Started playing Magic the gathering Arena and then bought some packs at my local shop and saw Pokemon packs too. I picked those up to play with my daughter. Now I'm playing this. It has good graphics and fast gameplay. So much nostalgia for Pokemon. I was obsessed as a kid. I had so many cards (along with everything else Pokemon.) but never knew how to play. So learning now with my daughter and playing this game is so much fun. Can't wait to get more into it!
A good FREE way to get started on modern Pokemon TCG since its straightforward and the app gives you decent starter decks. However the Pokemon TCG Live app itself has a lot of annoying issues
-The store system SUCKS, no way to manual search
-The Gem system sucks as well. On one hand no "pay to win" is nice in theory, but the time limit Battle Pass sucks for people who cannot commit to playing at least 1-3 matches a day.
-Due to being forced to Pokemon TCGs very limited formats, can get repetitive very easily. No way to have a "free play" of older cards with friends.
-Occassional days when app just doesnt work for almost a whole day potentially ruining dailies
Otherwise its servicable for an official free to play TCG app, provides all the modern legal cards , pack opening luck is "OK", and at least you can put physical starter decks you got in the app through codes (even if they're not Standard legal)
-The store system SUCKS, no way to manual search
-The Gem system sucks as well. On one hand no "pay to win" is nice in theory, but the time limit Battle Pass sucks for people who cannot commit to playing at least 1-3 matches a day.
-Due to being forced to Pokemon TCGs very limited formats, can get repetitive very easily. No way to have a "free play" of older cards with friends.
-Occassional days when app just doesnt work for almost a whole day potentially ruining dailies
Otherwise its servicable for an official free to play TCG app, provides all the modern legal cards , pack opening luck is "OK", and at least you can put physical starter decks you got in the app through codes (even if they're not Standard legal)
en si me gusta el tcg de pokemon pero la optimizacion de este juego es muy mala
he perdido mas partidas porque se traba el juego que porque me ganar justamente
y el diseño del propio juego ( no de las cartas) es muy simple , aburrido y monotono. literalmente yugioh duel links tiene un mejor diseño de escenarios
he perdido mas partidas porque se traba el juego que porque me ganar justamente
y el diseño del propio juego ( no de las cartas) es muy simple , aburrido y monotono. literalmente yugioh duel links tiene un mejor diseño de escenarios
+ you get to play with so many decks for free when you start the game! it really is quite generous how much they let you play with immediately. and the decks are very fun!
+ for a "forever game", it's not very predatory, and the rewards are good and occur often. it's very easy to get the event pass by playing matches and getting enough crystals to spend on it shortly into the game, and you get to have the rewards you've passed already on the event timeline.
+ getting to open the booster packs you get rewarded with is very fun, unwrapping each one individually was something I looked forward to, and you get to see the beautiful art up close
- I found that the best decks I was using in matches, were the ones I edited - to include more energy cards, and cards that were more cohesive to the decks. they don't really encourage you to edit decks at all apart from introducing it at the start, and there aren't any event challenges to suggest this either. you either do it intuitively or you don't. I think deck crafting and editing is a big part of getting good at Pokemon TCG, so I think they could show or encourage the player to do that.
- there isn't really much else to do in the game apart from these battles, and there isn't much of a challenge. after a month of playing, I just ran out of things to find interesting so I ended up dropping it
- I had to play this on my partner's pro-gaming laptop. oddly, it wasn't running well on my standard laptop, but, I don't see what the game is doing to require high specs
- there isn't very much going on in the game to keep you playing for long, but it's good enough for a short while
5/10. overall, it's a good game, but it's just not doing very much, and there's some missed opportunities. pika pika!
+ for a "forever game", it's not very predatory, and the rewards are good and occur often. it's very easy to get the event pass by playing matches and getting enough crystals to spend on it shortly into the game, and you get to have the rewards you've passed already on the event timeline.
