{"id":20263,"date":"2020-07-17T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=20263"},"modified":"2020-06-28T18:12:58","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T18:12:58","slug":"pokemon-cafe-mix-switch-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/pokemon-cafe-mix-switch-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Caf\u00e9 Mix (Switch, Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You\u2019re about to open up a caf\u00e9 that serves food especially for Pok\u00e9mon!\u00a0 And the waiters and cooks are Pok\u00e9mon as well!\u00a0 Help prepare delicious dishes for your Poke-pals in this free-to-start puzzle game for Switch and mobile devices (reviewed on Switch here).\u00a0 Stir around Pok\u00e9mon head icons to match them and make them disappear.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of other action puzzle games on mobile like Yo-Kai Watch Wibble Wobble or the Disney Tsum Tsum game.<\/p>\n

For each stage, a customer Pok\u00e9mon will walk up to your caf\u00e9 and place an order.\u00a0 To fulfill their order, you have a pot with various Pok\u00e9mon head icons in it.\u00a0 The game says the icons represent the enthusiasm the Pok\u00e9mon put into the dish, so don\u2019t worry, you\u2019re not cooking Pok\u00e9mon heads or anything.\u00a0 One thing to note is that on the Switch, you must always play this game in handheld mode, as it is touch screen only.\u00a0 To match icons, just touch one on the screen and swirl it around so it touches other same icons.\u00a0 When you release your finger, or if a meter runs out, the matched icons will disappear.\u00a0 The round is won when you reach certain objectives.\u00a0 You might need to reach a certain score, or clear out a certain number of Pok\u00e9mon head icons or other items.\u00a0 You only have a certain number of moves in each round, though, so if you run out, you must start the order over again.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll have a Pok\u00e9mon to help you cook and when you clear out icons, a meter will fill.\u00a0 When it is full, you can use that Pokemon\u2019s special skills.\u00a0 Some skills let you clear out rows horizontally or vertically or in a circle.\u00a0 You can even combine skills for bigger effects.\u00a0 Other items that might be in the pot may need to be cleared out differently.\u00a0 Sugar cubes will crack and break if you clear icons next to them, and dollops of whipped cream or nuts need to be cleared with special skills. \u00a0Tomatoes must be dropped into baskets for them to disappear. When you complete enough orders, you\u2019ll get new decorations and plants that let you make new kinds of dishes with even more challenges.\u00a0 And if you serve enough dishes to a Pok\u00e9mon and make their friendship level rise, they may join your staff and you can use their skills to help you out, too.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll earn in-game acorn currency which you can use to buy items to help you finish levels, and you can also use real money to buy currency and new Pok\u00e9mon staff, too.\u00a0 One nice thing about the Switch version is that you don\u2019t have to be connected to the Internet to play. \u00a0Unfortunately, like most free-to-play games, there comes a time when it gets too hard and you must spend real money to get past.\u00a0 For me, in this game that happened around a couple of dozen levels or so.\u00a0 And since the game is physics based, using items isn\u2019t always predictable, as you never know how the icons will fall.\u00a0 It\u2019s a shame that the free-to-play aspects really bog this game down, because it\u2019s otherwise really fun and the art style is cute and the Pok\u00e9mon shaped food (like Dugtrio sandwiches or Eevee pancakes) look really neat.\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised they haven\u2019t made a REAL Pok\u00e9mon caf\u00e9 yet.\u00a0 Or maybe they have and I don\u2019t know about it!<\/p>\n

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Nothing violent or objectionable here.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful for the text, and parental supervision is highly recommended for the in-game purchases.\u00a0 Pok\u00e9mon Caf\u00e9 Mix is rated E for Everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019re about to open up a caf\u00e9 that serves food especially for Pok\u00e9mon!\u00a0 And the waiters and cooks are Pok\u00e9mon as well!\u00a0 Help prepare delicious dishes for your Poke-pals in this free-to-start puzzle game for Switch and mobile devices (reviewed on Switch here).\u00a0 Stir around Pok\u00e9mon head icons to match them and make them disappear.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20263","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\/20263","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=20263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20265,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20263\/revisions\/20265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}