The gimmicks I can deal with, but there is one aspect of Café Mix that proves far more irksome the further I get into it. Some of the puzzles can look daunting, but knowing how to use the puzzle formula to my advantage kept it from feeling overwhelming. You can only clear nuts from the puzzle board with megaphones or skills. Tomatoes, for instance, must be moved to the baskets at the bottom of the puzzle screen. However, some require a different strategy. You can clear all these gimmicks with a skill, megaphone, or clearing linked Pokémon that touch them. From there, it introduces more gimmicks, including honey, which respawns if you don’t clear it all, ice that freezes Pokémon and gimmicks in place, and the most annoying of them all, bubbles. Soon enough, the game introduces sugar cubes, which you can clear with a megaphone, a café skill, a Pokémon skill, or by clearing linked Pokémon three times while they touch the cube. For the first few orders or so, your only concern is linking as many Pokémon together as you can. The challenge in Pokémon Café Mix comes from the various menu items and gimmicks the game slowly adds to the puzzle formula as you progress. Successfully clear a puzzle, and the Pokémon rewards you with golden acorns based on how many turns you had left. You only have a set number of moves to complete each puzzle in and once you touch an icon on the screen, you only have a couple of seconds before whatever combo you’ve amassed clears from the board. Each puzzle manifests itself as an order at your café, and there are certain requirements to clearing each one successfully, such as clearing a certain number of a specific Pokémon or reaching a specific score. You touch a Pokémon icon and then move it around the puzzle board, linking it to matching icons as you try to go for big combos. Initially, the actual puzzle mechanic behind Pokémon Café Mix doesn’t look all that complicated. Soon enough, adorable looking Pokémon will start lining up to try your goods, and if you impress them enough, they’ll join your team and bring their special skills along with them. Helping you along the way will be Leah, who’ll introduce the puzzles that stand between you and operating the best damn Pokémon cafe on the planet. It opens with a decadent looking video of a Pokémon café from your past before you set off to start your own restaurant. There is no getting around that Pokémon Café Mix is one of the sweetest looking games available on mobile platforms.
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