+ getting to open the booster packs you get rewarded with is very fun, unwrapping each one individually was something I looked forward to, and you get to see the beautiful art up close
- I found that the best decks I was using in matches, were the ones I edited - to include more energy cards, and cards that were more cohesive to the decks. they don't really encourage you to edit decks at all apart from introducing it at the start, and there aren't any event challenges to suggest this either. you either do it intuitively or you don't. I think deck crafting and editing is a big part of getting good at Pokemon TCG, so I think they could show or encourage the player to do that.
- there isn't really much else to do in the game apart from these battles, and there isn't much of a challenge. after a month of playing, I just ran out of things to find interesting so I ended up dropping it
- I had to play this on my partner's pro-gaming laptop. oddly, it wasn't running well on my standard laptop, but, I don't see what the game is doing to require high specs
- there isn't very much going on in the game to keep you playing for long, but it's good enough for a short while
5/10. overall, it's a good game, but it's just not doing very much, and there's some missed opportunities. pika pika!
On mobile it's fine but it's way to complex to play confortably on the phone and on PC it's just a bug mess, cards making the game crash, the terrible connection errors, the player models simply don't work awful awful game
It has it's issues, but at the core it's still TCG so it's a fun game.
My first issue is the mobile app is pretty clunky, but at least the desktop version isn't. I just wish it was easier to play on the go.
My second issue is the way you obtain cards. They have a battle pass which actually works pretty well. Like most battle passes they have a free and a premium version. The cool thing is the premium tier you can buy with the in game currency so you don't actually have to spend money on it if you don't want to. My issue is that, at least at the time of writing this, the packs of cards in the battle pass are almost all from the same set. So you end up getting a lot of the same cards, and you can only have four of one card so once you start to get more than four they get converted into one of the in game currencies. I just wish there was more variety in the cards you can obtain. You can go to the shop and buy packs from past sets all the way to the XY era but, again, you have to go out of your way and spend in game currency on it.
My first issue is the mobile app is pretty clunky, but at least the desktop version isn't. I just wish it was easier to play on the go.
My second issue is the way you obtain cards. They have a battle pass which actually works pretty well. Like most battle passes they have a free and a premium version. The cool thing is the premium tier you can buy with the in game currency so you don't actually have to spend money on it if you don't want to. My issue is that, at least at the time of writing this, the packs of cards in the battle pass are almost all from the same set. So you end up getting a lot of the same cards, and you can only have four of one card so once you start to get more than four they get converted into one of the in game currencies. I just wish there was more variety in the cards you can obtain. You can go to the shop and buy packs from past sets all the way to the XY era but, again, you have to go out of your way and spend in game currency on it.
Games does what it's supposed to do.
The battlepass seems fair, but collecting the cards you need can be annoying.
There are also several bugs which never seem to get fixed...
Hope I'll participate in a irl tcg tourney one day...
The battlepass seems fair, but collecting the cards you need can be annoying.
There are also several bugs which never seem to get fixed...
Hope I'll participate in a irl tcg tourney one day...
It's better than TCG Online in terms of removing the card market and making the game more accessible to players, but the battle visuals leave a lot to desire. Eh.
Lost my old decks because it couldn't import properly. The old train versus the computer mode is also gone, which was good for trying new decks. The new "test" mode has the computer essentially mill itself into defeat, which doesn't really help with training. The basic battle pass is at least generous, but I really was hoping for a lax me vs. computer mode, too, rather than straight into ranked.
Secondly, the power creep in this game (much like the physical version) is just straight up bad. Everyone starts with very powerful cards, rather than basic decks, which help to teach the game in a slower manner.
The old format didn't need to die for this.
Secondly, the power creep in this game (much like the physical version) is just straight up bad. Everyone starts with very powerful cards, rather than basic decks, which help to teach the game in a slower manner.
The old format didn't need to die for this.
fuck this game, fuck this change. the platform is unenjoyable and slow and is riddled with way more issues than the old client. it's pretty much impossible to adequately view my card collection anymore which was my favorite part of the game.
