{"id":16583,"date":"2017-06-28T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T00:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16583"},"modified":"2017-06-03T18:04:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T18:04:03","slug":"pokemon-magikarp-jump-ios-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/28\/pokemon-magikarp-jump-ios-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon: Magikarp Jump! (iOS, Android)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Because of the popularity of Pok\u00e9mon GO, the Pok\u00e9mon Company is really embracing the mobile market.\u00a0 Now there is a separate game starring everyone\u2019s favorite Pok\u00e9mon character.\u00a0 No, it\u2019s not Pikachu or Meowth.\u00a0 Not Snorlax or Mewtwo.\u00a0 Oh wait, did I say favorite?\u00a0 What I meant was this game stars the most useless Pok\u00e9mon of all: the flopping fish Magikarp!\u00a0 Yup, he has his own game in Magikarp Jump!, a free-to-play downloadable title on mobile devices (but reviewed on iPad here).\u00a0 You\u2019re just going to have to check this one out to believe it!<\/p>\n

In the game you play as a trainer who has come to a town where everyone loves Magikarp.\u00a0 They even train them to compete in jumping competitions to see who can flop the highest.\u00a0 But lately the Magikarp have lost their ambition, so it\u2019s up to you to train them and save the town!\u00a0 The game is really nothing more than a virtual pet fish tank simulator, and probably should\u2019ve been an April Fools\u2019 Day gag.<\/p>\n

The game has three main phases, but there is little actual gameplay to be had, as you just make selections through menus most of the time.\u00a0 The first phase is the Magikarp pond where your current Magikarp lives.\u00a0 You can tap on berries in the pond for the Magikarp to eat to help it gain levels.\u00a0 As you play, other Pok\u00e9mon will stay at your pond and help the Magikarp grow.\u00a0 For instance, Pikachu will give Magikarp extra experience points, Snorlax will give it food, and Pinplup will give it an extra training point.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have to wait a while to use the other Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s skills again, though.<\/p>\n

At the pond you can also access a shop.\u00a0 Here you can buy new kinds of food and training regiments, as well as upgrade them.\u00a0 You can also recruit new Pok\u00e9mon helpers and decorate your pond as well.\u00a0 These items cost coins and diamonds, which you get by winning matches among other ways.\u00a0 You can also use real money to buy extra diamonds if you wish.<\/p>\n

The next mode is training.\u00a0 Here you\u2019ll pick a random regiment to help boost your Magikarp\u2019s experience points.\u00a0 As you gain levels, you can upgrade your training and buy new regiments as well, each one better than the last.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have three training points to use, and must wait a while before they refill.\u00a0 Sometimes after training, a random event may occur.\u00a0 Sometimes you\u2019ll even have a choice as to what to do in these events.\u00a0 But it\u2019s best to go with the conservative choice, as the consequences can be dire if you are unlucky.\u00a0 For instance, you may run across a tree with berries in it.\u00a0 Do you choose to have Magikarp jump for the berries and get experience points?\u00a0 If you do, you\u2019ll risk having your Magikarp get picked up by a swooping Pidgeotto, and then you must start over with a new Magikarp.<\/p>\n

The last mode are the league battles, where you\u2019ll compete with other Magikarp to see who can jump the highest.\u00a0 You\u2019ll travel to each battle via a map screen.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have control over the battles, if your Magikarp has more experience than the other, it\u2019ll jump higher.\u00a0 Once you lose a battle, you\u2019ll have to wait a while before competing again.\u00a0 When you win battles, you\u2019ll earn coins, diamonds, and trainer points.\u00a0 The higher your trainer level is, the more training regiments you can use and you\u2019ll be able to fish out Magikarp who can be raised to higher levels.\u00a0 Once your Magkarp is at its highest level and can\u2019t win any more battles, you\u2019ll retire it and fish for a new one and start the process over again.\u00a0 Luckily, the new Magikarp will gain experience faster than the old one.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all there is to Magikarp Jump!\u00a0 The game is very repetitive, but I did like the colorful graphics and it did hold my interest longer than most other free-to-play games do.\u00a0 I think Pok\u00e9mon fans should download this, simply for the novelty of it all.<\/p>\n

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

Kids love Pok\u00e9mon, so they\u2019ll probably enjoy this one no matter what.\u00a0 Violence is minimal and very cartoony.\u00a0 For instance, after a high jump, a Magikarp will smack down into the ground and leave an imprint, Wile E. Coyote style.\u00a0\u00a0 If you\u2019re OK with your kids playing the other Pok\u00e9mon games and watching the TV cartoon and movies, they\u2019ll be OK here, too.\u00a0 Reading skill is a must for the text, and parental supervision is recommended for the in-game ads and purchases.\u00a0 And even then, that kind of stuff is not very intrusive in this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because of the popularity of Pok\u00e9mon GO, the Pok\u00e9mon Company is really embracing the mobile market.\u00a0 Now there is a separate game starring everyone\u2019s favorite Pok\u00e9mon character.\u00a0 No, it\u2019s not Pikachu or Meowth.\u00a0 Not Snorlax or Mewtwo.\u00a0 Oh wait, did I say favorite?\u00a0 What I meant was this game stars the most useless Pok\u00e9mon of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews","category-movie-reviews","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583","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=16583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16585,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16583\/revisions\/16585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}