When Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket was first announced, I wasn’t that convinced. Even though I collected the cards religiously as a kid and played the Game Boy Color game for literally hundreds of hours, I didn’t really see how a gacha game could recapture that magic.
After playing for a few hours, I’m happy to report I was wrong. Focusing almost primarily on the collecting part of the Pokemon TCG allows it to sidestep most of the pitfalls of mobile games.