
Nintendo's match-three Pokémon puzzle game, Pokémon Shuffle, will grace smartphones and tablets later this year as a freemium app, publisher The Pokémon Company revealed today.
In the downloadable 3DS version, which launched last February, players work by turns to maneuver three (or more) Pokémon into a row, thereby damaging defending versions of the cutesy critters. It's a simple enough concept, but the trick is to make one match trigger another, "chaining" your attacks to initiate devastating combos. Critical reaction to Pokémon Shuffle's base gameplay has been generally positive.
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