from animal crossing pocket camp, to mario kart tour, and other games like pikmin bloom, fire emblem heroes, miitomo, dragalia lost, and others i played through all of them. / rocketelijah
Dragalia lost was the MOST free to play gacha game like ever, I never spent a cent and had like every single character lol, it was a 10/10, so sad it's gone!
I stopped playing it when I started working full time in 2020, because of lack of time, but I really loved the game when I did play. I wish it hadn't shut down, because I'd love to go back, now that I have more time to play.
I will defend Pocket camp to the death because it is one of the only mobile games I've encountered where technically you can actually get every single item without paying real money. You just have to be extremely patient. I've been playing it every single day since the moment it was released without missing a single one. I have not spent a single real cent on it but have everything upgraded to the max since around 2020. "Limited" and event items are constantly reissued so if you dont have enough leaf tickets saved you just have to be patient and wait for the next time they return which is every few months or so.
Legitimate question: how many nook bucks do you get roughly every day? I ask this because, at least when I played, I struggled to even get 20 nook bucks per day. And when each item easily costs 200-400 bucks and when there’s a quadrillion items to buy… unless I’m missing something, I feel like by “patient” you mean “you can get 10 paid items in half a year” I mean this with no disrespect; I’m legitimately curious what I’m doing wrong here
@@SeiferA2001 well, theres many ways to earn leaf tickets actually: Through lvling up in both manager lvl & HRA, events & goals, and trek maps. Lvling is the easiest way, you especially get alot when lowlvled. Also, you can get these paid items for free through friend gifts and sometimes in the timmytommy shop! And through events too ofc.
I mean it was released during Nintendos ruff patch 2015-2016 to be precise before the switch came out of course but 2015 to early 2016 was when the wiiu was still a thing and we all know how that went the 3DS was the best selling thing that Nintendo had during that point the handhelds were the only things that were selling way before the switch was an idea which was called the NX at the time
Erm it was like that in the beginning sure, but it's definitely taken a much more P2W structure. Still possible to be F2P but you still have to do so much more for less leaf tickets
As a Fire Emblem Heroes player, I'm very surprised you had such a positive first impression of the game. It's worth noting that this game is ridiculously complex, like I don't know if you clicked on a weapon description and saw the wall of text for yourself. I still love the game but its one of those gacha games cursed with constant powercreep
There is actually 2 revival projects for Dragalia Lost in the works right now! One is Dawnshard, a project trying to recreate the original experience as closely as possible. The other is Orchis, which is going to add unused characters and custom characters as well as a mode that tries to rewrite the stories of the main campaign in a sort of what if scenario.
ive been on animal crossing pocket camp for 5 years. The clutter on screen is probably because you haven't really done much. Then the tom nook debt is actually there, its for your camper and cabin. I've maxed both out and don't remember how much it all was but like maybe a few million. I've never spent any real money on the game. Its still fun for me, even though ive clearly reached end game (ive maxed almost everything). I find most games bothersome and too grindy but this one i spare atleast some time for in a day.
The best part about the apps is that you can get Platinum points for playing the apps (except for tour), especially Fire Emblem Heroes. I just take all my 5 star characters, put them on auto battle, tap a few times and complete a chapter in like 5 minutes. And you get 100 points for completing each chapter on normal difficulty so it's very, VERY profitable. So if you want to get that one My Nintendo Reward, get your gacha game skills on.
The Platinum Points is the only reason I even bother with Mario Run since you get some every week for partaking in the Toad Rally. FEHs is pretty great as well though once you complete the story chapters I don’t believe there’s any other way to accumulate them till new chapters are added.
@@Sailor-Khione itd be so fun if you could pick one of the dogs from the original nintendogs ds games, then the others become level up rewards, and new dog breeds become microtransactions
I’ve been playing ac pocket edition recently and pikmin bloom for a couple months now. Ac pocket edition is a little overwhelming when you first start playing but once it settles down you can just come back every 2 hours and meet new villagers which i find nice. I like pikmin bloom cause it makes me actually want to go outside which is nice cause i tend to isolate myself. I like that once a day you can make a postcard and place it anywhere to try and get a specific decor type. It’s definitely not as big as Pokémon go but it also takes up less space as it and you don’t have to have the app open to actually track and get things like you do for go :]
i really like pikmin bloom !! i use it every day and it's fun to collect pikmin and postcards and have a little extra incentive to go out walking. im also so sad miitomo discontinued, i LOVED that game
I’ve tried every game on here, and the only one I really liked was FEH. Maybe it’s cause i’ve played it since its inception 7 years ago, but i love the idea of Fire emblem but in a short snippet map instead of a 2 hour level like in the main series. Way more convenient. It’s been getting super crazy how much powercreep there is now tho, and I imagine it’s next to impossible for a new player to get into it nowadays. However, i’ll still keep playin this game for years to come!
