This article is about the game. For the special anime episode, see. It is the fifth entry in the , an adaptation of the games for Pokémon. The game was first announced in , which released the first details in January 2009. It was officially released in Japan on April 18, 2009 and in North America on October 12, 2009. The game was released for the in the United States on June 23, 2016, in Japan on July 20, 2016, and in Australia and Europe on August 18, 2016. Moreover, every starter Pokémon, in addition to Meowth and Munchlax, are available as partners. The more items exchanged, the better the items available will be. Players may also trade items for more kinds of tickets can be unlocked by a team's rank; for example, Silver Tickets are only available to teams in the Silver rank. Prize tickets can be used in a lottery, where the player gets to choose from three colors for the drawing red, blue, and yellow. The player can sometimes get rare items this way. It is run by. The bazaar has several stalls found inside. They may hold useful items inside them. An accompanying Shaymin demonstrates its ability to instantly purify polluted environments, its use of the to transform into its , and can be later recruited into the player's party. The story here involves a new item called the. This is possibly due to one of the starter and partner choices in this game being. These dungeons are unlocked through random challenges in Spinda's Cafe, but the only way to get these challenges is to unlock the Secret Rank. Upon finding a bottle the player has the option to take or reject the request. Rejected jobs remain on the beach until taken. However, if the player wants, they can accept the job and then delete it to remove the bottle. These items are called. For example, a blue found in a dungeon might not be of the healing variety, but the damaging Or en. While some just attack as normal, others are located in a , while others may run away, similarly to if a was used on them. Their reaction is hinted at by the title and description of the job. Likewise, the same goes if the player tries to do an escort mission and the team is full. This plot summary is incomplete. Please feel free to edit this plot summary to add missing sections and complete it. Main article: Being a sister game to Explorers of Time and Darkness, Explorers of Sky has a similar plot with minor differences. Special Episodes Main article: During the course of the game, players can engage in various scenarios that expand upon the story of some of the different characters. Episode Title Information How to Unlock The first episode features the past of the in just after he entered the guild. He goes to the to have his wish granted by a. Arrest in Chapter 3 The second episode features as an. It explores his past and explains how he became an explorer. Return to the Guild in Chapter 9 The third episode features the fellow guild member,. She was given a mission to seek out a but was apparently unprepared for what she was about to face. Come up with the plan to capture in Chapter 13 The fourth episode features and their past. Return from the future in Chapter 15 The fifth episode is set in the dark future after pushes back into the past. Graduate from In the beginning of the game, the player takes a quiz. The answers to these questions determine a nature that decides which Pokémon the player starts with. Certain characters are only available to players of a certain gender. The partner can be any of the playable characters shown above, excluding the player's character. Additionally, the partner cannot be the same as the player.
