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I have been playing this game since Sept, 2016. Gameplay is nice for the most part. Particular stages feel gated as they are so difficult that beating them without the exact right team or power ups seems unlikely. Progression can be achieved slowly but steadily without any money being paid. Granted, spending so money can really speed up your progression. All micro transactions feel rewarding, not cash grabs. Also, spending a certain amount gives you a sort of VIP status and confers passive benefits each month. I believe the amount is under 10 dollars in a given month. All told, I am a daily player and each month I buy a small amount premium currency and find the game fun to play during short breaks. "End game" is where things can really take off or slow down depending on how you personally handle the game. For me, I am engaged in the weekly events and plot out a course for powering up my most valuable Pokémon and this goal setting helps me keep things focused without burning myself out.

So I’m giving this a 5 star rating bc it’s super fun and addicting, the graphics are pretty good, and it’s a good challenge for any Pokémon trainer. There are just a few problems... but I still will keep the game and continue to enjoy it. One thing is, sometimes beating and capturing Pokémon is difficult especially the expert levels. You have to figure out how to spend coins for boosters well. Also, gems. Gems have good value, but you can only get the by getting daily bonuses, or ranking up. The other way is to spend money, but idts. Lastly hearts are a problem to me. I mean you can get extra from whatever, but why should they be used up every time you battle? Shouldn’t they just be used up if we don’t beat the Pokémon?? That means we can only battle 5 times and then have to wait a few hours to play. Besides these slight problems, I give Pokémon shuffle 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ because it is an amazing app, and I hope all Pokémon fans try it out. Thanks for the fun game!!

I have played many Pokémon games (hoping to get Ultra Sun soon, it's still in shipping, and Pokken tournament on the Switch) before and I was delighted to find another game. This game is really fun, but in the game you only get 2 jewels, that's it. And If you don't believe me, I'm already on stage 196. I love Pokémon, but this game is just begging for money. The only way to acquire any more jewels, you have to spend A LOT of money. For ONE jewel, you'd have to spend a whole dollar, just to get more hearts (energy to play a stage) or get 5 more moves. I think this is a total rip off. If you want to play the game, expect to wait, and wait, and wait, because it literally takes 30 minutes to replenish ONE heart. Meaning that if you want a full energy bar, you'd have to wait 2 hours and 30 minutes. So overall, I just think that Pokémon just wants your money. But if you want to play for free, good luck.

Pokémon Shuffle is your traditional “Candy Crush” style game with Pokémon elements added into it. It does great job of feeling like a Pokémon Game, which was my biggest worry, by implementing abilities, mega evolution, and type matchups. Plus the game is smart by making you able to progress somewhat easily but not quickly; This allows you to continue to feel like your not getting stuck in some rut going nowhere spending all your hearts over and over just to beat one Pokémon. And to top it off, there are always new Pokémon to catch every day that are exclusive to that day, always giving the player something more to do. For a free app that is enjoyable without spending a dime, Pokémon Shuffle is the perfect pastime that will continue to entertain me for months to come.

I love it although I'm biased since I do love the franchise itself, but unlike bejeweled and candy crush, you have a lot more options to choose when it comes to using different Pokémon's which makes it really entertaining. I've been playing in it non stop for like three weeks, and I also got my boyfriend hooked on it. Yes like every other game you have in game purchases, but it comes with many perks (if you do not like waiting for the the lives to re-load), which also brings me to one problem I have with it almost insignificant, but it takes thirty minutes to reload to play, but definitely recommend the game if you don't want to bother with the other games Pokémon has to offer. I love you Pokémon company!!!

The game is a lot of fun, basically a bejeweled kind of experience, but adding typing, effects, mega evolution and a couple of other things that Pokémon can bring to the table it makes the experience completely different and way more fun. For new players I'd advise to be patient with the game and not give into impulsive purchases. Its fine to spend money on the game, but do it later down the road when you understand which parts of the game are actually hard and which aren't. Its also very easy to earn thousands of coins per day without spending money. Just a few things to be mindful of. Otherwise, enjoy this amazing game!

I’ve certainly gotten hooked on this game. Love the puzzles and the different Pokémon abilities to get through each level. I only wish I could get hearts replenished faster so I could play more... 😅 The only complaint is that the app has crashed a couple times right as I am about to start a level and I subsequently lose a heart or coins (whatever the cost was) for that level without having played it. Otherwise... an easy 4-star game. UPDATE: It would be nice to have additional opportunities to obtain items like Skill Swap. I’d hate to say it but I’d probably spend money if I could buy enhancement items. The only other thing is how it’s slightly different than the 3DS version.... it takes 1000 more coins to throw a Great Ball than the 3DS version, but you have the ability to get more coins on the spot when trying to catch a Pokemon unlike the 3DS version (where if you don’t have enough coins, you have to obtain more then retry the stage). If you can make items more available for purchase and maybe drop the Great Ball cost to match the 3DS game, this thing would get all five of my stars. UPDATE 2: I was just thinking about a subtle change to the Pokéball when you catch a Pokémon. I think it should be a normal Pokéball when the catch percentage is 40% or lower, a Great Ball from 41% to 75%, an Ultra Ball from 76% to 99%, and a Master Ball when it’s a MAX catch rate at 100%. Just a suggestion.

I’ve always been a fan of the pixels in older Pokemon games, and even a newer fan of the 3D models, but it was nice to see a different take on the Pokemon art in this game. I also like that I can shut down my 3DS without having to wait for anything and pick up where I left off. Something I don’t like, which is mostly me, is that some of the Pokemon blend together. Pokemon that are in certain groups share the same colors, like Water types tend to be blue and fire types tend to be red. A game mode where you can move any of the Pokemon to wherever you want, it can get hard for me to differentiate between several of the same colored Pokemon. If I could change something, I’d definitely add in something to help differentiate between same colored Pokemon. Perhaps having a mode where you can put the Pokemon sprites inside a colored box like some sort of tetris, or having Pokemon tinted different colors would help.

