Nintendo released a cell phone game, it is super addicting and its of course a Pokemon game which means it might as well be actual crack to me, I mean I Bought a new phone just for it. It should be noted this game is still being worked on it is not a 100% complete product, but I really wanted to talk about it anyway so and I'll probably be doing a bunch of these posts about it. Also I may be a bit biased as I fucking love Pokemon.
When you first, start the game I got that tingle I normally get when I start up any of the main series Pokemon games, the music intro plays I start freaking out, the professor comes on he looks a bit creepy but whatever, THEN! he wants me to pick a starter cool who do we.... FUCK YES! The starters you get to choose from are the original 3; Blubasuar, Squritle, and of course the best of the best Charmander! I picked Charmander then looked up to see that I was now swerving my car in between to lanes.
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| Professor Willow |
Pokemon Go is strange its super repetitive, easy to play anywhere, frustrating, enjoyable and it is a social phenomenon. The game itself is a very dumbed down version of Pokemon you don't battle wild Pokemon you just throw balls at them till they are caught. To evolve or power up Pokemon you must catch a ton of the same kind of Pokemon to get candies once you get a specified amount you can evolve your Pokemon. Your trainer is the only one that does actual leveling, gaining you better items to use to catch more Pokemon, and once you hit level five you can join a team of either, Mystic, Valor, or Instinct( Articuno, Molttres, or Zapdos) I picked Valor as I always choose the fire type, so might as well choose the fire team.
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| The Only True Team is Team Phoenix |
After that you got a couple things you can do, catch Pokemon, and take over gyms for your team in a kind of Pokemon turf war.My main issue with the gyms is that when you go against them you get your full team of 6 Pokemon against what can sometimes be one Pokemon or it could be six but even if your just able to beat the first in the gym it'll knock out Pokemon till you eventually just win meaning you can just throw yourself against a amazing team till you win essentially. However training up a gym is a bitch, to train up a gym you must battle your own teams gyms and the further you get the better your gym becomes, unfortunately if your like me you'll cap a gym then put in your best Pokemon making it very difficult to then train your gym up as you can only go at it with one of your Pokemon at a time.
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| What The game Looks like |
The biggest coolest aspect of this game for me is the experiences it gives like, of going to a park and seeing huge groups of people crowding a poke-stop because someone set off a lure, or spending the entire night with your wife tracking down, Abra's or poke stops to stock up, or going out with my brother and taking down gyms. Me and my wife even made a game off it in which after a bunch of hunting and drinking wed run around the Longview lake and try and hit poke stops as fast as possible. This is the best thing this game brought to me it gave me the closest thing to bringing pokemon to the real world that we have, I just hope an update will allow me to battle trainers!
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| Pic of the VR that didn't work on my phone |