I played FEH a LOT when it first came out, like I would log on every day for a few years. Now I only redownload it when there's a character/skin I want
i gotta agree, many aspects of pocket camp make me more enthusiastic to play animal crossing than any other mainline game has made me feel. the whole level up and earning access to crafting and friendships with other animals make me feel like i’m gradually working my way up rather than how they handle plot in new horizons
Dr. Mario World is a game that I played and really enjoyed. I'm sorry they discontinued it. I put a lot of hours into Pocket Camp and realized that it's just an album of collectible figurines with limited time to get any of them unless you pay. No, I don't want Animal Crossing on consoles to copy Pocket Camp's updates if they would work in that way that is stressful instead of relaxing. I won't say anything about the rest of the games because I haven't tried them.
my sisters and i used to play pocket camp every day for like a good few months back in 2021 and 2022,, and the items in that game are SO good! so much I wish was in new horizons like all the cookie items
Here’s my opinion on pocket camp so in my opinion the updates are frequent because there is a certain amount of time you need then when that time is up you need to keep the fans interested with something new so you can’t have one without the other
Haven't started the video but i have to say, Dragalia Lost was taken too soon!! It had: a good story I actually cared about?! (normally I just play to fuel my gacha addiction) fun gameplay/combat + good menus etc. + good music very f2p friendly for the most part!!
Tbh I actually really liked Mario Run. It feels waay more like an actual console game than 99% of other mobile games. The fact that it has a one-time purchase for the full game is pretty respectable, and I don’t think allowing the player a demo before they buy is all that tricky of them. The levels are actual designed levels, not auto generated infinite scrollers, and they do a good job at adding depth, skill, and some puzzle solving with the limited mechanics. They also have that NSMB difficulty curve where the base level is fun for beginners but there’s plenty of opportunities for more skilled players who want to 100% the game to challenge themselves. Overall I think it’s a pretty respectable game, for a mobile game.
I only recently found your channel and I’m happy I did! All your videos are very interesting and fun to watch ^^ can’t wait to see more & to watch your channel grow
Yeah, Pocket Camp gets constant updates, because it's mobile cash grab designed to drain people's wallets. And personally, I don't want main line Animal Crossing game be like that.
To be honest... From all the ones you need to pay to have items, animal crossing pocket camp it's the one who you can expend any/Cero money and still have the items. I'm being playing since 2021 and I never pay real money for an item and still have a bunch of rare items. So yeah... Your point isn't really good tbf.
Yeah but also I’ve been playing it for a long time and It’s still really fun without buying anything, I definetly prefer New Horizons but as a fun simple mobile game Pocket Camp works really fun
Tbh as someone who didn't get the final item from the last event, pocket camp still feels fairer than other mobile games I've played. There was one that basically felt like they changed the difficulty of an event. Basically I used to be able to play this event and finish it without spending any money. And it had a % pass rate. I'd be able to win with as low as a 77% passing rate. But after an update and then adding a pack to buy, I couldn't even pass even if I had a 97%... On the first level. It might as well have a minus sign in front of it or say I actually had a 2% pass rate because I'd fail every single time....
NGL I only watched this for the fire emblem portion. I've been playing since launch and I was hoping to hear more of what a new player was feeling. If you aren't a fan of fire emblem in the first place it's very hard to recommend so I'm glad you didn't have a terrible experience with the game.
@@SylvainJoseGautier-if anything I feel like the story is actually surprisingly good for a Fire Emblem mobile game. But I only really played up to book 3 or 4, whichever one had Hel and her daughter make their appearance…
I loved your suggestions at the end for more games that could be rereleased on mobile - I think theyre missing a trick! Some DS games were so innovative, even compared to current mobile games, and they'd be amazing to see on new devices. One I'm actually surprised not to see them do yet is Flipnote!! So many people do digital art on tablets now, I think it'd be incredibly popular. Also i miss seeing that aesthetic! I honestly like the concept of the Switch Online app because of the extra stuff theyve added in it for those games, like Splatnet and the Nook thing. I tried it for VC with a friend but it's so pared down that we couldn't do much about it not working or know why, and it was too much hassle to set up compared to just calling each other lol. But I'm a big fan of having extra connectivity on a different device and i reckon a text chat would be really good on there - maybe it's the place for a Pictochat reprise!! They should have added more games to it as well, or the generic Switch online features - it's just been left far too limited/basic for what it's supposed to do
i think nintendo is too scared to do anything within the realm of Flipnote, Swapnote/Swapdoodle, or Miiverse ever again, for obvious reasons of course. but man do i miss the days when Flipnote flourished...
