Opened a 10 pack and dailies, walked away with 2 suicune ex, 2 Jumpluff EX, a holo travelling merchant, an azurill, and 2 alt art yampers. gotta say, walked out like a bandit with those.
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Heavy sigh
I told myself I wasn’t going to get this game. I told myself I wouldn’t cave. Especially after that whole AI art drama. I don’t want to play any of the mobile games anymore. And I still haven’t downloaded this, and I quit both GO and Masters. But something about this new set that came out seems extremely familiar. Can’t quite put my finger on it, though… it’s not like this set features an oddly specific combination of Legendaries that were all on the cover of a game together or something, right?
Between this and the last set, I think this game is trying to tell me something… eh, probably thinking too much into this. While I would call myself a big Johto fan, I don’t know if I’d call myself enough to want to start playing an entire game just because of a couple TCG sets of it. I’ll let you guys decide. Would you “recommend” this to someone, for lack of better word? I mean, it’s just another F2P mobile game, it’s not a big deal or anything.
I told myself I wasn’t going to get this game. I told myself I wouldn’t cave. Especially after that whole AI art drama. I don’t want to play any of the mobile games anymore. And I still haven’t downloaded this, and I quit both GO and Masters. But something about this new set that came out seems extremely familiar. Can’t quite put my finger on it, though… it’s not like this set features an oddly specific combination of Legendaries that were all on the cover of a game together or something, right?
Between this and the last set, I think this game is trying to tell me something… eh, probably thinking too much into this. While I would call myself a big Johto fan, I don’t know if I’d call myself enough to want to start playing an entire game just because of a couple TCG sets of it. I’ll let you guys decide. Would you “recommend” this to someone, for lack of better word? I mean, it’s just another F2P mobile game, it’s not a big deal or anything.
I enjoy the game more than I expected to and just play with the free stuff but I don't think I'd recommend unless something seemed fun to you. Especially at this juncture since you'd be needing to pull on multiple sets (such is the way of gacha).
Like I guess if you jsut raelly want to see the new cards in-game and move the cards around and maybe play a few matches? That's probably fine. Then just uninstall when the luster wears off. The one upshot of these kind of games is, ideally, you can just put them back down.
Also for clarity it wasn't an AI art issue. The issue was they gave the artist fan art (considering the fan art itself was based on official merch, I can see the line of how this happened, even if they really shouldn't have had it happen to begin with) as part of their materials and told them to reference the materials very closely due to how immersive arts work.
I remember hearing online somewhere it was another AI theft situation, but this matches more with what I was pretty sure actually happened. Stupid fake news outlets. In any case, thanks for getting back to my post. It looks decent, I suppose, certainly welcome as I don’t collect the physical cards anymore (thanks, local scalpers) and most of my friends don’t play the TCG anymore anyways. I tend to give mobile games a lot of crap regardless of the franchise, with only a select few ever holding my interest over time. I may opt to give this a shot, but I probably wouldn’t be that interested in the PVP side of it- said friends I mentioned earlier got me into Magic: the Gathering in college and I strongly prefer their PVP over Pokémon’s.
ABSOLUTELY
The game is amazing, it fixes so many of the issues with OG TCG. Also, you can legit make a lot of good decks as a f2p player.
Got an Immersive Suicune on my main too.
Good news for everyone complaining about new sets coming out too fast, (In other words: everyone) the next set is nothing but reprints and new art!
Bad News for anyone who like collecting alternate art cards: It's only going to be available for a month. I'm going to be SO annoyed if there's an Immersive Art card and I'm not lucky enough to open it. I'll be even more annoyed if there's multiple.
One of the alternate art cards is Full Art Professor's Research. Even if you don't get one (Odds are you won't.) it's still going to be cool to see when other people play it. It'd still be nice to get one because full art Trainer Cards are always the better looking ones, right?
OH ARCEUS WHAT IS HE DOING TO THAT BOOK!
He's curling the front cover behind the back! That is TERRIBLE for books! You'd think a researcher would take better care of his books!
Nope. I'm NOT using that one if I get it. Professor Oak is now my least favorite Professor because of a massive pet peeve.
Bad News for anyone who like collecting alternate art cards: It's only going to be available for a month. I'm going to be SO annoyed if there's an Immersive Art card and I'm not lucky enough to open it. I'll be even more annoyed if there's multiple.
One of the alternate art cards is Full Art Professor's Research. Even if you don't get one (Odds are you won't.) it's still going to be cool to see when other people play it. It'd still be nice to get one because full art Trainer Cards are always the better looking ones, right?
OH ARCEUS WHAT IS HE DOING TO THAT BOOK!
He's curling the front cover behind the back! That is TERRIBLE for books! You'd think a researcher would take better care of his books!
Nope. I'm NOT using that one if I get it. Professor Oak is now my least favorite Professor because of a massive pet peeve.
I found a spare one in one of my alts.R_N Sorry breh, I just saw your trade notification.
I only got one Skarm EX on my main, but I'll check my alts and get back to ya.
If any of y'all need to trade something, @ me on the OI Discord, it'll be easier for me to see the ping.
I could use some of the Shining Revelry EX cards for completion's sake. Do you have any spares?
I actually got a Skarmory EX out of a wonder pick a few days after your post, sorry
My spare ex situation is very sparse so I try to keep hold of them for future purposes, also sorry (though...checking my collection I'm not sure I would be able to trade anything from Shining Revelry anyway....)
Well, this might be the worst bs this game has pulled so far:
- Deluxe Pack EX consists of all cards from previous sets. They don't count for the collection if you already had these from previous sets, and it even messes up the order if you pull them in this pack.
- But that's not all! There's also "a toofpick changes everything" variants that p much doubles the quantity of repeated cards for a total of 379 cards to collect! 26 of of those are rare full arts which dont forget btw, limited time pack.
- There's like a million rewards and missions to claim now and the game still doesn't have a "claim all" option
They managed to piss off every type of customer, this reddit post sums up my feelings:
- Deluxe Pack EX consists of all cards from previous sets. They don't count for the collection if you already had these from previous sets, and it even messes up the order if you pull them in this pack.
- But that's not all! There's also "a toofpick changes everything" variants that p much doubles the quantity of repeated cards for a total of 379 cards to collect! 26 of of those are rare full arts which dont forget btw, limited time pack.
- There's like a million rewards and missions to claim now and the game still doesn't have a "claim all" option
They managed to piss off every type of customer, this reddit post sums up my feelings: