Pokemon Go

Hello people's. Today I'm going to look at the upcoming game, Pokemon Go.

Pokemon Go is a game coming in 2016 for iOS and Android. Because of the nature of the game it's making a lot of dorks like me or anybody really that played Pokemon when they were little very excited and nostalgic. It's doing this for a few reasons. The first is that it's going to be on smartphones which makes it a lot more accessible and convenient than only having it on a device solely for gaming. The next reason is that this game is going to have every Pokemon in it, without trading between games, it's the first game that's done this and it's very cool. The biggest reason is that in this game is location based so you actually have to go places to catch Pokemon, trade, or battle with people.

Another cool part of it is that there's an optional clip that you can buy that looks like a pokeball, it helps you by vibrating when a Pokemon is near so that you don't have to have your phone out all the time. One of the coolest parts about it though it is that having it on you lets other people that play the game know that you play it and then you can go up to them and battle and trade with people you don't even know which is awesome. Depending on how expensive it will be I might buy it if I like the game as much as I think I will. The game having every Pokemon in it is very cool because Pokemon has been around since 1996 and every few years they release new games with a new generation of 100 or so new pokemon. Since this game will have all of them it's going to be attracting fans from all across that 20 year timespan so there's gonna be older fans in their 20's battling and trading with little kids that just got into the series.

The coolest and most exciting aspect of the new game is that it's location based. It will work like this, at any point in time when you're walking around your phone might buzz and say there's a wild Pokemon 56 feet in this direction and once you're near the location all you have to do is use the app to access your camera and you can actually see what Pokemon it is right through the camera as if it was standing there in the real world. Now it's obviously not going to be perfect and most the time it's probably going to be half in a wall or just look like a sticker on the screen but that's still pretty cool. Then once you are near it you can battle it and catch it just like you can in the main games and once you've caught it, it's yours to take wherever you want. If you meet someone with the game on their phone it's easy to just fight their team for fun and then you can trade them for ones that they've caught. It's gonna spark so many cool stories like "yeah I found my favorite Pokemon while I was out with my friends and it was right there by the side of the restaurant parking lot" or "yeah I traded this kid I saw in a subway and gave him is favorite Pokemon he was so happy." This is so exciting for fans of the series because we played this game when we were little kids, for me I was only 8 or 9, and we would have done anything to bring the Pokemon we had caught in the games out into the real world to show people or just have a friend or a pet. I can tell you for a fact that there were a lot of birthday wishes that went something like that. (Guilty as charged). And now years later we can experience something that comes pretty close to that and that is why this game is making people so nostalgic and excited.

So there were some thoughts on the upcoming game Pokemon Go. Bye.


- By Ashton