positivity. More open-mindedness. And.... since that was right when I left it's kind of nostalgic seeing what was going on during that period of my absence.

People have claimed that Famitsu is a terrible source for reviews in the past, mainly pointing to their infamous 40/40 Nintendogs review, but I still think that in recent years they are accurate and give honest thoughts on each score in their reasoning. I've also wanted to see the reasoning for why those two reviewers gave it a perfect score, as I'm dying to know what made them enjoy it as much as I did. One day I hope someone will grab that issue of Famitsu and translate it...

Getting the blasted materials together for that Music Paradise kept me plenty busy (before I lost my cartridge...).

Wait, you lost the cartridge?!? Very sad that it happened.

As for my quick thoughts on the game (Full thoughts later), I still think it's a great improvement over the first two titles (And the Wii games if you count those but I consider them to be the Ys V of the PMD series. Forgotten and unloved for the better.), with great music, an amazing plot and fun gameplay. Even two years later I still hold pretty much the same score as I did back then (10/10 believe it or not and I'm still sticking to it with my feet in cement. Nothing will convince me otherwise unless I find out a terrible secret about the game or something), and nowadays I'm just using the famitsu score of 38/40 (TWO perfect scores from two out of the four reviewers) as a way to feel happy seeing games people have told me would destroy PMD in every way possible like Xenoblade Chronicles X get lower scores (I think the game got 34/40 today? Not sure but it wasn't as high.) PMD Forever baby! (Though the second game I have a bit of a problem with... I'll explain that another day I suppose.)

Despite the fact that the V Wheel was helpful in the actual game, I still avoided the wheel itself because Victini drove me insane... This collab seems interesting, so I'll give it a listen anyway, even if it'll inevitably remind me of why Victini is my least favorite out of all of the NPCs in PMD GTI. You are on a roll lately with these piano arrangements!