Pokémon Cafe Mix is a single-player puzzle game, authored by Nintendo now available for iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch. In Cafe Mix, you're the employee of the cafe by which all your visitors and partons are Pokémon. Your work would be to take and create delicious meals for visiting Pokémon. If you can befriend certain Pokémon, they can become staff at the cafe, aiding you in making meals utilizing their certain skills.
Pokémon Cafe Mix an extremely cute, entertaining, and challenging experience. I like games with an ‘simple to get, difficult to master’ feel. Pokémon line up to become served and you select the right Pokémon to produce that order, and also you swirl around Pokémon icons to attain points and complete objectives. The Pokémon icons are faces of different Pokémon. You tap and hold one icon and also the swirl the icon around trying to link matching ones, creating a multiplier. If you're able to get over ten links, you'll fill your employee Pokémon’s skill bar. These skills have a range of effects.
For example, Charmander’s skill clears Pokémon icons and gimmicks to the right. Gimmicks are puzzle pieces that cannot be cleared simply by linking pieces together to make them disappear. Examples of Gimmicks are Sugar Cubes and Chestnuts. You are able to remove sugar cubes by linking Pokémon icons near them to allow them to crack. You may also fully remove a sugar cube using a Pokémon skill. The Chestnut gimmick are only able to be removed using a Pokémon skill on it.
Pokémon Cafe Mix begins easy, giving you an idea of the mechanics hanging around and as you continuously complete orders, that’s if this starts to trip you up, and hooks you in. You have a specific amount of moves to accomplish an order in, coupled with achieving a certain score and removing some gimmicks. Upon reaching Order 30 happens when the mobile features began to kick in. You are able to retry if you fail your objectives, using up a heart. You have a total of 5. When you exhaust those retries, you may either wait, half an hour for a heart to refill or use golden acorns. Golden Acorns are currency to buy items that assist you to in-game and refill your retries. You receive these by completing orders and just how well you perform.
As a gamer who loves mobile gaming, very little games keep my interest. I really enjoy Pokémon Cafe Mix because, typically, I really like Pokemon. I've been keen on the franchise since its inception within the 90s. Also, I've got a love-hate relationship with puzzle games, from hesitant to think but to also strengthen that main muscle we use every day. Cafe Mix creates this relaxing atmosphere that allows me to think as they are, even if the object of the game is just swirling icons around. It’s great to see the little monsters I've developed with, in another capacity other than battling. And what better method to experience that, for making food, something that brings everyone together.
The music in Cafe Mix is extremely soothing and fun to hear. The skill is adorable and Pokémon always delivers that nostalgia effect if you notice your favorite Pokémon, particularly in farmville when they are wearing a cute uniform, whether it is a hat or scarf, or a combination of both. The amount and puzzles are very well crafted giving players quite the task. Many times I thought I achieved success only to be greeted with the retry screen. Microtransactions are pretty reasonable in this game and aren't inside your face. The game lets you know there are options before you decide to begin to see the title screen. Overall, Pokémon Cafe Mix has been quite a pleasurable mobile game experience.
Pokémon Cafe Mix can be obtained now for Android, iOS, and Nintendo Switch
