Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go

Pokémon Go is a game designed to make you walk through and around your neighborhood. By doing so, you find pokémon and can catch them much like in the pokémon TV show you can get pokéballs and different berries to help 'catch 'em all' at Pokéstops. There are three teams you are allowed to join: Red, Yellow and Blue. Each team is designed for a different kind of pokémon trainer. When catching pokémon in this game, you do not have to weaken your opponent with your own pokémon, and just have to throw pokéballs at them. Each gym belongs to one team, and members of that team may put their pokémon inside to guard the gym and keep it to their own team. You can overthrow a gym with your own pokémon and win it for your team. With the new updates, there are raid battles, battles that have one extremely powerful pokémon for you and friends to attack. You may have up to 20 friends attacking at once! There are a lot of things in this game that could be better like the fact that you can't use your pokémon to damage wild ones to make it easier to catch them. Instead, you have to use Razzberies and often times, great balls and ultra balls instead of the regular pokéball. I also don't like that your pokémon do not evolve by themselves with experience. You have to catch more and more of them for candies, and the take forever to acquire. Take Magikarp for example, every time you catch one, you get 3 candies, and can give one to the professor for 1 extra. It takes 400 candies to evolve. that means you must catch at least 101 Magikarp to evolve it to Gyarados, and more for a better one. I have been playing this game for aroun 4 months now, and have caught 5 Magikarp. It also takes candies to make pokémon stronger, so you need more and more candy for everything. One more problem is that the candies of pokémon that are super common like Rattata and Pidgey go to complete waste once I've evolved 1 or 2 of them (I have 218 Rattata candies and 2 Raticate). This game isn't all too bad though, it can really kill time on road trips or anytime that you are a passenger in a car because you don't have to put any effort into walking at all! Overall, if I was to rate this game, I would say it gets a 3.5 star rating. This game is available for free on mobile devices. As always, good luck, have fun and stay safe (You should really stay alert, people have died playing this game).