Pokemon Go Mobile Game Review

Pokemon Go, portrayed in easy terms, is an intellectual notion: Stroll to real-life locations known as PokeStops marked on a map on your phone to acquire items and gather the Pokemon that pop up along the way to achieve XP.

Use those Pokemon to take over real-world aims known as Gyms from other players. It has all the basics enclosed to make it a useful mobile treasure-hunting app, though technically its performance (and that of its servers) is frequently very bad on iOS and Android.

But the main petition of the free-to-play Pokemon Go is how being out in the real world, searching tons of other people who see the similar augmented reality you do, brings the sort of elusive dream of Pokemon to life.

Pokemon Mobile Game Review

It has to be experienced to make sense; without that social feature, it's just a light RPG level-grinder. Pokemon Go’s success or failure pivots on that experience, and right now it’s trapped somewhere in between, at the same time fun and exclusive but also not consistent and unfinished.

(It is, after all, listed as version 0.29 despite being released onto the App Store and Google Play without warnings.) It’s not involuntarily interesting, but it is communally very exciting thanks to a few smart design decisions.

You wouldn’t jump off a bridge because everybody’s doing it, but that is the best reason to play Pokemon Go.

At least in the short term, Pokemon Go is a demonstrated occurrence with millions of players. I was at a social gathering in the San Francisco Bay Area over the weekend where at least two dozen adults were out on the frontage lawn, calling out the names of Pokemon as they looked on our phones.

Gameplay of Pokemon Go

We ran inside when someone asserted a Bulbasaur was in the fridge; we ran back outside for Ponyta. We walked a block or two to confront a close by Gym only to have it taken over right from under us by someone we didn't identify and couldn't see, and we all had the app collapse on us a few too many times during our hour out and about. It was impractical and frustrating and enjoyable all at once.

That drive and enticement to catch ‘em all keeps me walking and adventuring out of my way (I strolled around a hospital yesterday) to catch even more Pokemon.

I mostly desire stronger Pokemon to take over Gyms for my team, even though the battle is boring. There’s just something fulfilling about holding a purpose that all other people playing can see, and the portray of taking territory for my team kept me coming back when the clash had long since worn out its welcome.

It also aids that taking over a Gym net you in-game currency, and I’ve found that spending actual money on microtransactions isn’t strictly essential.

Social Experience in Pokemon Go

Pokemon Go is an unbelievable, can’t-miss social experience — like Pokemon is real and everyone is on board — but its RPG mechanics and battle don’t have nearly sufficient depth to support itself in the long term. If people start to lose concern due to its need for depth once the novelty of seeing Pokemon pop up around their everyday lives expires, the community will drop apart and the spell will be busted.

What Pokemon Go needs is more features to hold up that real-world interface. Things such as Pokemon trading and leaderboards, which developer Niantic says are incoming, could keep that impetus up.

Even if it will be short-lived, though, there’s no distrust it’s exciting to be a part of while it lasts.