purchases were criticised, it added the latter could be avoided through grinding. IGN summed up its review by saying "I don't condone this sort of brazen, cynical game cloning, but if Nintendo won't give me a way to play Pokémon on iOS, I guess it's a good thing that someone else did", and rated the game 6.7. It wrote "Pokémon is fun because of its complex and strategic creature-battling gameplay, simple but endearing story, and colorful graphics. Micromon is a shameless but competently made copy of Pokémon, so Micromon is fun for all those same reasons. It earns no points for originality or unique personality, but… it's basically Pokémon on your iPad, so that's not bad." It noted "The big change-up is in type weaknesses, and most of them are confusing. Considering everything else that is straight-up copied, this is a weird and unnecessarily confusing change. It feels like the developers just made a mistake". It complimented the Micromon retention of all Skills learnt, allowing the player to experiment and customise: "It’s such a smart, simple way to make your virtual monsters more versatile. A different IGN review said "Already, players are calling it the first "actual Pokémon" for iOS and better than Pokémon". Touch Arcade gave the game 4.5 stars out of 5. It concluded its review by saying "Micromon is probably one of the best dollars you can spend on a Japanese-style RPG in the App Store, and if you're even slightly into monster collecting, you're going to get a fantastic amount of value out of this game. I don't think it surpasses Pokémon in any respect, but I also don't exactly see Pokémon available in the App Store, and in that magical world where I could see it, I sincerely doubt it would be selling for a dollar or even ten." References Android (operating system) games IOS games Role-playing video games 2014 video games Video games developed in Costa Rica