Ficou mais bonitinho
tro bien les cartes pokemon
Trashy Pokemon Company doing everything to milk this franchise no matter what even the card game couldn't be saved, TCGO was good how it is not this completely unnecessary downgrade
Compared to other card games like Magic The Gathering Arena or the Yu-Gi-Oh games, this one lacks personality
This review was posted on 12/14/22, which I believe is relevant for live service games because who knows how the game will look at all in a year from.
Also worth bringing up, if you read my post about Master Duel, is that this will be more about PTCG Live has a client for the game, rather than the actual card game. I'll talk about the game but it's a game people have been playing for like 20 years for a reason and your opinion of the game often varies between preferences in TCG gameplay and even just the game's current meta. When I'm playing jund cat oven in MTG i think it's the best game ever made, and then when i play against flash decks I think it's the worst game ever made.
Lets start with some pros:
-It works! I've had no issues running it and significant bugs are handled and openly discussed on log in messages from developers, outside of the the player characters (more on that later) it looks perfectly serviceable for a card game. It lacks some visual and audio flash of things like MD but hey the particle effects on attacks look nice
-A remarkably good beginners experience. I played the previous PTCG online client and bounced off because all the beginners options were just complete ass. a flaw of the PTCG game imo is that the power gap between Good Decks and Piles is enormous, basically unwinnable. You played a pile of cards you got from beginning and immediately met even a medicore V pokemon and got your ass blasted. It felt like if you went into say, master duel, and your only starter options were the yugi and kaiba starter decks from the year 2000s vs Actual decks.
Live however, is remarkably generous. You get a fair amount of starter decks and they are ALL way more reflective of actual modern gameplay and deck building. Lugia Vstar is the most popular deck on ladder; a deck that is a very relevant meta threat in the actual game, because they give you most of the shell of that deck (V lugia, vstar lugia, archeops, ect) right off the bat; hell they even give I believe the entirety of the inteleon engine. The decks they give you are obviously not tournament topping lists; but they're much better, and it's way more enjoyable to learn the game with real decks rather than some dogshit pile.
This online client has it's first set rotation on the horizon, including a lot of key cards in starter decks being rotated out. I'll be very interesting to see what they plan to do with starter decks when that comes around.
-Battlepass yadayada, I'm not a huge fan of the BPs but you can get the pass entirely F2P (more on this later, its complicated), and 95% of all dailies are pretty simple and can be easily done in like 1-3 games max. I haven't completed this season BP as of writing but it seems to be roughly around a level a day just doing quests, and playing games gives you BP exp anyways. Rewards are mostly fine, there's some complete filler shit with like the cosmetics but you get cards and shit from it
-Test deck feature is fucking awesome. Most clients have bots games you can play, but none of them let you play with cards you dont own. This one does. I've spent plenty of time just trying deck lists against bots and practicing play lines; it's fun, very user friendly, and lets you see if you actually enjoy playing a deck before commiting to building it (this is very important). I wish more clients had this, but I know why it wont be the norm like how most fighting games wont let you training mode characters you don't own.
-I really like how this game does alt card art. Chase cards in sets almost always have multiple variants that you can pull from pack (and even craft!), evergreen cards just have tons of different card arts for personal swag, ect ect. Pulling a rainbow fullart of a vmax card i wanted to play, or a gold of a trainer card i use a lot honestly feels great and I think it's one of the better systems in a client for swagging out your deck. I love dropping my gold path to the peaks on people.
-I just think think the game's fun! it hits a nice inbetween in game speed of MTG and YGO for me, you still play a lot of cards during a turn often and a lot of decks are trying to turbo out a powerful option, but the way the decks go about their goal is different, ive had a lot of interesting decision making moments, matchup goals between decks feel varied, and sometimes you just ball outta control and that rules. I've only put in experience in one meta so I cant pretend I'm very knowledgeable in the game, but I've played a lot of online TCGs and if I think it's boring i'd know by now.
And the cons:
-The player icons. The previous client had these just awful flat early 2000s generic pngs for your icons, there was no pokemon soul in them, they sucked. Here comes a brand new client and... they double down on that? Now they're 3d models but they're still just generic people with the most pokemon soul being a pokemon logo on an outfit you can make them wear. The game loves to give you cosmetic outfits and coins to buy them by the bucketload and they're all just awful and feels like getting nothing. I have no idea why they committed to this visual design, instead of something more flavorful. Hell just do what other games would've done and make you pick PNGs of pokemon game/anime characters. Just awful looking.
