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Pokemon Shuffle |OT| Every Day I'm Shuffling
- Thread starter BooJoh
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In addition to this, there's actually different prizes for passing the same person multiple times in a row. For example my friend and I received 3 hearts after the 3rd time in a row.
Edit: 5 times in a row, not 3
It's fun!
OmegaSmash
Member
Ok seriously fuck Mega Mawile
I'm pretty sure it's to entice devs to port over their own F2P games on the 3DS in some way. PADZ was a great seller, and if this is also a success, that could happen. Didn't Iwata talk about this in the recent meeting?
I'm pretty sure it's to entice devs to port over their own F2P games on the 3DS in some way. PADZ was a great seller, and if this is also a success, that could happen. Didn't Iwata talk about this in the recent meeting?
The game is fun but the heart limit and the dodgy RNG really hurt it.
The Red Wizard
Member
I just caught Vaporean, Charmeleon, Wartortle and two others with five hearts in a row, all on my first try.
Dénouement
Banned
Candy Crush has a cap on lives yeah. I mean, it's possible to have more than 5 lives if people give you lives over FB and stuff (just like how it's possible in this game, too), but at 5 or more lives, the countdown is inactivated.
But in Candy Crush you only lose lives if you fail to complete a stage. Which means you can keep advancing for as long as you want, without paying, as long as you don't die. Whereas here, that's not possible. u__u
Hm, well, since the gameplay is different from Trozei, I suppose there's a chance it might be good.
But yeah, this type of IAP is among the worst.
Not at all. It's perfectly playable for 10-20 minutes at a time without spending a penny. Perfect to have on a handheld, IMO.
I get the 5 heart limit backlash for the game, but I think that also speaks to the game's addicting nature that people want more of it. The game is actually pretty generous with the gems, you get a gem like what every 10 battles (against the Megas) or something right? I've probably received like 10+ gems already for free.
Anywho, I was kinda embarrassed to see that I have about 10 hours logged into this game already, and I haven't spent a single penny on it. I'm sure enjoying it in smaller bites. Keeps me coming back for more!
Also, there's some nice challenge to this game, some Megas are pretty tricky and the Expert stages are hard as hell. Gonna need the right (and leveled up) team for those time based EX stages.
Starwolf_UK
Member
It is a bit more like the extra timed stages in this game and more of an action puzzle game overall. That is one thing this series is good at is while everyone looks at the surface and goes they're the same all three entries play very differently (the first entry on DS is more like Yoshi's Cookie in that you move entire rows/columns).
It suffers a bit from weird unlock conditions not told to use and kind of repetitive (the skill ceiling is pretty low so you can keep chains going for way too long and it is easy to get burned out by going for 50-60 chain when you only really need 20 chains)
This how it goes for me
5 hearts, "I love this game it's not so ba-" *Pokémon breaks out of the ball at a high chance*
4 hearts, "let try this a little differently" *Pokémon breaks out of the ball at a high chance*
3 Hearts "Stop being stupid and get in the damn Pokéball *Pokémon breaks out of the ball at a high chance*
2 Hearts "Holy hell I am gonna burn up my hearts over this critter. *Pokémon breaks out of the ball at a high chance* "Fuuuuuuuu!"
1 Hearts "Just watch it go in" *Pokémon get captured*
"Whoo finally! But at what cost?" ;_;
Then I go in a corner and cry. ;_;
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Damnit, now Mega Ampheros is giving me trouble.
No. It's as fun as we expected it to be.
Can't imagine how those expectations came about but good for you, anyway.
Triple Da G.O.D!
Member
I'm in the rock and hard place of getting wrecked by Mega Lopunny & thinking that wasting hearts going after Lucario is going to somehow ultimately going to solve the problem.
On the upside I caught Mew 1st try earlier on 26% so there's that RNJesus for you!
On the upside I caught Mew 1st try earlier on 26% so there's that RNJesus for you!
Dénouement
Banned
So far I'm not going back to catch Pokemon unless I'm severely lacking its type. I'll just come back when my team is stronger and hopefully wreck it.
