{"id":13205,"date":"2015-03-06T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13205"},"modified":"2015-02-25T12:37:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:37:56","slug":"pokemon-shuffle-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/06\/pokemon-shuffle-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Shuffle (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SHUFFLE_BOX\"<\/a>Pokemon Shuffle is a puzzle game downloadable for the Nintendo 3DS.\u00a0 It plays similar to other puzzlers like Candy Crush, Bejeweled, Puzzle Quest, or Puzzle & Dragon.\u00a0 The game is also free-to-play, with in-game purchases, which is unusual for a 3DS eShop title to have.\u00a0 So is it worth downloading anyway?\u00a0 Read on to find out!<\/p>\n

Use the stylus and touch screen to drag and match Pokemon heads of three or more to make them disappear, allowing for chain reactions.\u00a0 You can place Pokemon anywhere on the field, but you have a limited number of moves to finish the puzzle.\u00a0 Your goal is to \u2018defeat\u2019 the Pokemon on the top screen by making matches to whittle away their hit points.\u00a0 Once you beat the Pokemon, you can try and catch it in a Pokeball.\u00a0 The more chain reactions you make and the fewer moves you use, the higher the chance of you catching the monster in the Pokeball will be.<\/p>\n

You can then use the Pokemon you caught in future stages.\u00a0 This is important, because Pokemon weaknesses and strengths apply here.\u00a0 So if you are battling a fire-type monster, you\u2019ll want to bring a few water-types with you.\u00a0 Every so often, you\u2019ll battle a trainer who uses a Megastone on their Pokemon to make them Mega Evolve.\u00a0 If you defeat them, you\u2019ll earn a Megastone that you can use on certain Pokemon.\u00a0 As you make matches of that Pokemon, a meter will fill.\u00a0 When it is full, that Pokemon will Mega Evolve and will have special skills like clearing out nearby Pokemon and such.\u00a0 There are tons of regular stages, as well as special challenging stages where you can catch very rare Pokemon like Mew.<\/p>\n

The game is free-to-play, but it does have in-game purchases.\u00a0 Like many free-to-play games, you can only play five times in a row, and then must wait a while before playing again.\u00a0 As you play, you can earn coins that you can use to buy items that\u2019ll help you out in battle, as well as jewels that you can use as currency, too.\u00a0 You can also use coins and jewels to buy more powerful Pokeballs if the Pokemon you\u2019re trying to catch escapes.\u00a0 You can buy coins and jewels via the eShop with real money, but that\u2019s it.\u00a0 Only problem I had was that it takes a little too long for your hearts to refill so you can play again.<\/p>\n

While many people\u2019s reaction to this game is that Nintendo has gone off the deep end, it\u2019s really not as bad as it seems.\u00a0 Nintendo is just trying a strategy that has worked for mobile games, and it\u2019s not like they do this all the time.\u00a0 In most free-to-play games, there comes a point where you just can\u2019t go any further until you buy power-ups, but I haven\u2019t gotten to that point yet.\u00a0 Right now I\u2019m nearing stage 50 and have more than 30 Pokemon, and I haven\u2019t felt like I\u2019ve hit a roadblock yet.\u00a0 Plus, they don\u2019t bombard you with pop-up ads and don\u2019t pressure you to buy anything.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t like being nickeled and dimed when it comes to gaming, so I won\u2019t support Nintendo by buying anything extra with this game because I don\u2019t want to encourage that sort of behavior.\u00a0 But as a freebie, I felt like I got my enjoyment out of it.\u00a0 Luckily, in May supposedly, Nintendo is releasing a cartridge version of a popular mobile puzzler called Puzzle & Dragon Z, and it\u2019ll even have a Mario version of the game on it.\u00a0 So if you like the idea of Pokemon Shuffle but don\u2019t like the in-game purchases part, you can always wait for that game around May!<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pokmeon Shuffle is rated E for Everyone with ESRB descriptors of Mild Fantasy Violence and Comic Mischief.\u00a0 The violence is really only implied, as you don\u2019t see any Pokemon attacking each other.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pokemon Shuffle is a puzzle game downloadable for the Nintendo 3DS.\u00a0 It plays similar to other puzzlers like Candy Crush, Bejeweled, Puzzle Quest, or Puzzle & Dragon.\u00a0 The game is also free-to-play, with in-game purchases, which is unusual for a 3DS eShop title to have.\u00a0 So is it worth downloading anyway?\u00a0 Read on to find […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13208,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13205\/revisions\/13208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}