It’s basically candy crush but not as good. There are three problems with this game that I can think of at the top of my head.
1. Its basically Pokemon’s attempt to get in on the Facebook type games and i wouldn’t be surprised to see them do something like Pokéfarm or PokeIsland where it will be almost exactly like Farmville or Dragon City, which actually i would think that would be awesome.
2. They need to connect it to the Pokébank, If you could download your favorite Pokemon as your starter in Pokemon Shuffle, or Pokéfarm, and transfer a Pokemon lets say every week into your bank then you would have a good game, you would work hard to hatch your eggs for baby Pokemon and get them leveled up so when your ready to transfer them to your game you’d have them at the best they can be. Right now you cant transfer Pokemon from Pokemon shuffle to your game so its basically pointless in that form.
3. They didn’t actually put thought into the game and i doubt they will put any thought into any other Facebook like games in the future, yeah we get it, the only reason you’re making these games is to make easy money but you gotta put a little effort into the games so they work together! how about if you can only get certain Pokemon in Pokemon shuffle? or make it so you have to have use a code from your sapphire or ruby game to get a Pokemon int he side games.
My point is that yes its smart for the Pokemon company to get in on the easy money in the Facebook like games but if you want easy money then ask the fans of Pokemon because I bet they have amazing ideas on how you can make a game into an amazing experience, and addictive enough so we would want to spend our money on a side game.