As somebody who has never played any amount of the Pokemon Trading Card game before, this game was a fun introduction to the world of the tcg!!
One of the things that stuck out as rougher was the overall production value. All character sprites are constantly in their walking animation, and there's no connection between the areas in the game, just a map. There's also no real sense of progression throughout the game, as I felt just as powerful after about 3 hours of the game as I did with 16.
Nonetheless, the core game here was fun. The art on the cards is expressive and lively, and actually playing the game had me very engaged with strategy and planning a good deck for each fight. I was pleasantly surprised with how engaged I was with this game throughout. I do wish that some of the animations (like pulling cards from the deck) could be skipped though.
Overall, this certainly isn't a perfect game, but it does make me wish that we had a modern Pokemon TCG game with modern day styling (that isn't a free-to-play pile of garbage), one that took the base concept of this game and made it a real, engaging GAME, just more fully featured overall.
In it's current state, this game is still a lot of fun though, and I would recommend it to anybody that can get past the outdated visuals and pacing.
One of the things that stuck out as rougher was the overall production value. All character sprites are constantly in their walking animation, and there's no connection between the areas in the game, just a map. There's also no real sense of progression throughout the game, as I felt just as powerful after about 3 hours of the game as I did with 16.
Nonetheless, the core game here was fun. The art on the cards is expressive and lively, and actually playing the game had me very engaged with strategy and planning a good deck for each fight. I was pleasantly surprised with how engaged I was with this game throughout. I do wish that some of the animations (like pulling cards from the deck) could be skipped though.
Overall, this certainly isn't a perfect game, but it does make me wish that we had a modern Pokemon TCG game with modern day styling (that isn't a free-to-play pile of garbage), one that took the base concept of this game and made it a real, engaging GAME, just more fully featured overall.
In it's current state, this game is still a lot of fun though, and I would recommend it to anybody that can get past the outdated visuals and pacing.