-deck builder kinda sucks. it's not a huge deal and you get used to it but it becomes confusing when you start, say, putting in a card you run 4 of but you have 1 that's different from the rest because you got 1 dripped out gold ultraball
-The monetization/F2P of this game is my biggest issue. I say it's an issue but really it's just... incredibly strangely implemented.
For one, there's one currency for acquiring card packs (and also the premium battlepass) in this game. You get it at a SNAIL'S pace; you get one daily a day which gives you 60 funbucks, maybe you get more if you hit some level up tiers.
it costs 200 fun bucks to buy a single pack which comes with 10 crafting dust as well.
Also, you will never buy single packs because the 3 pack is just better value (becomes rougly 186 funbucks a pack, and a huge increase in 125 dust. ). Which you will also never buy because the 6 pack is even BETTER value per pack and more dust. There isn't a reason to buy the small packs, you're simply gimping yourself of funbucks which you get precious little amounts of so it's not worth wasting value on. This effectively means you can buy new cards F2P every 18~ days, give or take the game giving you some of the previously mentioned level up/BP freebies.
I did this for the brillaint stars pack, because i wanted to play Arceus Duraladon. And while I was very happy to receive a gold arceus vstar from those packs, I still need 5 more Arceusi to play the deck, and was still missing the duraladon part of the deck. I cannot imagine actually going full F2P in this game; it seems impossible to actually make a standard deck before it rotates (atleast the game comes with extended right off the bat).
it's very kind that the game gives you most of the Lugia Vstar shell off the bat, but if you want to go full F2P I hope you're ready to be playing Lugia for a while because that's all you got.
There also isn't disenchanting, because lol.
So what if I want to whale? this part is particularly weird, because you cannot actually spend money in the game at all. There is no built in way of buying the funbucks. It's not an option! i don't think there's even a place for you to put your credit card in at all. So how are they making money / how is ANYONE not just playing lugia in this game?
Well, that's because the actual cards packs IRL come with digital codes that give you a pack of the same set in PTCGL.
Yeah, its like that. This game makes money by getting people to buy IRL packs. Of course, in reality this means people on the second hand market are making money.
Pokemon, more than any other TCG, is bought in bulk by people who dont give a fuck about the actual card game. It's got a lot of great card art, tons of rare variants to crack packs open for, and it's pokemon so it has huge brand loyalty. I pogged at getting a digital gold arceus vstar; imagine how hard people pog when they pull actual gold/rainbow variants?
What this means is that there's a lot of people who buy packs and don't care about the digital cards at all, but are looking to make some money back on the boxes they bought. If you have no interest in the physical game (like me), the best way to get whale in this game is to hit up ebay and buy from people who are selling cards in bulk.
And it's great value honestly! I bought a fucking 50 code pack of a set and finished my Regigigas deck for like 10 bucks. In theory that's miles cheaper than any other online client i've played.
While in theory this game is the cheapest to whale in, and it doesn't feel awful to drop 10 bucks and wait for a guy on ebay to send you some pictures to finish a deck, the F2P card gain is monstrously slow and feels impossible to make decks without dropping cash.
TL;DR
I think the actual card game is fun to play and collect cards, the client runs and works fine, and has some great QOL features I hope other games rip off (they wont), but the game's miserably slow F2P currency games makes playing this game F2P feel like a dream and if you want to play multiple decks you're going to have to either buy packs IRL and buy codes off ebay bulk sellers.
It's complicated, i'm still gonna keep playing because I'm enjoying the game, but at one point does this game start to feel like it has a subscription if i want to play more than one deck? And for people, is this game good enough for a subscription?
