Absolutely not. If you play daily there's no way that gems will help you other than ending the game faster. Everything till now is manageable.
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Pokemon Shuffle |OT| Every Day I'm Shuffling
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Absolutely not. If you play daily there's no way that gems will help you other than ending the game faster. Everything till now is manageable.
Cosmic Dreams
Member
is there no way to grab a mega lucarionite now?
toythatkills
Member
Not at the moment, no. There might be again in the future but you're just going to have to cross your fingers and wait.
SenorArdilla
Member
I don't see why you would ever spend money on this game outside of needing more coins for items and Great Balls.
toythatkills
Member
Why would anyone spend money on this game apart from the things you can spend money on?
I would happily pay a budget eShop price for an infinite hearts unlock, but as much as I'd like to support the devs for making a fun game, I have no intention of supporting the pay model as-is because I'd prefer that they not make more games using this terrible exploitative pay model.
Yeah, this is my thought as well.
toythatkills
Member
I got the game for free, and have played for 30 hours without paying a penny or needing to. I feel so exploited.
ColtraineGF
Member
Wish I could spend more time on some of the timed stages - I've gotten the general flow down and managed to catch a few (26-35%), but I've sometimes had to switch out my party for a 'weaker' one, because the party that is auto-selected for me tends to be the same color for certain opponents, making it harder for me to fast match.
Example: anyone weak to water. Blue everywhere ~_~
Example: anyone weak to water. Blue everywhere ~_~
Yeah, as much as I like this game, I'd sooner support Nintendo by buying Pokemon Puzzle Challenge. I feel like the pricing on this game is just going to exploit people that don't really understand math/money, and I'd rather demonstrate to Nintendo that this type of pricing structure is a failure by being a part of the overwhelming majority of people that don't spend a $ on this game.
TheSlySoul
Member
Same, not buying into the IAP mess. Wish they would give you an unlimited heart option and keep coins as jewels. With Tiny Tower and such, at least you could easily earn dollars compared to jewels.
I'm not exploited (and neither are you) because I haven't paid a dime. But these types of games thrive on people who want extended play sessions and are willing to pay $1 for a few minutes of play, especially those who are too naive to know better.
I paid $8 for Battle Trozei. I can play it whenever I want for as long as I want. If I paid $9 (the closest amount to Trozei's price when buying Jewels in bulk) for Shuffle I could get 80 Hearts, allowing me to play for about 6.6 hours (assuming a generous average of 5 minutes per Heart) before the game goes back to treating me like a non-paying customer. I consider that exploitative, and stating such doesn't mean that I myself have been exploited by it. But other people have.
If you're about to go onto a 3+ hour flight and really want to play Shuffle for a long period time, then I can understand using gems to pay for some hearts.
Last time they did daily stages, I believe they repeated the pattern the following week.
Caddywompus
Member
Unlocked Mewtwo without S ranking all of the original stages. Apparently the new stages count toward that goal too. Might not help much now but could be useful information when we get more EX stages.
Yep. This pattern will be repeated until April 18th
Cute Dragon Here
Member
EX2 and EX3 felt surprisingly easy when I gave them a second go.
At least I now have normal Rotom and Lucario.
At least I now have normal Rotom and Lucario.
So... Got to level 90 two days ago... Mega mawile... Sucks...
I literally googled strategies and the response is pretty much get Lucario and get lucky lol. I agree to those that say this stage feels like it wasn't play tested. Or maybe it is and they're just hoping you will buy jewels. Either way it sucks
I literally googled strategies and the response is pretty much get Lucario and get lucky lol. I agree to those that say this stage feels like it wasn't play tested. Or maybe it is and they're just hoping you will buy jewels. Either way it sucks
Lol, they are aware of what they were doing with that stage.
(In fact there are more of those unfair levels later on)
Mega Mawile feels like a walk with Mega Lucario. lol
I remember trying them as soon as I unlocked them and barely finishing them on time. And now I finished the stages with more than half the time left.
I remember trying them as soon as I unlocked them and barely finishing them on time. And now I finished the stages with more than half the time left.
Cute Dragon Here
Member
I think the competitive stage was a blessing in disguise. All the score beating also improved our EX skills.
Agreed. Now I almost wish that the ordinary stages were timed as well =P
Well, having managed to beat Mega Mawile and Mega Glalie with no items, Mega Gengar is becoming a roadblock. His ice disruptions are so unfair =|
shadow2810
Member
I suggest save up for disruption delay and mega start, then use Mega Lucario/Lopunny
toythatkills
Member
Haha, I was getting really pissed off at Fennekin summoning three blocks of "ice" every bloody turn because it's a fire type, it made no sense.
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
I was a little surprised everyone in this thread kept calling that "ice," given that the game never calls it ice even once.
toythatkills
Member
It doesn't 'alf look like ice though.
Inquisitive_Ghost
Member
Yeah it looks like ice, I was more referring to the sheer volume of posters in this thread calling it that. I think I saw one person other than me calling them "barriers" and every single other person, "ice." Made me wonder if we were the only people who read skill descriptions.
Barrylocke
Member
Mega Glalie... Kill me now.
Yeah it looks like ice, I was more referring to the sheer volume of posters in this thread calling it that. I think I saw one person other than me calling them "barriers" and every single other person, "ice." Made me wonder if we were the only people who read skill descriptions.
D'oh, I assumed it was "ice" after all of those posters saying so.
Apparently I can't read
Yeah it looks like ice, I was more referring to the sheer volume of posters in this thread calling it that. I think I saw one person other than me calling them "barriers" and every single other person, "ice." Made me wonder if we were the only people who read skill descriptions.
Well... I call it glass, I thought the game did so too.
tim_pkmn89
Member
Try disabling the Streetpasses for the game in the OS menu, loading the game, then reenabling them. You'll lose those 10, but you should be safe later on.Help please, today I got 10 streetpasses, but now everytime I enter into the streetpass encounter option the game freezes and crashes, then, an error says that the console has to reset itself... anyone has encountered the same problem?
Barrylocke
Member
How did you guys tackle Mega Glalie? I'm really tempted to Mega Start with Mega Mawile, who seems effective but takes ages to get going with all the ice, err, I mean BARRIERS in the way.
Also, I could have sworn that Barrier'd pokemon were destroyed if you matched them. Am I remember wrong or did the barriers get stronger either in an update or in later stages?
Also, I could have sworn that Barrier'd pokemon were destroyed if you matched them. Am I remember wrong or did the barriers get stronger either in an update or in later stages?
Aveyn Knight
Member
For Zapdos, bring 4 Ground-types and chain combos near the bottom fast.
Blaziken, I'm crying tears.
Nice.
Hopefully
he doesn't need a stone to Mega Evolve.
I went with a team consisting of Mega Lucario, Aurorus, Klefki, and Mienshao. They were all around level 3 or so when I beat Mega Glalie. You have to get lucky with your combos to beat Glalie without any items, but it is doable. Ultimately up to you if you want to spend coins on items
I used Mega Mawile for a number of attempts but couldn't get it to Mega Evolve in time for effective clearing of the barriers, so that was a no go. It just doesn't have enough attack power to fill the Mega gauge fast enough.
SenorArdilla
Member
Just spamming the regular Ampharos stage for levels. Because Mega Mewtwo Y is infuriating.