What sets Pokémon Café Mix apart from other games in the genre, is that the icon locations are not in static rows, and will move around with the slightest interaction from the players. At its core, the mechanics are easy to pick up and play, with no need for convoluted tutorials ( which they do, however, force upon you). You remove icons by chaining two or more of the same kind together by dragging your finger across the touchscreen in a certain amount of time. These objectives can range from reaching a specific score to removing all of a particular food type from a stage. The making of these items takes the form of individual puzzle stages filled with icons representing different Pokémon heads, and numerous objectives to be met in a set number of turns.
The gameplay loop of Pokémon Café Mix comes from creating the requested dishes of each Pokémon. While starting with little more than your co-workers Leah and Eevee, as you begin serving your PokePatrons with tasty noms and beverages, you will start recruiting them on your team. Putting its unique spin on the puzzle game format which is already excessively prominent on smart devices, it couples thought-provoking yet straightforward gameplay with a sugary cute aesthetic.Īs the title implies, you become the owner of a café dedicated to serving the local populace of Pokémon with assorted drinks, sweets and meals.
This is a puzzle game for the Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android platforms. The latest Pokémon game to hit (digital) store shelves is Pokémon Café Mix, published by The Pokémon Company and developed by Genius Sonority. Even though we are unlikely to see a mainline Pokémon game away from a Nintendo home console anytime soon, these games are managing to make a name for themselves. After many years of remaining exclusive to Nintendo’s consoles, the many hundreds of critters have shuffled out onto smart device platforms through game’s like Niantic’s Pokémon Go, and Pokémon Masters from the development team at DeNa. Once it's charged up, you can use it in the puzzle by pulling it over or save it for another time.The Pokémon multimedia powerhouse is not unfamiliar to the mobile market. You can use a Pokémon's Cafe Skills in a challenge by connecting as many of the Pokémon icons as you can in a puzzle. Make sure when you do puzzles that the Pokémon helping you has a skill that matches the puzzle, as it will make it easier to solve. A higher friendship bonus with staff means that they'll be better at helping you solve puzzles. The work doesn't end when the Pokémon joins your staff once that happens, you'll begin to get bonuses every time that same species of Pokémon visits the cafe and places an order.
This will be extremely helpful in the future because the game will have events with special limited pokemon whose friendship you'll have to max out before the end of the event in order to keep them.
Occasionally you'll get a friendship bonus that will allow you to get more points when you finish a puzzle. Keep filling their orders correctly over time and they'll join the cafe after a certain point. Rather you'll have to win them over by jacking up their friendship bars. Keep in mind that the Pokémon who begin visiting the cafe after a certain order is cleared will not automatically join your staff.
You can look ahead to see who will be visiting next by taking a peek at the Cafe Upgrades menu.