Also worth bringing up, if you read my post about Master Duel, is that this will be more about PTCG Live has a client for the game, rather than the actual card game. I'll talk about the game but it's a game people have been playing for like 20 years for a reason and your opinion of the game often varies between preferences in TCG gameplay and even just the game's current meta. When I'm playing jund cat oven in MTG i think it's the best game ever made, and then when i play against flash decks I think it's the worst game ever made.
Lets start with some pros:
-It works! I've had no issues running it and significant bugs are handled and openly discussed on log in messages from developers, outside of the the player characters (more on that later) it looks perfectly serviceable for a card game. It lacks some visual and audio flash of things like MD but hey the particle effects on attacks look nice
-A remarkably good beginners experience. I played the previous PTCG online client and bounced off because all the beginners options were just complete ass. a flaw of the PTCG game imo is that the power gap between Good Decks and Piles is enormous, basically unwinnable. You played a pile of cards you got from beginning and immediately met even a medicore V pokemon and got your ass blasted. It felt like if you went into say, master duel, and your only starter options were the yugi and kaiba starter decks from the year 2000s vs Actual decks.
Live however, is remarkably generous. You get a fair amount of starter decks and they are ALL way more reflective of actual modern gameplay and deck building. Lugia Vstar is the most popular deck on ladder; a deck that is a very relevant meta threat in the actual game, because they give you most of the shell of that deck (V lugia, vstar lugia, archeops, ect) right off the bat; hell they even give I believe the entirety of the inteleon engine. The decks they give you are obviously not tournament topping lists; but they're much better, and it's way more enjoyable to learn the game with real decks rather than some dogshit pile.
This online client has it's first set rotation on the horizon, including a lot of key cards in starter decks being rotated out. I'll be very interesting to see what they plan to do with starter decks when that comes around.
-Battlepass yadayada, I'm not a huge fan of the BPs but you can get the pass entirely F2P (more on this later, its complicated), and 95% of all dailies are pretty simple and can be easily done in like 1-3 games max. I haven't completed this season BP as of writing but it seems to be roughly around a level a day just doing quests, and playing games gives you BP exp anyways. Rewards are mostly fine, there's some complete filler shit with like the cosmetics but you get cards and shit from it
-Test deck feature is fucking awesome. Most clients have bots games you can play, but none of them let you play with cards you dont own. This one does. I've spent plenty of time just trying deck lists against bots and practicing play lines; it's fun, very user friendly, and lets you see if you actually enjoy playing a deck before commiting to building it (this is very important). I wish more clients had this, but I know why it wont be the norm like how most fighting games wont let you training mode characters you don't own.
-I really like how this game does alt card art. Chase cards in sets almost always have multiple variants that you can pull from pack (and even craft!), evergreen cards just have tons of different card arts for personal swag, ect ect. Pulling a rainbow fullart of a vmax card i wanted to play, or a gold of a trainer card i use a lot honestly feels great and I think it's one of the better systems in a client for swagging out your deck. I love dropping my gold path to the peaks on people.
-I just think think the game's fun! it hits a nice inbetween in game speed of MTG and YGO for me, you still play a lot of cards during a turn often and a lot of decks are trying to turbo out a powerful option, but the way the decks go about their goal is different, ive had a lot of interesting decision making moments, matchup goals between decks feel varied, and sometimes you just ball outta control and that rules. I've only put in experience in one meta so I cant pretend I'm very knowledgeable in the game, but I've played a lot of online TCGs and if I think it's boring i'd know by now.
And the cons:
-The player icons. The previous client had these just awful flat early 2000s generic pngs for your icons, there was no pokemon soul in them, they sucked. Here comes a brand new client and... they double down on that? Now they're 3d models but they're still just generic people with the most pokemon soul being a pokemon logo on an outfit you can make them wear. The game loves to give you cosmetic outfits and coins to buy them by the bucketload and they're all just awful and feels like getting nothing. I have no idea why they committed to this visual design, instead of something more flavorful. Hell just do what other games would've done and make you pick PNGs of pokemon game/anime characters. Just awful looking.
-deck builder kinda sucks. it's not a huge deal and you get used to it but it becomes confusing when you start, say, putting in a card you run 4 of but you have 1 that's different from the rest because you got 1 dripped out gold ultraball
-The monetization/F2P of this game is my biggest issue. I say it's an issue but really it's just... incredibly strangely implemented.
