{"id":2356,"date":"2021-01-22T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T22:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2023-02-23T21:32:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T04:32:51","slug":"pokemon-shuffle-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/22\/pokemon-shuffle-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GAME: Pok\u00e9mon Shuffle (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2015
\nRating: E
\nTime Played: ~824 hours<\/p>\n

Considering how much time I\u2019ve sunk into this game, I should probably give it a review. While on its surface, Pok\u00e9mon Shuffle<\/em> is merely a branded version of a \u201cmatch three\u201d puzzle game, the mechanics it adds to this genre gives the game an amount of strategy that is clearly addicting. As a free-to-play gamer, I haven\u2019t put a single dollar into this game (on either the 3DS or mobile versions). Consequently, it takes a very long time to get anything done in this game, at least when it comes to maxing out the stats on the best Pok\u00e9mon to use.<\/p>\n

While the game has finally entered a regular cycle of events and specially available Pok\u00e9mon, there was a time when I was excited to open up the game on Tuesdays to learn what new Pok\u00e9mon I could catch\/power-up each week. At the very least, with the normalization of events, I know I won\u2019t have to wait an undetermined amount of time before a rare Pok\u00e9mon comes back to the game. Unfortunately, as a free-to-play game, I needed to accomplish plenty of grinding to advance. Some levels are quite difficult, to the point where even using a full slate of items isn\u2019t enough to win (not a cheap option, considering the in-game currency).<\/p>\n

Having beaten and caught all the special \u201cS-rank\u201d Pok\u00e9mon and made my way half-way through the UX levels, at this point, I\u2019m a high enough level that I can get some fairly good rewards from the bi-weekly competitions. And even if I haven\u2019t managed to beat the Survival Mode itemless, I still find the grinding of Pok\u00e9mon levels and skills to be enjoyable enough for me to keep playing every day. Because, in the end, these special abilities make Pok\u00e9mon Shuffle<\/em> more than just a \u201cmatch three\u201d puzzle game.<\/p>\n

A unique take on the \u201cmatch three\u201d puzzle genre, I give Pok\u00e9mon Shuffle<\/em> 4.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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Pok\u00e9mon Shuffle Year: 2015 Rating: E Time Played: ~824 hours Considering how much time I\u2019ve sunk into this game, I should probably give it a review. While on its surface, Pok\u00e9mon Shuffle is merely a branded version of a \u201cmatch three\u201d puzzle game, the mechanics it adds to this genre gives the game an amount […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3353,1900],"tags":[33,2600,2604,2605,2382,1867,2602,2158,8,2603,906],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-0-stars","category-free-to-play","category-video-game","tag-33","tag-free-to-play","tag-match-three","tag-mobile","tag-nintendo-3ds","tag-pokemon","tag-pokemon-shuffle","tag-puzzle","tag-review","tag-shuffle","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}