It's really hard to screw up a P&D clone.
It's way closer to Candy Crush than to PazuDora.
That makes a lot of sense.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
I think Joe's gonna be the only one who ends up spending anything on this!
Something I might've paid a (very) small amount for would've been a Time Attack mode.
Continuous 3/5/10 minute high score modes would've been nice as I find this really relaxing to play.
The very short 'win in 5 turns' levels are the worst.
Something I might've paid a (very) small amount for would've been a Time Attack mode.
Continuous 3/5/10 minute high score modes would've been nice as I find this really relaxing to play.
The very short 'win in 5 turns' levels are the worst.
Triple Da G.O.D!
Member
Mega Lopunny down and I got the Lopunnite and man is that a good power to have. Looks like I'm saying goodbye to Audino now as my Normal-type Mega.
What the, unless it fundamentally changed since I played Candy Crush that first year it released, it's not much at all like Candy Crush other than the fact that you match 3. I could very well be wrong, but I don't remember Candy Crush having a battle mechanic where you collect and level up monsters and pit a team of them with type/elemental advantages/disadvantages against a foe.
This is much, much more basically a PAD clone, it's like Puzzle & Dragons Lite basically. All the same gameplay mechanics, only toned down a bit (combat isn't as involved without "pushing" other unites around like in PAD and you can't combine monsters to evolve them like in PAD.) What I do like about this compared to PAD though, are the different battle modes (regular stages and EX stages.)
Just rekt Axew. Its disruption in the beginning set it up so I could line up 4 Axew panels on my first turn, which is itself super effective thanks to dragon-dragon weakness, and then that triggered a nice long chain of other super effective matches. >
I got its base catch rate of 30% to go up to 87% hehe
I got its base catch rate of 30% to go up to 87% hehe
OmegaSmash
Member
Just rekt Axew. Its disruption in the beginning set it up so I could line up 4 Axew panels on my first turn, which is itself super effective thanks to dragon-dragon weakness, and then that triggered a nice long chain of other super effective matches. >
I got its base catch rate of 30% to go up to 87% hehe
The same thing happened with Dratini for me.
I'm impressively bad at stage 62 (Gastly). And I don't mean "bad" in a good way. I mean awful. I'm going to need a lucky chain reaction and that hasn't happened yet.
Edit: I can clear the stage. But not with enough leftover moves to capture the gas bag. One of these days.
Edit: Finally got the little 'monster.
Edit: I can clear the stage. But not with enough leftover moves to capture the gas bag. One of these days.
Edit: Finally got the little 'monster.
Here are my observations so far. I don't have a 40 or 60 at level 6 to confirm that value but my Audino is at 62 at level 6. The pattern seems to be along these lines:
Base Attack Power 40/50/60
Level 2: +3
Level 3: +3
Level 4: +2
Level 5: +2
Level 6: +2
Result is a net gain of 10 Attack Power by level 5.
The exception to this comes with base Attack Power 30, which gains 5 AP from hitting level 2. I don't have any of these higher than level 2.
SenorArdilla
Member
I hate the Wait-To-Play aspect of this game. But it is oddly addicting.
Triple Da G.O.D!
Member
Picked up Ice Rotom on my first attempt and just added Absol to the team so I can use it to take down that Gengar that's been giving me issues!
SatoAilDarko
Member
I have come to terms with needing to spend coins on the bosses after 20 matches on Mega Mawile (half spent on catching different Pokemon to fight it) trying.
I wonder at what point will I need to use the Jem for five extra turns at the end on top of the ones from the beginning?
I wonder at what point will I need to use the Jem for five extra turns at the end on top of the ones from the beginning?
Are you a wizard? A red one?
I'm at stage 87 and trying to get some of the earlier Pokémon I didn't catch, but I can't even beat Croagunk again lol.
MicroByter
Member
So is there anyway to cash in coins for gems? I've let my stack of coins pile up to about 12k and thought I read somewhere that you could cash these in for gems.