I sense that Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket is going to take over my life – hands-on | Gaming

I have fond memories of those early, obsessive days of Pokemon Go. When it was shiny, new, and exciting. I do get why some people are still into it, but I don’t regret the fact that I slowly weaned myself off the game. There’s something about Pokemon’s never-ending treadmill of collecting and improving that lends itself perfectly to the brutally compelling loop of mobile gaming – but I was glad to be out.

But now, with Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket, I fear that I’m back in again.

This is a good kind of fear, though. Like the sort you get before you get onto a terrifying-looking rollercoaster. I only played a small slice of this new digital iteration of Pokemon’s card…