Ultimately, “kind of annoying” is a good way to describe Pokemon Quest. Pokemon sound effects are taken from the original Game Boy games, which is both a nice touch and kind of annoying. Similarly, the music is forgettable, featuring a variety of bright, happy, and largely inoffensive tunes you’ll have trouble remembering 10 minutes after you shut off the game. The special effects from attacks aren’t much to look at either. The game introduces a new setting, Tumblecube Island, as well as voxel graphics, borrowed from Minecraft. The graphics are fine, but the novelty of seeing blocky versions of first generation Pokemon wears off fast. If you try to play in docked mode, you’re stuck with a painfully slow cursor. Nintendo has already announced that Pokemon Quest is coming to smartphones later this month and it’s obvious that the game was built more with those platforms in mind. All of the controls revolve around tapping buttons on the screen. Pokemon Quest is fully playable in both docked and handheld mode, but a few minutes with the joycons or the pro controller make it painfully clear that this is not a game meant to be played on the big screen. Expedition packs, which include special Pokemon, cosmetic items, and PM tickets range from $4.99-17.99. Some of the more impressive cosmetic items will require a serious time commitment, or plunking down real money. Individual power stones start at $2.99. You can get them by completing challenges or logging in every day, but that’s only for smaller numbers of tickets to hasten simple recipes. Initially, PM tickets aren’t too hard to come by. When it runs out of juice, you have to wait 30 minutes for it to recharge before you can go on another expedition. The only way to get more space? PM tickets. Meanwhile, expedition attempts are limited by your battery. And if you fail an expedition and want to keep the items you found, guess what? That’s more PM tickets. Your inventory is at first limited to only 20 Pokemon and 20 power stones, items that can give them bonuses in battle. Speeding up cooking, which takes at least a couple of expeditions, requires PM tickets, as do cosmetic items for your camp site. The game’s economy revolves around PM tickets and battery charges.
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