John Carney
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The combat is more fun and involved than Pokémon Go, but there're a lot of caveats. Progress slows to a trickle early on, combat suffers from lag and freezing, even on new devices, and the game tells you almost nothing about its mechanics, leaving it up to you to comb fan wikis. The cost of upgrading gear at higher levels almost punishes experimenting, and since gameplay hardly changes as the game progresses, the repetition becomes a grind. Fun for a while, but painful to stick with.
4 people found this review helpful
Demie
I pre-registered when this game was eligible for that, and it was fine when it released. Now it has so many problems including but not limited to: Attacks flat-out missing; certain monsters appear only through hunt-a-thons, bad drop rates for rare stuff, not being able to give parameters for your palico to paintball...and then some. Plus after a certain point there's really no incentive to keep ranking up. If they want players to drop this game after season 1, it's working so far. Keep it up!
56 people found this review helpful
Jacob Morgan
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Progress slows down once you get to grade 5 materials and not sure who they are kidding with their in-app "deals". The game has really improved in the last couple of weeks, though. There are lots of events, and you can even hunt specific monsters by taking out a number of large monsters. It does feel like Niantic listens to reviews and is improving the experience. It's definitely worth trying out. I Only wish there was an easier way for coop. Maybe some way to do long distance with friends?
23 people found this review helpful