Pokémon Go review – nearly ten years on and still going strong
I was there the day the phenomenon began. It was July 6, 2016. I was in my early twenties and recall the hot sun beaming through my bedroom window as I eagerly watched Pokémon Go download on my phone. As a lifelong fan, I had been anticipating this day; little did I know that soon 232 million others would join me on this journey to catch ‘em all.
If you weren’t there, or have somehow missed the Pokémon Go hype train, this title is a location-based AR mobile game that tasks you with venturing out into the world around you to catch different types of Pokémon. On the way, you can spin PokéStops to receive items, battle in raids with your friends, or take on the Team Rocket Go leaders for a challenge, among other things.
That’s a very surface-level explainer, so let me go into a little more detail about my favorite aspect of the game, collecting things. I’ve played Go casually every single day since launch, and outside of a regional exclusive or two, I’m only missing a small handful of the available ‘mons. However, if you want to really catch ‘em all, you’ve got to consider picking up all of the shiny, shadow, purified, lucky, 100%, and size variants, which, despite maybe feeling a little impossible, is part of the game’s charm.
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I was there the day the phenomenon began. It was July 6, 2016. I was in my early twenties and recall the hot sun beaming through my bedroom window as I eagerly watched Pokémon Go download on my phone. As a lifelong fan, I had been anticipating this day; little did I know that soon…