For one, there's one currency for acquiring card packs (and also the premium battlepass) in this game. You get it at a SNAIL'S pace; you get one daily a day which gives you 60 funbucks, maybe you get more if you hit some level up tiers.
it costs 200 fun bucks to buy a single pack which comes with 10 crafting dust as well.
Also, you will never buy single packs because the 3 pack is just better value (becomes rougly 186 funbucks a pack, and a huge increase in 125 dust. ). Which you will also never buy because the 6 pack is even BETTER value per pack and more dust. There isn't a reason to buy the small packs, you're simply gimping yourself of funbucks which you get precious little amounts of so it's not worth wasting value on. This effectively means you can buy new cards F2P every 18~ days, give or take the game giving you some of the previously mentioned level up/BP freebies.
I did this for the brillaint stars pack, because i wanted to play Arceus Duraladon. And while I was very happy to receive a gold arceus vstar from those packs, I still need 5 more Arceusi to play the deck, and was still missing the duraladon part of the deck. I cannot imagine actually going full F2P in this game; it seems impossible to actually make a standard deck before it rotates (atleast the game comes with extended right off the bat).
it's very kind that the game gives you most of the Lugia Vstar shell off the bat, but if you want to go full F2P I hope you're ready to be playing Lugia for a while because that's all you got.
There also isn't disenchanting, because lol.
So what if I want to whale? this part is particularly weird, because you cannot actually spend money in the game at all. There is no built in way of buying the funbucks. It's not an option! i don't think there's even a place for you to put your credit card in at all. So how are they making money / how is ANYONE not just playing lugia in this game?
Well, that's because the actual cards packs IRL come with digital codes that give you a pack of the same set in PTCGL.
Yeah, its like that. This game makes money by getting people to buy IRL packs. Of course, in reality this means people on the second hand market are making money.
Pokemon, more than any other TCG, is bought in bulk by people who dont give a fuck about the actual card game. It's got a lot of great card art, tons of rare variants to crack packs open for, and it's pokemon so it has huge brand loyalty. I pogged at getting a digital gold arceus vstar; imagine how hard people pog when they pull actual gold/rainbow variants?
What this means is that there's a lot of people who buy packs and don't care about the digital cards at all, but are looking to make some money back on the boxes they bought. If you have no interest in the physical game (like me), the best way to get whale in this game is to hit up ebay and buy from people who are selling cards in bulk.
And it's great value honestly! I bought a fucking 50 code pack of a set and finished my Regigigas deck for like 10 bucks. In theory that's miles cheaper than any other online client i've played.
While in theory this game is the cheapest to whale in, and it doesn't feel awful to drop 10 bucks and wait for a guy on ebay to send you some pictures to finish a deck, the F2P card gain is monstrously slow and feels impossible to make decks without dropping cash.
TL;DR
I think the actual card game is fun to play and collect cards, the client runs and works fine, and has some great QOL features I hope other games rip off (they wont), but the game's miserably slow F2P currency games makes playing this game F2P feel like a dream and if you want to play multiple decks you're going to have to either buy packs IRL and buy codes off ebay bulk sellers.
It's complicated, i'm still gonna keep playing because I'm enjoying the game, but at one point does this game start to feel like it has a subscription if i want to play more than one deck? And for people, is this game good enough for a subscription?
As an app, it's fine. Some graphical errors now and then and the battle pass UI can be somewhat of a mess what with like 4 different forms of freemium currency, but that's probably expected now with free games like this.
