{"id":13607,"date":"2015-06-17T00:01:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T00:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=13607"},"modified":"2015-06-09T11:41:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T11:41:57","slug":"pokemon-rumble-world-3ds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/17\/pokemon-rumble-world-3ds\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Rumble World (3DS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RUMBLE_BOX\"<\/a>Nintendo is going hog wild lately with the free-to-play games, especially when it involves Pokemon.\u00a0 First we had Pokemon Shuffle<\/strong><\/a>, now this.\u00a0 In Pokemon Rumble World, you visit the Kingdom of Toys and meet the King.\u00a0 He\u2019s jealous because an evil magician has more toy Pokemon than he does, so he commissions you to battle and collect toy Pokemon to show the magician who the real toy master is.\u00a0 Pokemon Rumble World is a top-down action game that plays similarly to Gauntlet, and you can download it for free on the 3DS eShop.<\/p>\n

In the main game, you\u2019ll travel to areas in a top-down fashion, attacking waves of toy Pokemon with your own.\u00a0 Defeated monsters will usually give you money, but sometimes you\u2019ll befriend a defeated Pokemon and they\u2019ll join your team.\u00a0 At the end of the level you\u2019ll fight a boss.\u00a0 Run out of energy and it\u2019s Game Over.\u00a0 But if you are quick, you can switch out your Pokemon with another one on your team.\u00a0 But it\u2019ll take a few seconds to wind them up (they are toys after all), so make sure your other Pokemon is out of harm\u2019s way.\u00a0 Knowing the different Pokemons\u2019 weaknesses and strengths is the key to success.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s true the game is free-to-play, there is a catch.\u00a0 In order to travel to new areas, you\u2019ll have to buy Hot Air Balloons with Poke-Diamonds.\u00a0 While you can earn these diamonds by doing specific things in the game, after a while the easiest way to get diamonds is to buy them with real money.\u00a0 You use Poke-Diamonds for other things, too.\u00a0 You can purchase items that can help you carry more Pokemon, allow you to continue, or fill up your hot air balloons faster so you can play stages sooner.<\/p>\n

Every so often you\u2019ll trigger a boss stage, where you will have to defeat the evil magician\u2019s Pokemon, fend off bandits, etc.\u00a0 These stages play similarly to the regular ones, except you can play them at any time, and even earn a few diamonds in the process.\u00a0 But they are pretty hard!\u00a0 You can also earn diamonds via StreetPass.\u00a0 People you tag will show up in the game, and if you rescue them in a stage, they\u2019ll travel with you for the rest of it, supporting you with items and giving you a few diamonds in return.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s really all there is to it.\u00a0 After a while I got to a point where it would take a long time to get more diamonds without buying them, so I stopped playing.\u00a0 What gets me is that this game plays almost EXACTLY like Pokemon Rumble Blast, a cartridge game that came out on the 3DS early in its life cycle.\u00a0 So I\u2019d recommend getting that instead.\u00a0 There are also Pokemon Rumble games to download on the Wii and Wii U.\u00a0 The Wii U game even used real life Pokemon toys that you scan similar to Amiibo (and I\u2019ve heard those figures are even HARDER to find!).\u00a0 But yeah, aside from new Pokemon and Mega Evolutions and different ways of using StreetPass, Pokemon Rumble World is exactly like Pokemon Rumble Blast, so I recommend getting that instead.\u00a0 Nintendo handled the free-to-play stuff way better in Pokemon Shuffle<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Pokemon Rumble World is rated E-10 with ESRB descriptors of Fantasy Violence and Comic Mischief.\u00a0 While you do hit other Pokemon with blasts of fire, ice, and other attacks, they just disappear when defeated.\u00a0 And they\u2019re all toys anyway so nobody gets hurt.\u00a0 I\u2019d be OK with any kid playing this game, but reading skill is still needed for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nintendo is going hog wild lately with the free-to-play games, especially when it involves Pokemon.\u00a0 First we had Pokemon Shuffle, now this.\u00a0 In Pokemon Rumble World, you visit the Kingdom of Toys and meet the King.\u00a0 He\u2019s jealous because an evil magician has more toy Pokemon than he does, so he commissions you to battle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13607","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\/13607","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=13607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13610,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607\/revisions\/13610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}