REVIEW - Pokemon TCG My First Battle - BEST WAY TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY?
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- Опубліковано 7 лис 2023
- Pokemon Trading Card Game My First Battle is a product made to introduce new players to the game. In this video, you can watch me walk you through the initial setup as well as me playing through a full match!
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Thanks dude for the helpful video. My 5 year old has started talking about kids at school playing Pokemon, so i got him this game as a starting point. We're both compete newbies, so this video has helped me with that little bit of extra knowledge to teach him.
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Best produect for my 6 year old daughter. She can also learn how to read and a little bit of math calculation via playing this set.
Nice content as always. Another good way to learn is playing the Game Boy TCG game. It is a great game, you can play it via emulation or even better, via Switch Online. I recommend picking the Bulbasaur and Friends deck at first as imo it is the easiest one to use, and go battle the Rock Club trainers many times (you have type advantage) to learn as much as possible and get many new cards. That was the way I learnt the basics many years ago, I cannot count the amount of times I beat that game.
Bro can u please make a video about how to play the mewtwo terra deck
I prefer my first battle over main game
Whats the target age of this? I learned to play back in 2001. With regular rules back them and already considered them simple (because they were). I was already 13 years old though.
Is this like for 6 year olds or something?
Young children (like 5 or 6 years old sounds reasonable) is the primary audience. Simpler rules make it easier to understand and a much smaller deck make it easier for young children to shuffle.
I love the analogy that if proper Pokemon TCG is Baseball, then My First Battle is Tee Ball. Core concept of both sports is the same, but aspects of baseball were simplified in Tee Ball (such as hitting the ball off of the tee) make the game more accessible to a younger audience who would otherwise struggle with either hitting a moving ball or throwing a ball accurately across the plate. Once you develop your skills a bit in Tee Ball, you graduate to proper Baseball.
My First Battle is the same idea. Instead of a tee, the game has simpler rules and attacks that are easier for younger audiences to understand, while also having a much smaller deck that’s easier to handle and shuffle for young children who may not have the hand size or motor skills to shuffle or handle a 60-card deck.
Can i ask for what are the damage tokens ?
When an attacking Pokemon hits a defending Pokemon, the defending Pokemon takes damage equal to the strength of the move. Damage counters are used to track the total damage on your Pokemon from attacks.
Learning with different rules is the worst way to learn imo (game setup, energy attachment, prizes)
I don't think it's diferent rules, it's just simplified rules (like playing easy mode on your first try)
I gotta say I don't like the idea of starting people off with cards that are essentially useless going forward. You can't build a new deck with the cards you've got, if you do you'll run into people who won't play with you because you don't have "real" cards, and if the cards don't even have all the mechanics on them you're going to be surprised and frustrated when someone tells you you have to take more damage because your Pokemon is weak to their one.
And 17 cards? That's a bit cheap. I get that this product is for very young kids but even so I feel like it's looking down on them.
I use the analogy that if "regular" Pokemon TCG is Baseball, then My First Battle is Tee-Ball. Same general sport, but it simplifies the hardest parts of Baseball so that kids of younger ages can play it. The sport has kids hitting the baseball off of a tee, so that younger kids who don't have the coordination to hit a moving ball can hit the ball, and it removes the element of pitching so that younger kids who don't have the coordination to accurately throw the ball across the strike zone. Once they get older and build a foundation of skills, they can easily move up to regular baseball when they're ready. Tee-Ball in this context isn't a waste. It's a foundational stepping-stone to playing Baseball.
My First Battle is the same thing. Again, this product is primarily focused for young children to give them a taste of what playing Pokemon cards can be like and get them interested in the real game. Young children have small hands and not the best hand coordination. Shuffling a standard 60-card deck is difficult for most young children. My First Battle simplifies this with a much smaller deck. Young kids are still learning how to do addition and subtraction, and this game negates the more complicated attacks that require the ability to multiply, whether that's accounting for weakness or special effects of attacks. Reading comprehension is still a work-in-progress, so all trainer cards are as simple as they can be while still keeping some elements of strategy. I could go on, but I think I've made my point.
All this product is intended to do is to teach younger children the foundation of the card game and get them interested in playing the real one. It's not a big deal if they grow out of it, as My First Battle is only $10 and they can then go buy a 60-card ex Battle Deck for another $10 if/when they're ready to play with full rules and have a desire to modify decks. I think for $10, My First Battle is a great value to the primary audience for this product.
If this product isn't for you, that's fine! But there are others out there who want/need a better gateway into the game. Even though Battle Academy has existed for years, Pokemon still felt the need for My First Battle to exist, because they recognized there's a whole subset of potential players that want to play now, but aren't ready for 60-card decks and the full rule set.
I even did a walkthrough video where I set up the game and played it from beginning-to-end and still had a parent complain that the game was complicated and even my walkthrough didn't help them or their daughter understand how to play it: ua-cam.com/video/wa8i_MJNG2Q/v-deo.html&pp=ygUXcG9rZW1vbiBteSBmcmlzdCBiYXR0bGU%3D I thought I explained things clearly enough and that the game was simple enough, but maybe I need to be even better making content for the audience for this product and maybe there are even ways that My First Battle could be further simplified so that this happens to fewer people.
Not everyone is starting at the same level of comprehension and there's no problem with wanting an easier way in. I think it's awesome that Pokemon is giving players of all ages more ways to enjoy this game that we love.