![]() ![]() Filling up a Pokémon's Heart meter will impress them so much they'll join your café staff, and each Pokémon boasts its own unique skill and menu specialty. Getting stars is important for Café ReMix, as stars not only affect how many acorns you get for completion, but also the affection of your Pokémon customers. Use up a move? Yes, just like most free-to-play puzzle games, every level comes with a limited number of moves, so combos and chains must be made carefully! ReMix doesn't simply stop there either upon clearing out a level's basic requirements and netting a star, the game board will be refreshed with a new layout and set of objectives, allowing players to gun for additional stars by clearing these out too. ![]() Linking up chains also adds to a Pokémon's skill meter, allowing players to use up a move to release a Skill that removes icons and hazards. The longer the chain, the higher your score, and chains spawn megaphones that can be tapped to blow up nearby icons. By dragging their finger across the screen and linking up chains of identical Pokémon icons, players complete levels by reaching score requirements, thus serving up tasty treats to hungry customers and getting paid in acorns. The gameplay in Café ReMix primarily takes place on levels filled with Pokémon and ingredient icons that fall from above, representing a variety of Pokémon-themed dishes and beverages. ![]() Following the update to ReMix, energy recharges every 15 minutes instead of the genre-typical 30, and sending energy among teammates has also been implemented. Joined by the ever-helpful Leah, you resolve to make your Pokémon café the best café ever! (.For Pokémon, that is, because Leah's the only human that exists in the game past the opening cutscene.) And how do you go about doing this? By serving up tasty treat after treat to Pokémon who visit your café until they join up, of course!Īs is the case with most free-to-play games, Café ReMix uses an energy system - but unlike that of Candy Crush or Gardenscapes, playing a level uses up 1 out of 5 Energy, win or lose. The story behind Café ReMix is about as simple as it gets: after visiting a café that's run and frequented by humans and Pokémon, you and your Eevee partner are inspired to take the reins at a café of your own. So how does Café ReMix hold up amidst the other Pokémon spinoffs available today? While clearly unable to hold a candle to the worldwide phenomenon of GO, Shuffle plodded on steadily since its 2015 debut, covering seven generations of Pokémon until it was quietly put on life support and its in-game events set to loop indefinitely. Perhaps one of the most cross-platform initiatives of 2020 was a curious little offering by the name of Pokémon Café Mix (later rebranded as ReMix after a major update in 2021) - not only has this game made a splash for itself for merchandising, it's even had a few tie-ins with actual Pokémon cafés! Developed by Genius Sonority, Café Mix is yet another notch in the company's list of spinoff involvements, including another free-to-play release in Pokémon Shuffle, aka "Pokémon meets Candy Crush". I mean, let's face it: ten years ago, nobody could have expected Pokémon to have its own tooth-brushing app. Whether this is good or bad for the core game development is a separate discussion, but looking at the games getting churned out in the late 2010s, it's clear that spinoffs have taken off in increasingly varied and experimental directions. Like other famous titles under Nintendo's banner, the series has transcended genres, platforms, and even company borders as the franchise adapted to a new paradigm of international releases and trends in gaming. Anyone who's followed the history of Pokémon will know that the franchise is hardly a stranger to spinoffs.
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