What is your tale on the Mystery Dungeon series? Do you feel the games are any good in general? And do they add anything to the pokemon mythos, or should they be treated as non-canon?

Y’know… that could probably be an entire series of entries on its own.  I’ve only played Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team, but I enjoyed it.  I thought it was a good game.  It has its flaws, but I think there are probably a few things the main series could stand to take from it in terms of both gameplay and storytelling.  As for your last question…  can the answer be “yes” to both?  Obviously the setting is wildly incompatible with the main games, the anime and most of the other spin-offs in a number of fairly blatant ways, and I don’t think there’s really any point in debating that, but I think that the actions and personalities of the Pokémon characters in the Mystery Dungeon series can probably be taken as exemplary of the way the designers of those games saw the various species in question, any specific abilities demonstrated by Pokémon in those games are as likely as not to be ‘canonical,’ and the roles played by the various legendary Pokémon make at least as much sense as their equivalents in the franchise’s other incarnations.  Perhaps the events of this series could be interpreted as a legend or fable told within the context of the world we know from the main series or the anime?  *shrug* I suppose ‘non-canon’ is a legitimate label to apply, but it really seems rather too dismissive a term for my taste.