GO Why I love Pokémon GO.

[Roi C.]

Well, I have to be honest... I didn't like Pokémon GO when I first tried it that much. The game's rather simplistic way of dealing with core game mechanics I've grown to love and appreciate during my 16 years of playing the games, and it... Just didn't do the job. It was rather fair, offering in-app purchases, but you didn't really have to buy them to fully enjoy the game. It was free and it was... OK, I guess, it just didn't satisfy me.

I saw everyone around me get all excited about it, uploading posts or screenshots, talking all about it, playing just about anywhere, and just about anyone. Friends, coworkers, people walking near you on the street, that random soldier, the cute girl on the bus...

...And then it hit me. Everybody's playing Pokémon.

I suddenly started seeing the impact... Cafés and bars offering special offers for players, organized catching events, made possible by lure modules (costing real money, but really not that much), signs referring to the game in real life places... I even once saw a guy on the bus playing GO, so I decided to pull my 3DS and play Pokémon as a response. He saw that, and then he took his own 3DS out... And then we proceeded to battle.

...Anyway, yeah... Pokémon GO is not so good as a Pokémon game... It's rather simple and unchallenging, but it's doing what it meant to be. It's an accessible game for everyone, because everyone loves Pokémon, but didn't have the platform to enjoy it. This game is literally about you going outside, walking around your area, seeing interesting places you haven't even noticed until now, even participate in events...

Nintendo brought back Pokémon to be a global obsession, perhaps even more than in 2000, because everyone plays it now, not just kids and geeks. Nintendo did the opposite of selling their soul here, and they won. And for that, I love Pokémon GO.

 

[Silktree]

It's hard to believe that you're talking about Israel, where the franchise has been largely dead since 2001 (and Go hasn't even been officially released). I can't help but think that history will repeat itself, but perhaps not.

 

[Roi C.]

It's hard to believe that you're talking about Israel, where the franchise has been largely dead since 2001 (and Go hasn't even been officially released). I can't help but think that history will repeat itself, but perhaps not.

It's not officially released in most of the world, but it's pretty easy (and legal) to get. Guess that the people here have fond memories of Pokémon from.