Medicham (stage 230) is a really hard stage, and I need to catch him for a new mega evolution. I have level 8 pokemon and I have only succeeded once in about 50 attempts I have done on this pokemon, and the level doesn’t even say it’s hard. Even stage 249 is easier as it only took not even ten attempts to beat and it already says the stage difficulty is three stars. You also may want to make Mewtwo (Expert 20) a little easier too. The game has also often been crashing sometimes when I do things like starting a stage. The catchability may need to be fixed too, or maybe I just got really bad luck. There was one pokemon (it was Skitty (stage 222), I managed to get S rank) that had a catchability of 62%, and I failed four great balls, I even used a gem on a great ball and it still failed.

Let me tell you. I am addicted to this game I play all day everyday and have spent many $4.99 on jewels. That being said, it is constantly crashing. I want to say it crashes about 15+ times a day. The thing is, when it crashes and I’m using my “no hearts needed” with the jewels that I paid for and it’s crashing and using up the time. So instead of getting my 45 mins, in reality I’m getting about 40 mins because of how much it crashes. And not only that, you can’t just swipe out of the app and it clears. You have to wait the however many seconds and it closes for you. PLEEEEASE fix the crashes. Not sure if developers even care about this game anymore cuz I have not seen an updates in a while. Also, time for the “no heart needed” shouldn’t pass while the app is closed. It should pause while the app is closed and resumes when you open it back up.

Now the game itself is amazing, having a " jewel " like experience with Pokémon, but the worst part about this game is the unfairness to mobile players setting the game at a complete left turn when you compare the 3ds version and the mobile version. For example Pokémon shuffle has a certain currency called jewels and these jewels are used to buy more hearts and coins. In the first boss stage you get 1 jewel to buy more hearts or coins or 5 extra turns at the end of the round. Now in the mobile Version you literally only can get a total amount of two jewels the entire game. One in the beginning and one in the mission cards ( mission cards are certain challenges you optionally could beat for a reward ) while in the 3ds version you can get around 75 jewels just by reaching level 30, and also I would like to mention the fact that to play these stages you have to get hearts to play move up the stages, similar to energy where you would spend some to go on a task or mission, the game gives you 5 hearts in total and after you waste all your 5 measly hearts you wait hours and I'm not kidding literally hours to get back those 5 little hearts to reach up to stages that are 600+ , are you kidding me?! I have to wait hours to move up a tiny bit up the levels. Honestly the game is good overall but the creators of this app ( Genius sonority) took a dump on mobile players and gave them an unfair advantage for not playing this on a ds.

Now, disregarding the major cash grab in this game or the difficulty curve that takes luck and/or event Pokémon giveaways to progress past, the fact that DS players get more free jewels and spend 1000 less coins per great ball, I still play on mobile simply because of the convinence. And I know they’ve rationalized it by calling it hard mode, (which, no.) But what really strikes me the wrong way is the catch rates being hidden. Anytime you have a 10% or less catch rate of getting a Pokémon, the number is replaces with an ‘?’ instead of the percentage. Now, keep in mind when you use a great ball, the percent doubles so you can normally figure out where it landed anyway, but it’s almost like they want players to use great balls on Pokémon that may still have a ‘?’, when they’re new. It’s like saying “we don’t want you to know not to waste your coins”. It’s not a feature on DS and it feels condescending and shameful honestly.... I really hope they patch it out soon, but it’s been in since the beginning so I’m not sure it’ll go anywhere. Overall though, it is a very fun game that holds up to the “catch ‘em all” theme of the games in a whole new way.

Edit: After a very long time since my initial review the game has taken a shift. The game is amazing when you start but after a while everything gets difficult if you’re free to play player. The Special Stages are really difficult and let’s say out of a miracle you beat the stage, that still means you gotta take a small percentage to catch the pokemon. There are times where i have spent all my coins on enhancements JUST to beat the stage and then fail the capture. Is discouraging how difficult these stages get, especially considering you NEED these difficult to get pokemon to proceed on the Main Stages (for abilities) after a while i just gave up. The game is fun and can get addicting but beware, the deeper you go, the harder it gets. I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH. It gets a hard once you have progressed in he main stages but it is very addicting and fun. I constantly check the game to make sure the hearts have replenished so i can play. The update has made the game EVEN better with the ability to make friends without the need of Facebook. And the constant gifts everytime to log in is just amazing. Great job!

62. That is the amount of times I have beaten Ralts and not been able to catch him. 12 move stage, 9 moves left, catch rate of a massive 15%. Three wiggles, pop. Oh yes! Super Catch Power activate! Up to 67%! Finally! Throw the great ball. Doesn’t even wiggle before busting out. Whoever designed this area needs to be taken out back and beaten. The catch rates are abysmal. Most of them are in the “yeah it is so low we didn’t even bother calculating a percentage for you.” Not only that, but you have to catch some of these purely to pass further levels. I had fun picking this game back up again after some time, but then ran headlong into rampant greed and stupid decisions made by programmers with a sadistic side and dollars signs in their eyes. Sorry but after 62 attempts, you broke me. Again. Have a great time trying to squeeze more blood from a stone devs, you are absolutely stupid at this point and need to rethink playability because without it, you make zero dollars. Did I mention that you may not even get to play due to all the hard crashes? Hey devs I have the screenshot if you even care to see it! Maybe it would help you to actually make the game playable without a few crashes when you do ANYTHING.