#Pokemon very finicky full#
#Pokemon very finicky series#

So today’s more about showing some care for my pokemon and making it to the next town AND WHAT’S THIS? Aw man I want that Lucario…*coughitlovesmemorecough* Aw I can’t have it yet.So here’s the next list of pokemon I caught while trying to get to the next city on Route 5. I already have a Venasaur back home so for this journey, I’m choosing Charmander.Īlright I’m done here. Professor Sycamore….That’s some nice hair you got there…….A CHARMANDER. Just got my poodle thing a haircut here, looked around, talked to anyone I could find and visited the lab. So I went to Lumiose city and good lord this is confusing and I’m finding it hard to use these roller blades. Hey guys! Time for another entry….I’m so slow. Liam the Meinfoo (…I looked up popular boy names) Oddball the Oddish (It’s a funky Pokemon) Seattle the Sentret (It was the first thing I thought of) For now, here’s the next list of captures I made along the way. Knox the Snorlax (Named after my chubby basset hound)Īlright! A stop at the Pokemon Center and then I’m off to the next city and OH! A daycare! Shoot…I cant think of anyone I want to put in there today. What was he gonna do if I declined? So I caught him. Handed over the Pokeflute so the dude can wake the Snorlax….And he wants me to fight it. How does anyone get through that grass? I couldn’t even tell where I was going. That palace was gigantic!!! And seriously? $1000 to view this place? But….it was so beautiful…All those statues were awesome. Ehhh they want me to go find the flute? Typical. As someone with an already large collection of physical Pokémon cards, I have a hard time rationalizing buying more virtual ones for a mediocre online version of the game I already play in the real world.Oh. It’s especially slow going if you want to play competitively with a deck you make yourself, as opposed to just using and reusing the starter decks.

#Pokemon very finicky full#

“Buying” a full deck in the shop is 500 coins, and you earn anywhere from one to 10 per match. Meanwhile, on my end, connecting to the network in general was finicky, and putting down the iPad for a minute to grab a snack or answer a text timed me out on multiple occasions.Īs far as the free-to-play element goes, Pokémon TCGO’s progression is paced a little slowly for those who opt out of microtransactions (and, in this case, buying packs of cards IRL that contain redeemable codes). Multiple opponents took far too long choosing a Pokémon at the beginning, for example, so either there was a problem with the network communication or my adversaries had something better to do. The other major draw for PokémonTCGO, online competitive play, blows its potential with laggy matches that are altogether too slow-paced to enjoy.

#Pokemon very finicky series#

Thanks to a series of very lucky coin flips in my favor, Kyurem couldn’t attack, and I stayed alive long enough to draw a better Pokémon. I lost one match almost immediately because I drew too many unhelpful Trainer Cards, but I also had a particularly exciting match in which I defeated my opponent’s Kyurem by poisoning it and continually putting it to sleep with just a Wurmple. NPC difficulty isn’t really consistent, even on the hardest setting, but - and this is true of the Pokémon TCG in general - it’s largely due to chance.

I’ve spent about 10 hours just replaying the NPCs in order to unlock more booster packs, and just like in the old days with binders and card-protecting sleeves, I’ve also spent some time admiring my growing collection. The relatively strong single-player mode is designed as both an opportunity to practice strategy and very gradually unlock more cards, and my “gotta catch ‘em all” instinct definitely kicked in.

To its credit, I actually had fun playing the campaign, despite my first impressions with the UI.