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As announced in a previous Nintendo Direct the Pokemon themed Candy Crush has officially been released on the Nintendo E-Shop
Pokémon Shuffle is a match-3 puzzle game out on the Nintendo 3DS in February 2015. This game is a free download
In this game, you are given 5 hearts to begin with and use each heart every time you play a level. These hearts can be replenished by trading in-game currency, jewels, or by purchasing the jewels on the Nintendo eShop, and hearts replenish after time passes. In each stage, you face off against a Pokémon and have to create massive combos to defeat it within the turn limit provided
There are a number of Pokémon to collect in the game, and with the Pokémon captured, you can use them in a squad of four to help defeat the opponents as they become the Pokémon you need to match up. Some Pokémon in the game can Mega Evolve, only possible when lead in your party, and when they do they unleash massive damage and combos onto the opponent. The Pokémon can all level up.
There are also various items you can collect in the game which will make the game a bit easier such as removing one of your squad from the table or increasing experience gained.
From Destructoid:
"You'll start with five "Hearts," — Shuffle's in-game currency — and win or lose, each stage takes one Heart to play. Hearts take 30 minutes to refill — I haven't been able to get the StreetPass functionality to refill limited Hearts to work yet. Within 15 minutes after the first five tutorial stages, I was waiting 30 minutes to play again. Not good."
"160 stages with 30 minutes of waiting between each, accounting for a 100% win rate? That's roughly 80 hours of waiting for energy to refill."