+ 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!