I just found your channel the other day, Watched all of you're 100 day animal crossings videos, And now I'm watching this new video and your video quality is amazing, SUBBED! Keep up the good work👍
man I was so obsessed with miitomo. i had a few friends who all got accounts so I did too and I'd make random characters of mine on it. really wish we'd get a new mii game in general cause the customization is so fun and I love the outfits lol
The one I play most is Fire Emblem Heroes, I believe I started somewhere at the end of Book IV/start of Book V of the story. This may be just because I play more casually but it does seem pretty generous with Orbs (it’s premium currency you can use for the Gacha pulls) as you get them from a lot of stuff like completing story chapters on different difficulties, log-in bonuses, quest, etc. Tend to save up for when there’s a character I really wanna pull regardless of how meta relevant they are. Have spend some money on it for Orbs though now just mainly pay for FEH Pass as it offers a few conveniences like having multiple back-to-back auto battles (great for training, tempest trials, etc.) Have been getting into Pikmin Bloom more than Pokémon Go and while it has been fun they’ve been locking a lot of the new Decor Pikmin (basically the main collectible) behind events. Wouldn’t mind as much if they didn’t all play the same and force us to use new flowers they introduce just for the events. Would be interesting to see them bring Dragalia Lost to Switch as a “Definitive Edition” with all the stuff for free, just needing to be unlocked over time. Never played it myself but always caught my eye
Wanna chime in here on the two games I have the most experience with Dragalia lost & Heroes For the most experienced it's probably Heroes since I've played it since day one and I have seen some pretty weird shit happening with the game over these last few years although I took a massive break from it because well other stuff and pretty much every new unit that gets released is broken to some extent with new skills that make the characters either hit the juice a little too hard or make some completely broken As for DL that game died Too Young Too Soon For a mobile game it had an absolute slapper of an OST in if anyone who's reading this I definitely recommend checking out the OST for this game it is an absolute treat And if you're wondering yes you can still play dragalia even though the game is ded just go on here and look up private servers I think that's the ones that are still running
I have been playing Fire emblem heroes for more than 5 years and the truth is that the game is not bad, I understand that for someone starting now it may seem frustrating not to understand the walls of text that the weapons and skills have, But it really is simple once you understand that the more text the better your weapon is. The only thing that is certainly frustrating is the amount of powercreep, I understand that they have to release new and better things for people to summon but sometimes they get out of hand And they leave your old units useless compared to the new ones
Ah what a nostalgic run through all these games! I forgot how much I missed Miitomo and Dragalia Lost; the latter especially had really bopping music and engaging combat gameplay, especially for a mobile game! This also lowkey made me want to go peek on Pocket Camp again; I know I have at least one friend who is absolutely a part of that core audience. Quick note: As far as I can tell, Nintendo has a partnership with Tencent to publish Nintendo games in China and add integrations for things like Wechat pay for purchasing Nintendo titles there, but I don't think Nintendo had anything to do with the development of Wechat itself. I'm pretty sure development of Wechat began half a decade before Nintendo entered the mobile market.
I used to use the nintendo app for talking with people in smash ultimate because you could easily talk to people in the arena. If I had used discord, i would have to add these random people who join. I had 2 main issues with the app when it came to that game. If I disconnected from the match and had to wait in the lobby, I'd have to wait until the match ended to rejoin the voice chat. The other issue is that I couldnt change the volume easily. Also I loved Pokemon duel, it's a shame that support for the app ended
Super mario Run is one of my favorite 2d mario games, and I love that you just have to pay once. Fire emblem is really nice because you can just play the story and barely touch the gacha.
I’ll have to defend the NSO app here. Though I never use the voice option, there’s still other things than make the app useful. I love the keyboard for New Horizons for example, it’s much faster to type something in the app than in the game. It makes trades and communicating with friends much faster. For Splatoon 2 and 3 I love that it keeps track of your stats, you can redeem points for Wandercrust for outfits (and wallpapers in 2), checking the catalog, and you can check the current and upcoming stages and special events without having to boot up the game. I use the app quite a lot for Splatoon 3, I love checking all my stats and watching my scores improve.
