Pokémon Masters Instantly Becomes The Top iPhone Download In 27 Countries

I tried the game last night, played a little bit. It seems okay enough for a mobile game.

Weird how it works though, unlocking the same human character more than once is just kinda strange. Like, is this Pokemon: Attack of the Clones?

I'd assumed you'd recruit humans once and then the "gacha" aspect would be for Pokemon themselves. Are we gonna have alternate costume Pokemon trainers too? Like in other mobile gacha-style games? That seems like an awkward rabbit hole to go down.

It's not a bad game, I dunno. I'm still playing it so that's something. I don't like the gacha elements... but at the same time, I haven't felt pressured to spend money even on the first draw.

They let you grind without stamina to bog you down and the people you get are decent enough.

Maybe I’ve been spoiled by DL but the gacha costs seem high, and the rate of gaining currency seems low. You can get a 10-pull with a guaranteed 5 star for a limited time but it requires paid currency which is over $20 to get that deal. There doesn’t appear to be a pity rate for pulling 5 stars, instead you get your pick of a trainer if you pull 400 times in each period, but even barreling through the story that seems pretty impossible for free players (took me hours to get 10 pulls and the period resets next week), so I assume that’s mainly for free players but considering 10 pulls costs over $20, you’d likely have to spend hundreds to take advantage of that bonus. The gacha aspect just seems horribly implemented, and I know it’s early but it would take some heavy tweaking to make it even worth spending a bit of cash in it (unless you plan to whale, and it’s too early to determine if whales will stick to this game anyways, especially if the free to play sucks since that pushed away a lot of players thus making the game unappealing to whales). This especially holds true considering this game doesn’t seem to be focused on PVP, if it even has it (I haven’t unlocked such a mode yet). God I know I’ve played too many gachas now to know all this...

It’s at the top of the charts for the IP recognition alone, Pokémon is mainstream right now. The game is more marketed to core players than the Go players though, and it doesn’t seem to be good at that from what I’ve seen. I’m like 5 or 6 chapters in and hitting a grind wall where I need to level up specific trainer types to have a shot at it. I do hope they at least try to fix it, the battle mechanics were fun once I got the hang of it (though the way typings work is a little weird in this).

@Heavyarms55 pulling multiple copies of a trainer just levels them up, you don’t get copies (trust me, I’ve already pulled several duplicates). Fairly normal for a gacha, Doctor Mario World does it the same way.

"Did you download Pokémon Masters from Google Play or the Apple Store yesterday? "

My answer = No

Sadly not (yet?) available in the Netherlands. Was really hoping to play it.

@ShadJV I'm in chapter 7 now. I did kinda hit the grind wall. Then just leveled and abused the mechanics and I'm moving along again.

3 Android phones 6.0 or higher, no go on the download.

I suppose we're just a cheap family but I am curious what the non-acceptable phone rate is for this game, my Google searches make me think it's more than usual.

I’ve downloaded it. Will give it a spin if I get caught in a queue for Warcraft Classic.

@ShadJV Yeah I know what it does, but it's still strange to me.

This is definitely one of my favorite Pokemon spin offs in the past few years, although the gacha elements are annoying. I better hecking get Kris.

@Heavyarms55 I mean it works like Fire Emblem heroes. The Pokemon are attached to the humans, so it doesn't seem like they'll allow you to attach new pokemon to them. Though I wonder if you can merge duplicate humans with each other to make them stronger, like in other mobile games (Again to point out Fire Emblem Heroes)

I didn't realize Pokemon Quest performed that poorly.

And I'm never gonna be one of them, hooray!

@patbacknitro18 It does work like that. They level up. I find the system weird in other games too. Like, I guess the idea is kinda like a card game but when they've turned card games into video games, usually you don't have the same characters on the cards also walking around where you can talk to them.

It's not a big deal, I just find it strange - the weird way I try to interpret video games as "a world with its own rules" doesn't work with this style of game.

Downloaded it gave it a try and uninstalled. Felt rather bland and boring. Honestly i was surprised how boring it felt to me.

Can't download it yet. Sad.

I've yet to see an actual in-game screen shot.

I did. Quite like that each of the characters are English voiced as well since most of the gacha games I play that aren’t by Nintendo are Japanese only with English text. Nothing wrong with that but most times they say stuff that are not translated and I’m left wondering what they say, even if it’s a pointless taunt. Just a pet peeve.

I only played up to chapter 2 since I didn’t have much time yesterday and most of the time I was re-rolling for a five star (hope for Olivia, got Karen) but I’ll give it a full play through today.

I'm not part of the group that downloaded and tried this game, because it won't work on my phone.

While I'll be the first to admit that my phone is not a top of the line Android Phone, I'm trying to figure out why this game rejects my phone and refuses to even install.

My phone is a Motolora Moto e5 which has Android OS 8.1 on it. It runs games like Dragon Ball Legends, Fire Emblem Heroes, Dr. Mario World, Super Mario Run, Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle, and countless other games with no issue.

So, what makes this game so special that it outright refuses to even install on my phone?

Oh well, it's their loss. Mario Kart World Tour and Call of Duty Mobile are dropping soon and those will work on my lowly phone that is not good enough for the almighty Pokemon Masters to run.

I just want to know what kinda of top of the line phone a person has to have to even install and run this game.

Just for everyone who can't get this game to run on their Android phones (even recent ones), it's because the devs made it so that the game only runs on phones with a 64-bit OS version of Android. The game won't work on 32-bit Android phones, which is what a lot of phones still use.