For the most part, Pokemon Go’s design as a paper-thin RPG is super accessible, but it’s completely unremarkable. When It’s Not Very Effectiveīut this is a precarious house of cards built on top of a wobbly foundation of nostalgia. All of my friends are playing, random passers-by are playing it feels like all of the world is playing. “I was drawn to Pokemon Go for that real-life Pokemon Trainer dream, but even when that aspect of it underwhelmed me with its simplicity and bugginess, I keep playing because having to go outside puts me in front of new places surrounded by other people doing exactly what I’m doing. It was silly and frustrating and fun all at once. We walked a block or two to challenge a nearby Gym only to have it taken over right from under us by someone we didn't know and couldn't see, and we all had the app crash on us a few too many times during our hour out and about. We ran inside when someone claimed a Bulbasaur was in the fridge we ran back outside for Ponyta. I was at a party in the San Francisco Bay Area over the weekend where at least two dozen adults were out on the front lawn, calling out the names of Pokemon as they appeared on our phones. You wouldn’t jump off a bridge because everybody’s doing it, but that is a great reason to play Pokemon Go.Īt least in the short term, Pokemon Go is a proven phenomenon with millions of players.
(It is, after all, listed as version 0.29 despite being released onto the App Store and Google Play without caveats.) It’s not mechanically interesting, but it is socially very interesting thanks to a few smart design decisions. Pokemon Go’s success or failure hinges on that experience, and right now it’s stuck somewhere in between, simultaneously fun and unique but also inconsistent and incomplete. But the main appeal of the free-to-play Pokemon Go is how being out in the real world, finding tons of other people who see the same augmented reality you do, brings the sort of intangible dream of Pokemon to life.It has to be experienced to really make sense without that social aspect it's really just an extremely light RPG level-grinder. It has all the basics covered to make it a functional mobile treasure-hunting app, though technically its performance (and that of its servers) is often very poor on iOS and Android. Use those Pokemon to take over real-world objectives called Gyms from other players. Pokemon Go, described in simple terms, is a clever concept: Walk to real-life locations called PokeStops marked on a map on your phone to get items and collect the Pokemon that pop up along the way to gain XP.
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