I may have already said this somewhere, maybe logged on the wrong account without noticing. But Pocket camp was what got me fully into animal crossing. My friend recommended it to me and i wasn't sure if i really wanted to spend money on what would be my first game (new horizons or new leaf where the easiest ones to get) so i played pocket camp and ooo, i was hooked. I still play it and while some days i just log in for my dailes and nothing else, i am looking forward to the upcoming gyroid event.
If u play MK tour again, you should probably change the settings so that you are using the drift button & disable auto item-use (maybe also use landscape)
Finding out the Dr Mario game and Dragalia lost shut down from this video was something I remember always seeing them when I went to look for interest games to play I'm kinda sad I didn't get to experience Dragalia lost it looked like the type of game id love
I bought the full version of Mario Run WAYYYYYYYYYY back in the day and I really enjoyed it back then tbh. I Recently picked Pocket Camp back up for the first time since Launch because the Sanrio Collab returned, and I'm lowkey kind of enjoying it. It's changed a lot and it's way better now then it was. F2P friendly too. MKT I played at launch and never again, it was lame. Pikmin Bloom I played a LOT around launch time but I barely play it now cause nothing really cool has been added. I haven't played any of the other games in this video but these are my thoughts on the ones I have played :3
Worst part for me about dragalia lost was it never coming to germany... so I only had like a month or so to play, by getting an apk until another update came around and eventually I got tired of that whole process..
For anybody wanting to know about FEH, it’s evolved into such a different game than how it was in 2017 when it released. It went from being the most simple watered down Fire Emblem gameplay to being the most convoluted and insanely complicated gameplay. For example a Book 1 unit in FEH would have a skill like death blow which grants +6 attack when the character initiates combat. Nowadays we have stuff like A/S Rein Snap which is a skill for fliers which allows them to get an extra movement if armored or infantry units are close by. PLUS it grants stat decreases to the foe (in this case minus 4 Attack and Speed). And that’s a pretty simple skill for modern FEH. Weapon skills look like this. Dagger of Doom (made this up): Grants -1 special cooldown. At the start of combat grants stat difference to unit based on foes atk/spd. If unit initiates combat foe cannot make a follow up attack and unit makes a guaranteed follow up. If units atk stat is higher than any foe in cardinal directions grants +1 extra movement and discord on foes. If unit defeats any foe, grants Canto 2 and Null Panic on unit and allies within 3 spaces. In 2017 weapons said - Grants +2 Def and Res when adjacent to a dragon ally.
fire emblem is SO fun. i got into the series when a friend from college recommended the app, then went on to play the main games because i liked the gameplay. three houses is a GREAT game if youd like to try a longer experience!
Dragalia lost has to be one of the best mobile games ever. Had a great story , super free to play friendly, amazing cross over events (monster hunter, persona 5, fire emblem) the actual boss fights had like rules and mechanics you had to learn oh my god bro I cannot believe they trashed it man. Was a day 1 player but still wish I had played more
There was a point where nintendo said that this is where they wanted to expand to, that thought still surfaces from the back of my head every now and then
As a Mario kart tour player, the best way to play is in portrait mode and steer with your left hand on the left side and use your right hand on the right side to use items.
animal crossing Pocket Camp is such a fun game. Ive played it for quite awhile now, and the uniqueness of this game compared to the others. Being able to design my camp, as well as my camper and cabin and such. Definitely worth playing
I recently started pocket camp again. Super fun. Almost got all base game items I can get with bells. I saved up a lot of leaf tickets to get a kerropi plushie for my character and was worth it. Its like like my special kerropi plushie.
God I miss Dragalia lost. Never spent a dime on the game because I never needed to! Cygames gave out so much wyrmite that I’m shocked they lasted as long as they did! Really hope Cygames will make a full Dragalia Lost console game like they did with Granblue.
If you do ever return to Mario kart tour, I highly recommend going into the game’s settings and turning manual drift on. It may take a few races to get used to, but once you do you’ll have a much easier time stringing together mini-turbos and hopefully winning some online races. 👍
i played acpc for 2-2.5 years actively before hitting a burnout bc i was constantly doing smth and it got repititive and tiring obligating myself to log in every 3 hours (even waking up at 2am for it)
Actually, there is still ways to play Dragalia Lost despite it closing. There's two private servers, Dawnshard (which keeps the game as close to the original serves as possible) and Orchis (which tweaks some characters and effects to make less useful units stronger).
