{"id":3313,"date":"2023-01-06T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2023-02-23T21:33:41","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T04:33:41","slug":"video-game-pokemon-quest-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/06\/video-game-pokemon-quest-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO GAME: Pok\u00e9mon Quest (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pok\u00e9monPok\u00e9mon Quest
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2018
\nRating: E
\nTime Played: 105+ hours<\/p>\n

There are a lot of games I play that are part of the free-to-play structure. Pok\u00e9mon Quest<\/em> was one of them. I say was<\/em> here because there really was no motivation to complete the Pok\u00e9mon series slogan of catching them all without finally giving in and paying for the items needed to make grinding for these rare Pok\u00e9mon much easier. If I had given in and paid for the necessary items to make the game completable, I\u2019d be spending nearly $30, and this is not a $30 game. When a game can play itself without player input, it\u2019s hardly even a game.<\/p>\n

Presented in a pixelated Minecraft<\/em> style, Pok\u00e9mon Quest<\/em> is probably closest to the Rumble<\/em> side series of Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> games. With a few limited moves, the Pok\u00e9mon you play with in this game are sent into different biomes to take down the Pok\u00e9mon that live there. While there is some amount of strategy for how you set up your team of three Pok\u00e9mon so that you can let the game play on automatic mode without your Pok\u00e9mon fainting, once you have the META figured out, it basically plays itself. Often, I\u2019d start a round while watching a TV show, only occasionally glancing down to confirm that the level was complete.<\/p>\n

There were times near the late stages of the game when it was legitimately fun, and the challenge was enough for me to take control of my Pok\u00e9mon for a few levels. Still, the main \u201ccapture\u201d mechanic for this game was too random for my tastes. Cooking food in your camp that would attract Pok\u00e9mon based on the ingredients never felt like something I could control to get what I wanted. Instead, I had to pay for the ability to speed this process up or run it in parallel with multiple pots of food. Since I refused to do so, my Pok\u00e9dex remains incomplete, even if all the levels were defeated.<\/p>\n

A somewhat fun free-to-play game that is not worth the $30 it tries to get you to spend, I give Pok\u00e9mon Quest<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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