Well, this week will be a puzzling week - not in that sense - for a different Pokémon realm, but I've got to be making my "gimme five" series this month somehow, and I've chosen this week in order to do just that, given its characteristic. For real puzzling matters, there's Pokémon Café Remix as the prime contemporary Pokémon puzzle game, and that becomes the main topic. The subtopic for this post is a brand-new event mode that has a lot of similarities to another recently introduced mode but also some important differences.
The new mode, as can be discerned, is called "Full-Belly Adventure". Succinctly described, it has the sensibilities of that mode while combining it with the framework of One-Minute Cooking for a Pokémon visit, becoming the "action" counterpart to the "strategy" of Café Pop-Up. One is also to play the mode up to five times freely daily using the food storage boxes, and then up to 20 more times total throughout the event period by paying 1000 Golden Acorns for each additional food storage box, forcing payment but also limits.
Since One-Minute Cooking is involved, there is no stage redraw, being that it's just one stage with cycles. As well, players are still to level up the visiting Pokémon and get more points for them than as with "normal" visits. However, some item exchanges for the earned points are now limited to the point of certain levels, so players will really need to put in effort to earn points and level up for making the exchanges, also just like regular instances of Pokémon visits without this new event type.
Meanwhile, the event type also features its own selections of Mighty Menu, which are very much directed to increasing the level of the Pokémon further to allow certain rewards to be earned, furthermore more quickly and effortlessly. Thus, the "monetization" aspect is being ingrained here as well, along with the usual Premium Pass and High-Score Skip functions that do exactly that for regular Pokémon visits as well. Whether players will use them is another matter, but some likely will.
Given this new event play mode and its similarities to another recent event play mode, it seems that the push for "monetizing" even more things in the game is becoming more and more apparent. Other than that, with or without the aspect, players can still enjoy the same gameplay as they have with the "non-monetized" incarnation of the gameplay mode and satisfy the appetites of visiting Pokémon, as the title of this mode suggests. That could be the only other puzzling thing to contend with.
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