The Pokemon TCG itself is just in a really crappy state at the time of writing this. It doesn't feel like there's a lot of flexibility with deckbuilding, but that's just my experience. Everyone that loves whacking off Charizard so much is a FRAUD and a FAKE FAN
The Pokemon TCG itself is just in a really crappy state at the time of writing this. It doesn't feel like there's a lot of flexibility with deckbuilding, but that's just my experience. Everyone that loves whacking off Charizard so much is a FRAUD and a FAKE FAN
i am ADDICTED to this game. Not this game, specifically, but the actual trading card game. My experience with Yu-Gi-Oh, which was incredibly negative and had me staring in the mirror like the Damaged cover art, didn't completely turn me off of card games entirely. So I figured, "I'll give Pokemon and Magic a shot." Magic I am still entirely confused by, but not turned off of, but Pokemon I am in LOVE with. This card game is so much fucking fun to play with my friends.
More specifically, my partner! We have been bonding over this game and playing it every night, going to the game shops in Omaha to buy cards and test out new decks. It has been awesome! This is the crazy thing though: I have no real interest in Pokemon otherwise. As a kid I only liked the show and Pokemon Stadium, and a few years ago I REALLY loved Pokemon Unite as a much leaner and more fun League of Losers, but other than that? I couldn't have cared less about these Pocket Monsters.
What changed? The format did! I like the structure of the card game, as it is truly turn-based and there are no instants and spell cards (Instants I don't really have a problem with since you HAVE To spend a resource to use them, whereas in Yugioh you can just get fucked for free.) each turn feels more focused on getting your best cards into your hand as fast as you can, so you can build up a supply of firepower to blast your opponent to kingdom come while hoping they don't find a way to throw a wrench in your plan. Honestly, having your plan derailed might be even more fun, because it then becomes a game of improvised strategy. "OH fuck, they took away my Switch card so I'm going to have to retreat, but I can use Dialga's ability to get that energy back, so I just need to get Corviknight on the field and I can turn the tide again."
Also this version of the game is pretty cool. The battle pass sucks ass, and it gives you coins that for the life of me I think are genuinely useless as I can't find a way to purchase card sleeves or custom coins or whatever the fuck. I bought sleeves for my real deck for 4 bucks! It was super easy!
I would recommend this game to learn to play, but after that? Go get a deck and play some friends, as it is so much more exciting that way.
More specifically, my partner! We have been bonding over this game and playing it every night, going to the game shops in Omaha to buy cards and test out new decks. It has been awesome! This is the crazy thing though: I have no real interest in Pokemon otherwise. As a kid I only liked the show and Pokemon Stadium, and a few years ago I REALLY loved Pokemon Unite as a much leaner and more fun League of Losers, but other than that? I couldn't have cared less about these Pocket Monsters.
What changed? The format did! I like the structure of the card game, as it is truly turn-based and there are no instants and spell cards (Instants I don't really have a problem with since you HAVE To spend a resource to use them, whereas in Yugioh you can just get fucked for free.) each turn feels more focused on getting your best cards into your hand as fast as you can, so you can build up a supply of firepower to blast your opponent to kingdom come while hoping they don't find a way to throw a wrench in your plan. Honestly, having your plan derailed might be even more fun, because it then becomes a game of improvised strategy. "OH fuck, they took away my Switch card so I'm going to have to retreat, but I can use Dialga's ability to get that energy back, so I just need to get Corviknight on the field and I can turn the tide again."
Also this version of the game is pretty cool. The battle pass sucks ass, and it gives you coins that for the life of me I think are genuinely useless as I can't find a way to purchase card sleeves or custom coins or whatever the fuck. I bought sleeves for my real deck for 4 bucks! It was super easy!
I would recommend this game to learn to play, but after that? Go get a deck and play some friends, as it is so much more exciting that way.
This game looks like it would be so cool but it straight up can not get past the loading screen without crashing.
In a lot of ways it's inferior to its predecessor and has a lot less features, the crafting is amazing tho
8/10
I love the Pokémon TCG. I don’t have hundreds of dollars to spend on cards so this is a nice way to enjoy the game. I use to play the original app and it was good. Match making was always quick. They had tournaments, trades, but could be very grind heavy and not to mention unlocking coins to get packs took a while. They decided to over haul the app in 2021 with a brand new engine. It looked promising.
