{"id":21521,"date":"2021-09-10T00:01:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21521"},"modified":"2021-08-18T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:02:07","slug":"pokemon-unite-switch-mobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/10\/pokemon-unite-switch-mobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Unite (Switch, Mobile)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I don\u2019t really play a whole lot of PC games, so I\u2019m not familiar with MOBA titles.\u00a0 MOBA stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, by the way.\u00a0 But when a free-to-play Pok\u00e9mon themed MOBA came out a while back, I knew I had to try it and review it!\u00a0 In the game you control your Pok\u00e9mon directly as you work in teams of five to score goals on your opponent\u2019s side.\u00a0 If you wanted me to describe it in my own inexperienced words, I\u2019d say it\u2019s like Pok\u00e9mon mixed with basketball.\u00a0 I know people would disagree with that description, but that\u2019s how I saw it.\u00a0 Anyway, Pok\u00e9mon Unite is available for Switch and mobile devices, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s how the game works.\u00a0 Two teams of five are on each side of an arena, and each team has a certain number of goals represented as circles on the field.\u00a0 When you are on your side, you can go faster and heal yourself inside the circles.\u00a0 But if you are on the opposing side, you\u2019ll slow down!\u00a0 You\u2019ll control your Pok\u00e9mon directly and must defeat scattered wild Pok\u00e9mon around the arena.\u00a0 Doing so will earn you a special type of energy that will let you score goals on your opponents\u2019 circles.\u00a0 But watch out because if an opponent attacks you, you won\u2019t score the goal.\u00a0 And if an opponent attacks you and you are defeated, you\u2019ll lose some of your energy and must respawn back at your team\u2019s side after a few seconds.\u00a0 The more Pok\u00e9mon you defeat, the higher level you\u2019ll be, which will open up more powerful attack moves for you to use, and some Pok\u00e9mon will even evolve!\u00a0 Goal circles can only be scored a certain number of times before they\u2019re destroyed, too, and defeating certain wild Pok\u00e9mon will give your team an advantage.\u00a0 At the end of ten minutes, whichever team has the highest score, wins!\u00a0 And I was happy that you can play as Snorlax, my favorite Pok\u00e9mon!<\/p>\n

After battles, you\u2019ll earn money and other trinkets that you can use to buy more Pok\u00e9mon to play as and accessories and outfits for your trainer.\u00a0 You can also earn these things with all sorts of daily missions and such.\u00a0 The game has a few problems, though. Usually these types of online games feel different every match, but Unite feels a bit repetitive at times.\u00a0 There were some lags and skips that felt jarring, too.\u00a0 It\u2019s fun when you are winning, but when you are losing badly because your team members decided to give up and stop playing, it\u2019s not very fun (but sometimes that\u2019s all you feel like you can do when you are being decimated).\u00a0 Plus all the micro-transactions made progress feel a bit slow.\u00a0 However, Pok\u00e9mon Unite is still a pretty approachable online game that\u2019s easy to jump into and play.\u00a0 And it\u2019s free-to-play so you might as well try it if you\u2019re interested.<\/p>\n

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

Pok\u00e9mon Unite is rated E-10 with an ESRB descriptor of Fantasy Violence.\u00a0 You can smack other Pok\u00e9mon critters around with body slams, fire breath, and electric attacks, but defeated characters just warp back to their starting point, so violence is minimal.\u00a0 Reading skill is helpful, and while this is one of the more approachable and safe online games for kids, parental supervision is still highly recommended for all the in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t really play a whole lot of PC games, so I\u2019m not familiar with MOBA titles.\u00a0 MOBA stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena, by the way.\u00a0 But when a free-to-play Pok\u00e9mon themed MOBA came out a while back, I knew I had to try it and review it!\u00a0 In the game you control your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21521","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\/21521","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=21521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21523,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21521\/revisions\/21523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}