Summary
The world has most certainly changed a fair bit since the days that thePokemon Trading Card Gameand theYu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Gamedominated school playgrounds, back when both franchises first gained their footing. Now,Pokemon TCGhas dealt with incredible scalping issuesandYu-Gi-Oh! Duel Linksdominates the mobile trading card market without its biggest rival.Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket, however, aims to challenge that.
Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocketdoesn’t need much of an introduction as it serves almost the same purpose as itsYu-Gi-Oh! Duel Linkscounterpart, offering two free packs ofPokemoncards per day, along with the options to battle and trade with other players. While this isn’t the first time thePokemon TCGhas made a jump to digital it’s rather clear that The Pokemon Company wants to capitalize on the spaceDuel Linksalmost takes up single-handedly. This may spell trouble forDuel Linkswhich may let players reap the rewards.
Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket Finally Gives Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links Competition to Better Itself
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links is Still Missing Incredibly Critical Features
Originally launched in 2016,Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Linksfeatures the iconic cardsof the trading card game on player’s phones, allowing them to play it in a shrunken-down and slightly simplified format on the go. Using gacha mechanics, players gather in-game gemstone currency to buy and open packs to get cards of different rarities that may or may not match the real-world game itself. Players can battle NPCs and other players in a designated arena, play as characters from almost everyYu-Gi-Oh!anime, and play through events with the same cast of characters.
After seven years ofYu-Gi-Oh! Duel Linksbecoming a pillarof theYu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Gameat large, it serves as one of the best ways to interact withYGO’s history as a series and a card game currently available.Duel Linksis still missing important key features to this day, though, including how it’s aYu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Gameapplication, and yet, its cards cannot be traded.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Linkshas been around for quite a while with very little opposition, butPokemon Trading Card Game Pocketis walking in with features thatDuel Linkshas failed to deliver from presumably day one.The announcement trailer for the newPokemon TCGappshowcases that it will have the trading that its counterpart lacks, as well as movable, real simulated holographic art, and immersive card art that extends the illustrations.
This sets a new precedent forgames likePokemon Trading Card Game PocketandYu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links, andPTCGPisn’t even out yet. While there’s plenty that’s subject to change once thePokemonmobile game arrives, the promise of these features has already been made clear to those looking forward to the game, meaning a variant if not what’s directly promised will most certainly be included. Of course, two of these features are purely cosmetic, but they’re still leagues better than whatDuel Linkscurrently offers.
Since thePokemon TCGis known for being less convoluted thanYu-Gi-Oh!,Duel Linksmay have to adopt some of the things that the newer application adds in order to keep up. By the same token, however, both of these games are built with their specific audience in mind, which leads one to wonder just what kind of overlap would there be for any real changes to occur due to one app over the other. WhetherPokemon Trading Card Game Pockettruly competes withDuel Linksor not, it most certainly played the long game to become something truly spectacular comparatively by the time it arrives.