Dr Mario was great. Never put a dime on it, but I had a blast with it. It's kind of sad that there was hunderds of ingame stages that I never gonna get to play.
As a day one heroes player... i live that game so much due to the enormous amounts of content there is in it creating many ways to enjoy the game. I'm addicted to that game, cannot see myself without log in to iit everyday.
Losties assembling caus of our icon in the corner. I was a Day 0 player and stuck with it the whole way through. God tier mobile game, gone too soon. Vio Rhyse Alberia!
The locations on the Mario Kart mobile were added with the paid DLC to Mario Kart 8, and it makes sense why, i had no idea there even was a mobile game.
I love Nintendo Switch Online 😂 I use it mainly for Splatoon 3 for viewing stats and buying ingame items. Also used it for Animal Crossing, since you can use it to write something in the chat and use emotions. It's so much faster than tediously typing in the game. Never used it for voice chat though. That feature is dumb 😂
I'm one of those people who absolutely LOVES Fire Emblem 😂 I started playing Fire Emblem Heroes in 2020 and it has been quite some time since I last missed a day. It is even officially considered to be a mainline Fire Emblem title
in mario kart tour, theres a way to change cc to 100, 150, and 200! you didnt mention it so i thought i should say it as you beat the bots so easily. im level 176 in game and its rough some days lmao
It really hurt when Dragalia Lost closed. I remember farming non-stop the Monster Hunter and Persona collabs, those were the good ol days. It was really a decent gatcha game :')
Ok I'll just state that Super Mario Run is more a free to start rather than free to play, since it was earlier on in Nintendo's push to mobile. So they more just have you pay a flat fee and have the whole game. Though is cool they let people try later levels in case you don't want to do that too. (Also jeez, yh as someone is pretty ok at auto-runners, yeesh was that some performance. Guess it made me feel better for my occasional plunders though lol, so ty.)
Honorable mention is Part Time UFO. While not made by Nintendo, it was made by HAL the same folks that make Kirby. thought I could mention that since the game got ported to the Nintendo Switch and was published by Nintendo while the mobile phone version was published by HAL themselves
Miitomo was revived by kaeru, but you have to have the game already installed (cus well, you can’t get the game now unless you sail the seven seas or break out of your phones jail… i duno)
What sucks about Nintendo mobile games is that the abstract concept still has potential. Many Nintendo games would be a great fit for mobile with some small tweaks. Fire Emblem Heores is a great example of baby's first strategy game that's also plenty generous with it's gacha mechanics. However, it's clear these games were a failsafe in case the switch failed, and since the switch could feasibly be the best selling game console of all time in the near future, the entire initiative was shelved and the games that weren't making the big bucks were cut off. All they need to do is the Super Mario Run approach of a free version that's compromised (locked content, ads, etc.) and a paid verion that gives the player access to everything.
Pocket camp wasn't bad for someone who has been waiting for a new animal crossing game for literal years it's good to know that there was something to fill the void of downtime and the huge gap between games like the last proper game was new leaf until we got new horizons recently but that's not to say that Pocket camp has gone through development hell. originally, it was going to be a game where you built your own town, inviting villagers to stay in the town that you constructed giving the gameplay more of a purpose rather than what we got. don't get me wrong pocket camp is an okay game but it could have been better, but I guess new horizons having that building mechanic that was supposed to be in the mobile game is still cool
Miitomo was the greatest. There was once a community question about our favorite bread and one of my friends admitted that she didn't like garlic bread, so the entire thread was like 50+ more people joining in teasing her about not enjoying garlic bread, and so the garlic bread-hater tried it again and decided she liked it with cheese added. The community rejoiced.
What if Nintendo realised that instead of putting out another main line full console game for animal crossing, that the mobile game is more maluable and in the long run maby even more substainable given that the basic gameplay stays the same each time but there is no story wich could hook new players. It could maby bring in more of the crowd of playes that didn't find it too appealing as a full on game but can see it as a way to relax and turn your brain off once in a while being on the move. Also it is a substantially more fleshed out and may I say full hame than other ones you can get on your mobile device. So at the end of the day you have more from it than any other game.
I'm in the same boat as you with Pocket Camp. As soon as I finished the mainline goals and completed one event set of furniture, I lost a lot of motivation to continually play the game. Don't get me wrong, I still like it, but it gets kind of repetitive since all your really do is build and collect furniture. I wish there was something else you could do in the game that isn't related to furniture collecting so I could break up the monotony a little bit like I can do in the mainline games.
