Once you’ve fulfilled enough orders for a pokémon, it’ll join your staff and you can use it in the kitchen. You see, as you fulfill orders, you raise the friendship level of the customer you’re serving. You also need to figure out which ‘mon you want cooking with you on a given dish. Ingredients aren’t the only consideration when working on a puzzle, either. Sticky honey blocks quickly spread through a puzzle area, olive oil coats icons in residue that has to be dealt with before they can be linked–each new dish comes with a new challenge. Oh, you’ve got some nice tomato plants so you can make cute little dugtrio-themed veggie sandwiches? Well, you’ll need to maneuver those tomatoes into baskets placed around the puzzle area.
#POKEMON CAFE MIX DISHES CRACK#
Before long, you’ll get a nut tree that lets you make a toasted nut frappe–but to crack these tough nuts, you need to utilize the special abilities of the pokémon assisting you in the kitchen. But the most exciting upgrades are the ones that allow you to cook new dishes, because these directly affect your puzzles. Other times, you obtain new decorations, which entice entirely new types of pokémon to come by. Sometimes you get more space, allowing more pokémon to visit at once. To break a sugar cube, you have to set off a chain right beside it it takes three chains to fully break a cube.Īs you keep fulfilling orders for your customers (by which I mean completing puzzles), you continue to expand your café.
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Sugar cubes are that sit in a fixed spot on the screen, and pretty much any time they appear, you need to break them to clear the puzzle. At this point, the game introduces sugar cubes.
#POKEMON CAFE MIX DISHES UPGRADE#
Soon, though, you upgrade your café with a tea set, allowing you to make your guests tea. Lattes are simple and don’t really have special ingredients. At first, there’s only one recipe for you to make: a latte. Sometimes you need to reach a certain score, sometimes you need to link a specific type of pokémon a certain number of times, and often you will have to interact with different ingredients–and it’s through these ingredients that the game achieves a complexity that took me by surprise. You only get a set number of moves to clear the puzzle, and the prerequisites for clearing are different every time. Also, a timer starts as soon as you grab an icon, so you’ve got a limited amount of time to build your link chain. The screen is basically a big ball pit once you’ve grabbed an icon and started moving it around, the icons will bounce and jumble freely around the space. Linking is accomplished by simply dragging the icons into each other using the touch screen on your Switch or smartphone. In fact, I have to admit that I don’t think I’ve ever played a puzzle game quite like Café Mix: the screen is filled with a bunch of different little pokémon icons (tiny pikachu and charmander heads, for instance) that you have to link together. Meals are created through the completion of puzzles–but they aren’t match-threes, or Tetris-style line clearing games, or any of the other usual suspects in games like this. Pokémon Café Mix is a game in which you open a café and serve a variety of drinks and meals to pokémon.
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Still, I was curious–the art style is certainly charming, and if I’m honest, I wanted to see what kind of pokémon-themed dishes the creators had designed, so I grabbed the game and gave it a try.
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I like Pokémon because it has cool monster designs and old-school, turn-based JRPG mechanics a puzzle game focusing on the cutest ‘mons isn’t a new concept for the franchise, but generally speaking, games like that haven’t been a great fit for me. Still, I wasn’t exactly excited at the prospect of Pokémon Café Mix when it was announced. I was hooked on those games for the first three generations I dropped out after that, but made a triumphant return with X and Y and have been a steadfast pokéfan since. I grew up in the ’90s Pokémon hit at the exact right time for me to become obsessed with it.