Pokémon TCG Pocket 4+

Pokemon cards have become so price gouged in recent years that I’m actually happy this app exists, of course it’s filled to the brim with micro transactions but it’s a mobile game involving Pokemon cards, this is the least surprising thing.

You get to open 2 packs every day for free (more if you pay) so it’s hard not to hate it really, it doesn’t quite scratch the itch of opening a pack of cards in real life but it’s a welcome replacement, and collecting some of my favourite cards all over again brings back happy memories.

The main attraction though is the battling, as someone whose only form of battling Pokemon cards was on the old TCG website, this is really nostalgic to me and I only hope this game gets more support with more existing cards added to the game, because I had a shiny full art Mew EX that was my absolute favourite card and I’d do anything to battle with it in this game

The game is good if you like Pokemon cards, you log in once a day open a couple free packs, then log out and wait 24 hours to fully replenish your packs (2x 12 hours each) unless you pay ofcourse, there is a slight battle system you get rewards for completing them then that’s it non down they offer you literally nothing once you’ve completed them, so you literally end up logging on opening 2 packs then logging out, oh actually you get a wonder pick witch lets to get a completely random card from a pack opened by another person but they have a ridiculous long cooldown time for the very little that they offer, it would make the game infinitely better if you got rewards for winning battles like you could In the old tcg app that was so much better but they couldn’t flood it with micro transactions so obviously got rid of possibly the best Pokemon mobile game behind GO and Unite. It’s not a game for Pokemon fans it’s a game to bleed money out of people, they took away the best tcg where you could get booster packs from winning battles and coins etc to unlock decks. The novelty will unfortunately wear off what could of been a amazing idea because of pure greed, there’s grind to earn currency or unlock packs just get what you’re given or give us money. Disappointed but is fantastic to play on the toilet as it takes 5 minutes max

I really wish I could give this game a higher rating but I just can’t. The game is fun when you open packs when you get something good from them but 90% of the time you usually get absolutely nothing. The game is HEAVILY RNG based in pack opening, wonder picks and online battles. Packs are already determined as soon as you press the open button of the pack of your choice, wonder picks is just RNG based as it is and online battles, don’t get me even started with online battles. The one thing that made me rate this game low is how HEAVILY the RNG is based on online battles, how do you expect to win a online battle with a terrible starter hand with just mainly supporter cards and when you use them in your first turn if you are going first, all you get is cards that you can’t even use after like 8-9 turns whereas your opponent is there with a way better hand than you with majority of their Pokémon evolved and powered up and your there trying to pull your Gardevoir or Serperior. By the time you have pulled the card that you need, the opponent has pretty much won the battle and it’s honestly really not fair how the battles are soo RNG based like you could even win on your first turn with Articuno + Misty with 3 heads!!! All this game needs is a bit toning down with the RNG and I feel like people would not get as much upset if that was the case