Pokemon GO

Once I’m actually playing, I have a ball with this, because it is, in a very real sense, a cultural phenomenon. Never has a game managed to get people to flock over to specific areas of town like birds to seed. People point to it being too simple as a game, but really the game bit is barely relevant. What is relevant is that this game has people out and about, socialising and exploring. There’s a group experience event going on with Pokemon Go, and it’s addictive to simply be part of the collective.

Pokémon tries to go real with an innovative formula. The pokémon creatures goes real and challenge players to explore their own city to become a true Pokémon Master. Niantic and The Pokémon Company needs to focus in their content to bring new challenges for all the Pokémon enthusiasts in the near future.

Pokemon Go is not a great game. Some important features are missing and bugs are way too frequent. Still, the social implications of Niantic's app are impressive. This game has changed forever the augmented reality market and reshaped the mobile gaming landscape.

This game is a worldwide phenomenon, which says a great deal about how much the fans love Pokémon. The technical issues and the shallow gameplay should have already killed the app, but instead the geocaching and AR make this a social adventure that we will definitely be playing for a long time to come.

Right now, Pokemon Go is an incredible, can’t-miss social experience — like Pokemon is actually real and everyone is on board — but its RPG mechanics and combat don’t have nearly enough depth to support itself in the long term.

Pokémon Go is a surreal experience, and you wonder when the coolness of all this will wear off. But it’s a decidedly Nintendo experience too, steeped in solid gaming fundamentals that should help it maintain a hold on a vast part of its currently massive audience.

So we've got a game that I don't enjoy from any angle (which sucks), but it's also dominating the cultural conversation right now (which is great). I'm torn on this one, honestly! See, I don't recommend Pokémon Go the video game. But I can't get enough of Pokémon Go the cultural artifact. It's a Videodrome-esque obsession, and I'm very disappointed in how excited I am to play my part. Long live the new flesh.

Like many people I started out really enjoyed my experience with this game for the first while. But many "updates" later I can't say the same anymore. Catch rates have plummeted, raids become more difficult, and everything is catered towards making you spend as much money as possible. Unfortunate to see a game fall so far. I personally wouldn't recommend this to anyone in it's current state.

Well, this game will give you some bruises on the feet, but it's a good game where you catch Pokemon out there. The bad thing is nowadays you can lose your phone while doing this. And if you're lazy and antisocial (like me) you won't like the idea of walking around finding pokemon. Alongside the fact that the PvP is kind of boring nowadays.

Una buona idea che fa diventare realtà il sogno di molti ragazzini del temp. 7.4/10

I'm disabled, so I can't really partake in a lot of this game's features. I also happen to live in a super small town, which is a terrible combination for it. All I can get from here is basically the same 5-10 Pokemon appearing, and I can't reach any Pokestops without walking, which is difficult for me to do. They ramped up the prices of remote play, which **** for people like me, so :') On the rare occasions I find myself in a city it's pretty fun, but I'll never be able to play it properly or fully enjoy it because it wasn't made for disabled people, and their perspective is that accommodating us would go against their aims with the game.

Pokémon GO is the result of not listening to your community + heavy monetization of your game. The change to Remote Passes was the nail in the coffin, and it just showed how little communication there was between Niantic and the playerbase. The game doesn't feel rewarding enough to motivate you and go out to get some new Pokémons, and Niantic knows that. But, for some reason, they just keep thinking that making staying at home more expensive will motivate players to go outside. But sadly, most in the community don't have enough time to go catching Pokémon for hours.