I download the app, boot it up and all my old cards are gone. My old strategies and decks are gone. That was disappointing but I was excited to start a new meta from scratch. Your avatar model looks a lot better and I like the customization options. The game isn’t completely pay to win as you unlock gems and use the gems to by packs or pay for a season pass. If you get a season pass you unlock booster packs and rare cards. Each season they give you a new deck and the decks can be pretty good. Match making is quick, it’s easy and enjoyable.
There are two styles of casual which nets you experience and coins which can be used to unlock more customization choices for your avatar as well as cards. Then in competitive mode you can unlock ladder rewards which include cards and exclusive outfits for your avatar.
Downsides are that making friends is very unintuitive and is a feature that you have to dig for to know it exist. There are no tournaments (yet) and I hope they add more features. But aside from that the game is fun. I play periodically through out the day or when I’m bored and it’s fun. Check it out.
I download the app, boot it up and all my old cards are gone. My old strategies and decks are gone. That was disappointing but I was excited to start a new meta from scratch. Your avatar model looks a lot better and I like the customization options. The game isn’t completely pay to win as you unlock gems and use the gems to by packs or pay for a season pass. If you get a season pass you unlock booster packs and rare cards. Each season they give you a new deck and the decks can be pretty good. Match making is quick, it’s easy and enjoyable.
There are two styles of casual which nets you experience and coins which can be used to unlock more customization choices for your avatar as well as cards. Then in competitive mode you can unlock ladder rewards which include cards and exclusive outfits for your avatar.
Downsides are that making friends is very unintuitive and is a feature that you have to dig for to know it exist. There are no tournaments (yet) and I hope they add more features. But aside from that the game is fun. I play periodically through out the day or when I’m bored and it’s fun. Check it out.
i hate charizard ex
Ha sido un completo vicio, como volver a la infancia cuándo le daba al de Game Boy y al que ya había en PC en su momento pero, al menos la versión de PC, está plagada de bugs que entorpecen la experiencia. [7/10]
Very Buggy
my deck is built on suicune v and ludicolo
Basicamente o mesmo que o jogo anterior, mas com menos cartas e gráficos mais bonitos. No celular parece mal otimizado pacas (ou o meu celular que é ruim), mas no PC rodou liso.
Até agora não me pareceu injustamente predatório pra conseguir carta e booster, e o Season Pass parece valer muito a pena. As partidas são rápidas e são fáceis de encontrar.
De defeito é ter poucas missões diárias, apesar de elas darem muito XP, e uns bugs eventuais, mas nada que ofenda muito não. Senti falta do torneio de deck selado também.
Provável que a nota aumente com o tempo, até agora ele é no mínimo competente, divertido e não te explora, o que é uma senhora vantagem.
Até agora não me pareceu injustamente predatório pra conseguir carta e booster, e o Season Pass parece valer muito a pena. As partidas são rápidas e são fáceis de encontrar.
De defeito é ter poucas missões diárias, apesar de elas darem muito XP, e uns bugs eventuais, mas nada que ofenda muito não. Senti falta do torneio de deck selado também.
Provável que a nota aumente com o tempo, até agora ele é no mínimo competente, divertido e não te explora, o que é uma senhora vantagem.
This is easily the worst game of the year, and the worst client I've ever seen. I won't be giving them a penny. FUCK this company for doing this.
Jogo que funciona por que o tcg em si funciona, mas tem sérios problemas de economia e bastante difícil jogando free to play conseguir recursos suficientes para qualquer coisa.
I haven’t made the switch over to LIVE from the TCGO, and haven’t actually played it myself, but trust me - fuck this game. Do NOT get it, it’s a disgraceful, greedy monetisation platform that is such an enormous downgrade from the old game that it’s ridiculous and inexcusable. Absolutely awful, a huge disappointment and middle-finger to the players. For more details, check out the videos by Rattle Pokémon and the one on my channel VulKus. This is the worst ‘update’ to a game I’ve ever seen, it makes Halo CE: Anniversary look like a flawless masterpiece.
The game is fun because the Pokemon TCG is fun. Better economy than PTCGO but still not great. Basically, everything the developers actually had to implement themselves is done horribly. This game is ugly as sin.